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by keefe 16y ago
lol you and me both my friend, I dropped a lot of karma on this convo... I actually WAS saying it's not unethical any more than bluffing in poker is unethical. but I guess people can downmod as they see fit
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by keefe 16y ago
it was rather entertaining in a surreal kind of way... it's also interesting to note that 4chan is pretty questionably legal and it's interesting to see how it is addressed in court, e.g. it's really clear you need to have a prominent rule
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by keefe 16y ago
it should have been totally obvious that my original statement was related to business strategy, not homicide. I'm well aware that I have a looser sense of ethics than average, but ethics is a cultural construct that can be debated on its o
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by keefe 16y ago
OP was not a mod or a personal friend or an employee, just another random person submitting stuff from the internet, so there was no special trust relationship to be abused.
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by keefe 16y ago
herp derp I obviously meant it to the most extreme case possible. I could counterargue that I gave my word not to do any wanton killing and therefore it's prohibited and then I can wedge whatever I want into that system.
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by keefe 16y ago
no? I'm not abusing someone's trust or breaking my word. Every other consideration is subordinate to my aim.
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by keefe 16y ago
like so many of these posts, I am left wondering... why is that unethical?
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by keefe 16y ago
The paper is rather complicated, you can see it here http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Vinay_Deolalikar/#s.p . on the author's site. it would be nice to believe this is solved, but my gut instinct is that it will not be vetted.
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by keefe 16y ago
except it seems to imply pulling data from interfaces other than the screen, so screen scraping is a subset of ui scraping. I still see this as distinct from scraping data from web pages, because that's basically an entity extraction proble
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by keefe 16y ago
I hesitate to say I'm working on a startup, but I've been working on a piece of software for a few years now. One of the key components is a scraper, so I have pretty serious interest in this topic. It looks like they have thought things th
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by keefe 16y ago
good stuff : omega 3s good nutrition - vitamins, protein, fiber regular exercise deliberate practice meditation regular sleep
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by keefe 16y ago
yeah it's important to note that we're talking about sun tzu's rules for soldiers, not himself. You better believe he had a way out of every room he walked into.
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by keefe 16y ago
didn't run at all for me, 404........
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by keefe 16y ago
Ten years ago I was fluent in german and had a very limited chinese vocab, but it's all pretty much gone now.
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by keefe 16y ago
oh no but at least I can cross checkout google wave in detail from my todo......
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by keefe 16y ago
if it's not money, is it time or talent?
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by keefe 16y ago
That's a pretty good question. The best I can come up with is once there is sufficient runway in the bank to feel safe.
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by keefe 16y ago
pay minimum living expenses with a little cushion to be safe?
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by keefe 16y ago
It's really critical to note the comment he made about finding the tech founder first. The most important thing in programming efficiency is previous experience.
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by keefe 16y ago
looks like it searches history for a match and puts that command in
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by keefe 16y ago
I have such a calendar in my binder but I only do a few weeks at a time. I use the stopwatch feature on my watch to count hours worked and mark that down daily.
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by keefe 16y ago
I'm afraid I'm with him. There's too much anger in this, I see that as a waste of energy. None of us is really free, I can't wake up tomorrow and decide to be an NBA player or the president. We have certain options for today, this week, thi
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by keefe 16y ago
"waiting is, until fullness." Lack of patience can push us into doing all sorts of useless work just so that we feel like we're doing something.
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by keefe 16y ago
I think this is really making a mouse into an elephant for linkbait. It's really a perfect reasonable solution - check company name to see if this is a JVM where we need to poke the default options. Company name changes, source and users ne
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by keefe 16y ago
I'm sure there are some things that are difficult to prototype, but typically you can special case the difficult parts. Regardless, if the prototype is difficult the product will be even harder. I think there are basically accepted practice
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by keefe 16y ago
I think you're wildly mistaken. I live in sf and know plenty of people in this community. Think of all the old people, the parents of 18-22 year old kids, the precedent it sets, etc. I'd be pleasantly surprised if that goes through, but it'
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by keefe 16y ago
I haven't studied their arch, but I could imagine scenarios where spot instances would reduce the bill some, but yeah. Bandwidth. Ouch.
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by keefe 16y ago
it's not going to happen any time soon. Look at the voting on prop 8 and imagine how much less controversial that is than legalizing weed.
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by keefe 16y ago
I'm wondering what the market on this site is, adsense I guess? Overall the design is quite nice and it's snappy, but I don't really see it as useful. Also, I think the only difference in marijuana strains is the thc %....... One possibilit
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by keefe 16y ago
This is one of the hardest things to learn about software and why it's so nice to work with people with similar style. I always use semicolons in js. I love the ternary operator on short bits of code though. foo(something==null?somethingEls

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