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by jtheory 12y ago
This seems to completely ignore what you'd be doing for this company. This kind of living costs calculation (or something like it) is useful if you're starting your own company -- and want to figure out what profit you'll n
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by jtheory 12y ago
That's a great idea! Each year, they could choose some number of winners from everyone who gets their return in on time, with no corrections required. They'd have to sort it carefully enough that it wouldn't be a loophole fo
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by jtheory 12y ago
The idea of using bash to do anything with input coming from the internet is asking for trouble, really... It's just a flaw with how CGI works generally, and how PHP etc. encourage you to build webapps. It's the same principle
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by jtheory 12y ago
sudo can be set up lots of different ways -- including such that there's no password needed. > its not like this is a logged in ssh session That's not correct -- whatever user is executing your CGI scripts is the "logged-i
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by jtheory 12y ago
I'm finding this a depressing read. Hooray, we're figuring out all of the tricks to push people into "thinking myopically" and buying what we want them to buy. Here are the triggers; here's how people make mistakes
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by jtheory 12y ago
Particularly because that's the only evidence he's collecting to show that his experiments -- lots & lots of concurrent experiments that he's continually changing for murky reasons -- are working. He just... says stuff
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by jtheory 12y ago
Yeah, just skip past that stuff. I get the sense he's just compelled to post all that -- the random "Words from God", the racist stuff... it's not necessarily anything to do with inhibitions (or lack thereof), just rules
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by jtheory 12y ago
It's gets a bit complicated when your job candidates may find your test interesting enough that they post a complete walk-through of the solution online. The candidate was kind enough to avoid posting the name of the company (to hopefu
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by jtheory 12y ago
This is totally logical, but psychologically hard. When I was a student I had totally-free online stuff I built lead to a stream of requests for upgrades, additions, bugfixes, etc. -- and the unreasonable ones are easy to discard, but some
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by jtheory 12y ago
I grew up "shy", and while it was sometimes stressful, there were definitely no suicide attempts, panic attacks, etc. involved. It's insensitive/cruel to mock someone's diagnosis when you know next to nothing about
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by jtheory 12y ago
Supporting your first suggestion -- what are the best ways to improve education opportunities for prisoners?
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by jtheory 12y ago
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/feb... This also links to other resources on the subject, and discusses some of the startling stats in the OP (like that in the US more men are raped t
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by jtheory 12y ago
That's my guess -- they must be quite expensive to build, with quite a bit of specialized hardware involved (not exactly off-the-shelf stuff!), and highly-specialized people to run it ...but then only one experiment can use the whole s
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by jtheory 12y ago
Lots of old clients still out there, including people who don't have the option to upgrade. A couple of years ago we tried upgrading our certificate to SHA-2, and rolled it back within an hour, because it broke the site for several of
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by jtheory 12y ago
> i recognize there are latency and timing issues but they seem related to playback. No need to get into DSP issues; it's just that playback and input go hand-in-hand. Think about playing a click track so that someone can enter note
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by jtheory 12y ago
Hmph. Never mind 2nd gen, Moto G of any kind is still "À venir bientôt" (coming soon) on the French version of their site. It's probably possible to buy a US phone and get it working here; but I know (vaguely) that US networ
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by jtheory 12y ago
Ha, I post a cynical complaint like this once every few months, hoping someone will prove me wrong one of these days. MIDI IO where the keyboard is connected to the server is nifty; not what I meant, though. :) But I can do without that
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by jtheory 12y ago
Very possible with Flash, Java, etc. in the past. In JavaScript, in particular if you're not using Chrome? Apparently just about impossible (I haven't seen reliable timing yet). There are a lot of downsides to embedded Flash, app
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by jtheory 12y ago
See the "record" button to the left of drums -- I hit it w/o realizing what it was for (and managed to record 5 seconds of just one drum going...), but it seems to let you record a session to share. Edit: here's what one
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by jtheory 12y ago
This is a good point -- between a camera in every public place and a camera on every cop, the latter is far the better option, and can be empowering to the public interacting with the police. Just about everything it records is in the conte
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by jtheory 12y ago
Cool, great work! Please do post your changes back to the main project, assuming most of them will be generally useful to VexFlow -- 0xfe/Mohit seems quite active and good about responding to pull requests.
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by jtheory 12y ago
That's great -- split diffs are a much more intuitive way to review most kinds of changes. The next step will be to have smart split scrolling, so you don't have to leave gaping holes on one side or the other to accommodate additi
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by jtheory 12y ago
Not quite the same thing, but I have a little (physical) keypad that HSBC provided to generate codes to sign in online. It's small, and flimsy, and my almost-2-year-old is fascinated with it -- when she manages to get her hands on it,
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by jtheory 12y ago
Another item for the endless startup checklist -- "is my landing page title informative enough to serve as an HN link?"
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by jtheory 12y ago
Agreed -- it would be a great service to customers without 2FA enabled to inform them all directly that this is in-progress, not just the ones whose accounts have already been successfully accessed. I know you wouldn't want to provok
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by jtheory 12y ago
Doubt it -- that's using real browser software, and I imagine it would also be way too slow for effective large-scale brute force attempts.
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by jtheory 12y ago
Excellent, thanks! I have been using 2FA on NameCheap since you added the feature, but it's one of the more annoying implementations -- compare to Google's 2FA setup, for example. There I have to jump through the hoop of getting
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by jtheory 12y ago
Coming soon: a pie-in-the-sky fork aimed at adding in both C++ and MindFuck targets, named "Batsh++ Insane".
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by jtheory 12y ago
Right, most of the time "I think" is a waste of space. I sometimes say explicitly when I'm on the fence about an idea ("Mild preference for A because __, though B would be ok"), or if I feel like my currently viewpo
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by jtheory 12y ago
There are huge disasters that come of software mistakes -- but look at the story of the Therac-25 vs. this kind of story. Factual stories don't normally have punchlines. If however many billions of dollars were actually lost due to a

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