laconian

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by laconian 14y ago
Oh god, I love seeing Maddox beat this drum. Calling out HuffPo was awesome too.
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by laconian 14y ago
http://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/burden-of-proof
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by laconian 14y ago
I take it you've never had your email account hacked, then?
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by laconian 14y ago
Employers are risk averse with their hiring and so, in the absence of compelling evidence, they will choose to not hire a candidate. Pasting in an answer from somewhere else turns the question (and possibly the whole interview) into a no-op
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by laconian 14y ago
" Simultaneously, I quickly Googled ‘how to use bitwise operators in C’ and found this wonderful code snippet on StackOverflow that made the problem easy to solve. I wrote a solution with time to spare, and the interviewer seemed content w
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by laconian 14y ago
I can't say that I'll be updating my podcast client to follow his smug ass.
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by laconian 14y ago
It gets way out of tune the farther you get from middle C.
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by laconian 14y ago
Works made using Objectivist C is licensed under copy-far-right licenses, where the rights holder cannot share the source code and is obligated to use the code only for projects that further his own selfish goals. The Objectivist C API is a
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by laconian 14y ago
The immutable truth of A == A cannot be disregarded - the Objectivist C compiler considers compile time optimizations of this sort to be immoral.
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by laconian 14y ago
Not having a billion dollars is depressing for you? This takes first world problems to a whole new level.
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by laconian 14y ago
Now the WSJ is going all Demand Media on us with this garbage content.
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by laconian 14y ago
I loved your game as a teen. :)
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by laconian 14y ago
Isn't Hulu going to become exclusive to cable subscribers soon (a la HBO GO?)
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by laconian 14y ago
This is one of the reasons why I think the prognostication about Siri taking over the world is silly. Voice UIs have to chop down the amount of information by necessity. In cases where there are close finishes for the ranked results, or the
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by laconian 14y ago
I've used other online communities that have implemented this feature. It's creepy, esp. when you get messages from people that you would prefer to silently ignore.
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by laconian 14y ago
"Object oriented programming is dead" "Stop subclassing right now" "Java Is A Ghetto"
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by laconian 14y ago
I used to work for them too. The atmosphere just got worse with every passing year. I don't think Ballmer's done anything to rejuvinate the culture. It just keeps getting more cutthroat and political.
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by laconian 14y ago
We could block them from HN...
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by laconian 14y ago
HN has the readership to effect positive change in the tech journalism arena. Can HN blacklist the most egregarious plagiarists?
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by laconian 14y ago
I think the big sites that have been SEO'd to death (esp. HuffPo) don't have journalistic scruples; content is merely means to an end for them.
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by laconian 14y ago
85% (big pie colorful pie chart showing 85%) of people don't like infographics. 40% (big pie chart of 40%) of infographics are false. 75% of people don't care that these pie charts add up past 100%. 100% of those people just want to see the
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by laconian 14y ago
VLC's success is truly a testament to how awful the first-party media player solutions are. People know that sparkly, zoomy UIs on DRM-ridden underpinnings are just lipstick on a pig. VLC isn't pretty but it works .
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by laconian 14y ago
And the fans lap it up. "A million times no."
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Scamworld: a detailed look at Internet marketing scams(boingboing.net)
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by laconian 14y ago
He makes no bones about it. Git got its name because Linus thinks of himself as a git.
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by laconian 14y ago
Some friends of mine are yelling "see? our tax code is pushing capital overseas!" My argument is, that with $4B at stake, even if we had a "reasonable" income tax, people like this would still seek out tax havens where the burden is even lo
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by laconian 14y ago
The headline is obnoxious too. It hasn't happened. It might happen, but the way they wrote it makes it sound like Tim Cook got on a podium and announced that to the world.
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by laconian 14y ago
The RDF gives free license to shitty journalism. Trendy subjects makes SEO-obsessed content mill writers happy. Just read Techmeme - the content is almost all trendy garbage.
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by laconian 14y ago
Perhaps he would be, so long as the EKG readout was transcribed into ASCII text and emailed to the nurse, who reads it using Mutt.
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by laconian 14y ago
Are you also going to quit visiting every site that is subsidized by ad revenue?

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