lectrick

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811.
by lectrick 13y ago
I've had this exact printer for 2 years and rave about it, recommending it to everyone. I was tired of years of clogged inkjets and not doing much actual color printing.
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by lectrick 13y ago
1) In a capitalist economy, the low-hanging fruit tend to disappear fast. This is by design. Unfortunately, the design is such that you can't have 1 great idea and then just rest on your laurels forever. On the bright side, this compel
813.
by lectrick 13y ago
The reason why wanting to change the world appears to be an "aristocratic conceit" is that the current reward system overly rewards predictable riskless delivery over unpredictable risky innovation, meaning that it is much harde
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by lectrick 13y ago
So basically, you should code malware?
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by lectrick 13y ago
> The underlying goal is always money, few admit it. I love to build cool shit. My salary does not matter to me. Of course, it is fairly high so perhaps I have the luxury to say that, but if my basic needs were taken care of, I'd be
816.
by lectrick 13y ago
Semantics matter here. I really wish the title of this was "Embrace the desire to be successful," because with success usually comes money, although I think the distinction is important. One is qualitative, one is quantitative.
817.
by lectrick 13y ago
The more I learn about other langs, the more I appreciate the language design of Ruby, even though Ruby is slow as shit.
818.
by lectrick 13y ago
Sure it does. They send you back your bitcoins. And any reputable organization that accepts bitcoins as payment, would do so. What it doesn't have is a concept of chargebacks, where you basically Indian-give your money.
819.
by lectrick 13y ago
I found a bunch of missed stuff which made me very angry. Relatives I was out of touch with, old coworkers, events I might have attended, etc. There's 2 problems at work here. 1) Someone doesn't realize that false positives when i
820.
by lectrick 13y ago
Every time any sort of "controversial" content gets hassled by mainstream payment services, a Bitcoin gets its wings.
821.
by lectrick 13y ago
Bitcoin payments, not so much. :)
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by lectrick 13y ago
> Doesn't everything on the internet start with porn? It's hard to say, without a clear definition available or even, arguably, possible... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it Which strike
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by lectrick 13y ago
> I hope that the most sensitive secrets that he is in a position to disclose stay undisclosed Why? This is like a married person saying "I hope that the affairs my spouse has had stay secret." Which, I suppose, some would agre
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by lectrick 13y ago
I am a person who severely can't stand paperwork. (ADD may be a factor.) Yet I'd be just the sort of person who would actually be productive in a self-directed fashion. Do you think that striking out on my own could work? I would
825.
by lectrick 13y ago
I'm not suggesting an answer. I'm posing a thought experiment. I think it's a reasonably good analogy. My answer is probably odd- I'd want to know if I was the possible jiltee, but I don't know if I'd say that
826.
by lectrick 13y ago
Let's assume for a moment that there exists an individual who (via unknown mechanisms) knows about 90% of the hidden affairs of marriages in the world. Should that person "blow that whistle", as it were, suddenly turning almo
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by lectrick 13y ago
> "enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States." I don't see how this is not analogous to a longstanding marriage with a
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by lectrick 13y ago
I have a Chevy Volt with a low-power Bose system, and honestly, it sounds fucking amazing.
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by lectrick 13y ago
I would, once I'm there.
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by lectrick 13y ago
Good points, but there is a domain of these claimed problems which are covered by automated testing, that's all I'm saying. And no, you can't find security holes with tests (unless they are random-input style tests, I guess),
831.
by lectrick 13y ago
I don't believe this project can accomplish all of what it claims it will. Media streaming alone is an art and a science all in itself. There are various formats, encoders, decoders, etc... This is why AirServer/AirVideo is its ow
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by lectrick 13y ago
He clearly doesn't touch unit tests, either, or he'd know that they would address ALL (as in, 100%) of his concerns here. Crypto is even easier to test than 99% of things... all you have is a couple of inputs, and an output. Boom,
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by lectrick 13y ago
1) Prioritize my happiness. That will make me care and will get more productivity out of me, ultimately. 2) Let me estimate my own work. Make it somewhat flexible (within reason). Don't tie me to point systems or other work estimation
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by lectrick 13y ago
Or Gliph. Which is far slicker than all of those combined. Although, not OS I believe, sadly. https://gli.ph/
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by lectrick 13y ago
This project wouldn't need $100,000.
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by lectrick 13y ago
Work smarter, not harder. I am going to create a startup soon and we're going to work out of my beachfront 2-bedroom FIOS-equipped apt for starters. The schedule will be: 9am-noon: 5 minute standup to spec work for the day, then code.
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by lectrick 13y ago
I feel bad for people who can't tolerate this sort of music but wordless energetic-yet-repetitive techno/trance/dubstep/etc seems to work great for me
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by lectrick 13y ago
https://github.com/pmarreck/ruby-snippets One day (...maybe today), I'll turn some of these into Ruby gems. I have some kind of weird open-source stage fright, even after multiple coworkers have told me some of these deserve to be gemmed
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by lectrick 13y ago
Because it's a fucking game ? In real life, if you are really successful and exploit all the inefficiencies while staying within the rules, you're still going to get punished. A game should be immune from this. Game-breaking winnings are o
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by lectrick 13y ago
Which is also why "bitcoin not affected" will continue.

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