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by mquander 16y ago
Watch out if you're looking to read mostly PDFs. I'm in your position, and I found the Nook to be a beautiful device that was completely unsuitable; since the device can't reflow or scale fonts on PDFs, the screen just turned out to be too
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by mquander 16y ago
Could you compare and contrast yourself with TopCoder? Or should I just wait and see?
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by mquander 16y ago
I agree -- I sacrificed clarity for flippancy. I meant to imply that the idea that police videos are sacrosanct because they have chain of custody is laughable. The police are the parties with the greatest motive to doctor the videos, and
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by mquander 16y ago
"Police Officers Don't Check Their Civil Rights at the Station House Door." Why not? I check a lot of my civil rights at the door when a police officer pulls me over. Slightly more seriously, check this out: “There’s no chain of custody w
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by mquander 16y ago
Quick meta question. Is this OK? I think a thread like this pointing to a Wikipedia article is kind of lousy, for three reasons: - We have a huge P!=NP thread on the front page. If people need a primer or want to discuss the problem, sho
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by mquander 16y ago
I don't really understand why this isn't a comment on the existing thread, so I flagged it -- sorry.
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by mquander 16y ago
Perfectly usable compared to what ? A big toolbar at the top, a big toolbar at the bottom, a big sidebar, none of which have any information I want to see; ads all over, and I have to sign up for their website to download the PDF. That's n
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by mquander 16y ago
Blizzard has announced that they are going to have a system where map creators can charge for particular maps, and Blizzard will take a big cut.
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by mquander 16y ago
I would sympathize if this was Blizzard's first networked RTS with a modding community, but it's hard to understand why they would decide to throw away ten years of aforementioned incremental improvements to SC:BW and WC3's community featur
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by mquander 16y ago
Three separate points: - The 25MB file size limit is absurd and could cause real harm. I can't imagine any rationale at all for this. Storage is so cheap. There's also an arbitrary limit of 5 maps at a time per author, which is hilarious
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by mquander 16y ago
Yes, that's definitely what I mean to say. In my short lifetime, hundreds of thousands of people, many of them civilians, have died in Iraq. Tens of thousands, many being civilians, have died in Afghanistan; we continue to kill several civ
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by mquander 16y ago
OK, then propose another way. If there's a gate, there's a gatekeeper. There is no doubt in my mind that I would rather have Julian Assange and the Wikileaks staff be that gatekeeper than the U.S. government and military, who have a track
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by mquander 16y ago
No, but if I didn't curse, my useless, content-free flamebait post would probably only have gotten +10, not +20. Amazingly, rufius's comment was at +11 before I posted. My speech must have been very convincing. I get the feeling that votin
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by mquander 16y ago
What a shame that nobody has posted a pithy one-line summary for you. My big condolences. I spent three minutes skimming this article and it's perfectly clear what the author's thesis is; that the millennial generation has been raised to e
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by mquander 16y ago
I replied to say as much but then I tossed my reply, because the guy says he's on .NET 2.0.
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by mquander 16y ago
I downvoted you because you are drawing a meaningless distinction. "We" crack lots of stuff. The methodology behind cracking WEP is interesting, accessible, and worth understanding. It's a perfectly appropriate topic.
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by mquander 16y ago
Wait a second. Why do you think the world is better, having Google, than it would be if "google-search" was on Github and hosted by a bunch of people? That sounds worse to me. I assume you think that the existence of Google has led to oth
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by mquander 16y ago
If this story is trying to convince me that it makes sense to dumb down credentials ("at least I was employed") it was not successful. He apparently sent out his resume to roughly every business he saw on the street. Perhaps if he had rep
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by mquander 16y ago
Is that supposed to be a reason? How does being a quote from Idiocracy make it worth posting?
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by mquander 16y ago
You're being intentionally ignorant of the way everyone else uses the term "creating value," which describes work that improves the world around you, not just work that happens to keep you alive.
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by mquander 16y ago
Sorry, but I think we'll have to agree that this just depends on background. I can figure out what the second is doing significantly quicker than the first. When I think about this problem, my mind immediately thinks "well, I want to take
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by mquander 16y ago
I do this before I post: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:news.ycombinat...
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by mquander 16y ago
That's quite a flamebait title for something that is just reiterating the classic "hard work counts" theme.
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by mquander 16y ago
It's the usual stance of a media that cares about being "objective" but not being informed: everyone has an important opinion, and we had better consider them all equally! Nobody dares suggest that some of the opinions are right and some a
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by mquander 16y ago
Clearly Mr. Douthat means something very different than I do by "meritocracy." If "meritocracy" means existing political leaders or (as in his linked article) "D.C. elites", who appear to come by their positions through some combination of
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by mquander 16y ago
I have to ask, why not go somewhere that isn't full of bored programmers to offer free programming labor? It seems like you would be more likely to find someone who could really use your work literally anywhere else.
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by mquander 16y ago
If it helps, I downvoted this and the parent because it is sycophantic and content-free. Everyone agrees that our financial priorities are a wreck. Say something substantial. I have no idea how you could expect such a post to engender an
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Reference or judge? The impact of Google Maps on geopolitical disputes(washingtonmonthly.com)
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by mquander 16y ago
Asking students to memorize Shakespeare is a proxy for asking them to understand it. By asking them to memorize it, anyone with an intellect and an interest will take the opportunity to study it, while still leaving incapable students with
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by mquander 16y ago
What is the "this" you're referring to? If "this" is the Kansas local news, then I'm pretty sure "this" is otherwise harmless fifty-year-olds who don't know what the fuck all this crazy shit on the Internet is.

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