kbutler

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   by kbutler 9y ago

   There's always a utility... Thanks!
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   by kbutler 9y ago

   The issue with with terminal handling of escape sequences, rather than with git. If you are concerned, you can use a gui diff tool, or you can pipe it through a filter that removes escape codes: seal:~/work/gitPocDiff$ cat &gt
3. 963.▲
   by kbutler 9y ago

   Several. Or "a bunch". Or "more than a dozen". Regardless of whether people will use a "couple" to mean an indeterminate small number that may be more than exactly two, it doesn't mean 16 jets, as 16 is a
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   by kbutler 9y ago

   Just watched this with my wife a couple of weeks ago. Made me nostalgic for the state of the world 50 years ago (before I was born...)
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   by kbutler 9y ago

   I like the distinction that a game has specific goals, but a toy is just to play with. You can make up your own games to play with toys. So the more sandboxy a game is (Minecraft) the more it is a toy, but the more you are on rails or limit
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   by kbutler 9y ago

   I'd love to have my phones go 5 years, but our two nexus 4s made it just half that. Others have been less. I think part of the problem is the rate of change: a smart phone from 10 years ago is dramatically different from one 5 years
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   by kbutler 9y ago

   So you're writing all your web applications in hand-optimized assembly language? respect If improving performance is not a significant concern to your customers or benefit to you, further optimizing performance should probably not b
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   by kbutler 9y ago

   Thanks, Julian - that was interesting. The redirecting of the keylog to a webdav destination lets the key logging happen to a remote server, without installing any untrusted software, and with no user UI-level exposure.
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   by kbutler 9y ago

   Website payload is easily measurable (it is probably the most easily measurable factor), and optimizing it is attractive to developers. That doesn't mean it is the most important factor, much less the only important aspect of developme
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    And the assertion that "an attacker with access to the computer could have enabled it to record what a user was typing" is somewhat silly. If the attacker has access to the computer, why not install some other key logger that woul
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    I thought it was an undecided contest between Pando (aspen grove) and the humongous fungus. https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/05/08/310259300/a... For visual appeal and as a potential
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    Autotune the samples? Lots of software available to do that, but then you get "Intensive Hair Unit" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8coX8VkUKY8 I think Bicycle creator's intent was more to demonstrate the &qu
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    Without Flash: https://vimeo.com/3571124
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    For server-side rendering see next.js for react and nuxt.js for vue.
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    I'm not sure how saying your opponents are frothing at the mouth or calling them a fringe base of extreme voters who hold their reps at their mercy is any more cooperative. The intent to marginalize the opposition and justify ignoring
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    I didn't see any reference to Gingrich in the article, just that the Congress wasn't passing lots of legislation. I expect the Washington Post to be much more accepting of a Congress that does little to advance the President'
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    Were you by chance a teenager during the Gingrich years? It seems a common pattern to think the government goes off the rails as one begins to become more aware of politics. Dysfunctional congress goes back long before that. 1960s https:&#
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    Have things ever been "normal" in Congress? The practice of piggy-backing your little bill on other bills that are likely to pass has been around a long time. Presidents have asked for a line-item veto since at least Reagan, and
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    Yes, anti-gouging laws are well-known for preventing supply increasing to meet the demand. https://hbr.org/2013/07/the-problem-with-price-gouging-laws "A well-known gouging case involves the invisible hand ac
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    Great examples - thanks! Both the "fake money" and the "cost scales with income" are great ways to extend the applicability of markets to areas without currency or to minimize wealth effects.
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    That works for this one example, where the government is selling something, effectively creating a tax on people willing to pay to save time. But most market exchanges do not involve the government (except sales tax). The government can&#x2
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    But should you be able to pay all the people ahead of you in line enough to convince them to let you move in front of them?
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    I'm a really market-oriented guy, but I have concerns about wealth's distorting effect on markets. That is, the "cost" of an item is much less to a wealthy person than to a non-wealthy person. Billionaire Bob can spend $
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    Right, so you have high insolation for some number of days. This provides heat at a rate of 300-500 W/m2 at peak, but that peak drops off, so the average insolation over the course of the year is low in polar areas. This is a positive
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    How much sunlight does the Arctic get? I've seen discussion that the heat lost from the relatively warm ocean water when not covered by ice exceeds the additional heat absorbed by low albedo, suggesting that lack of ice cover is actual
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    I went back and read it again, though I had found it a waste of time the first time through. I think the third paragraph is more clear: "We just don’t know those forces well enough to even name them" I feel like he's strainin
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    This is a mischaracterization of people who disagree with you and inhibits finding common ground and working together. Opponents of gay marriage want strong families with good environments to raise children. Opponents of drug legalization w
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    It's revealing that the only measurable qualities of software the author cited were "coupling" and "cohesion". Physics is based on measurable values and measurable effects.
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    Didn't see it that time. Found it interesting this time. Hacker News Guidelines What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sent
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    by kbutler 9y ago

    Goal: "Set a goal that makes me eligible to receive a portion of the rewards". Done!