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by m0nty 17y ago
That's right. Better to not write, not participate, not change anything. Nothing can be done, after all, so don't do anything.
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by m0nty 17y ago
If you're in the UK and were thinking of writing to your MP, use this form to do so: http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/speakout/extremeinternetl You don't even need to be particularly detailed or articulate. I used to work for a political
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by m0nty 17y ago
> There are people rich enough that there is not much difference for them between 3$ and 300$. I used to know someone who sold beds for a while. He had a couple come into the shop and after about an hour they were still having trouble d
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by m0nty 17y ago
You probably meant that as a joke too, but I think a virtual whiteboard with Post-Its would be a great product. Colour-coded notes to indicate priority, clustering by physical location on the screen, larger text sizes for very-urgent-do-it-
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by m0nty 17y ago
The thing that annoys me is the assumption that we're all anti-success narrow-minded ne'er-do-wells without the gumption to get out and be successful, or celebrate when other people are successful. And you know, I don't recognise that in mo
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by m0nty 17y ago
Yes, spent all the article going on about how negative the British are ... kind of ironic really. Then this: "Meanwhile to all British entrepreneurs reading, your head can go back in the sand now." Oooh! Bitchy! I wonder what it's like bein
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by m0nty 17y ago
AdBlock+ white-listing: fine. Flashblock white-listing: no. image.animation_mode: none. Fixed. (Edit: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11073 for the cookie-haters among us.)
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by m0nty 17y ago
> real people, using crappy early 2000s desktop apps I wish more companies would concentrate on these kinds of uses rather than whatever the next social media thing is supposed to be. It basically describes my sys admin life and is some
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by m0nty 17y ago
> So we end up with the second raters in charge (while the smart ones go off and do cool stuff) Sir John Harvey-Jones was the one-time chairman of ICI who said he went into business because he saw it as a more effective way to make a di
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by m0nty 17y ago
> digital natives are people under 25 I'm a digital native and I'm 43. Not a boomer, but still. And I'm becoming probably more radical in my viewpoints as I get older, not more conservative. Seriously, age has got nothing to do with it
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by m0nty 17y ago
"the generations that grew up with computers will age into politics as previous generations age out" With respect, I keep hearing things like this, usually framed as "things won't get better until the Baby Boomers die out." It's wrong. Gree
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by m0nty 17y ago
"How much training are western corporations giving their international staff about high-tech security?" Everywhere I have worked (public sector, private sector, startup, ISP, defence) there has been scant regard given to security. Anyone wh
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by m0nty 17y ago
And also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hendrik_Sch%C3%B6n "Jan Hendrik Schön (born 1970) is a German physicist who briefly rose to prominence after a series of apparent breakthroughs that were later discovered to be fraudulent.[1] Bef
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by m0nty 17y ago
"What would I like" ... "I hate reading about" ... "I friggin love awesome articles" ... "I love reading math stuff". Seems like your post is just your personal wish-list for Hacker News. Shame the website has to take everyone else into acc
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by m0nty 17y ago
The word "choose" probably doesn't help much.
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by m0nty 17y ago
After UK import and sales tax, the price-drop will mean nothing: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/ar...
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by m0nty 17y ago
Yup, just hang up: it's not as rude as they're being to you. As for the unwanted emails, I set up Gmail filters to forward emails back to the sender (and delete the original) if I don't want to hear from them. Most of the time, I think they
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by m0nty 17y ago
FWIW, "Apologist" is perhaps not quite so strong a word as you think: "a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution" "Apologists are authors, writers, editors of scientific logs or academic journals, and leaders known
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by m0nty 17y ago
I'd second the recommendation for Farber's book. It doesn't try to hide that you will need to work, but the work can be enjoyable and productive - that's the sense of the word "easy" in this context, rather than "work-free". It also recomme
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by m0nty 17y ago
I'm studying French as a hobby and I'm at the stage (after six months) where I can read a newspaper now. I'm not fluent in conversation and still have a long way to go, but (I keep telling myself) it's my journey and I'm doing it for myself
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by m0nty 17y ago
I already use Dropbox so I'll give it a try.
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by m0nty 17y ago
TrueCrypt.
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by m0nty 17y ago
Another Schneier recommendation is to write your passwords down, just keep the piece of paper away from people who might misuse it: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/06/write_down_you... I have about 30 unique passwords which I k
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by m0nty 17y ago
I like receiving bug reports. I like even more those cases where people say "the problem is in this bit of code". The thing that put me off doing my open source project is that some people don't have the chops to sys admin their own boxes,
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by m0nty 17y ago
"Last month the BBC Internet Blog said that if, in the future, 'some people stopped receiving live broadcasts at all, stopped paying their licence fee, but continued to consume television programmes, solely on-demand' then they would consid
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by m0nty 18y ago
I have some ten years learning and experience invested in perl, and at the moment I'd basically agree with your consultants. I haven't been hired solely for perl since 2003 (it was a web development gig) and I was musing just yesterday that
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by m0nty 18y ago
On your frontpage: there are some graphics under the video which frankly are too small to make out. You may as well drop them - maybe replace with a screenshot tour (I don't usually like watching videos because you can't skim through them
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by m0nty 18y ago
I think many of these articles come down to one thing: microblogging services need to monetize, fast.
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by m0nty 18y ago
Slightly increased spending does not equal an economic recovery: "economists expect consumer spending to remain weak in the months ahead as the economy continues to deteriorate."
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by m0nty 18y ago
As Goldacre himself puts it: "The Daily Mail, as you know, is engaged in a philosophical project of mythic proportions: for many years now it has diligently been sifting through all the inanimate objects in the world, soberly dividing them

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