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by mquander 16y ago
I enjoy this reply.
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by mquander 16y ago
Your remark is utter fucking bullshit; it's clear that is not the basis of this case. The decision explains clearly that Blizzard cannot put arbitrary conditions on a user's license to copy the program into RAM, so Glider is not liable for
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by mquander 16y ago
I don't understand their reconciliation of this case with the printer toner case in regards to Warden "effectively controlling access" to WoW's dynamic elements. From the decision: ...In Lexmark, the plaintiff sold laser printers equipped
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by mquander 16y ago
OK, I agree, for what that's worth.
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It's equally rare to meet someone whose undergraduate education takes them to the places that a simple undergraduate education will. I'm 23, so I have plenty of friends and coworkers who are just recently out of state schools, and the vast
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by mquander 16y ago
I disagree. If car and cdr and cons are bad, it's because they don't look or sound like what they do, and they have good replacements, like first and rest. defn is a macro that makes it simpler to def, which sounds and looks like "define"
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by mquander 16y ago
defn is not retained from anywhere. It was coined by Clojure. I don't find it particularly shocking. I also consider the ability to write code effectively outside of an autocompleting IDE a feature, not a bug.
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by mquander 16y ago
I don't think this distinction is very useful. I read many blogs that are "narcissistic" in the sense that the blogger is doing it because he or she enjoys writing about a particular topic and likes having an audience. I read them because
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by mquander 16y ago
It's pretty close; few people even bother to change the title. If you follow up by searching for anything about the article's content, you can do a pretty good job of determining with 95% certainty whether or not it's a duplicate. I person
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by mquander 16y ago
Google "$ARTICLE_TITLE site:news.ycombinator.com." If that's omnipotence (omniscience?), wait until you see what my telephone does nowadays.
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by mquander 16y ago
No one cared then? Exactly the same people cared then as now. I'm pretty sure that if you page through Glenn Greenwald's blog you will find more than a few instances of outrage over the treatment of military prisoners (including Hicks s
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by mquander 16y ago
If you have to pay the money up front, you're less likely to buy; that's true for houses because they cost so much, and it's true for meals because there are lots of small individual charges in the course of a full meal. I guess restaurant
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by mquander 16y ago
I've used TMNetSim here, which also lets you simulate variable latency and packet loss: http://tmurgent.com/Tools.aspx
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by mquander 16y ago
OK, but bcrypt works! As far as anyone knows, the best you can do is just brute-force it, which is the same situation we're in with public key cryptography. The only substantiative difference is that passwords are often of a length and co
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by mquander 16y ago
Yeah, I figured out what he was getting at a moment after posting, so I edited my post with my core objection, which is just that there's really no benefit I can see to doing that instead of using memorizable passwords.
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by mquander 16y ago
What you're suggesting is that a user give a site their public key, receive some site-supplied data encrypted with their key, and be forced to decrypt it to log into the site? I guess that sounds fine, but it's no more or less secure than
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by mquander 16y ago
I'm not a security expert at all, but what's the point of a public key supposed to be if all you want to do is authenticate yourself? Why would you want to use (e.g.) an RSA key for authentication, forcing you to carry around a data fob or
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by mquander 16y ago
I think that sounds like probably a big component. I do know what you mean -- something about the words "linked list" seems complicated, even though there's nothing much simpler than an actual linked list. I wonder if people who would free
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by mquander 16y ago
This is getting to be a really silly off-topic discussion, but I have to admit, I would be totally curious to hear if you could identify what is difficult for you about this task: A) Pressure of an interview situation makes it hard to think
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by mquander 16y ago
To be fair, I can probably count the number of communities that have full-time paid moderators (I mean moderators that actually help guide discussion and interact with the community, not just administrators) on my hands and toes. Being the
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by mquander 16y ago
I disagree; by the poster's definition, HN failed. It started out discussing technical items and startups, lasted for a while, and the topic has been completely diluted to "anything at all which is either new or interesting." In the words
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by mquander 16y ago
Sentence one is good enough for me: I'm of the opinion that online communities that focus around a specific topic or group of topics... That's not really the kind of community that you expect to last very long, is it? At least without a
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by mquander 16y ago
Perhaps Anonymous should submit this essay to Anonymous's ninth-grade English teachers; I see that he and she are successfully writing at up to an eleventh-grade level now, in addition to demonstrating considerable mastery of last week's Am
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by mquander 16y ago
Likewise; I think that this will get a huge amount of preorders from people that have just been waiting for any Pixel Qi tablet at all. I can't imagine how they could screw this device up badly enough to warrant me not paying $500 for it.
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by mquander 16y ago
As for the condemnation? Why not just, y'know, state your point of view without the moral condemnation? I don't think it adds much to the discussion. By the way, I'm more in agreement with you than the OP, though I think it's a bit more nu
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by mquander 16y ago
I find it a really shameful comment. It seems like unbelievably wishful thinking to claim that high-tech startups are the most important thing everyone should be doing when the going rate for saving lives from tuberculosis or malaria is in
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by mquander 16y ago
It's certainly a testament to the power of perspective that you've dismissed a quarter of the planet living sick, hungry, and in poverty as "problems that will always exist", and decided that doing something about it produces no "real value
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by mquander 16y ago
No, not a fair question. What does this even mean? If you really think you know anything at all about how Bill Gates should spend his time and money, feel free to go ahead and actually say what you think he should be spending it on, inste
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by mquander 16y ago
OK, look at the comment you originally replied to. It's a "reasonable objection" about Wikileaks. It also has actual content and a point that it makes, as opposed to, say, being a one-line opinion with no support. Now look at your commen
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by mquander 16y ago
My younger self had the right books. But I'd take away his Asimov. That was about fifty novels worth of time that could have been better spent.

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