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by koide 14y ago
If you agree that binary is redundant, that's enough for me. Although I wonder how the word blob came to be used in BSD. You don't happen to have the first use in some mailing list archive? Anyway, BSD's usage is not actually the general us
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by koide 14y ago
If you actually go into the lyrics of the song: http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39 you'll see he's talking about blobs exactly as binary large objects. He never uses the phrase "binary blob". He's just talking about of how are blobs i
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by koide 14y ago
A binary large object, of course. I expected most people here to know this. I've been proven wrong.
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by koide 14y ago
Not at all, for example, search for "blob" here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4981376 There is one correct use, and three other uses talking about "binary blobs" without a negative connotation. My opinion is that the layman term go
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by koide 14y ago
When people are using the phrase "binary blob" they are not actually picturing an amoeba-like evil alien, they are just talking about a big bunch of bytes. Many times without a negative connotation at all. I understand better the origin of
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by koide 14y ago
Now that your position has been decimated by history, you could focus your efforts on one of my pet peeves that's been appearing a lot on HN: "binary blob" Type either "blob" or "binary lob." PLEASE!
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by koide 14y ago
As Harry Dresden said: "... just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face."
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Jump(linkedin.com)
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by koide 14y ago
But, how to act after people have tried everything they could think of to no avail? Is medication a better solution than some spanking (especially when it's unclear a mental problem exists)? I wouldn't be so sure about that.
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by koide 14y ago
Those date ranges vary widly from child to child (and from parent to parent.)
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by koide 14y ago
Ternary sentiment detection rates are currently around 30-40% for Spanish. English rates might be better, but not by a lot. That means you give a piece of text to your classifier and it will tell you correctly if has positive, negative or n
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by koide 14y ago
By themselves, no. Now, it depends on if he actually knows more than what he stated. They could be weasel words if he actually knows on some future date such a prohibition will be made, or that they are currently prohibiting Python on some
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by koide 14y ago
All I'm trying to say is that I was of your same opinion, but facts do not support that opinion in my experience. Of course I have not done an actual controlled experiment, just some observations and little tests along the years. Yes, they
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by koide 14y ago
> with whatever they want That's the key point. I've observed that ones tend to want one things and the others tend to want other things. Of course there's cultural intervention, people do not live in bubbles, but it's much more subtle
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by koide 14y ago
Some creative minds are more interested in nurseries and tea parties than in trains or robots. And it's natural for it to be so. It's evident once you have some kids. I truly wanted that not to be the case, but reality bites. For the PC cro
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by koide 14y ago
Note that I didn't say you should always be tough. Of course that being kind and compassionate is the right answer most of the time. It's just that sometimes a figurative slap is the right thing the sufferer needs to wake up from the suffer
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by koide 14y ago
On the other hand, sometimes tough love is indeed the adequate response and makes the SO to notice (s)he's being childish. Especially if said SO is generally mature enough to notice.
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by koide 14y ago
Easy to use? I've played with some of these tools, including Ableton Live and I've never found any that is actually easy to use. They are all too stuck in the sliders/knobs metaphor. I'm not sure it's an adequate metaphor for people who has
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by koide 14y ago
You should have the freedom to transmit it and to face the penalties law imposes. Free speech does endorse the freedom to commit a crime, but does not endorse the criminal activities themselves.
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New 64 bit Linux Rootkit Doing iFrame Injections(securelist.com)
2 points by koide 14y ago|0 comments
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Best secret to creating social change: Take an improv class(good.is)
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by koide 14y ago
Care to elaborate a bit on that? Why is Haskell much more interesting?
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by koide 14y ago
Bah, for ten thousand Raymonds you get one Stallman. Both approaches are needed. Diplomacy will get you further short term, but unwavering commitment will be able to change things in a more sustainable way, longer term.
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by koide 14y ago
True. "Nobody can understand this pain" is either self evidently false (at the very least other indebted, divorced start up founders understand it and likely many other people who are worse off) or a tautology (everybody suffers differently
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by koide 14y ago
The point is that this line of reasoning can be applied to whatever painful event suffered by anybody who's better than "most people" and especially gasp "most Americans." Where do you draw the line and why there and not elsewhere? What's
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by koide 14y ago
Do you even know what a chilling effect is? What does the appearance of Google or Facebook have to do with it? I'm not personally scared, but I understand what the problems with this kind of laws (bad, vague ones) are. The problems almost d
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by koide 14y ago
And the entire point of the article is that this particular law is so full of grey areas that it's at best useless (in the sense of working for its intended purpose) and at worst actively harmful due to the chilling effect.
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by koide 14y ago
Well, he addresses this in the article: "Even if we'll probably be found innocent, why take the risk? Better to keep quiet." That has a chilling effect, suppressing free speech and is generally harmful to society. In addition, there's a who
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by koide 14y ago
It would be a nice thing if you had an external team of security experts validate your protocol. We've seen too many start ups hacking away MVPs before even thinking about security. It all crumbles down when somebody takes an interest. Just
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by koide 14y ago
I like his vision. I hope it does come true. To get there we need better collaboration tools. Although you can make it work with IM/email/VoIP, it's still kind of clumsy.

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