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by mcgwiz 13y ago
The basic notion of empowering corporate and political entities to judge for a people what information is and is not "acceptable" is scary to me, and I would imagine, to most Americans. (I expand on this here: http://bl
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Wow, haven't seen that. Agree it appears unprofessional and frat-ish. On the other hand, he may have found this colloquial tone is more effective than a professional one given the specific audience they are communicating with (people t
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
What do find "juvenile" or "offensive" about them? The rap subject matter they cater to? I've always found them reasonably professional, particularly their evidence-driven handling of the Heroku load distribution de
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
They make no mention of asking the unnatural link publishers to take the links down (such links can be found in Google Webmaster Tools), or of using the Disavow Links tool to tell Google they do not want anything to do with those links. Les
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Overall, I agree with the post. > The freedom to do whatever one wants, wherever one wants (within moral limits, I hope). This overreaches. You cannot do "whatever," "wherever". This implies complete control over one&
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Of course it's not exactly the same. But the approach was similar. They each believed that more could be done to bring their creations closer to perfection if they understood the underlying technologies better. Commenter took that to o
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Did I miss something or is 2013 already over? Also, didn't find any mention of NSA or Snowden. Sadly, I wasn't surprised.
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
TLDR: Don't worry. We have civil liberties orientation. You can trust us. The author understands their is a misconception at play, but it's not that the public thinks NSA agents aren't upstanding or law-abiding, it's tha
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Whoa, this comment ruins the page layout. If you can still edit it, can you throw two spaces in front of it? (That'll render it in a fixed-width <code> block.)
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I believe I understand what you're saying, and in my gut I feel the same. But I wonder if that is something learned, something relative to the present condition of humanity. Civilization seems to hold itself together by a thread. But I
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Assuming you find it more moral to "do something for society" with your life, than to lounge around on drugs, what if there were nothing for you to do? What if all social ills and problems were taken care of by technology? Or what
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
These characterizations of a happiness drug contradict the forces of evolution. If any such a drug were to be developed, it would indeed sap ambition from many people. Even assuming it accounts for all existing relevant genetic variation, i
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Awesome site! I'm no mathematician, but my gut tells me that advancing mathematics is not the clinical, uninspired, technical process that the "mathematician" stereotype implies. Instead, it seems to be fueled as much by crea
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The Largest Discovered Structure in the Universe Contradicts Big-Bang Theory(dailygalaxy.com)
1 points by mcgwiz 13y ago|1 comments
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Landmark Senate Vote Limits Filibusters(nytimes.com)
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Boeing 744 Dreamlifter Mistakenly Lands At Wichita Jabara Airport(flightaware.com)
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I hope you educated your users not to forward any of that mail.
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Verified/full names are incompatible with profiles/content that are public by default.
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Still on Facebook, but Finding Less to Like(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Fab to Lay Off 50, Unlikely to Hit Revenue Target(blogs.wsj.com)
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
I give Diaspora and the author kudos for the effective hatebait title, though I would have preferred "Study the documentation/source of all mission critical components carefully." Reading through the article, I saw similariti
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
The author is not criticizing or championing anything. He's just being descriptive. He attaches to his description a reference to the psychological theory that similar people have an innate need to preserve a degree of individuality. T
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
The root problem is not that Facebook is trying to maximize it's sustainability, or that this guy wants something for nothing, it's simply that for years, Facebook effectively set very clear expectations in the minds of users, an
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
You mischaracterize one of MongoDB's main draws. It's not just indexing, but indexing over a schemaless dataset. Mongo isn't unique in providing this, but combined with other features it is compelling for certain scenarios. T
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Unacknowledged writes are disturbing but this can happen in any system: data hits the disk, and just before the server can send an ack to the client, it crashes. That same blog notes Postgres is susceptible to the same issue: http:/&#
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
Your analogy rests on the absurd assumption that mission critical components don't need to be fully vetted and understood. Shady? Yes. Dishonest? No. To be sure, both of these attributes suck, but beyond that there is an absolute world
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Lean On Me: Emoji Death Threats and Instagram's Codeine Kingpin(noisey.vice.com)
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Just enough leaks to conclude it's a Google-owned project. Although I can't offer an alternative explanation, I'm a bit skeptical in this post-Snowden world.
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Hmm, there seems to be the implication that we've hit some magical end state in hardware development where consumer needs are forever met. Personally, I think of these hardware market developments with an eye toward interplay with the
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by mcgwiz 13y ago
With all due respect, anecdotes vs opinion? A blurry distinction if ever there was one. Who gets to be the arbiter of that distinction, and placement in "the" hierarchy of HN comments? It's plain as day that girvo's comm

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