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by judk 12y ago
His reminds me of the horse in _Animal Farm_. His mantra was "I will work harder" , and he worked himself to death in support of the crafty manipulative pigs.
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by judk 12y ago
Success is predicated on serendipity. Chance favors the prepared mind. Be prepared. Make your own luck. We can't control what happens to us, but we can try to make the best of what comes instead of falling to the worst.
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by judk 12y ago
Most people would be very happy if their worst problem in life was thinking it could have been more mentally stimulating. People have regret on their deathbed because people don't want to die and wish they could have their cake and eat
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by judk 12y ago
Drones get more cost effective as the kill frequency increases. Economy of scale
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by judk 12y ago
Are those apps all different concepts, or iterations of the core idea?
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by judk 12y ago
The receipt already contains the payment number and the purchase content UPCs. No need for uncertainty at all.
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by judk 12y ago
Its the former. Laws cover payment info. Also, payment info is more valuable to steal, and more compact to transmit and easier to decode from the raw storage data. Once you have any security in place, it's probably more complicated to
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by judk 12y ago
Auto and home insurers in fact do pay customers for risk-mitigation actions like driver training and alarm systems, just as health insurers pay for preventive medicine.
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by judk 12y ago
Please don't bring "SJW" here. If you can't say what you mean without a slur, even if it would cost 8 or 12 more words, maybe it doesn't belong here.
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by judk 12y ago
Linkbait gets links. This is a link site. Occupational hazard. It's a free Internet, but this makes HN look bad and "mature" language turns away mature audiences.
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by judk 12y ago
Sadly, this often leads to a 50% rewrite where key features are missing because I he rewrite team ran out of budget or willingness to code the non-fun parts. Which drives users to misery or competitors.
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by judk 12y ago
Half an hour for lunch, mate!
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by judk 12y ago
In that case, the constant name is incorrect, the literal number is correct.
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by judk 12y ago
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/05/us/texas-affluenza-teen/ What kind of culture are you talking about? The culture of being friends and neighbors with the police officers and politicians who can shield
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by judk 12y ago
Indeed, it is less efficient when cars have to stop for pedestrians and not drive through them.
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by judk 12y ago
Try the math. For a given number of people, centralizing reduces everyone's commutes. The key is to not separate housing from commerce and business.
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by judk 12y ago
Do you draw severely jaundiced people? A human eyeball is white, outside the iris.
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by judk 12y ago
7/7 comments pointing out why this article is incorrigibly bad, but with 5 points the article is frontpaged. dang, the ranking algorithm is weak.
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by judk 12y ago
Legally, it was created at Google. Technically, Orkut software was copied from the startup that Orkut the person was hired from.
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by judk 12y ago
It was more a copyright dispute than a theft. The coders took their own code to a new company. Zuckerberg did the same thing to start Facebook.
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by judk 12y ago
What would SimCity be deciding?
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by judk 12y ago
Software can't grab your testicles and feel while you cough.
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by judk 12y ago
Right. Android permissions are a kludge to work around an insecure OS API design.
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by judk 12y ago
Dogs are used to (fraudulently) excuse otherwise-illegal searches, but otherwise evidence is same as otherwise.
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by judk 12y ago
> the experience you're trying to create (in line with the brand) Everything wrong with design, in one line."Function follows form" at ts worst.
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by judk 12y ago
It's a shame that a reputable journal accepted the bogus claim of "informed consent". Not a big deal in an observational study like this, but sets a horrible precedent for EULA-based fraudulent claims of informed consent.
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by judk 12y ago
Fascinating how hard scientists will work, hunkered down in front of their calculators, to discover basic facts about human social experience that regular people have known for thousands of years: emotions are shared.
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by judk 12y ago
MIT switched to Python because they believe modern basic CS is about controlling complex systems (web APIs, robot APIs) not walking through the history of CS from scratch and bare metal.
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by judk 12y ago
Why? SSL doesn't hide the domain name of the requests, and the site content is public
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by judk 12y ago
The whole front page is war, natural disasters, and World Cup. Surely there is some good/productive news worth sharing?

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