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by mindstab 15y ago
That may even be too late. The military has its own programmers and I presume it trains some of them in house, which means it gets then possibly at 18 out of high school and trains them itself. They can be put to any use they are ordered
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by mindstab 15y ago
Like what? In some of the countries I mentioned they already have replacements. You think google is big in china? Try Baidu. Somehow the Chinese economy has managed to struggle on :P And Iran? Syria? There are already lots of countries ou
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by mindstab 15y ago
Have you seen all the ICE FBI domain seizures over the last year? That part is already done and has been running along taking hundreds of domains in its first year of operations
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by mindstab 15y ago
"good people" is a relative term. If we're talking the kind of ultra a level hackers you deal with at Y Combinator, even as it stands, would any of them work for a big slow company like Cisco now? It already to some extent has that problem
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by mindstab 15y ago
This is unfortunately a very American-centric and hacker/san-fransisco-centric view. All the tech for SOPA has been build and used for years in countries such as China and Iran. They already have their great firewalls and have had them for
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by mindstab 15y ago
Hackers hate it, but there are more programmers than "hackers". Think about middle aged family men, career men. They aren't all going to care as strongly or be able to quit. Also even if you could convince all american talent to boycott i
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by mindstab 15y ago
Somehow no one seems to have mentioned food (at least source material for the printers has been mentioned). So yes, resupply flights will still be required because for now at least, the operators of the printers and the actors who take thei
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by mindstab 15y ago
If you submit it it runs a comparison below and shows what you output and what it's looking for
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by mindstab 15y ago
Do we have any more recent stats about the viewership of HN now for 2011? How big is it, and more subjectively, how do people feel we are doing with trolls? I for one think on the whole conversation is still good and worthwhile checking out
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Malaysia Mulls Compulsory Registration of Tech Workers(uppercaise.wordpress.com)
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Silverlight 5 released today: Anyone interested?(blogs.msdn.com)
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by mindstab 15y ago
I hope they realize how damaging their own in house legislature like SOPA is damaging to their international efforts. They already look a bit more suspect with SOPA on the table and were it ever to pass they'd have the credibility of China
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by mindstab 15y ago
And if someone previously uninvolved with your work showed up one day and dumped a few weeks of a teams work in your lap in one giant patch that affected most of your codebase, you'd say thanks and look to merging it in rather than talk abo
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by mindstab 15y ago
That's not really saying anything. Facebook picked PHP in 2004 and is now stuck with it. They have a huge code base in it. But there are a lot of indications they are moving away from it in all places they can. They still use it for front
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by mindstab 15y ago
More than that you need to be able to take a skype call, so doing this at work is out
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by mindstab 15y ago
Yeah I got that and arr.push(x) marked wrong instead of their arr.add(x)
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Canada to get it's own DMCA: Act Now(ccer.ca)
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by mindstab 15y ago
> Why aren't we chatting with dolphins Ironic you should say: from HN this morning: Researchers 'speak' to dolphins in their own language http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3314056 :) And as for time, that's sort of the point of the
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by mindstab 15y ago
> sentience must (by sheer odds) be out there too. ... and your solution to the Fermi paradox is?
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by mindstab 15y ago
I disagree. There are already many text editors that do everything each other do, but they all do it differently, some in GUI some in command line, some with different shortcuts, etc. You could argue that Eclipse does almost everything and
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by mindstab 15y ago
http://xkcd.com/927/
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by mindstab 15y ago
Ah thanks
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by mindstab 15y ago
How? This sounds like a hilarious legal hack but the details were never revealed.
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by mindstab 15y ago
Which now means with out central infrastructure, it's going to be mighty challenging for any new search start ups to not get sued in the states
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by mindstab 15y ago
Is there really infrastructure available for this yet? Also "All Internet search engines"... Possibly the judge underestimates how many there are out there who will never even hear of this ruling without horrible SOPA legislature and infras
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World building 201: Heuristics - Charlie Stross(antipope.org)
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by mindstab 15y ago
In BC Canada this happened in about 2001 as a parting "gift" from of all parties, our departing left pro union and worker New Democrat Party.
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by mindstab 15y ago
By what metric is Windows one of "the two best Phone Operating Systems"?
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by mindstab 15y ago
Ha well a camera probably also isn't child safe if you break a piece off and eat it so I'm not sure you've made it any worse. As for the tubing? That possibly a more interesting question, but I suspect it's being used in an underfunded med
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by mindstab 15y ago
So this is not a new idea, it's been around for decades, and just fallen in and out of vogue. And now they present an [their] opinion piece on the topic. I hardly think "shakes foundations" in the HN title and more of the same hyperbole in

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