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by kgo 16y ago
For one, at least since the New Deal, the strict constructionist interpretation of enumerated powers doesn't hold water. The federal government has a pretty broad interpretation of 'interstate commerce' which supersedes the list of 'enumer
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by kgo 16y ago
I think the theory is that mafia guys will download stuff off the web, which presumably has backdoors they don't know about or understand, instead of hiring coders to write custom chat and email applications... Not that this will ever pass
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by kgo 16y ago
According to the nytimes article, the proposal will likely include the requirement that you MUST have a backdoor in your encryption scheme. That effectively bans schemes without backdoors.
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by kgo 16y ago
Wrong. Tor encrypts the channel from point to point. ISP doesn't know what you're saying.
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by kgo 16y ago
I would argue that if you're really worried about grandma or the stay-at-home mom in Kansas, then even a 0.1% false positive rate is unacceptable, since it'll send a real email into a black hole.
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by kgo 16y ago
Just explain your situation. That's what cover letters are for. Or in this day and age, the body of your email. They'll either say: 1) Why don't you try again when you're out here. 2) We'll fly you out for an interview, but relocation cos
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by kgo 16y ago
And many of these 13 year olds were doing this before that thing called the world-wide-web was around. It made it rather difficult to do any real research, even if they wanted to.
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by kgo 16y ago
Actually, the book has a lot of completely incorrect information. For example, it has a recipe for bananadyne. That's what I find offensive about it. I wouldn't trust any of the other recipes to not just blow up in your face even if exec
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by kgo 16y ago
Where 'brand' translates to 'customers' in the context of the article.
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by kgo 16y ago
To quote Yogi Berra (or was it Niels Bohr): Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
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by kgo 16y ago
I don't know about SoundJam, but I'd argue that Google and Amazon bought the brand names YouTube and Zappos. Google wanted the 'eyeballs' attached to YouTube to sell more advertising. Amazon certainly has a big enough retail infrastructur
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by kgo 16y ago
But did the actual website contain hate-speech? I know these guys are clowns, but internet-archives only has an old page from 2008. My google cache has some crackpot pages, but nothing that rises (in my mind) to the level of hate-speech:
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by kgo 16y ago
Someone who insists on a single silver bullet is probably incompetent.
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by kgo 16y ago
Who says he didn't? A logical explanation doesn't change the analogy. I'm aware that S&M Gimps exist. If I went into an Apple Store where someone was being led around by a gimp, and no-one was paying attention, I'd still think that wa
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Mocks Aren't Stubs(martinfowler.com)
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by kgo 16y ago
Don't forget thirty days of backups and redundant hardware...
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by kgo 16y ago
Yes of course, but in the context of a DSL, you're not really defining a new syntax. You've still got an AST at the end of the day. And of course, this isn't an attack on lisp. If it works for you, cool. But I just don't see how that dis
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by kgo 16y ago
Except you still need to give the macro a name, I don't think you can just write a macro that figures out: (1 + 2) (x = 1 + 2) It needs to be something like (!! 1 + 2) And you need to have spaces. (1+4/5) Won't work. And operator precedence
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by kgo 16y ago
Actually, Lisps conveniently sidestep the whole issue by refusing to have ANY syntax. Which is fine if you like it. But you could just as easily argue lisp is bad for DSLs because you can't, for example, define an infix operator.
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by kgo 16y ago
In the guys defense, he's not exactly Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. He runs a freaking flower shop. SEO isn't exactly a 'core-copentency'. I don't think it was unreasonable for him to assume that the business' he hired to do SEO were operati
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by kgo 16y ago
40-50% of marriages end in divorce. 50% of small businesses will be gone in five years. 80% in ten. That's across the board, not just high-risk tech startups.
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by kgo 16y ago
I read that as "noodle joint was cash only", like many mom and pop shops are.
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by kgo 16y ago
I think asking them to return the card games the experiment. They might get paranoid and think it's some weird undercover sting. Or more likely, maybe they think they've found a sugar daddy who's going to start hooking them up every week,
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by kgo 16y ago
Except just like food stamps or gift cards, the dishonest bum will just sell them for fifty cents on a dollar, and the honest one will get a square meal either way.
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by kgo 16y ago
Most of the top programs strongly recommend that you do have several years of professional experience before applying.
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by kgo 16y ago
Am I the only one who thought this was going to be like those Meth PSAs? Where we see how the programmer's physical condition decays?
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by kgo 16y ago
I'd agree that's not rich, but plenty of people can and do survive on that. Obviously it varies from area to area, but 35% of households in the US make under 30,000 a year. And that's not all just twenty-two year-olds fresh out of school.
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by kgo 16y ago
Why do people initially suck at brain surgery? Why do they initially suck at Super Mario Brothers? Why do they initially suck at playing piano? ... Not sure if I should tell the old Carnegie Hall joke or link to that Gladwell book...
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by kgo 16y ago
I think they've been hit and miss. Some I liked a lot. Some I didn't like so much. I actually do like the direction they're going... - No more "It's that wacky bender!" every time they can't come up with an in-context joke. That was a b
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by kgo 16y ago
The thing is, at least in the US, 'yuppie' has been a derogatory term for those kind of guys for at least twenty years. That this guy self-identifies as a yuppie, and complains that the other yuppies are scumbags, is one of the many reason

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