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by jordanpg 11y ago
Am I missing something? Why is this tool interesting? Or, why is this tool useful? Wasn't this already pretty easy to find if one was so inclined?
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I don't really care if anyone's feelings get hurt by me pointing out that something is very obviously false. Only religion gets that kind of treatment. Moreover, I think that the fact that grownups can talk about supernatural rel
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by jordanpg 11y ago
There are plenty of grey areas in the world, yes. Supernatural claims made by religions are not among those. Those are just self-evidently false. I'm not denying anyone anything. I'm just saying that the supernatural claims made
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Litmus test: does it make any supernatural claims? Yes? Silly, ridiculous relic. Buddhism? Yes. Silly, ridiculous relic. Please don't bore us with the usual equivocating about how Buddhism is different, and complex, highly persona
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by jordanpg 11y ago
The most important lesson to learn from all this is that so long as we live in a world where grownups can publicly use religious beliefs as a justification for serious decisions, we will also have to live with other people with guns using r
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Proven not to work by who? By what? The point is, "their reality" is manifestly, obviously wrong.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
How could it be that there are people in the world who, on the one hand, post videos on YouTube, and on the other, believe things about the universe that are manifestly and self-evidently false? (Yes, I'm referring to all religions he
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I think some of the respondents are missing your sarcasm here. I'm glad I'm not the only one who observes this rather mysterious obsession with demonstrating that Vitamin C has magical properties.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I see two major barriers to mass adoption of any crypto system that requires a UI. 1. Abstraction. For the non-expert, the only metaphor that works for PKI is that of physical security. The concept of a "key" as a series of cha
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by jordanpg 11y ago
It's also important to keep in mind that this depressing perspective is a contemporary, anthropomorphic one. It might be the case that communications using electromagnetic radiation are an unremarkable blip on the timeline of technolog
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by jordanpg 11y ago
For the record, I don't want to hear or see any ads, ever. The internet is great because it provides a channel for information to cheaply get from creators to consumers at global scale. Sadly, all of that infrastructure and creation ta
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I would take this a step further. I perceive the effects of advertising in most cases to be toxic and nefarious. Trying to convince me to buy or do something that I didn't already want or need is an unfortunate byproduct of capitali
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Whenever I see this maximum password length nonsense, I realize that whoever is in charge of security at this company apparently doesn't know or care about password managers. And that speaks volumes to me.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I hear you. It's hard to understand, but at least I can imagine how someone could reach that conclusion. But I've known full well that men had a better deal since I was 10.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
"we're all animals and sex is a thing - it gets the best of many of us and we end up acting like baboons" We're primates with a large cerebral cortex. We can think about morality and altruism, and how not to hurt each o
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by jordanpg 11y ago
On the other hand, I've worked with an astonishing number of men who live in a state of rather tortured denial of the outsize challenges women face in the workplace. I've even known a couple of women who deny it. It's even
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I couldn't agree more about the intrinsic or potential value of the idealized university, and I've seen glimpses of that ideal in my small sliver of experience there. I was using hyperbole for rhetorical reasons, but the words wer
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Agreed. I would take this a step further, though. If the degree is simply a means to an end, a credential, a set of skills needed for some job, then I would submit that a live-in university is a grossly inefficient way to transmit those
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by jordanpg 11y ago
It really depends on the nature of the exam. If it's like the Oracle Java exams, for example, you can expect syntactical "trick" questions, eg. questions that appear to be about one thing, but are actually testing your knowle
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by jordanpg 11y ago
This. I also did little blogging experiments like that when I was in graduate school, with physics textbooks! Sadly, I didn't get far because Jackson was so, so far beyond anything I'd seen up to that point -- it was all I coul
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Also, whatever stylistic issues are raised by JavaBeans are largely obviated by modern IDEs.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
How bold. Maybe the author could provide some use cases describing how the digital literati of the future will be reading and writing software for themselves, in analogy to the written word? I'd love to hear about how those with basic
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I like your use of the word "immature". I'd mention another sense of that word, a more literal sense. The web is new and ads have been humanity's first attempt at extracting revenue from the miracle of the web. The web
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Why should it bother him? What is the problem with Facebook having a dossier on him? Isn't just to show him more targeted ads?
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by jordanpg 11y ago
A future web with unavoidable, ubiquitous advertising is a grotesque thing that I want no part of. Advertising and marketing represents the worst of what capitalism has to offer. The point is that we must stop the momentum associated wit
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by jordanpg 11y ago
What are the other "domain[s] like .io"?
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by jordanpg 11y ago
I'm pretty underwhelmed by the IoT myself, but I don't see what the author's goal is here. Is it not obvious that if things are too expensive or not that useful, folks won't buy it? Does the IoT really raise that many n
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by jordanpg 11y ago
This isn't just about advertising. It's equally about bad or distracting design. But ultimately it's about concentration. I believe, for the most part, that multitasking is a myth. When I am reading something difficult, or
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by jordanpg 11y ago
Add random errors to this, and you have the perfect way to test a universal address parser.
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by jordanpg 11y ago
It says "random". I assume that the valid fields are defined using some syntax or another, and then populated from random generators or lists.

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