lesterbuck

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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Actually, he is claiming they cannot do this. How, exactly, would we verify this claim? I'm sure he would have made the claim that Snowden could not have done something like this before Snowden did it.
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
This is exactly the issue covered in depth on the direct marketing podcast "I Love Marketing". They come back to this issue over and over for the last few years, but the very first time they discussed it was the episode on conv
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Interviewing a front-end developer(blog.sourcing.io)
91 points by lesterbuck 13y ago|83 comments
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
I have a friend with family in Venezuela. A few years ago, Chavez decided that underutilized land is suddenly free for the poor to squat on. Their family member had bought the land after saving a long time, and was now saving for the fund
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
In Firefox, you can roll back through your history for several days of links, and search the link text. Does your browser keep a history?
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
I can think of two ways to handle this that minimize your wasted time: 1. Call in and record the idiocy. I use Skype and a headset, so I can get work done while on hold. When the rep answers and asks "Who am I speaking to?", say
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Maybe I missed something, but wouldn't this work fine as a browser extension? I guess it depends on whether any individual student needed to crawl the whole dataset, or only the subset of courses they are interested in. The Yale admi
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
HeyLaughingBoy, that's an interesting idea. I'd like more details, but your public profile has no contact info.
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
There is the old quote about "We can buy books but we can't buy the time to read them."
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
In the mid-eighties, I was working on some app that did serial port communications, probably under PC-DOS. The program was failing to communicate, and I spent most of a week stepping through the debugger, watching it send the characters do
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Yes, it's a beautiful hack of the tax laws. What I've always wondered is why people don't load the tax code into the automatic proof systems and let it do some goal seeking. The idea of putting money into a trust and then ta
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Cleese's point about open time vs. closed time maps exactly to Ash Maurya's ideation switch for a lean startup: http://practicetrumpstheory.com/2013/01/the-ideation-switch/
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Email Signature Design, Layout and Content(sitepoint.com)
4 points by lesterbuck 13y ago|0 comments
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
>With standard Android, I have to whitelist an application when installing it. I cannot pick which permissions I give it, I cannot control when it can use those permissions, and I cannot remove permissions. Ever. Fixed in Android 4.3. N
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Since Amazon has remote deleted Kindle books in the past, your statement is clearly incorrect. They have since "promised" not to do it again. The capability remains. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18&#x
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Why Comcast's Price Discrimination Strategy Makes Me Hate Them (2012)(forbes.com)
1 points by lesterbuck 13y ago|0 comments
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Rocket Surgery Made Easy http://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Surgery-Made-Easy-Do-It-Yoursel...
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
A subtle but crucial difference. Kathy Sierra gave the canonical presentation on this in 2009 http://businessofsoftware.org/2010/05/kathy-sierra-at-busine...
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
I have a bunch of naval officers in my family. I recall the standard line is "During modern naval warfare, there are only two things: submarines and targets."
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CAPTCHA crushed, new era of threats emerges(networkworld.com)
2 points by lesterbuck 13y ago|0 comments
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Thanks for the link, that's a fascinating paper. One thing that drives me nuts about that paper format (a LaTEX template, I guess) is that it doesn't have a date. And this happens a lot. If the topic was an abstract mathematical
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
>I've found that the best way to keep everyone happy is to finish 80% of the product in 50% of the time but show the client 50% of the product and spend the remaining 50% of time, finishing the 20%. It's a win-win, IMHO. That i
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
A while ago, Derek Sivers had a blog post about how with most of his ideas, the first thing he does is sketch out the database schema. That seems to help him think it through in the same way. His blog has been redesigned since then, but h
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_DNS
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
I think the answer to your question is in the missing directions on the threads. The goal of modular software is to have the arrowheads point in the right directions. Uncle Bob was talking about this in his keynote about how Rails is not y
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Don't count Apple out -- yet(cbsnews.com)
1 points by lesterbuck 13y ago|0 comments
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Prime-generating fractions(johndcook.com)
86 points by lesterbuck 13y ago|8 comments
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
A fascinating talk by Travis Goodspeed on the mayhem possible by reprogramming the USB controller in a disk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Im0_KUEf8 Writing a Thumbdrive from Scratch: Prototyping Active Disk Anti-Forensi
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Visually Impaired Turn to Smartphones to See Their World(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by lesterbuck 13y ago|1 comments
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by lesterbuck 13y ago
Far and away the most stunning thing I saw when I visited London as a tourist in 1979 was the wall around The City of London. This is the ancient wall that at one point protected the city from attack. Why was it stunning? Because we walk

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