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by msg 15y ago
A mean spirited person would manage to slip a dig at someone's critical thinking skills into an otherwise well-taken comment. Not that this paragraph implies anything about the comment I'm replying to. (Seriously, wtf) Using passive voice i
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by msg 15y ago
Using the passive voice is not recommended by me. A book was read by me that contained the rule against it: The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. Also a passage in Stephen King's On Writing that makes the same point was read by me a bi
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by msg 15y ago
They were fools to let this out in public. Not because of Facebook users but because of developers. Trying to win not through technical superiority but through FUD spread by cutouts is emblematic of the worst moves of Microsoft. Yes, short-
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by msg 15y ago
Your comment is eating its own tail. Let's get really practical: public-only financing of elections, plus conflict of interest rules with teeth (no job in the industry you regulated for X years after you left) will make it significantly har
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by msg 15y ago
New Age? Unitarian Universalist? Not trying to be rude, these are merely the most obvious cases that mold themselves to the believer's opinion. Also, observe the syncretism of Buddhism in different regions.
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by msg 15y ago
What is the statute of limitations on spoiling? That is a twelve year old book. Serious question.
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by msg 15y ago
From "You and Your Research" by Dick Hamming: Now Alan Chynoweth mentioned that I used to eat at the physics table. I had been eating with the mathematicians and I found out that I already knew a fair amount of mathematics; in fact, I wasn
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by msg 15y ago
I'm an extroverted hoarder. The only way I can close a tab in my browser is by saving it forever and broadcasting it to the entire internet. Only half joking, I have 134 tabs open. People like to be building something. Delicious is less edi
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by msg 15y ago
You would take the Fifth Amendment and invoke your right against self incrimination.
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by msg 15y ago
Maybe they weren't thinking much, but the business in the application is "Honest Achmed's Used Cars and Certificates" I think the joke about "honest" comes from the used car salesman bit and the "Achmed" comes from the Iran hack. It is perh
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by msg 15y ago
If their storage API is compromised your data isn't... you need to compromise their decryption API and the storage API. With luck the same sets of staff will not have access to both, et cetera.
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by msg 15y ago
It's been said a few times on the thread but I'm not willing to read the entire thing just to upvote rather than comment. Here is the problem: It's been said a few times on the thread but I'm not willing to read the entire thing just to fin
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by msg 15y ago
Computer Engineering? I think we split them this way at Utah State: Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering (systems/hardware emphasis), Computer Science (software/algorithms emphasis).
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by msg 15y ago
Also, unless my system crashes I tend not to close Firefox.
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by msg 15y ago
All a little off topic, but... menu Preferences -> Advanced -> Update seek to "When updates to Firefox are found" check "Ask me what I want to do" Now you have your control again.
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by msg 15y ago
The early chapters were much more ham fisted about the ideas from Less Wrong, almost Ayn Randian in their clunkiness. Eliezer has raised his game a lot over the course of the story.
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by msg 15y ago
The tail is wagging the dog here! If you have to choose between a creative workforce that knows how to get things done and a standard workforce that fits inside of boxes and stereotypes, then damn the boxes and take the minds. Even if it co
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by msg 15y ago
But you wouldn't do this in Java (need a random string for an integer). Instead you might see: logger.fatal( String.format("Program crashed on index %d: %s", i, message) ); I think C has a similar construct, not quite as verbose, tha
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by msg 15y ago
My wife and I are somewhat nervously heading this direction after one year of kindergarten with our autistic son. Homeschooling just seems to be a better fit.
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by msg 16y ago
My dad's high school students in Infotech have to get up to 30 wpm to qualify for (cross-applied) community college credits in IT 101.
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by msg 16y ago
Downvoters who didn't get the memo, this is an apropos quotation from the article. The million dollars actually turned on this phrase.
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by msg 16y ago
Here's my contribution. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2227753 Key points: It might be more accurate to call it "freed" software. The goal of the GPL is to uncage domesticated software and let it roam wild forever, never collared aga
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by msg 16y ago
It's just a 20 page review of the iPad 2. I missed the extra pages, first time. The title is implying only that no iPad 2 review could be as complete as this one, so other reviews are redundant and not worth reading.
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by msg 16y ago
How does your comment not also apply to checking out library materials? I will go a step further, reading paywalled content for free at the public or university library is exactly the same, especially for content providers, as checking out
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by msg 16y ago
I underwent a sea change regarding school. In my first undergrad stint, I didn't reflect on what I was learning or why. More important I didn't try to think about my strengths and desires, and try to fit my program to that. My second time t
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by msg 16y ago
At 25 I was a one-time college dropout, husband, and father just finishing my bachelor's in Linguistics and working for $8 per hour at a textbook typesetting company. At 30 I am a husband and father with a master's in CS making software for
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by msg 16y ago
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes. I guess Quora suffers fools gladly.
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by msg 16y ago
It was free, so I don't how you can call it anything but erecting a barrier to entry to developing POSIX apps on the Mac. You don't just need $5, you need a credit card number. Like many other things in computing, the price to play has gott
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by msg 16y ago
It is the difference between free and not free. They are trying to drive developers to use the App Store? Sounds ridiculous coming out of my mouth. They are trying to kill off OSX hobbyist experimentation in favor of iOS? I think I'm gettin
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by msg 16y ago
It's still being worked on by the community, there is a build from 2011-01-27. https://mozillalabs.com/ubiquity/2010/03/10/community-mainta... I still use and love this tool every day.

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