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by korch 16y ago
This is the most mind blowing thing I've seen done in Javascript yet. Yes, I realize Google's NaCl and V8 are far more mind blowing on a technical level, but this impresses from the user point of view—it doesn't look anything like "the web"
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by korch 16y ago
I have actually seen that happen, although it was at a factory, not some white collar place(where the watch would be better). A man worked there for 20 years and the owner gave him a $40 watch. He certainly earned only slightly more than mi
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by korch 16y ago
Is it just me, or in the past few months have I seen a lot more browser based web widget builders oozing out of the cracks of the various Cappuccino/Javascript/Ruby/etc frameworks? As html5 ascends over flash's corpse this year, we might ju
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by korch 16y ago
I think open graph is going to be a bitter poison pill for Facebook, and once they see what users actually do with it they will have no choice but to cripple it. Though I'm glad to finally see Brad Fitzpatrick's open graph idea from years a
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by korch 16y ago
Google has to do this, it's an existential threat to their money maker PageRank. Imagine a few years out, after most of the web is no longer organized as static documents linked together(nice for crawling!), but transforms into a real-time
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by korch 16y ago
I watched his thermodynamics videos and was quite impressed. It's actually difficult to find approachable course material in that topic, but he thoroughly explains it, all the way down to Boltzmann's H-theorem. How one guy manages to cover
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by korch 16y ago
Uh, why is Google releasing this? Wouldn't this code give hackers a good head start to create an OCR system capable of trivially defeating CAPTCHA everywhere? Or maybe they've realized any human computer test based on text recognition is fl
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by korch 16y ago
Buried in the details of the indictment, they show Wiseguys had a reciprocating agreement with downstream broker clients to provide virgin credit cards used in the bulk ticket purchases. i.e. Give me a clean card with a high($100k+) limit,
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by korch 17y ago
It's also relevant to understand how we got here, a read a little history to avoid repeating it. An oldie but goodie: The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html The book is about the incident where the Fe
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by korch 17y ago
Is it a good thing that universities, who hold an implicitly benevolent, non-profit societal role, should also have such high profit margins on their "student"-players? If the football team is bringing in the dough to fund a big chunk of th
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by korch 17y ago
I hope this is indeed true, as I've been having a helluva time finding Rails dev work in West LA...
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by korch 17y ago
So it's probably time to pull all my email out of Gmail and onto my own email server. At least the gov't hasn't yet routed around that basic personal liberty and property right. Surely many geeks will be moving away from freemium webmail th
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by korch 17y ago
You can't talk about college costs and not also mention the enormous impact the college sports industry has had on transforming colleges from their academic role in society to that of being prestigious "mini-corporations." Where is all the
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by korch 17y ago
"Real Hackers" generate black holes, constructing them in turn to generate sub-Universes, causing a Universal exception, which can be used as a buffer overflow exploit in the Laws of Physics. Basically, if you can figure out how to do this,
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by korch 17y ago
I'm sick of seeing the right-wing's tired old, sacred myth that "American's pay less taxes." It's total BS. While this isn't targeted directly at the poster, since you seem pretty open to figuring out the truth, but the hint of this myth is
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by korch 17y ago
From another perspective, RMS's setup is also so much of a hair shirt that he'd be one of the hardest tech celebrities for hackers to target. Especially considering he only infrequently connects to the Internet like a nuclear submarine surf
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by korch 17y ago
Fantastic! I just always knew that in our distopian cyberpunk future, we mercenary code gargoyles would all be covered in some kind of digital war-paint-camouflage as we wage secret mercenary wars on behalf of covert multinational-mega-city
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by korch 17y ago
Seconding Jorge Luis Borges! Even before Godel, Escher, Bach! Although Borges is pre-computer era, and is long part of the literary Canon, I think the tone of so many of his stories make a lot more sense from the perspective of the Internet
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by korch 17y ago
^this
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by korch 17y ago
While I think it's great what these outreach organizations have accomplished, the tone of this article is a perfect example of how journalists poorly depict homelessness. It's de-humanizing. For a second there I did a double take because it
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by korch 17y ago
Very nice, thanks for sharing! I had been hoping someone would open-source a SE clone for Rails. And double-plus-good for having the feature of importing SE sites right off the bat! I actually hate the limited way SE is using tags, and have
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by korch 17y ago
One more thing: reading the linked PDF case file and seeing all the emails clearly establishing criminal fraud, it looks like this company could have benefited grealy by the infamous advice: "Never write when you can talk, never talk when y
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by korch 17y ago
Holy shit, this hits really close to home! I almost worked for this company a year ago! No really—here's proof: http://i.imgur.com/nrGSm.png I was a dev at Ticketmaster for 2 years(Perl, blech!), got laid off(during the worst job market o
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by korch 17y ago
I was surprised by their common complaint that the Kindle doesn't have page numbers! What were they thinking to leave out that feature?! It cripples the usefulness of the device for heavy reading over longer time spans.
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by korch 17y ago
It wouldn't be the first time. Remember that IT guy who admin'd Bush's secret gwb43.com email servers(in overt defiance of mandated Federal record keeping laws) and who was involved with the election fraud in Ohio? That guy who conveniently
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by korch 17y ago
From a microeconomic perspective, the specialization of labor undoubtedly allows us to maximize production, yet from a macroeconomic perspective, I think you're right. I know Marx is beyond dated, and that it's only permitted to speak of hi
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A laudable Kickstarter project: An Engineer's guide to Silicon Valley Startups(kickstarter.com)
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by korch 17y ago
Yes. Yahoo's aesthetic melds better with Apple's own than with either Microsoft or Google. Apple bought Quattro so they are obviously cooking up something with advertising, which is another area in which Yahoo has value.
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by korch 17y ago
Microsoft's sole, yet-painful solution: a hard-reboot across the board resulting in "Winux".
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by korch 17y ago
It's cool to hear about Whitepages early history. For several years Whitepages was one of the last "big" all Perl shops in Seattle. Though their recent recruiting ads are for Rails developers, so perhaps they have since re-architected.

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