johngalt

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by johngalt 17y ago
Cross out respected.
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by johngalt 17y ago
Odd, I made no assumptions about jgc's sexuality. I guess I assumed he was straight if anything. Just one geek rising in defense of another.
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by johngalt 17y ago
Most laws against "hacking" have some section that defines hacking with various levels of specificity, but at the end it always some generic statement that allows them to prosecute anyone for anything. Something along the lines of "using a
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by johngalt 17y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to have a debate site that didn't degenerate into noise? How would you keep things civil? Or how would you keep it from becoming an echo chamber?
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by johngalt 17y ago
Either computers would be useless novelties or they would be mainstream and lose the hacker/counterculture status. Those are the only two options. There is no way that every person on earth was going to care about source code. Progress is s
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by johngalt 17y ago
You raise an interesting point about the difference between intent and outcome. Making the factory farm analogy makes it appear that you are hijacking an issue to push your own agenda. To paraphrase you: The soldiers weren't out there with
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by johngalt 17y ago
Stallman raises good points about the security issues with SaaS (i.e. contracts don't matter if you don't know when they are breached) But the alternative he recommends is impractical. I don't know of any normal non-tech business that are e
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by johngalt 17y ago
They do put a useful page up (links to articles, archive, and search), that's why it accounts for so much demand.
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by johngalt 17y ago
Then every time there is a performance issue, however unrelated, it's because you couldn't follow orders. This story is actually a minor example of politics in play. If you're an idiot when it comes to corporate politics try and stay that w
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by johngalt 17y ago
This old sysop enjoyed Wildcat v4.0 BBS
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by johngalt 17y ago
Looking at how quickly you commented after OTToken and when he commented how quickly you responded, I could see why someone would think it was you. Just like the yahoo answers "questions" that are obviously setups because they are answered
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by johngalt 17y ago
What substantiative actions are being taken by the reserve? To me it appears they are gunning for inflation with the low rates. If I have $billions then I can invest my money in a way that hedges against inflation. Conversely if I make $20k
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by johngalt 17y ago
Perfect time to buy a Toyota, also I'd evaluate Toyota stock.
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by johngalt 17y ago
First I'd increase my TCP window size. Otherwise I'd be latency limited :) Being an IT Director I try to think of what I can't do without my local 1Gbps LAN. I'd say a big one is computer re-imaging. With that type of band you could build a
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by johngalt 17y ago
I read his point to be "More harm is done trying to be fair, instead of acknowledging that life is unfair in ways we cannot change."
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by johngalt 17y ago
It's possible to feed 50billion. It's just a question of cost. Consider a skyscraper with a farm on each level (vertical farming). The vFarm is located right next to a nuclear plant that desalinates seawater for irrigation. Your flour will
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by johngalt 17y ago
That's a good test when viewing these arguments for the "next superpower". I'd always ask the author; what do you feel made the USA successful in the past? Why has that changed? Most of the American declinism supporters still cite WWII as
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by johngalt 17y ago
A good counterpoint to the title quote would also be "Never expect a good thing to last forever". At some point growing investments gain a momentum all their own. I.E. everyone invests in China because of their double digit growth; and Chin
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by johngalt 17y ago
So why not just make it so complex that every business needs to hire 100 accountants to overcome the red tape? Under your theory this seems like a plausible way to eliminate unemployment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_
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by johngalt 17y ago
Any large team ends up as an average of it's members. So all you have to do is be above that average. There is no large company in the world that meets with a web designer and says "Do what you think is right, you're the expert." Its simila
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by johngalt 17y ago
Most hackers I know are anti-authoritarian more than anything else. This board tends to attract the more capitalistic types because of it's subject matter. I'm sure there are slashdot'ers that would call many of us "sellouts". I think PG sa
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by johngalt 17y ago
Couldn't agree more. Everyone see's the risk of advancement, but no one considers the risk of doing nothing. The medical advance that kills the first 10 patients could save the next million. Organ transplants anyone? SOX could have been pen
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by johngalt 17y ago
This is almost the exact scenario of "Debt of Honor" by Tom Clancy. Only it was a Japanese sub that ambushed a carrier.
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by johngalt 17y ago
Smartphones/netbooks have pretty much filled the niche for this device. You could add a radio to the cruchpad and it would be a bad cellphone. Even if there was any kind of success here, Quanta would zip in and build a netbook with a touchs
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by johngalt 17y ago
Very interesting subject, makes me wonder what it would take to start a bank. But I wouldn't follow this authors advice. I don't know a lot about banking, but this guy sounds like he's deciding to be unsuccessful. Part of being a successful
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by johngalt 17y ago
Have them pickup a pencil and stand up on it's eraser. Then ask them to describe what they did. "I took the pencil and I balanced it on the eraser" is usually as deep as they go. Then describe what they did as a programmer would. 1. You ext