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by mustpax 18y ago
That's fair. I should explain myself better. I don't have a problem with twitter accounts that are exclusively clones of other feeds. Then I know what I'm signing up for, it wouldn't be fair to call it spammy. But when I follow a regular tw
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by mustpax 18y ago
The question is better asked: how quickly am I unfollowing content providers that double-post their content to Twitter? Just to be clear: pretty quickly. Twitter serves a different purpose than blogs, Facebook status updates, etc. If you're
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by mustpax 18y ago
Not only that, last time I used it, Blackboard was a sad, sad excuse for a web app. Poorly designed, poorly executed, bad usability overall. But Blackboard is the type of app IT managers love. It's what everyone else is using, so it must be
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by mustpax 18y ago
Thanks for the correction, I fixed the language in my post. But I generally agree with you: GS should be able to keep a 3rd party support forum for 37 Signals as long it makes it abundantly clear that they are not affiliated with 37 Signals
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by mustpax 18y ago
I think you just hit the nail on the head. I was wondering why Hulu would take the time to implement such a braindead "encryption" scheme. All you need is a JavaScript interpreter to break this. But now they can sue anyone who serves thei
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by mustpax 18y ago
Consider the flip-side: how would you feel if Comcast went around filing crease and desist notices to take down 3rd party customer support sites like dslreviews? GS has every right to create a forum where customers can air grievances. They
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by mustpax 18y ago
Thanks for the correction. I clearly did not know that. In my defense, I did add "can't tell you how legitimate [Intrade] is." What's surprising though is that there are already investment instruments for transferring risks associated with
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by mustpax 18y ago
Remember: betting is always legal in the US if you call it some sort of market. Finance, how I love thee! More specifically, they are called prediction markets. They are legal and have been around for a while. You can even bet on the weathe
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by mustpax 18y ago
Yes, what a brilliant idea. "We'll encrypt our content using a standardized language which by definition runs on several open source platforms. That ought to trump those user agents."
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by mustpax 18y ago
I love FOSS. But realistically speaking, the more complex a license is the more expensive it is to get sound legal advice on it. I understand what the stipulations are supposed to mean: don't link with GPL unless you're going to release the
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by mustpax 18y ago
As much as I care about elegance and simplicity, the C compiler is one tool where I can accept complexity. Especially for large instruction sets architectures like x86 I'm willing to let the compiler cast it's dark magic on my for-loops to
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by mustpax 18y ago
Exactly. Jeff Atwood doesn't even mention recursion in the article once . Even he can't claim it's a highly specialized technique. I mean, ever try to walk through the DOM in JavaScript without recursion? Recursion is very closely related
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by mustpax 18y ago
This could be the backend for a cool stateless URL shortener. Not super useful, but stateless things are pretty nifty. In this case you'd be getting unsafe data for both compression and decompression. I really like your project though. Than
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by mustpax 18y ago
>>> I picked the name Sasha Harris because Sasha sounds somewhat British and Sasha Harris is the prostitute that was involved with Sham-Wow Vince. Also, note how I used words like “mates” and “cheers”. This lulls the Brits into
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by mustpax 18y ago
Like everyone else said, SO is great for answering questions like yours. But if you have a more complicated question around code style or something more subjective it doesn't work as well. It really helps to update a question to clarify if
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by mustpax 18y ago
Great read. I really appreciate it when posters take the trouble to link to the printout version. So much more readable, this is bliss. Thanks!
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by mustpax 18y ago
Well as they mention midway through the article: it's not the URL, it's the analytics. Number of followers is a very coarse metric for twitter popularity, it would be very useful to know click-through rates to gauge which content draws more
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by mustpax 18y ago
Also worth mentioning that, last time I used it, Blackboard was an unusable, bloated, expensive web application. If I'm not mistaken, it included a quaint forum application that used Java Applets. I'd really like to meet the guy who thought
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by mustpax 18y ago
The actual article is here: http://aralbalkan.com/2067 The link just points to the root aralbalkan.com, which is the landing page.
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by mustpax 18y ago
I'm Turkish and I have to agree for the most part. Technical CS terms in Turkish get invented by a handful of academics. Since this is a pretty close knit community, the jargon does not get socialized very well and leads to unwieldy, inorga
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by mustpax 18y ago
Well, which comes first, chicken or the egg? The language support or the community? Without the community there's no need to support the language. But without the language you cannot support the community. Part of the problem is that locali
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by mustpax 18y ago
That's a really good point about non-English content. Most popular community oriented sites out there, service one and only one language. As someone who grew up speaking Turkish, I can tell you that the quality of content in Turkish on the
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by mustpax 18y ago
Out of curiosity a question to the HN community at large: how would you defend yourself against a particularly cheeky content stealing jerk who claims that you stole her content? I have been wondering about this in the context of non-waterm
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by mustpax 18y ago
Article hints at this, but different applications require different approaches to documentation. For applications geared towards "expert" users, well structured reference documentation is essential. This is true for programming languages, d
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by mustpax 18y ago
Disgusted is too strong a word, but I think people should be bothered. I know I am. I was just trying to draw a parallel between false advertising on the internet by individuals, and false advertising we see through mainstream channels ever
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by mustpax 18y ago
So, by that token, would you consider the latest Microsoft ads scammy (maybe even fraudulent)? They feature Lauren, apparently a real person, looking for a laptop under $1000. Turns out she is an actress, which would also affect the likely
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by mustpax 18y ago
Content owners pay a lot of money to protect their content. They pay money to lawyers, lobbyists, and companies like Media Sentry to snoop in on P2P traffic. It's not a stretch to say they will pay to find stolen images. I'd venture they'd
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by mustpax 18y ago
I think you have a valid point about exploited labor, but I think you're conflating education and essay writing. An educational degree is supposed to be about learning , not about of how many tests you have taken, homework assignments comp
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by mustpax 18y ago
I love the end: ”The entire … “pro blogging” industry … is predicated on the notion that blogging is a meaningful verb. It is not. The verb is writing. The format and medium is new, but the craft is ancient.“ This is true, but note that Dar
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by mustpax 18y ago
Entrapment and all the related legal discussions aside: there's a purely technical problem with the data used as evidence: no referrer data was collected. In other words, the IP logs that the FBI is using only really indicate that someone

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