mibbitier

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by mibbitier 14y ago
Driverless cars are just another segway. No one will buy one, because they do not solve a problem most people have.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
You may also need the Sky dedicated F1 channel (Which you get with the sports package).
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by mibbitier 14y ago
No, they did it in the hope that it would make him less prone to being compromised and giving away secrets to the enemy. That doesn't make it any less wrong, but to claim they were basically just a bunch of gay-haters is a bit silly.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
It is in retrospect. So are thousands of things people used to do.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Your comment is a fantastic summing up of the hyperbole coming from turing fetishists.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Throughout history, people sometimes make bad calls. With hindsight, it's easy to see what those were. Clearly some of his treatment was in the 'bad call' camp, but I don't think that was clear at the time. Do you think he'd rather be remem
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Quite a few other people fought in the war, and quite a lot of people paid with their lives. Not to downplay Turings own contribution, but I wish the hyperbole and the "he was persecuted!" angle could be reined in somehow. Also if anything
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by mibbitier 14y ago
With all due respect I think there's quite a few names on the list that should be way ahead in the queue.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
I think perhaps you're the wrong audience. The advice is great for bootstrapped businesses who are looking to get profitable. It's probably not so great for "raising a round" venture backed "startups" who are playing the startup lottery. If
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by mibbitier 14y ago
FWIW, you can also find an absolute ton of examples of startups that had plenty of money, and failed spectacularly. Having too much money is probably worse than not having enough. I think the difference is that HN is primarily venture backe
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Please don't ever do jury duty.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
The case has big implications for any site that hosts user generated content. If users start using say github, to share movies, will the github founders be whisked away to jail and the site shut down without any due process?
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by mibbitier 14y ago
I don't think so, The Daily Mail generally likes to make you feel scared. The Guardian generally likes to make you feel outraged. They're just playing on different emotions to sell papers. As regards quality, fact checking, bias, they're al
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by mibbitier 14y ago
That "steep incline at the beginning of the graph" isn't big enough, or over a large amount of time to be worth caring about. Look at the charts. They're stagnant.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
You could make similar claims about say The Guardian, or people who get their news from Reddit. Personally, I find the echo-chamber on the left to be far more worrying (Not to mention their constant condescending sneering, looking down on t
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by mibbitier 14y ago
They reserve the red mark for "The world just exploded". Orange is reserved for "The datacenter got bombed".
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Have they fixed the ridiculous "Only one connection allowed at a time to an http server" change yet? :/ As far as I'm aware, the browser is fairly unusable because of this.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Would you still be happy if you'd spent millions getting those 440k users? For $41m investment, you could pay 410,000 people $100 to become a user.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
or you being overly sensitive.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Her hands were probably tied at the time, due to Abu Hamza etc which has now been dealt with. I fully expect her to clarify the position for Richard O'Dwyer soon and can't see him ever being extradited.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Nope. It sums up all that is wrong with Firefox for me. Chrome developer tools are just ridiculously more awesome.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
The article does seem particularly biased to me. Sort of ironic.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Don't worry, I'm sure if it gets popular, the lawyers will soon stamp that out.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
That jQuery code is so horrible. What about if CANVAS_WIDTH is from an insecure source? Maybe someone sets it to include some of its own <script> tags or other tomfoolery. HTML shouldn't feature in javascript code IMHO.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Other services, for example Amazon ec2, just deal with a DoS, and charge you for the traffic. Also, null-routing for 24 hours regardless of if the attack only lasted 2 minutes, is a little silly.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
My only gripe with linode is that they are unable to handle DoS attacks. If you're subjected to an attack, your linode will be shut off (null routed) for 24 hours. After that time, they'll check to see if it's still being attacked. I really
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by mibbitier 14y ago
I mean typical video games - ones you can "finish", or "win". WoW isn't a game you can finish or win, and it manipulates players into continuing to spend more and more time in it. That's the part I think is damaging.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
> bigger following among her fellow players Most of which don't vote. > and only alienate the older crowd Most of whom do vote.
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Video games are fine. For me, WoW crosses a line to addictive obsession. I don't think games like WoW are good for society in general, just because they are too addictive and consuming. Before you know it, you've lost 5 years of your life
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by mibbitier 14y ago
Personally, I've never been a fan of branching and merging. I don't think it works well at all for small groups. Maybe if you're in a big corp. though.

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