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by lectrick 12y ago
LastPass supports 2FA through Google Authenticator, maybe that will help you rest easier? https://helpdesk.lastpass.com/security-options/multifactor-a...
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by lectrick 12y ago
"unfair competition" seems like a ridiculous anti-consumer reason to kill something, especially considering the expense of Paris taxis
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by lectrick 12y ago
You didn't actually try searching with it, did you.
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by lectrick 12y ago
Which is a perfectly legitimate use of their debatably legitimate search engine
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by lectrick 12y ago
People disagree with Paul Graham? ;)
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by lectrick 12y ago
3 days earlier was this article on him http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ralph-... I see a pattern here with creative engineers: 1) Creative engineer comes up with an off-the-wall idea, it keep
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by lectrick 12y ago
That seems reasonably fair, then, all things considered. Found a positive article on him. Seems like a really cool prof, those are hard to find, sigh http://www.technologyreview.com/article/426949/the-professor...
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by lectrick 12y ago
He's being punished for irresponsible behavior, fair enough. But the one good he did in the world is now being taken away to the detriment of many. Think of it this way- Right now you can find books in the library written by people who
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by lectrick 12y ago
I... don't disagree. And I lean libertarian (which is to say, things should remain unchecked). I'm just saying that in this particular instance, it may not have resulted in as "net" a bad, as is being suggested.
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by lectrick 12y ago
> were it not for him conspiring to prevent competitors from poaching employees, we'd be able to make more at our work places So Apple, Google, Adobe and one other company agreed to not poach employees from each other and get into a
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by lectrick 12y ago
Jobs gave away plenty, he just did it privately. http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/471410/20130527/steve-jobs-la... And in any event, 95% of the people criticizing him for this have not given enough of themselve
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by lectrick 12y ago
There are predominant gender roles. How can we determine if the predominance is wrong, or just natural? All of this assumes the predominance is wrong. If I go to enjoy a burlesque show (a largely female-dominated event that all consensually
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by lectrick 12y ago
I'm 42 and I've been programming since I was 12. I really always liked this guy and never understood the knee-jerk hate around him. I of course know he's far from perfect- who isn't?- but as far as interesting, game-chan
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by lectrick 12y ago
How is that? Android has FAR more marketshare relative to what Apple has in this space now, than what Microsoft had relative to Apple on desktops
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by lectrick 12y ago
I open a men's magazine and see photographs of women. I open a women's magazine and see photographs of... women. These magazines exist because people are buying them. WOMEN are buying them. I don't see many men on the editori
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by lectrick 12y ago
If we used a male model as a photographic test subject here, is that not the sexist objectification of males? Should we use an unattractive person or an animal instead? Are you going to attack the very notion of beauty or the fact that wome
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by lectrick 12y ago
> photo of beautiful young Lena Söderberg You are either subtly trolling, or have an incredible amount of cognitive dissonance going on here. You both objectify her by using those adjectives ("beautiful, young") AND THEN go on
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by lectrick 12y ago
> Try explaining to a non-technical person how to bootstrap their trust system. It can be automated. There are many examples now of headless networks- Bitcoin, Bittorrent, etc. A browser could connect to such a network, and when connecti
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by lectrick 12y ago
Does this mean that they ingested the mercury WHILE pregnant, or BEFORE they got pregnant? It's not clear from the wording.
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by lectrick 12y ago
Google Chrome strongly advises you not to continue. If you click the "Advanced" link, you can, though. Who decided that a centralized entity could be the authority for these things, anyway, instead of a Web of Trust? And also, sho
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by lectrick 12y ago
That doesn't make sense unless she took the mercury while she was pregnant
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by lectrick 12y ago
A lot of computer geeks are like this. I am too, for example. For whatever reason we never lose the nice boyish curiosity thing. It's a bit weird as you get older (I'm 42) because you feel like the same curious friendly boyish dud
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by lectrick 12y ago
I just went "WTF" out loud. WOW! I had no idea music (or at least vocals) had this much depth. Thanks!
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by lectrick 12y ago
This is amazing. And also begs the question, how is "authority" established so much easier "in real life" vs. digitally? Side channel information?
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by lectrick 12y ago
The first paragraph in the power cord "review" sounds like it is rapidly approaching Poe's Law
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by lectrick 12y ago
The number of transactions is probably proportional to something like the absolute value of the first derivative of the change in value. So basically, when the value is fluctuating quickly, there are more trades/transactions.
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by lectrick 12y ago
I hav a better TL;DR: Nature is a gatekeeper that is not provably fair. So basically, if the knowledge you discovered is TOO revolutionary, Nature can pass on it, and it will get short shrift even if it's true. I am SO glad that the pr
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by lectrick 12y ago
Sounds like an opportunity to convert all the paperwork to some kind of IT-powered workflow.
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by lectrick 12y ago
I am guessing there are more Rails people curious about Elixir than Go at this point
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by lectrick 12y ago
It is the MOST trivial thing to measure performance in a Go game. It is the LEAST trivial thing to measure the "code quality"/"unit of time" metric in a programmer. For example, you might bang out an implementation

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