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by motters 14y ago
What will the problems of the next generation be, and how do we prepare them for that? On the face of it the next few generations face huge issues. The only thing we know for certain is that the way we live now is totally unsustainable in
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by motters 14y ago
I mostly agree with the gist of the video in that learning to program is empowering and can sometimes result in a job. However, the type perk-laden of working environments shown are unrealistic, and limited to large companies such as Googl
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by motters 14y ago
To prepare people for what's coming in the next 5-10 years. If cities become panopticons overnight that would induce a greater degree of alarm and popular resistance to the idea. Introducing things gradually such that people become habitu
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by motters 14y ago
Couldn't agree more. It's a trend which I've also been noticing - i.e. tiny text or tiny light grey text on a white background. A few CTRL-+'s fix the problem, but I shouldn't really need to do that in the first place.
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by motters 14y ago
Also see https://launchpad.net/fin
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by motters 14y ago
Based upon this list I might be a member of this future counter-culture. I fit 5 out of the 7 criteria, although I wouldn't characterise myself as being anti-technology.
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Willow Garage to Shut Down? Company Says 'No, Just Changing'(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by motters 14y ago|0 comments
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by motters 14y ago
Heh. I don't really consume images. I just view them.
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by motters 14y ago
Too much to hope that the margin of error on such things will be properly explained https://bristolclassics.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/bah-and-fur...
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by motters 14y ago
Not that I care much about these karma values, but ideally something like this should be part the HN site itself.
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by motters 14y ago
The main thing about about Facebook, or other similar sites, is to ask yourself how much value you're getting out of it versus how much time you're spending on it. It you're spending a lot of time but not getting much value then it may not
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by motters 14y ago
The whole concept of overeducation seems foreign to me. Surely people should strive to be as educated as they can or want to be. The background assumption is that education isn't really about education, and is instead merely about training
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by motters 14y ago
Really I wouldn't want just a busybox terminal. I already have that on Android. It's ok, but has limited functionality. What I'd want would be the full range of typical GNU commands.
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by motters 14y ago
I think at present that citizens interacting with government services online is still relatively new, and they obviously havn't fully thought through the potential national security implications of using things such as Google Analytics and
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by motters 14y ago
There should be a reasonable way to deal with this. Whenever keys are added just scan them for "RSA PRIVATE KEY" and warn the user that only public keys should be added.
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by motters 14y ago
An uncannily accurate prediction of the tablet computer as we know it now. These didn't appear in 2000, although by that time there were PDAs with touch screens.
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by motters 14y ago
I like how they talk about it as if not using Facebook is some extraordinary privation. I havn't used it for two years, and I officially closed my account a year ago.
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by motters 14y ago
Are there any other similar prison camps elsewhere in the world, or is North Korea unique?
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by motters 14y ago
Right. But in the real world almost nobody actually reads the TOS and even fewer understand it. Expecting people to read and be sufficiently informed by what's written to deliberatively agree to TOS is unrealistic in most cases.
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Stylom: stylometric text analytics on the command line(launchpad.net)
1 points by motters 14y ago|0 comments
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by motters 14y ago
Evidently other people must have been through the same types of interviews as I have.
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by motters 14y ago
Cohesive, insular cultures are more likely to suffer from group-think and to tolerate bad behavior. This article seems like bad advice because when everyone thinks alike it's more difficult to spot and correct mistakes.
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by motters 14y ago
"Open source software is not made for average users. Everything from the interface to the installation procedures on most open source software is designed under the assumption that the end user is familiar with CMD/Terminal commands and biz
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by motters 14y ago
It's silly to write off the Ubuntu phone OS before it has even been released. The argument about not being a first mover is also spurious. Google wasn't a first mover in search. Bill Gates wasn't a first mover in home computer operating
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by motters 14y ago
I quite like netbooks, having been initially sceptical about them. As a note taking device they're hard to beat. Tablets just aren't as convenient because you have to faff about with external keyboards and trying to get the screen at the
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by motters 14y ago
SolusOS 1.2. Previously I was mainly an Ubuntu user, but I didn't agree with the direction in which the distro was going with its dash/Amazon/search exfiltration decision.
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by motters 14y ago
There's a long history of the use of pseudoscience by companies to pick job candidates. In the 1980s there was a craze for handwriting analysis, where a person's handwriting style was supposed to reveal various aspects of their personality
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by motters 14y ago
This made me laugh. Mr Zuckerberg wants users to pay to send emails to each other? If so it must be a sign of how desperate Facebook is becoming to please shareholders.
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by motters 14y ago
Probably the way to go with this is to open source it, such that anyone can independently share and compile it. But just in case anyone becomes fatigued of fighting the ridiculous control freakery of Mr Zuckerberg’s lawyers there is always
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by motters 14y ago
The reason why people didn't post photos 15 years ago was that digital cameras barely existed back then. There was a revolution in photography in the early 2000s which made sites like Flickr possible.

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