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by mcphilip 11y ago
I think the question is if Snowden recklessly (i.e. without careful consideration of consequences) endangered the lives of <insert arbitrary people group here>. Information is power. Snowden leaked damaging information about corruptio
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Twitter removes 140-character limit for direct messages(cnet.com)
1 points by mcphilip 11y ago|0 comments
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by mcphilip 11y ago
>Additional features like documents and deep indexes are nice of course but can be (and often are) implemented using relational databases as well, so in the end there really isn't such a large advantage to be gained from using a gra
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Bin Ladin's Bookshelf(odni.gov)
3 points by mcphilip 11y ago|1 comments
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None Dare Call It a Conspiracy(reprints.longform.org)
1 points by mcphilip 12y ago|0 comments
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TenClips: the ultimate multiple clipboards for developers(paludour.net)
1 points by mcphilip 12y ago|0 comments
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by mcphilip 12y ago
The first celebrity death that hit me hard. I've read all fourty Discworld novels, some of them 4 or 5 times. His books taught me to approach the world with a twinkle in my eye and a smile quick to come out -- a good change from the cy
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by mcphilip 12y ago
Just a side note to add about scanning the wristband for a ride's fastpass line or entry into a park: it's a two step process where you put a finger on a finger print scanner and then move on to scanning the wristband. If both a
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by mcphilip 12y ago
I've heard it said that the way to win a debate is to show the opposing position ultimately leads to genocide, nuclear war, or child pornography. It's depressing to witness the government's fear momgering reach its nadir.
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by mcphilip 12y ago
As others have mentioned, Stephenson is known for his fiction. However, his nonfiction piece from 1996 for Wired magazine is my personal favorite piece. It recounts his trip around the world investigating undersea fiber-optic cables and s
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by mcphilip 12y ago
My wife has a friend with CRPS here in Austin. She's just recently started a new treatment involving ketamine. She wasn't put under for five days like Justin, but did experience extreme mental disorientation accompanied by a few
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by mcphilip 12y ago
Watching the promotional video[1] of the iPhone app, the one question that springs to mind is how the blind people know how to orient their phone to the objects shown in the video. For instance, reading the hours a store is open: there is
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by mcphilip 12y ago
Strange to see this (currently) heavily down voted. It's a great summary of the hollowness of the article.
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by mcphilip 12y ago
Personal anecdote: I've worked 5 years in 3 startups, 5 years in 2 large development teams, and my experience has shown that there are, percentage wise, better developers working in startups. This is in Austin, so it may not reflect t
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by mcphilip 12y ago
I just wanted to say thank you for writing this up. My sister has Downs Syndrome and is very low functioning. She blossomed into a really happy and loving individual once our family stopped focusing mainly on 'normalizing' her.
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by mcphilip 12y ago
I got to experience the opposite side of the equation. I rented a 6 bedroom house in Austin to house my family during my wedding. There was an ominous note left on the fridge where the owner explained that the neighbors are hostile and wi
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by mcphilip 12y ago
>That pretty much defines 'art' I think. The artist is compelled to see the vision through, it isn't about the money or the time or the cost. I am quite impressed he stuck it through. [...] >I love that Adam stuck with
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by mcphilip 12y ago
>If I'm reading the tea leaves correctly, this will probably be a novelty, like Windows Phone, for a while to come. Agreed. I'm having trouble visualizing how it moves from being novelty to being ubiquitous. I purchased one o
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by mcphilip 12y ago
free* <online> college... Still, it sounds like a noble effort. >The program is open to any of the company’s 135,000 United States employees, provided they work at least 20 hours a week and have the grades and test scores to gain
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by mcphilip 12y ago
There's a loosely defined sub genre of incremental games if you enjoy A Dark Room: http://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games
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by mcphilip 12y ago
Most tips I've read about how to trigger LD involve conscious effort throughout the day to check that you are not dreaming. It's weird, but I used to ask myself everytime I flipped a light switch "is this a dream?". It
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by mcphilip 12y ago
I first read about lucid dreaming 20 years ago when I was twelve. It was treated more as a new age fringe thing back then, but I had a blast experimenting with it. My favorite dreamscape involved a purely abstract state of mind where I co
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by mcphilip 12y ago
While it's tough to criticize the decision to leave a child in the car for a few minutes -- happened to me all the time as a child -- I'm forever scarred by seeing a dead child pulled out of a car in the office complex next to min
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by mcphilip 12y ago
I choose to use nonrational (not irrational or rational, necessarily, but indeterminate) thoughts like "My life has purpose" as sources of motivation since it shortcuts the process of extracting meaning from theories that take a
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by mcphilip 12y ago
I only found lectures especially useless after the shift to PowerPoint slide dumps. I still think back fondly on the days where English/History/Calculus/etc professors would write on the chalkboard while lecturing. Somethin
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by mcphilip 12y ago
Yes, imdb is a pretty poor source of data. From my research, a combination of the well organized freebase film database[1] (~19mm facts) with details filled in from imdb is a better approach. However, processing data from freebase is not
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by mcphilip 12y ago
I absolutely agree with you. Medical progress depends on sharing information between service providers and those researches, etc that can produce actionable results from such data. I'm trying to give the (necessary) counterpoint: sma
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Airbnb rentals and neighborhood hostility: my experience.
1 points by mcphilip 12y ago|1 comments
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by mcphilip 12y ago
From 4 years working leading teams in an electronic medical software shop, I urge consumers to not assume that vendors will be good stewards of personal data. forget the boilerplate and assurance that data will only be used in an anonymous
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by mcphilip 12y ago
Whatever they used they deserve big credit for making it a great experience even on iOS. I was very surprised how well this worked on the iPhone.

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