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by mosqutip 13y ago
The author should credit The Oatmeal for that awesome caffeine picture.
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by mosqutip 13y ago
Yeah... I've actually lived in Texas. But you just keep on believing whatever makes you feel intelligent.
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by mosqutip 13y ago
Texas? Texas is the first state that acts on this? Color me surprised.
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by mosqutip 13y ago
This is cool! I wish more websites would do things like this. Side note: would it be possible to add user customization to this? As in, make this the default level, but have an option for requiring the password on all "dangerous actions" re
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by mosqutip 13y ago
The article did mention that it was "unusual". I find it to be unprofessional. It seems justices like to express their personal opinions on big tech cases; perhaps it's a move for free publicity? Either way, it doesn't sit right with me.
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by mosqutip 13y ago
http://ycombinator.com/legal.html is all I can find.
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by mosqutip 13y ago
This sounds like the same line of reasoning as "why do we fund NASA when we could be curing cancer". It's extremely flawed logic. Let people accomplish what goals they want, it's not up to you.
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by mosqutip 13y ago
Thank you for this. I derived great pleasure reading it.
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by mosqutip 13y ago
I think pretty much everyone who uses Facebook is, at least partially, in this mindset. The network is so large that people feel as though they're missing out if they leave (whether or not that is actually true).
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by mosqutip 13y ago
It's probably more along the lines of "I hate that I have to use Facebook, because that's the cool thing to do, but everyone else uses it, so I'd be even more uncool if I didn't use it."
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by mosqutip 13y ago
Well, you're implying there's a great deal of foresight and future investment going on :P I don't think the turnover from Facebook is currently high enough for "management", as it were, to care about the opinions of a few teenagers.
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by mosqutip 13y ago
Facebook has no real incentive to reach out to this age group. They won't earn much profit off of teens, and teens are younger than their original demographic (college-aged students). Also, I thought the line about "everyone says Facebook i
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by mosqutip 13y ago
That's cool. I didn't know browsers could parse it in that manner, but I suppose it makes enough sense.
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by mosqutip 13y ago
Is... is this a troll?
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by mosqutip 13y ago
Great news! As an Eagle Scout (and person), this makes me extremely happy.
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by mosqutip 13y ago
I had a similar experience in high school. I stuck a pen in my cast and used it as a single finger on the right hand to type with. Seriously. It's not as fast as two hands, but it's a definite improvement over nothing.
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by mosqutip 13y ago
I agree. There is a lot of flawed logic in this article. People like to defend Apple's declining market share because of their absurd profits on devices (which is, in and of itself, an unfair comparison, since Apple owns the hardware AND th
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by mosqutip 13y ago
This is quite sad, and what seems to be a growing trend at Google.
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by mosqutip 13y ago
There's no way this fits under the definition of libel. His statement doesn't harm NYT in any way. And since when does posting "factually wrong" information on the web actually matter worth a damn?
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by mosqutip 13y ago
It seems Mozilla and Google are moving more and more toward their own browser specifications and mechanisms. Microsoft and Netscape did this in the 90s, and it ended up causing nothing but pain. Optimizing JS is interesting, but creating br
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by mosqutip 13y ago
He's not wrong. Nothing about the statement infringes on any copyright or intellectual property. "The NYT spent hundreds of hours hand-coding “Snow Fall.” We made a replica in an hour." I just said it, myself. That's not a copyright infring
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by mosqutip 13y ago
Does anyone else skip links like Quora simply because they don't want to setup an account to have to read a simple text blurb?
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by mosqutip 13y ago
I'M ARGUING AGAINST CONVENTIONAL WISDOM! PLEASE GIVE ME ATTENTION! Use linked-lists in situations where you need fast insertion and lookup time isn't as important. Don't use linked-lists when lookup time is important. Don't make fallacious
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by mosqutip 13y ago
A person doing this seems impractical. The cost/benefit ratio for manually maintaining all that activity is too high. If the process were automated, maybe. But there are probably latent factors that go into the page ranking that aren't expo
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by mosqutip 13y ago
Grr. Another article about this prize, and still no more details on what the actual substance is. According to the comments on CNN, the device itself is the battery being charged, and the title is misleading. I prefer not to trust comments
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by mosqutip 13y ago
Breaking news: American corporations "avoid" hundreds of billions of tax dollars every year, and it's all completely legal because of a terrible tax code that hinders individuals and bolsters companies. Wait, this isn't breaking news.
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by mosqutip 13y ago
How does this not violate several Constitutional amendments? Unexplained solitary confinement sounds like cruel and unusual punishment, and not allowing his lawyer to see him is clearly a denial of fair representation. I'm not sure about th
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by mosqutip 13y ago
I've never really thought about why it's common, but I see it all the time. Maybe it's a culture thing? Developers like to go to bed late because other developers like to go to bed late? Although that's pretty dangerous circular logic. But
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by mosqutip 13y ago
Because selling to their parents is hard! Oh wait, you said "convincing". Erm...
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by mosqutip 13y ago
Whole grains are absolutely a healthy choice in food, unless you have Celiac disease. What you're saying equates to calling nuts unhealthy because many people have nut allergies, but this is obviously the exception, not the rule.

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