motters

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by motters 16y ago
It sounds like you don't have any particular goal in life, or that whatever goals you had have been reached. Knowledge and intelligence on their own aren't enough. You also need a mission. Much of the coding which I do tends to be oriente
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by motters 16y ago
Surely this must be a sign from the gods of Silicon Heaven.
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by motters 16y ago
I wouldn't say I was excited, but that we'll just have to wait and see how it turns out. If a year or two from now it's abandoned and there are still no good open source Facebook competitors then I'll be disappointed.
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by motters 16y ago
All money is of course "fake" in that it only has value if people believe that it does. Economics could be thought of as a branch of psychology, with "real value" being connected to the transient and sometimes hard to quantify needs, wants
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by motters 16y ago
The whole notion of software engineers having much in common with rock stars seems rather misguided. Being a software engineer does not usually involve making loud noises, trashing hotel rooms, having a shallow superficial personality, att
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by motters 16y ago
In that case this might be ok, although because the OCR isn't perfect it would still involve a significant amount of work if you have more than a few books.
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by motters 16y ago
A couple of years ago I would have given similar advice. However, since the recession started the job situation has utterly changed, and you can't just leave and expect to step into another job quickly - no matter how talented you are or h
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by motters 16y ago
I also wouldn't advise destroying books. I have lots of books which are quite old and rare, and may be valuable in themselves as historical artefacts.
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by motters 16y ago
I expect that in future there will be more automated programming, based upon a vague description of the problem. However, I've seen very little progress made in this domain other than a few applications of genetic programming and the use o
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by motters 16y ago
This might be true for big projects, but most smaller open source projects are a lot easier to get into and their maintainers are usually grateful for any useful contributions they can get.
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by motters 16y ago
I used Visual Studio for a very long time, and I think you're overrating it. The developer tools on Linux are just as powerful but they are different from what you'd use in a Windows environment. Sometimes people confuse difference for in
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by motters 16y ago
You can seamlessly integrate Valgrind into Eclipse. I've been doing it for the last few years.
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by motters 16y ago
Small helmet or hat mounted cameras have been available to the police in the UK for the last few years. I don't think they're ubiquitous yet, but it seems like only a matter of time before they are. A ubiquitous sousveillance situation se
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by motters 16y ago
It seems unlikely that synchronising emails, calendar and contacts is carried out in exactly the same manner on a linux based Android device as to one based on a Windows OS.
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by motters 16y ago
This is really about a clash of culture. As an author he's probably quite accustomed to promoting his books to the widest possible readership by whatever means are available, but it also appears that he has little familiarity with the ways
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by motters 16y ago
Couldn't agree more. Slightly tweaked fonts aren't the highest of priorities.
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by motters 16y ago
On one level it's quite cool to see human intelligence pipelined as a service, but on another I worry that this may represent a new form of slavery with the turkers being paid at such a low level that other social problems may arise as a co
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by motters 16y ago
I havn't seen this movie, but Hollywood traditionally has had an exceptionally poor record at depicting anything related to computing with any sort of accuracy. My guess is that a large number of people will assume that this is a completely
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by motters 16y ago
It all sounds rather silly, like two individuals who have lost sight of their true mission. If they do possess a large volume of documents about Iraq comparable to the Afghanistan leak this may turn out to be important historical informati
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by motters 16y ago
Social Darwinism of this sort, which was closely linked with the eugenics movement of the early 20th century, is pretty much discredited these days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism In answer to your question I would say that
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by motters 16y ago
Sounds like the usual UFO nonsense. Nuclear weapons bases are bound to be swarming with CCTV for security reasons, so if a highly unusual event like this were to occur there would be plenty of video footage.
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The travelling bee problem(bbc.co.uk)
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by motters 16y ago
Absolutely, and indeed in the past I have worked for startups who were nearly entirely Linux based.
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by motters 16y ago
I don't think that IE6 was actually evil, although Microsoft paid scant disregard to anything resembling a web standard. The problem was probably more that by the time IE6 came along Microsoft just no longer cared about the browser, and le
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by motters 16y ago
With other video formats on the horizon it probably won't be too much longer before reliance upon proprietary video codecs is a thing of the past.
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by motters 16y ago
I imagine that very few people other than control systems engineers ever have anything to do with Siemens PLCs and their data blocks. Those PLCs are also quite pricey items. Your average script kiddie is never going to have any access to
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by motters 16y ago
When I was writing software for industrial PLCs and other controllers over five years ago I always thought that factory guys were paranoid about connecting them to the general IT system which in turn was connected to the internet. Quite sp
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by motters 16y ago
This reminds me of what happened at the end of the dot com bubble, where the hasty erection of a paywall usually meant that the death of a site was imminent, and users often did feel "tricked and trapped" or that their community relationshi
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by motters 16y ago
It might be an idea to data mine submissions to HN to try to uncover if there are any special interest or extremist groups trying to gain leverage in this way by posting articles with relatively plausible titles.
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by motters 16y ago
Indeed, it seems that whoever is running this site is willing to entertain or provide a platform for some highly toxic beliefs (i.e. racism).

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