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The naivety on the part of the various parties involved here is breathtaking. It is interesting to observe how little distinction non-technical users are aware of between high quality and comically buggy software because of the ease of prod
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The biggest problem I see for the widespread adoption of password managers is the problem of edge and corner cases. I can teach my parents how to use one of the more user-friendly ones, like Dashlane or 1Password, and it works great much of
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My main objection to these types of books is how overly verbose they tend to be. With a few exceptions, this category of book is built around a nucleus of few possibly valuable pearls of wisdom , and then 300 pages of filler is added. Us
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This. Much like the famed movie-plot terrorist threat and "security theater" coinages, Schneier correctly points out again that this is a distraction. The important detail is where we are inevitability headed, not the specifics o
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The part about all of this containerization technology I don't understand is that it was originally sold as a way (among other benefits) to unburden devs of having to think about ops stuff and just code. Well, my experience with Docker
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I can imagine a vision of the future where the internet has become more akin to a public utility, like electricity, and the novelty of websites has worn off. In this world, I can imagine a patronage model working: wealthy individuals suppo
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I agree: I think the dirty little secret about advertising supported journalism (or really most websites producing new "content" with some regular frequency) is that much of the "content" is absolutely vapid fast food.
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I do not agree that it is my responsibility to help fix The Guardian's business model. Maybe the presence of these banners says something important about the value of the content (in this context) and the respect that the organization
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Don't forget "Mostly harmless."
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Facility – a print only magazine about bathrooms(slate.com)
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This advice is so much more important than which course or book you choose. Don't sweat the choice too much, choose one of the canonical books, and commit to mastering the material by doing, not by (solely) reading.
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Maybe "the sovereignty of your country" is an obsolete concept that we inherited from the Middle Ages that should go away.
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The fact that we put other humans in cages for any reason is probably unforgivable on a long enough timeline, especially for non-violent crimes.
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This is an important point that is worth including in this manifesto: calm technology must be paid for. It absolutely cannot be supported by advertising . Advertising is antithetical in every way to this philosophy and way of life. As a
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I love this philosophy. Ideals to strive for. It is self-evident to me that once we get past these salad days, this spasm of raw capitalism, "content", and absurd business models, internet tech will approach a new equilibrium wh
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Agree. Focusing on web application performance is entirely beside the point. Most modern news sites are typical modern web applications. The issue is that the value of the words themselves has changed, both in the economic sense as well a
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I want to like Twine games and stories, I really do. I always find them underwhelming, though. I can see how these might be of interest to a very young audience, in analogy to the CYOA books of yore. But the appeal to a more mature audienc
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Yes, exactly. Just made the same point. IMO, instructors who indulge this kind of thing do the whole class and especially the asking student a disservice because the opportunity for self-teaching is lost. Self-teaching is much more impo
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Right, but there is another side to this coin. There are good questions, and then there are questions that evince/exhibit: * basic reading comprehension issues * trivial matters that could have been looked up in an obvious reference *
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I agree with this generally, but I don't think questions like "why are the laws of physics the way they are" are obviously questions for philosophers only and I'm not simply asking "why?" Only very low-level on
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> not always the way they are and that they evolved spontaneously over time But how did they get any way at all? How and why do they evolve? > multiverse. i.e. we just got a random set of self consistent laws. This raises even more q
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I agree with this. I've always found theories of everything to be unsatisfying in this way, because they never explain how the laws of physics got the way they are. Assuming the existence of some abstraction called spin to derive the
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Another perspective: browsers will be like the BIOSes of the future, a sort of invisible thing in the background that no one ever thinks about, but just works perfectly all the time. I take it as self-evident that the form that this takes
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“He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
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This looks like an XY problem[0] on a massive scale. Because the grown-ups can't figure out how to solve the top-level problems, they are instead dealing with the low-level symptoms and applying band-aids. It also reeks of political po
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Robots are used everywhere already. Everywhere. This is getting press because it's kind of edgy-looking, involves police, and the ACLU. It's not a question of if, but when and how. Implementation. The most interesting question
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Missing only a complementary headset with a little yellow foam ball on the mike so that, as a legendary, venerated VC, with zippered vest and arms outstretched, you can stand on a dazzling, shiny stage and impart your profound wisdom to the
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This is consistent with my use of bikes: if it requires any special equipment or preparations whatsoever, I'm not really that interested. Helmets, special clothes, water, locks, repair gear, whatever. That means short rides only. A
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I agree, but for different reasons: I think the terms "dark matter" and "dark energy", like "black holes" and "wormholes", have assumed certain semantic qualities that are out of proportion to their
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So what's the policy proposal here? Give some government agency release approval authority on all production software builds? There is a gross mismatch between the pace of change and the pace of any available mechanism for regulation

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