korch

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by korch 16y ago
For me "Rockstar" is now a shibboleth. If you have to call yourself, your company, your product or your programmers "rockstars" then none of you are real rockstars. If you have to ask "what's different about rockstar's lifestyles compared
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by korch 16y ago
While I agree with this point completely, I also think bitching about Apple's iPhone and Ipad "apps" is a moot point. 5 years from now it's all going to be html5, and all of these apps will run on any mobile device web browser. Apple now ha
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by korch 16y ago
I don't think anyone knows whether the entire Internet could be shut down. It has never happened, so there is zero empirical data to build an expectation. Obviously, the decentralized nature of the Internet makes it nearly impossible to shu
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by korch 16y ago
This is an incredible hack, kudos! And for the Apple fans who might consider this a dangerous act of hardware sacrilege, I hear ya! But please consider this as not so much of a practical hack, but rather as a protest hack against the stupid
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by korch 16y ago
I find it hard to believe this is true! Maps or GPS coordinates, or it didn't happen!
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by korch 16y ago
The state of the software tech world according to a skeptic, misanthropic, curmudgeon BOFH who is definitely buying iPhone 4: Software is mostly on cruise control today, and much like pop-culture endless eating itself, dying, and shiting it
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by korch 16y ago
I have come to believe the only purpose of controllers is to impose a callback structure on top of a deterministic set of resource-models. The more simple and lean the better. CRUD just happens to be the most useful subset of callback struc
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by korch 16y ago
Apple hypocrisy at it's finest! So it's okay to make VNC, Citrix and other kinds of apps that can connect you to remote Windows and Linux desktops, but any app that looks too different from or too similar to Apple's Springboard faces automa
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by korch 16y ago
Wow! AT&T has to be one of the dumbest fucking corporations in the world. I'm sure Steve is thrilled that AT&T just took a crap on his lap by significantly changing the way the average person can use their iPad. It's even better tha
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by korch 16y ago
Doesn't the FDA regulate the specific words that can be legally allowed to describe the stated effects of any medical treatment? Which is why all of the non-regulated pseudo-science drugs have to use generic terms like "you'll feel better,
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by korch 16y ago
Isn't it a little too convenient that the Universe seems to prefer 3d for physical processes, and that almost any kind of phenomena we need to understand can be framed in a 3d model? Or is it us the whole time, unable to see beyond our ow
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by korch 16y ago
I have long wondered what the impact would be on other illegal drug prices if MJ is legalized and undergoes a massive price drop. Many happy accidents from unintended consequences seem possible. If this removes ~20% of the revenue going t
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by korch 16y ago
Perl is dead. It's the new Lisp. I can say this as an ex-Perl hacker. But don't get me wrong—they have their niches. I look at this matter with ruthless practicality: code is dead the moment you write it, there is no other way! The only t
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by korch 16y ago
What is an Ad? Can I tweet that I drink Pepsi if Coke is today's official Twitter sponsor? We all can see where this leads. No doubt Twitter doesn't want to a become plain, old, boring ad sponsor. Like on TV. Or like Facebook. They really s
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by korch 16y ago
He's playing smart PR by building up this cyberpunk persona of Julian Assange. Considering Wikileaks has gone from zero to CNN front page in under a year, this is the critical period of time when Wikileaks establishes itself as a media "bra
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by korch 16y ago
Way to go! Also, you sure you want to reveal your office blueprints? On account of social engineering sploits and all... i.e. pop by for any event held in your new theater, "oh, the guest bathroom is down the hall, left after the door, than
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by korch 16y ago
This is life changing. I stopped using utility belt a long time ago since it hasn't been updated, but never heard of the interactive_editor gem. This is the simplest way to get something in vim that resembles Slime. The only other way of do
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by korch 16y ago
Haml, Sass and Compass have completely 180'd my POV towards web development. I've gone from hating the view part of the MVC web stack(thanks LAMP!) to loving the abstractions and frameworks being built around HTML/CSS/Javascript/DOM. If I
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by korch 16y ago
Psst, here's how I think Facebook is going to unravel itself: just like Microsoft not seeing the forrest for the trees, getting blind sided by the Internet and Google, Facebook sows the seeds of its own decline by pushing the social graph e
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by korch 16y ago
If there was no way to measure, there would also be no space.
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by korch 16y ago
It's truly a sad day for philosophy when an old man who has lived an extraordinary life is rejected outright by the crowd who won't even bother to examine his words because the form of "truth" they can recognize must resemble a fantasy narr
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by korch 16y ago
I'm a philo nut. I've read Hume's Treatise, as it of course is well documented in Kant's into to Critique of Pure Reason, that Kant started his whole journey into creating his system of Transcendental Philosophy because of Hume's deep quest
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by korch 16y ago
"It's hard to wreck a nice beach"
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by korch 16y ago
Fuck IE, it just needs to be called what it truly is: a failure, a blight on the web, a cynical door stop to lock in the desktop cash cow monopoly. I hope Microsoft falls for the thousands of hours they've forced me to waste over the course
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by korch 16y ago
I liked this. He has apparently re-discovered Kant's original claim that time is a creation of our own minds, that we are incapable of conscious experience outside of the context of time, and therefore everything we can possibly cognize is
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by korch 16y ago
As a transplant from Seattle to LA, give me sunshine any day! LA gets 283 sunny days/year, and now I tend to forget what rain and clouds even look and feel like. So what if the total cost of living is higher by a solid percentage. You can b
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by korch 16y ago
This might be Myth Busters material, but wouldn't it be more energy efficient to drink water closer to the body's own temperature? Less energy is needed internally to process warm water, than to heat cold water up to 98.6 F. This is also si
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by korch 16y ago
Is it just me, or is it pretty funny that "pretending to be a God" is illegal under section 508 of the Indian penal code?
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by korch 16y ago
This nails exactly what wrong with the tax system. In the history of civilization, the ebb and flow of empires has always consisted of tax disputes wedging factions into alliances who fight for more control. Taxes cause this process! It doe
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by korch 16y ago
This is my new favorite web page, it's genius! What goes around, comes around. I can't wait until 2015 when some comedian creates the web-2.0-izer to what has become of hackernews.

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