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by mahmud 15y ago
There are many reasons why Paul Grahama might speak too highly of Convore, but one theory is endowment effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect People think more highly of things that they have an ownership stake in.
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by mahmud 15y ago
I don't even know what features of Emacs I use. I have mental intents, actions, transformations, things I want to do to text, files, buffers, regions .. my conscious mind has been locked out of the tight-loop, the vicious cycle of a synapse
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by mahmud 15y ago
Wasn't wondering about namespace count as much as maturity/completeness.
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by mahmud 15y ago
How does it compare to Robert Virding's LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang)? https://github.com/rvirding/lfe
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by mahmud 15y ago
You prude!
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by mahmud 15y ago
Who cares about default font size? Learn how to use your browser's text resizing keychords (usually C-+ and C--)
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by mahmud 15y ago
OT, but I clicked that link expecting a discussion of exception handling ..
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by mahmud 15y ago
longjmp to an earlier stage where you can "retract" the error or somehow wrap it in a chainable form (e.g. add a union to your result to signal whether it's a value or error, or whatever) That's what exceptions are supposed to do. C doesn't
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by mahmud 15y ago
EconTalk
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by mahmud 15y ago
Stop being such a zuck[1], calling security-consciouness "neckbearding". [1] A zuck: someone who, due to a combination of ignorance and malice, is dismissive of others' efforts to improve their security and protect their privacy.
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by mahmud 15y ago
No reason the security analysis cann't be published anonymously as well.
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by mahmud 15y ago
As they say in Thailand, same same but different.
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by mahmud 15y ago
It says it's a Word Press theme. Maybe WP expects those identifiers?
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by mahmud 15y ago
I hope not. Why do you wish for a galactic infestation of humans? Much more attainable is population control here.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Norman Mailer describes this, in "The White Man Unburdened": http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2003/jul/17/the-whi... In a nutshell, Mailer argues that the average, working-class white man was robbed of relevance, having to compete
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by mahmud 15y ago
Ads. Our suppliers/vendors have exclussive right to brand management.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Yes. No amount of demographic targeting will do you any good if there was no shopping intent. At least for apparel & other goods that don't offer immediate gratification.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Facebook delivered us 200k uniques. Zero conversions. Google brings us a few hundred a day, consisten conversion. Apparel retail. FWIW. As far as I'm concerned FB traffic is junk. Comes handy for load-testing though.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Statistics: Central Limit Theorem Law of Large Numbers.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Is there a check-list for Google products & alternatives? I was just thinking of going through this exercise last night. Don't feel comfortable with them anymore.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Shenanigans. 1) Where did they get the pictured Homeland Security report if HS "declined to comment"? If accurate, it looks like the sort of communication that an agency that refused to comment on an story would not be too quick to divulge.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Rubber-hose cryptanalysis . Cryptanalysis is the practice of cryptography that's only interested in breaking cryptographic protocols & implementations.
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by mahmud 15y ago
people edited their posts without signing their changes.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Do you even know when the 19th century was? How can he be the most influential Economist of the 19th century if was only born in 1912?
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by mahmud 15y ago
What does that have to do with anything? Most Iranians DON'T speak Arabic. The ones who do are in the tiny Ahwaz region and many of them refuse to call themselves Iranis.
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by mahmud 15y ago
Wouldn't that "special version of emacs" be Edwin? :-)
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by mahmud 15y ago
Yep. Clojure, Lua & Retro. The last is crap and I can't wait to get a real useful FORTH on my Android.
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by mahmud 15y ago
For me it's much less glamorous, and even less purposeful. I write code almost everyday, sometimes without even thinking about it. If I don't carry out some form of automation at least once every 2 days, I get physically ill [hyperbole aler
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by mahmud 15y ago
Too soon & too small a project to report progress. The conclussions are not new. For all intents and purposes an insignificant piece of information. Flagged. -- Edit: the touchy-feely crowd downvoted me to -4 for telling what is essenti
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by mahmud 15y ago
Google has been shutting down services to protest SOPA for years .

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