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by mquander 16y ago
I was unaware that being homeless was now considered "hacking the system to have no permanent address." I agree, however, that he demonstrated considerable mastery of the telephone at the senior center.
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by mquander 16y ago
It's there to remind you that stories about homeless folks and NPR belong on Hacker News.
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by mquander 16y ago
Not really. The analogy would be if physicists know less about psychology. I'm sure that religious people tend to have more knowledge about their religion than atheists. When the questions span all religions and include several question
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by mquander 16y ago
Can someone explain to me what on Earth is going on in this comment thread? This response doesn't make any sense. Obviously, if you share your photo with someone, they can publish your photo! Welcome to the world of digital media! Why i
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by mquander 16y ago
That's all true, and no, you can't quantify that, or at least it's very hard to quantify. Here's what I can quantify: http://www.gallup.com/poll/141716/new-high-call-afghanistan-... I personally believe that the expected value of -5% pub
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by mquander 16y ago
This is starting to smell like bullshit. I agreed at the time that failing to redact these names seemed to be a poor decision that could put people in danger. However, now we're a month or two on, and nobody has cited an instance where an
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by mquander 16y ago
I don't think a philosophy of "I'm going to force people to use the proprietary, closed, run-by-a-weird-company solution instead of the existing proven free & open solutions, because it's slightly more convenient for me" is going to be
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by mquander 16y ago
Oh, I think Facebook is much worse. I'm just pointing out that there really is a problem to be solved; separate authentication for every site is not obviously the best possible experience. Choice is a fine answer, if the developers are wi
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by mquander 16y ago
I'm comfortable with separate identities per site, but it is impractical for most people. You have three general choices: - Maintain a separate login and password for every site. This requires a lot of memorization and is a pain in the
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by mquander 16y ago
They don't pick on phones over other electronics. On every flight I've been on, they ask passengers to shut off "all portable electronic devices," including things that often don't even communicate over a network, like CD players.
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by mquander 16y ago
That is a foolish conclusion. Firstly, if the TSA searches your bags and actually finds a "bunch" of cell phones, I bet that they will find an excuse to hassle you about it. Secondly, your own example shows how shoddy this reasoning is; the
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by mquander 16y ago
No, it wasn't missing. The blog post literally suggested that the reason he isn't rich and powerful might be because he has Catholic guilt. I swear to God it said that.
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by mquander 16y ago
For what it's worth, I didn't interpret that as him being upset that he wasn't making more money; I thought he was upset because the teachers are treating him like some amorphous business-entity instead of a normal, hard-working guy who des
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by mquander 16y ago
This is unbelievable. If the author absolutely can't resist giving patio11 a bunch of advice about how to live his life, then write an email. If the author wants to tell us how super important it is to self-promote and make a lot of mon
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by mquander 16y ago
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=814632 Of note, fawxtin posted video of the talk: http://www.vimeo.com/6624203 By the way, it was 2009, not 2006.
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by mquander 16y ago
Once this price goes down, it goes down for EVERY SINGLE customer, including those who bought it during the high initial price. I mean, the vendor does have the customer's credit card numbers. Do a residual, scaled, periodic refund for eve
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by mquander 16y ago
I understand the perceptual difference (it's annoying when features that are already there are "taken away," and less annoying when new features just don't appear.) But is there an actual difference? The time he's spent on network-depende
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by mquander 16y ago
I guess we don't.
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by mquander 16y ago
That's why I said "without crippling the game." You're right, though; most developers will make their problem your problem, either to a small degree (by making sure that some useful things are only accessible for authenticated online clien
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by mquander 16y ago
What's wrong with assuming the customer is a criminal if the big majority of your customers are, in fact, criminals? (Presuming that by "customer" you just mean "person playing your game.") The question should be: how do you account for th
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by mquander 16y ago
I don't understand the logic at all here. Do you have some reason for believing that?
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by mquander 16y ago
Well, I downvoted that guy too, for feeding the troll. It went without saying that the original comment was lousy.
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by mquander 16y ago
The point is that both of those responses, as well as the original remark, are completely inane and boring. If a person reads this anecdote and the only thing he has to say about it is a commentary on bathroom breaks, then I wish that pers
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by mquander 16y ago
That's certainly a very constructive and not at all trollish opinion to offer in a thread that is all about a popular distribution format for new movies.
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by mquander 16y ago
That's sure a big rude assumption (that if you think Stewart is accurate, you must not know anything about Glenn Beck.) I watch Beck every once in a while and I thought Stewart's portrayal of him nailed it. You should start citing specific
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by mquander 16y ago
What kind of constructive arguments, exactly, need to be marshaled against it? "Hey, Apple, have you considered that a blanket ban on third-party development tools fucks over developers who use third-party tools?" Why, yes, I suspect that
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by mquander 16y ago
I have no idea how this comes off as creepy in an era where hundreds of millions of people voluntarily broadcast their daily activity and all their interpersonal relationships on social networks. Shit, Hacker News knows "where you are" and
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by mquander 16y ago
That's right. The purpose of news aggregators is to filter them out.
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by mquander 16y ago
I've often wondered about that too. My hypothesis is that there's still a large contingent of tech-shy readers who are scared of the Internet, but who really want to get their favorite author's latest material, so they're happy to pay what
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by mquander 16y ago
" Except, of course, I didn't buy a lot of books. " I guess that explains why the author views books as entirely dispensable aspects of a bookstore. If the future of bookstores is becoming coffeehouses, then, by definition, bookstores have

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