methehack

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by methehack 9y ago
I agree with you the meta data could mean nothing. But "noise"? More likely you're a paid troll.
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by methehack 9y ago
A nice time to plug a lovely Bertrand Russel Essay, "In Praise of Idleness": http://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/ I think there are likely many organizational and societal
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by methehack 10y ago
Seems like one could write a program that continuously (with some sleeping of course) hit random websites in the background. This would hide the "signal" of the sites one is actually browsing. The ISP's data would be much le
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by methehack 10y ago
Been wondering the same thing. It's one of the my favorite stories from the Walter Isacson bio. After listening to all the product mgrs for like 3 days in all day meetings describe their 20+ hardware products, he draws a 2x2. Labels
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by methehack 10y ago
I guess it should come as no surprise that the comments section for an article called “facts don’t change our minds” would be so disappointing. For me, this article — and many like it that point out how whimsical and feeble our natural, un
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by methehack 10y ago
Let's say I'm living in, say, Russia and I use this distro. Let's say I want to say some nasty things about Putin. Let's say they are so nasty, that Putin may want to kill me as a result. If I use this OS, is it possib
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by methehack 10y ago
Monthly is the way to go as it gives them a stable base of support that they can plan with.
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by methehack 10y ago
I think Mr. Altman is largely addressing tech CEOs here and urging them to make public statements. The actions you list are great for you and me, but he's mostly not really talking to us. Supporting quotations from the post (because e
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by methehack 10y ago
Does this explain Peter Thiel's vigorous support of trump? EDIT (since being flagged): The reason I think this is relevant to the community is that Thiel's work on startups is brilliant and his support of Trump is, to me and I su
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by methehack 10y ago
No, there wasn't. That's the poster's point. Universal grammar in Chomsky is lower-level than any concrete language, English most definitely included. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar Th
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by methehack 10y ago
This is cool! I would love to see a similar global car traffic visualization. I suppose that data is much harder to come by.
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by methehack 10y ago
Yer gonna have to slow waaaaay down there, pardner
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by methehack 10y ago
Really? How so? And of what?
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by methehack 10y ago
I entirely disagree. I don't see proprietary technology that can't be duplicated or bought. I see _some_ network effects but ultimately the drivers will go to the highest bidder and the riders will go to the lowest price. I see
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by methehack 10y ago
I have long held the same position. The only thing I can think is that the pricing is based on an estimate of what will be sustainable once self-driving cars are used instead of drivers. Uber is, in fact, launching self-driving already in,
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by methehack 10y ago
You probably know this, but it's the same stuff -- I would wager a hunk of the original interface builder code written for the NeXT machine runs on your Mac today when you use the interface builder part of xcode (though I haven't
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by methehack 10y ago
I agree that's another attempt. It doesn't work for me though as it always makes me think of a cauldron of bubbling fat -- not the soothing effect the speaker is after. EDIT 'effect/affect' fix
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by methehack 10y ago
I'm glad you pointed this out. That's way mal-informed for how you'd build that DOM in clojurescript. I mean, you _could_ do it that way, but there are libraries (like hiccup) that make it more natural. Here's an examp
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by methehack 10y ago
Let put this more simply: what are you buying?
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by methehack 10y ago
Cool. How do you personally think about the value of a small project? What do you look for? Does the ideal for you look something like "buy it, let it go, it never needs anything, and you make more and more money, hoping one of thes
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by methehack 10y ago
Seems like I should clarify... It may be that Asians are just better at math — “inherently” as you say. Ok, maybe. It also seems possible that there are certain aspects of language and culture that support math achievement. Gladwell, in
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by methehack 10y ago
If you haven't read Malcolm Gladwell on Rice Farming and math you really should give it a look: http://gladwell.com/outliers/rice-paddies-and-math-tests/
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by methehack 10y ago
Does anyone else think the scenario in the explanation is an unreasonable request to make of a relational database? I think that if you've created a design that requires you to update a 50K row table 500 times a second that itself is
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by methehack 10y ago
I think the regional keyspaces would be have to be caches -- denormalize it, basically. Pop/re-fresh people into the geo-based caches as they moved around. Truth sits behind it, centralized (perhaps partitioned in some way that makes
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by methehack 10y ago
w/r/t support for Trump (he's a Trump delegate, I think) the best I can come up with -- obviously utter speculation -- is that he's hoping for enough of a collapse of the republican party to create an opening for a new p
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by methehack 10y ago
Thank you for taking the time to clarify and explain. That's exactly what I was talking about. Worth noting -- it might be that there's just a missing construct/approach itty bitty piece of language support here that would m
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by methehack 10y ago
My OS X install is native; my linux is vbox. So OS X is the host.
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by methehack 10y ago
There's some negativity around this product on this thread, but honestly I'm really glad Virtual Box is around and under active development. I have both an active linux and os x env for dev and I use virtual box to manage and swit
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by methehack 10y ago
I wouldn't say it's understandable by all humans yet. I've had this experience where just when I think I'm grokking it, I hit a line of code that makes me cross-eyed and I can't find any traction at all and it&#x27
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by methehack 10y ago
For those of you who aren't getting the joke, this comment is not disparaging elm (I noticed a downvote earlier), it's a reference to later day terminal based email clients (two of which were 'elm' and 'mutt').

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