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by kevinpet 14y ago
The message google gives when trying to log in is really poor: "A third party service is requesting permission to access your Google Account.Please select an account that you would like to use." What do you mean "access"? Do you mean "authe
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by kevinpet 14y ago
The stateful firewall is there because it is necessary for NAT. If it weren't necessary for NAT, consumers would not bother with it. Customers buy the router with the firewall to hook up multiple computers, they don't care about the securit
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OnLive reveals new details of restructuring (assignment to creditors)(mercurynews.com)
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by kevinpet 14y ago
If I exchange a propane cylinder, I am capable of judging if it is what it's supposed to be. No rust, clean valve, correct weight. I cannot judge whether I'm getting swapped in a battery that is going to die. A propane cylinder costs about
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I thought I agreed with you, because I read this post thinking it was a reply to the recent article about app.net's fee-based service not being inherently superior to twitter's ad-based service. When I read the post it was actually a respon
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by kevinpet 14y ago
"To use the given examples, Newtonian physics, quantum physics and Information Theory began in 1687, 1930 and 1948." Some things that we consider significant today won't seem significant from the perspective of centuries. Similarly, someone
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by kevinpet 14y ago
That's not necessarily what is best for the survivors. Managing money requires effort, and you can't get scammed out of something that you haven't been given control over.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
This is a poor article. Who shut it down? The ISP? In response to complaints from whom? Amazon? This is what goes in the first paragraph, not buried in the middle of paragraph nine.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Good XKCD on this topic. http://xkcd.com/869/
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Even if opt-in, this could be a privacy disaster because people won't consider the consequences. Letting a friend use a computer to look something up in google is something we do all the time. Oh, whoops, turns out there's your email inviti
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Who's Patterson? The personal lives of celebrities tend to not make it into history. 4chan is at the very least the other guy who invented the telephone (or am I thinking light bulb) but got beat to the patent office.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
The CPSC is part of the executive branch. The president is in charge of the executive branch, and the only elected member of the executive branch. Who else should he be petitioning?
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by kevinpet 14y ago
You don't share his politics, so therefore you disregard everything he has to say? I'm pretty sure this article is about the CEO. You know, since it starts off talking about his letter? I envy your ability to instantly and accurately decide
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by kevinpet 14y ago
It will provide a good example for oppressive governments worldwide. "Sure, we may arbitrarily prohibit you from leaving your hometown, but at least we don't monitor your every move like California."
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I think your opinion is pretty much worthless then. We're talking about how a change impacts the value of Quora to users. You didn't like the old version, don't like the new version, so why comment?
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by kevinpet 14y ago
There's no analyst involved in these trades. Knight is operating as a dealer providing liquidity. They provided a bit more liquidity than they intended today.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I find introducing high level integration tests to be much harder than introducing lower level unit tests as code starts getting modified. In theory, yes, that's the way to go, but in practice, you probably can't get there without significa
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by kevinpet 14y ago
No, the new terms of service may be intended to prevent other people from copying content, but what matters is what's written in the contract, not what the press release says. What the terms of service actually do is grant Craigslist the sa
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by kevinpet 14y ago
If I wanted to read this kind of thing, I'd hang out on the front page of Reddit. I come here for my news in the hope that even if it is a vacuous political op-ed masquerading as sociology, there will be some sort of technology connection.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Lots of terrorists use cell phones, so using a cell phone is terrorism?
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Since the poor and near-poor pay far less in taxes than the services they receive, that's irrelevant. The middle class and non-connected sort-of-wealthy are the ones getting screwed by the bailouts. Unless you assume that the poor have a ri
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Why not cut out the middleman?
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Unless your parents are very young, or exclusively drove sports cars their entire life, that's almost certainly not true. Front disc / rear drum was a standard design for a long time. You're more likely to notice disc brakes -- they are mor
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Definition and technique to calculate are not the same thing. Consider integer division, which is defined by an equation, but calculated by an incremental long division algorithm. Most definition use a phrase like "such that", which says no
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Tax options of "not married" and "married state, not married federal" would probably capture all of that. I'd assume that state and local are always identical. I was confused by "partnered". I took it to mean specifically domestic partners
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by kevinpet 14y ago
It's nice that you try to be inclusive with "partnered", but then you throw it all away by not supporting the likely tax filing status of gay couples: joint for state, not married for federal. Honestly, that's the first question on the page
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by kevinpet 14y ago
> If you wish, you can hold your own hackathon without 50/50 male:female enrollment. When did I ever say anything critical of their limiting attendees? If they want to do that, that's their business. If they want to write a blog post ab
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by kevinpet 14y ago
The fact that you gave preference to women makes your whole blog post utter bullshit. You could have written a very good blog post about "our hackathon was better because we ensured it wasn't dominated by men" and it could have been true. B
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by kevinpet 14y ago
Nobody but designers care about a "successful design". They are supposed to be caring about a successful business, which means a good enough design.
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by kevinpet 14y ago
I was looking forward to learning how to do a javascript ninja update, which I assumed might mean some kind of "reload the latest version of the JS while the user is on the page".

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