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by jrcii 10y ago
People spend countless hours forming lingering one-way emotional relationships with actors as a byproduct of suspension of disbelief. This creates a false sense of familiarity and therefore trust in the actor as a person. Actors in turn ten
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by jrcii 10y ago
Why would I pay hundreds of dollars to work in a noisy public environment when I could do that for free at a coffee shop? Presumably you're paying for the social aspect of like minds or something. As a freelance IT consultant in NYC th
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by jrcii 10y ago
Drive to a state you don't live in, boot Tails from CD-ROM, connect to a hacked VPN account through someone else's wifi, then run everything through Tor. Then make sure you're using default browser configuration and resolutio
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by jrcii 10y ago
> nobody ever has to go to the bathroom My favorite movie of all time is called Stranger Than Paradise by a director named Jim Jarmusch, in part because of its original treatment of these issues. The film is peppered with subtle little m
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by jrcii 10y ago
To second this, I've had three or four conversations with Amazon warehouse employees and all told me it was a terrible experience. One worked at a major distribution point in Pennsylvania and explained that in addition to being compell
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by jrcii 10y ago
I was watching this talk on Google's SRE and the speaker explains in depth why the answer at Google is indeed no https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vMcD7zKM0 She explains the emphasis is more on learning from the proble
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by jrcii 10y ago
For me it was that I wanted full-screen Terminal without a scrollbar. Yet I like having a scrollbar in my browser (which indicates page length for instance) and the scroll visibility is a systemwide setting in OS X. (Actually there is a pli
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by jrcii 10y ago
Hi Alan, sorry if this is a little off topic, but since we have you here I was wondering if you have any thoughts or opinions on the recently popular discussion surrounding object-oriented versus functional programming paradigms?
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by jrcii 10y ago
Every time I see the word grok I grok in my mouth a little.
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by jrcii 10y ago
Great! NetBSD fixed this "logo" http://www.netbsd.org/images/NetBSD-old.jpg Now all we need is for R to get rid of this monstrosity http://www.jeveuxetredatascientist.fr/wp-content/upload
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by jrcii 10y ago
Any time in the last 10 years I setup an independent email server it had horrible deliverability rates. I wonder how they worked around that. Getting your server whitelisted with all the major providers is a major hassle.
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I worry that maybe there's a bubble in Silicon Valley created by all these startups being large customers of each other so it's just a bunch of VC money going around in circles.
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This looks fantastic! Great work. I have some feedback too: Right now it groups all of my CLI programs into iTerm2. I would be very interested in tracking the actual programs. vim time means I'm coding, irssi (IRC), newsbeauter, cmus (
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by jrcii 10y ago
There's a Mac app called Dash that's good for this purpose as well.
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by jrcii 10y ago
A variation on what you're describing was actually my very first experience with computers. The programs that came with my Apple IIc when I was about 8 years old weren't very interesting to me so I started poking around and playin
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by jrcii 10y ago
On iOS I use an app called Weblock. Installs through the App Store (no jailbreak). It does require some trust because it proxies your DNS.
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by jrcii 10y ago
You should consider installing an ad blocker like uBlock Origin. I haven't seen ads on Google Search for years.
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by jrcii 10y ago
> The rationale is a good read. Hickey's design choices consistently appear to be exceptionally well reasoned.
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>Google's provisioning and management systems are so far the best So far my experience with that is trying to get an Active Directory server to sync with Google Apps for Education, for which they provide this tool: https:/&#x2
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Yep true story.
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I was on a flight to Goma which had in years past experienced some dangerous rebel activity. I studied the region intensely before going there and understood that the situation was currently safe, but sitting next to a local on the plane de
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by jrcii 10y ago
I was detained and interrogated for 12 hours in Congo, accused of being a spy for the CIA. The whole thing was very scary.
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by jrcii 10y ago
I really object to the language of "dark" to describe privacy or anonymity, which are thereby painted with a sinister connotation.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9006988... "Around 150 Chinese workers at Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, threatened to commit suicide by leaping fro
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by jrcii 10y ago
I'm sorry, because their horrible working conditions faded from the headlines, when Foxconn gets mentioned we're not allowed to criticize them now? To me the most notable detail about any deal with Foxconn is the working condition
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by jrcii 10y ago
1. The evolutionary advantage of cooperative problem solving is what gives rise to the human tendency to self-identify with mutually exclusive groups of every scope including political territories, religions, sports teams, etc. and in turn
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"Nick reminds me of writers like Jared Diamond, people who develop a grand theory that explains a lot about the world. He is one of those original thinkers who makes you say: More people should know about this guy’s work." I have
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Admini... "In July 2007, the Times Union of Albany, New York reported that TSA screeners at Albany International Airport failed multiple covert security t
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A different animal (no pun intended) but this project also provides the ability to render a web-based shell if that's your primary use for this http://pigshell.com/v/0.6.4/ There's also this https:&#x2F
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I had a bug with a Bank of America payment system which wouldn't accept registrations with upper-case Zs in the company name. I went into super sleuth mode and somehow found the company they hired to make it and got a number for their

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