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by largesse 14y ago
I have a problem with the reality of the postal service, not the concept.
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by largesse 14y ago
I'd like to find the best way to "opt out" of the postal system. When I go out of town and put hold on my mail, they never work. The postal worker just delivers until the box is full and then returns the letters. Of course, the box is full
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by largesse 14y ago
Is HN now the place for junk neuroscience? Seriously?
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by largesse 14y ago
If only that were true. I think that industry has done a good job of training people to expect insecure transactions.
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by largesse 14y ago
I think it's hokey to structure interviews on the model of a TV game show. Much better to see what they consider doing when they don't know the answer to a question, or suggest an approach to them in the moment to see their skills in findi
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by largesse 14y ago
This is actually institutional for Microsoft. Years ago, when I was developing using Visual Studio and it came on a set of CDs, I saw an article claiming that installing it and MSDN (their offline help system of tech notes since the dawn o
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by largesse 14y ago
I always assumed it was because the US prefers that people gamble in the market rather than in the casino.
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by largesse 14y ago
It's interesting. It looks like people in the Russian Federation can't make up their minds about Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Lots of movement, near zero net.
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by largesse 14y ago
I couldn't stop thinking about armed drones during the recent gun-control furor. I was wondering how it would change the debate if people were really thinking about it - about the near inevitability that they will be used domestically by g
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by largesse 14y ago
Yes, I know all of that but weighed against the new social graph search and (what appears to me) to be a disingenuous and constantly shifting privacy policy, it isn't much.
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by largesse 14y ago
If there was a programming language named Law it would be a freaky beast.
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by largesse 14y ago
I have friends who work at Facebook. I still don't know how they rationalize their employment.
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by largesse 14y ago
You seem to desire a world where Square is exalted to some sort of sovereign status, answerable to no law beyond their own policies and procedures. Which is a horrifying state of affairs. Well, we seem to have done that with sports. Or,
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by largesse 14y ago
MMV technology is still under development but as this excerpt from Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the Machine" shows, an exciting future lies ahead when all music can be transcribed to MusicMadeVisible. I preferred the laser shows at the planet
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by largesse 14y ago
No concern, really. It was just an observation. I don't think tech conferences will ever go away unless travel becomes prohibitively expensive or there's some sort of a global pandemic. People in the same industry like to get together to
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by largesse 14y ago
Maybe. I think that people will like to meet no matter what. It's a very human thing.
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by largesse 14y ago
I really miss the days when discussion about conferences was more about technology and content than gender and race kerfuffles.
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by largesse 14y ago
It was an okay article at the beginning, but I really didn't expect it to start claiming that MIDI alienated women and turned music into a male hegemony.