moxiemk1

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by moxiemk1 16y ago
One of my co-workers told me that he prefers reading ebooks on his iPhone 4 to his iPad - we side-by-side compared them, and the iPhone screen density makes a huge difference. That said, the form-factor is a little awkward for longform read
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Eye strain is definitely antithetical to reading. That said, I'm not too worried about it with an iPad type device: I am looking at screens all day every day, and eye strain just isn't a problem. Perhaps when I get older/my eyes get broken
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
The school I'm at costs ~ $55k per year in the end, and the grants I get bring it down to about $30ish, and my parents make not much more than $100k (by working a full time and a part time job each) The public schools I applied to that were
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Passively standing in the vicinity of a BMW doesn't let you drive it. Passively standing in a Wifi network space lets you transcribe the traffic. You don't change the system (in a loose sense) by recording the signals or not, while stealing
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
It still puzzles me that people feel like their legal privacy was violated by the info gathering. The wifi was broadcasting, they were in public, they recorded some data. If this is illegal, I don't think it should be. Its analagous to ta
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
What I've noticed "Professional" software like Photoshop is that a vast quantity of copies are pirated. In corporate settings and among very successful practitioners, not so much, but among any other category of people I've met that use Pho
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Elliptic curve cryptography? That sounds a bit suspect - if its true, its _way_ more than is needed, since the Iranian government isn't going to have the capability of breaking something like 2048bit RSA, or 512bit Public Key. Elliptic curv
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
The interface is laggy in a way that HTML/JS (when correctly done) are not. Interface lag when I drag things means I'm never going to use it - it can't compete against the many good desktop apps out there for me (plus, being flash means it
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
True, but the error is more of a mis-choice of words ('San Francisco' instead of 'Bay Area') rather than ideas, since If we're only considering San Francisco, the tech dominance starts to fade a little bit. Also, while we're calling people
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Indeed. Startups are great because it's a chance to stand on merits, on what you can do and have done. Why waste time dissing eachother? Just make your city the best.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I come to Hacker News looking for intelligent discourse. There wasn't a _shred_ of nuance in this article. Nuanced thought is why this is a great place to be. Please don't post articles where the author is openly admitting that they are sti
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
At the company where I work (a web startup with 100 and some odd employees, half of which are the engineers) EVERYONE uses IRC. The engineers, yes, all the teams have their own channels, general channels, etc. But so do the support staff, t
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Stallman's words are framed by his belief that freedom (as he defines it) is more important than doing the job. That is why he isn't giving proprietary vaccines to sick children.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Reasons why you want to tinker with the software? I can come up with plenty. The point is not that the iPhone should be considered the same as a microwave, but that there is no hard line. If you are going to be a fundamentalist, like RMS,
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I normally have the same sentiment about RMS, but one of his responses here really ticked me off in the 'clarity of purpose' department: The bit about the microwaves (#23) 'Installing software' is a fairly abstract concept, especially given
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
When I saw Basecamp as something that's a counterpoint to a 'pleasureable' example I felt like he was missing a vital point - emotional is relative. To people who value tools that do their job and get out of the way, Basecamp beats Wufoo.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I'm surprised at how many people say they came from Reddit - perhaps I stayed on Slashdot for too long.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Perhaps they're using node?
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
That part had me puzzled - does 'owner' include renters? This does seem to alleviate any legitamate concerns about the bill, as long as renters count as owners (ie, if I have a free room in my apartment, I can put it on AirBnB) If its only
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I realize it makes me a pompous ass, but being a pure mathematics student has caused me to recoil whenever anyone quotes a "law" of the soft sciences and uses it as proof. I am quite glad to be in a field where deductive logic is used; thes
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
This does get significantly affected by where I am. Right now, being at a startup internship for the summer, I need to wake up at 8 to get to work, so I'm in the 12:00 - 1:59 bracket. When I'm at school, however, it's usually 2:00-3:59 or a
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I'm quite sure that Windows has a system-wide address book service managed by the Address Book application as well, or at least does in recent versions.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
That's exactly why we need other people to step up and be louder for us - lest we get viewed like that.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
A lot of this problem is people's misconceptions of the idea of what kind of person a programmer is. The public at large has a big part of this problem. But another huge part of this problem is the people among us who try and propagate the
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
A statistic I'd be much more interested in seeing would be police fatalities by incident type normalized by the number of incidents I feel like traffic stops are also a disproportionately high number of police actions.
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I'm a big fan of ambient electronic music; it fades into the backgrounds well while still being interesting. To that end, the "Neotokyo" soundtrack by Ed Harrison http://www.neotokyohq.com/music.html is amazing. Whenever I put that on (al
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
That's legitimate, but the problem isn't "your pinky touches the line" its "my grip (and it's not an odd grip) causes my pinky to touch the line". People making videos of an iPhone on a table, and one finger coming up and touching it are al
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
Though the ease of producing the problem on the iPhone 4 is very real, this argument annoys me: No one touches their pinky over that line in normal use. Does it cause a problem? Yes. Does anyone just sit there with one finger on the side of
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I would hope that if the maintainer of an api was planning on making a not-backwards-compatible version change they would put a hell of a lot of time informing people about it. That way, people who need to stay on old can add in the string,
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by moxiemk1 16y ago
I was unconvinced by that one, if only because I don't really agree that just because it calls your functions, it's a derivative work. I feel like interpreted code is pretty hard to make derivatives of, honestly, though it seems like a fair

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