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NYSEG Vs. Us Vs. NYSEG, Part 2 of 2(johnwiswell.blogspot.com)
2 points by mcantor 16y ago|0 comments
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Cold & Wondering for a Week - Ice storm kills power, NYSEG Fumbles(johnwiswell.blogspot.com)
2 points by mcantor 16y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 16y ago
But what's the point of making a response that everyone understands if you're not really saying anything?
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by mcantor 16y ago
Strong agree. It confuses me when people respond to articles about Anonymous and /b/ by saying, "You know, there are lots of other boards on 4chan!" My perennial answer is: So what? /b/ is the only one whose influence leaks out of 4chan
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by mcantor 16y ago
> If I'm committing some large assets... (Isn't version control mostly for text files?) > If, while the upload's been happening, I've made more changes to my working copy... (So you're uploading a large--presumably binary--fil
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by mcantor 16y ago
I think there's a typo in the submission--this looks like installation instructions, as opposed to just "join & use" instructions.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Isn't this basically a tenure thing? AFAIK public unions make firing a First-In-Last-Out operation, which means the senior teacher you hired 10 years ago is there to stay until every single other teacher that came after is gone. In my com
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by mcantor 16y ago
Is it permissible in American courts to require the prosecutor to unambiguously define "hacker" before answering? If not, can you feign ignorance of the definition and explain that you are thus literally incapable of providing an honest &#3
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by mcantor 16y ago
"Jeez. This guy really drives a lot, for a student."
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Gaming, rape culture, and how I stopped reading Penny Arcade(thephoenix.com)
2 points by mcantor 16y ago|0 comments
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by mcantor 16y ago
Out of curiosity, how does your app know when a real human gets on the line...? Do you have a database of the automatic messages ("Please stay on the line while we sip Cognac and chortle") for each company so it doesn't get false positives
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by mcantor 16y ago
Also, a lot of phone service reps are literally not able to end a call. Often, the customer has to do it.
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Court Says Constitution Protects "God Hates Fags" Picketers at Military Funerals(nytimes.com)
4 points by mcantor 16y ago|6 comments
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by mcantor 16y ago
This was a work of art , man. Dig it. Yeah, mannnn. The MAN is stealing our MOJO, mannnn. Oppressing our SOULS. You gotta fight the man , man. The establishment . Big Daddy Warbucks and Uncle Sam, they're in cahoots. Fucking vamp
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by mcantor 16y ago
Why should we be forced NOT to use a technology that provides superior response and productivity than what was traditionally possible? Forcing us to live in a world with server round trips for everything just so we can say we perfectly fit
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by mcantor 16y ago
Sorry... I searched for it, but for the life of me I can't track it down. I think the original article was talking about DuckDuckGo and Google; the "strength" in that case was Google's information-gathering: Google's bottom line is partial
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by mcantor 16y ago
It's also not easy for big companies to change course, add features, iterate, or experiment. PayPal can't simply decide to shift its focus toward consumers, nor would they want to. This reminds me of an outstanding article I
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by mcantor 16y ago
Another feature about this guy is his low threshold of boredom. He'll pick up on a task and work frantically at it, accomplishing wonders in a short time and then get bored and drop it before its properly finished. He'l
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by mcantor 16y ago
You'd best offset it by making your desktop background a flat shade of maroon; it's the only proven way to counteract neural damage from off-white sources.
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by mcantor 16y ago
I'm curious about some threads that get killed, too--afaik it can happen due to mod intervention or when the community hits "flag" enough times, but I always wonder which one it was.
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by mcantor 16y ago
K&R is one of my favorite books, too. It's probably one of the only programming books that I like to read purely for leisure and enjoyment. Often, when novice programmers ask me if they should learn C, I say yes, not because I'm sure
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by mcantor 16y ago
I think from a "fun game design" perspective, it's probably a terrible idea, but it still sounds like a fun exercise in of itself, because it will force you to design the mechanics in a way that's decoupled from the GUI, and thus easy to tw
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by mcantor 16y ago
Oh, my God. I understand it perfectly now. I don't know whether to thank you for helping me get it, or damn you for making me die inside a little. (Either way you get an upvote)
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by mcantor 16y ago
I'm not sure how to post this without seeming like a troll, but... is this guy campaigning for or against net neutrality? I can't tell from the article. He wants to protect "our most basic freedoms", right? So... he wants net neutr
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by mcantor 16y ago
Even if you threw the notes away, creating them in the first place primed your brain and helped you understand the problem domain more thoroughly.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Maybe the real problem is that Ruby documentation generally sucks! :-)
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by mcantor 16y ago
I think you're kinda overthinking things, dude. The calendar doesn't track solved problems --it just tracks stuff you did .
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by mcantor 16y ago
I literally just finished reading that book yesterday, and I can't recommend it enough. It taught me to be a better programmer.
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by mcantor 16y ago
Readability toolbar shortcut to the rescue! javascript:(function(){readConvertLinksToFootnotes=false;readStyle='style-apertura';readSize='size-large';readMargin='margin-medium';_readability_script=document.createElement('script');_rea
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Ask HN: How have you solved other people's problems without writing code?
1 points by mcantor 16y ago|0 comments

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