lostnet

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by lostnet 14y ago
Would we know who he was or have as many of his works if they didn't?
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by lostnet 14y ago
I had always wondered what market the window debugging was tuned for.. Building by bug fixing in a debugger and then shipping it to someone without a debugger does seem to be the norm both on windows and in the game industry. I worked for a
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by lostnet 14y ago
No, they they have damaged the free market for phones and phone service using these subsidies to create bundles, so you will pay an inflated price for both your phone and your service. Whether you buy it locked or unlocked you are being rip
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by lostnet 14y ago
I was actually referring to the danger of allowing specific profile criteria in advertising campaigns not in public queries. The advertiser will presumably never see the actual profiles of the fb users, but they will know too much about the
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by lostnet 14y ago
How can you feel about clicking on an Ad that matches one interest of yours if you don't know the additional targeting criteria? The more specific the criteria, the more likely the "advertiser" is a spear fisher. I can think of a couple exp
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by lostnet 14y ago
And we shouldn't have calculators because we may forget the relationships between numbers? I use analytics to do significant A/A testing on every configuration the sites users are actually using to determine what will work for my A/B testin
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by lostnet 14y ago
> In programming, there are very few things that will still > be the same in 20+ years and we have no idea what those > things are. For the most part we are walking toward local optima in programming languages
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by lostnet 14y ago
Of course it is harmless. But don't do it! It is part of a disinformation campaign/honeypot. The flights to area 51 are full of people secretly renditioned for watching youtube on commercial flights...
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by lostnet 14y ago
The point I was trying to make is that trying to be at the top in one area instead of comfortable in all areas of your life is really not the sign of a person with a healthy self image and often a sign of someone to avoid at a personal leve
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by lostnet 14y ago
> you have not achieved much in life There are over 6 billion people on this planet. How many have you heard of by name? Of those you have heard of, how many appear to have happy lives and don't have children who wont talk to them or be
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by lostnet 14y ago
> He left plenty of evidence that pretty much guaranteed he'd be infamous. You seem to be confusing cause and effect. He more likely chose his target because his mother worked there. Even if every shooter is choosing randomly we will on
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by lostnet 14y ago
No need to write these complex new examples, here's my favorite English injection attack for those unfamiliar with SQL. http://www.bored.com/photos/putacorkinit.html The speaker is your web service (which knows the backend language but st
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by lostnet 14y ago
How we work is completely irrelevant to reaching a singularity. These arguments are like talking about how we will need only a few computers as large as cities to handle our needs or the making of OS/2 out of intel assembly. When we have a
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by lostnet 14y ago
These government inefficiency arguments seem to ignore the fact that NASA relied significantly on the small handful of large Aerospace companies, yet those companies seem not to be involved in the private ventures that require expanding cap
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by lostnet 14y ago
Because if we aren't nice to her she wont tell us why lower physical footprint per person is something negative rather than essential if asia is copying US lifestyle.
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by lostnet 14y ago
Short email. Anyone who is bothered by an email midstream chose to be.
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by lostnet 14y ago
I think a large problem is in our psychology of not wanting to scrap our previous labor even if it was substandard. At this point I hope most coders are checking in code regularly enough that they could identify a point close to where quali
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by lostnet 14y ago
Is the poetry of talking of systems that spring back to life without a focus on the 3 years of human effort all that different from the poetry of cat walk models, photoshop body images, etc? Poetry can be great, but not when it enforces unr
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by lostnet 14y ago
Well yes, securing the world is a known problem. Look at the other wall.
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by lostnet 14y ago
We need the photos they had of him during their "lobby."
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by lostnet 14y ago
Actually weeding out "weak" genes is eugenics, it is increasingly done without genocide. This appears to be a larger ethical issue today (and certainly in the 60s and 70s) than during the holocaust.
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by lostnet 14y ago
Strangely, I think this is progress. The system of independent reporters going to partisan press conferences really muddles the independence of reporters and gives a false air of legitimacy to the claims of spokesmen. Things should be claim
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by lostnet 14y ago
This is exactly what a lot of companies and managers will try to tell you.. But it is a bunch of nonsense. An actual 40 hour a week programmer is an awful asset, if we do more than ~20 hours of work a week the rest is bad code and the shit
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by lostnet 14y ago
Thank you for the background! I worked on Solaris during the Gnome transition and during the largely overlapping SMF transition. I'm not sure which was more painful or was more broken by design, though SMF surely affected more developers. I
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by lostnet 14y ago
Please write the sequel to my book, I will not be including my book, but someone who has read my book will provide a review. The review may be in a language you speak (and may be in a language they speak,) and they may have understood my bo
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by lostnet 14y ago
That is a more significant finding! Dropping out of the overall top ten may have little or nothing to do with better security since the calculation is intentionally skewed to measure by number of affected users. MS bugs got raised to the to
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by lostnet 14y ago
I agree that the real-time advantage is much more important than the "comprehensive" feedback of a human grader. For style problems that are really a detriment, students will drift toward better style to save themselves time when correcting
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by lostnet 14y ago
But time shifting is fair use and as considered has always required space shifting so space shifting itself is compatible with fair use. I think the question is always about the eventual playback.
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by lostnet 14y ago
Before you go hiring all those "happy developers" I would suggest searching for "grumpy employee productivity". You can cross reference it with estimates of the GDP affect of various fields. Your grumpy developers are in the state where th
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by lostnet 14y ago
His "broken window fallacy" like point is an important one, but he poorly justified it. Stopping one rogue window breaker is admirable, stopping them universally has its disadvantages. The proposals for a secure network usually include avoi

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