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by mbillie1 13y ago
> I remember several people explaining that they cast an incorrect vote on the last "how old are you" poll. Is this really a common phenomenon? What reason would you have for randomizing a poll vote? I can't think of a r
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by mbillie1 13y ago
This open/closed office argument has rapidly become an Android/iOS, emacs/vim sort of pointless opinion-stating circle jerk. Why are we upvoting this crap?
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by mbillie1 13y ago
> People who make money off having good athletes in universities regardless of their education levels? You mean the type of people that pay college football coaches as much as ~$5M+/year? ( http://www.businessinsider.com&
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by mbillie1 13y ago
These sorts of terms are 'dangerous' if you like, because it's very easy to invent new words or phrases without giving them any actual _meaning_... but inventing the word is often enough for people to latch on to. The best a
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Very cool! Hopefully this will lead to some more enthusiasts contributing and making this as full-featured and robust an IDE as it has the potential to be. Good job open sourcing this.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
That stuff is creepy, but I always find claims of such-and-such a company stealing "my data" a little weird when that data turns out to be very public information about me such as my name, phone number and what I look like.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Meh. Just filter what you put on Facebook, or don't use it. I'm not in favor of this, and I do find it creepy, but nobody holds a gun to your head and makes you log in and post status updates recapping your day. It's a tra
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by mbillie1 13y ago
This is a good point. Honestly the most annoying thing will be the polluting of fb feeds with checkins (something it is possible to ignore from others I believe, but not prevent from posting yourself if you check in on fb... which is the w
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by mbillie1 13y ago
> There are so many that just loading, copying, and pasting all of them took the little script I wrote more than 20 hours. I want to see that script.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Sorry for this utter lack of meaningful contribution, but I read this in my head in a Morty Seinfeld voice and laughed.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
> It's the stock market mindset applied to every single assert class. This is an excellent phrase to describe this phenomenon (and probably many others).
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by mbillie1 13y ago
The fact that you can write bad unit tests is orthogonal to the notion that writing unit tests is, in general, a good thing to do.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Exactly. Having grown up in between Albany and Saratoga, I'd be excited to see some more tech culture evolve there. I'm not tremendously optimistic, but if Atlanta can do it, why not Albany? (Atlanta being a similarly car-trave
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by mbillie1 13y ago
An account with 1 comment created ~40 minutes ago. Hmm...
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Glad to see this ruling, but this must be too-little-too-late by now, right?
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Not to not-pick, but just riding the bus that is illegally stopped probably isn't itself illegal (although the bus driver would likely be breaking some law or other).
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by mbillie1 13y ago
> The fact that you say "the liberal sales wing of the ruling class" just makes you seem ridiculous. "ridiculous" is generous here.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
I think there is a very different perspective (namely one that spans the entirety of Mandela's adult life) from which one can look at this. Yes, under a violent and oppressive racist regime which virtually anyone in the technologicall
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by mbillie1 13y ago
You have (at the time of my writing this) 3 comments, all in this thread, all anti-Mandela to the point of being almost pro-apartheid. Nice throwaway account!
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Laziness! Imagine ordering toilet paper without leaving the toilet! Hopefully Amazon will take the logical next step and have the drone drop my product with a smaller, indoor robot which can open my door via Lockitron and bring it directl
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by mbillie1 13y ago
It's pretty hard to call < 5 years a "major long-term growth trend" ...
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by mbillie1 13y ago
If we're entertaining the idea that the NSA set this up, what's to stop them from just blackmailing the two women too, or threatening them? Or promising them lots of money to cooperate? Etc
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by mbillie1 13y ago
I keep hoping...
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by mbillie1 13y ago
Yep you've basically refuted the idea of personal security due to a vague insinuation of how "most people" trust their electronics. Or did you have anything constructive to add?
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by mbillie1 13y ago
This in combination with vistaprint/etc has virtually limitless options for ~$25-per-printed-item.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
I live in Portland, I'll see if I can spot it tonight...
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by mbillie1 13y ago
If it is (an elaborate way to get his student loans paid off), it's a _very_ elaborate way... the project may not seem or be practical, but that doesn't mean that it's an attempt at a scam or some-such.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
It's a FOSS terminal emulator, what is there to sign up for? And there's an obvious and prominent link to the Github repo. For the record, I think it's highly interesting.
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by mbillie1 13y ago
V8 was first released in 2008 - and while it is awesome, "mature" sounds like a bit of a reach...
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by mbillie1 13y ago
> Also, node.js with browserify & grunt makes for a great front end packaging & dependency tool. This reminds me of "homebrew is a great packaging/dependency tool, it's basically as good as apt/yum/pacman

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