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by loewenskind 16y ago
One plane getting hacked and crashing into something will be enough to create a wave of panic like never seen before. Look what a few planes hitting a few buildings did when you could see the perpetrators . Now imagine what happens when
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Did you actually look at the article? It's just some random guy doing some scripting. He's not using any modern perl stuff so it's not interesting for perl fans. It's certainly not interesting for the rest of us who don't care about perl
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Again, my comment isn't about the article.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Companies always ask for more than they need, just as candidates often claim more experience than they actually have. Don't be intimidated by what they say they want.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Except that they make these connections because they're working. Once I arranged to work weekends and have Monday/Tuesday off. I thought it would be so great because I wouldn't have to fight the crowds. So I called up my friends... but
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by loewenskind 16y ago
I wouldn't have them do utterly useless jobs like this, but rather government jobs that need doing but don't take years of training. There will always be some churn of unemployment anyway, we should take advantage of it. Why hire someone
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by loewenskind 16y ago
I didn't see anything very controversial for Hacker News. Perhaps for perlmonks.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
I didn't mean what he said was, I meant posting it here was. It's 5 paragraphs about some guy scripting. Who cares? Are we going to start posting Yahoo answers about perl next? How about IRC logs?
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Please don't say that. The people who are into it are too loud as it is. If someone popped up every now and then and said "Yea, it was a great ride into work this morning with my horse & buggy." Of course most people's response is go
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by loewenskind 16y ago
TL;DR: I sometimes need to do some scripting and I use perl because I know it. So what? Flagged. This is blatant fanboy nonsense. Nothing remotely of interest here.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
It's no more puzzling than the people who keep on trying to bring perl into every conversation, make sure there is some mostly irrelevant perl story on the front page, etc. I wouldn't expect Hacker News to care much about the language, but
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by loewenskind 16y ago
You think a bomb blowing up a plane is more scary than a plane just randomly deciding to fly into something? I don't. Plane control hacking is vastly more scary than bombs because one break means someone on the other side of the earth can
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by loewenskind 16y ago
You need to move ASAP. I'm serious.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>Which is hard, because the client you’re billing knows this person doesn’t really cost $100/hour. This is also not exactly correct. The client probably knows the person they're getting doesn't get exactly $100/hr but they probably don
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by loewenskind 16y ago
It sounds like Apple wants apps to stop cheating by redirecting to a browser. Personally I do find this annoying about the Kindle App. I would prefer to do my purchasing inside the app. In my opinion the solution is for apple to not charg
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by loewenskind 16y ago
NASCAR isn't a legitimate sport, it's a spectacle. Any time one car gets too far in front of the others a restart is issued. Various owners have openly admitted they do this "for the fan's excitement".
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>when any of your friends could try out the software your created on their own devices? You can do this with the iPhone right now so long as "your friends" doesn't include all iOS owners.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>We were upset because it demonstrates that Apple can effectively make up reasons to block your app when none previously exist. That's just good sense. They try to set up the rules as best they can, then some joker comes up with a way
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1 in 6 people return their Samsung tablets(computerworld.com)
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by loewenskind 16y ago
I don't have my sources handy, but this: >he wrote famous defenses of companies like East India importing Sounds wrong to me. There is some discussion of it here: http://adamsmithslostlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/01/claims-for-... "Also
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>I'm an anarcho-capitalist Do you have any good (online) literature for your position? It seems to me that having money/bartering implies a government no matter how you slice it. I can see potential with some anarchical systems, just n
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by loewenskind 16y ago
I don't find IKEA cheap at all. If you get their cheap offerings (where the so called "savings" are) it's garbage that will barely last a year. If you get something decent it costs at least as much as any other store or more.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>gives an unfair advantage to IKEA over Target, Walmart Ugh. You correctly note that tax avoidance is an unfair advantage but list among your victims some of the biggest companies in the world. Do you think Walmart is at a disadvant
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by loewenskind 16y ago
Funny that the articles uncited tax number only went back 3 years. What would happen if they went back more? http://www.ctj.org/pdf/walmart041607.pdf
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by loewenskind 16y ago
You've just described exactly why I switched to OSX from windows. Less useless choices to make and better likelihood that I wont have to deal with stupid hardware issues.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
How do you think these generational changes occur to begin with? Education.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>Norway don't say yes to socialism they say yes to social welfare in a different way than in the US. But they do say yes to what most people in the US would call "socialism". When it comes to politics the words the US uses don't matc
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>If Eric Schmidt is being lined up to become Apple's next CEO Why on earth do people keep expecting this? Apple's success comes from their fantastic design sense and their leading support. Schmidt gets a bad grade in both those areas.
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by loewenskind 16y ago
>high social securities, such as Switzerland Do you actually know anything about these countries? I see a lot more entrepreneurs in Switzerland than I do in the US. That is, I see people with small businesses all over the place. It f
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by loewenskind 16y ago
The US spends over 700 billion dollars a year on the military. It wouldn't take that much to fully cover everyone.

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