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721.
by mwfunk 10y ago
I don't think that one unprovable assertion ("GPLv3 software has never killed anyone") is the best way to combat someone else's unprovable assertion ("our cars would be less secure if everyone could see our code&quo
722.
by mwfunk 10y ago
For a hackintosh, there's no such thing as comfy, only minimally scary. The worst case scenario is that your system becomes unbootable and/or data loss. Being able to live with these possibilities is a requirement for hackintosh o
723.
by mwfunk 10y ago
Do you correctly pronounce "Nikon" as "Nee con", then explain to your English-speaking friends that that's how it's pronounced in Japan even though Nikon marketing doesn't even use that pronunciation in En
724.
by mwfunk 10y ago
What is a real-life example of someone being paid by the government to break, then fix a window (metaphorical or otherwise)?
725.
by mwfunk 10y ago
I've become very skeptical of any plan to just get rid of something that people need and use, in the hope that that will magically force the issue and usher credible alternatives into existence years down the line. It's sort of li
726.
by mwfunk 10y ago
What is this particular HN post supposed to be pointing out? This is a very old thread in a newsgroup about the usage of protected mode in the (traditionally 16-bit) de facto standard PC BIOS, but the link wasn't to the thread. Rather
727.
by mwfunk 10y ago
Clearly any answer a person like this would give to that question wouldn't be reliable information.
728.
by mwfunk 10y ago
The same applies to technical managers. It also applies to the managers of those managers- in general, if you're higher up the org chart you expect to get paid more than the people that report to you. If you get promoted, and are given
729.
by mwfunk 10y ago
There's just as many (if not more) people doing systems programming as ever, there are just a lot more programmers in general and much of that growth has been in web development.
730.
by mwfunk 10y ago
If they're only reliable in controlled conditions, they're not reliable. The really hard problems that would impact the feasibility of self-driving cars (as the popular imagination sees them) arise in unanticipated situations. Aft
731.
by mwfunk 10y ago
In my experience, by far the worst thing about political correctness as a cultural force has been anti-PC backlash over the last 20 years. In my lifetime, that's been a far more destructive force than even the most cartoonish forms of
732.
by mwfunk 10y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, except for the last point. I've rarely (never?) encountered XML used as a config file format where users were expected or encouraged to edit that config file directly vs. using other tools or APIs to
733.
by mwfunk 10y ago
Then maybe you're not qualified to make such judgements?
734.
by mwfunk 10y ago
This would be analogous if the Mac was named the Apple Alto and looked like almost exactly like the Xerox Alto and even cloned the marketing materials and presentation templates that Xerox used, if Xerox had ever made the effort to come up
735.
by mwfunk 10y ago
I assumed the author meant that the market had stabilized and the period where you might see large gains or losses by the individual players over small spans of time (like a year) is over. The war metaphor is just a metaphor after all (and
736.
by mwfunk 10y ago
Agreed. When I hear people talk about how great they think it would be to work in a flat org, they always seem to think that it means they will exist in a meritocracy free of politics where they can use their own judgement about what to do
737.
by mwfunk 10y ago
I know absolutely nothing about the people that run AirBnB, but based on those ads my brain instantly imagined a small group of twentysomethings from rich families who'd never worked a day in their life prior to getting out of college,
738.
by mwfunk 10y ago
It's more how the information is presented, and the style of deduction used by mathematicians of the time. For over 2000 years, Euclid's Elements (13 incredibly dense volumes of geometric deduction) were the foundation of mathemat
739.
by mwfunk 10y ago
Yes, he did choose to violate it, in the sense that waiting until you've got 24 hours left on a visa to leave is just straight up bananapants crazy, especially when you are in a place where all sorts of things can happen that could del
740.
by mwfunk 10y ago
Probably because so much of math was derived from couching things in terms of geometry and geometric proofs. For quite a while squares and cubes were fundamental operations (hence the fact that we use names for them to this day), but genera
741.
by mwfunk 10y ago
Why would you assume that someone who mentions Thiel's statements about women's suffrage hasn't heard his arguments? Don't you think it's more intellectually honest to question and hear what others have to say rathe
742.
by mwfunk 10y ago
That's true but many/most people who are into vinyl are convinced that it sounds objectively better, IME. Not because of the compression/mastering issues everyone knows about, not because of the nostalgia factor- they literal
743.
by mwfunk 10y ago
I guess I don't interpret the presence of a code of conduct as an alienating, harsh, moralistic approach to anything. It's about as alienating/harsh/moralistic as a kitten, if the kitten was easily ignored and made of AS
744.
by mwfunk 10y ago
I agree that that's how it ought to be; I strongly disagree that that's how it is. Plenty of people are physically adults; a subset of those people are mentally adults. This is even worse in the world of tech forums and open sourc
745.
by mwfunk 10y ago
I think language is very important. Of course you can figure out some way to express just about any word in a foreign language in your native language. However, a limited vocabulary limits one's thinking in the same way that writing ev
746.
by mwfunk 10y ago
Fascinating article, although I'm a little taken aback when anyone uses the phrase "ethnic food" nowadays. I didn't realize people said it anymore, it sounds like a relic of the '50s. I'm also bitter because I
747.
by mwfunk 10y ago
Oh, they are serious. That's just what a lot of people have to do to get anywhere with anyone. The alternative for most guys is being picky and getting nothing.
748.
by mwfunk 10y ago
I've heard this as well. It's the shotgun effect, it's not that different from how many/most guys find dates. Ask 100 girls to get 10 dates to maybe get 1 date that isn't a total disaster. For something like Tinder
749.
by mwfunk 10y ago
I gotta say, the only thing worse than implicit tribalism is explicit tribalism. I can only imagine what they think about the preps and the cheerleaders.
750.
by mwfunk 10y ago
This is strictly true, of course. But it's a very useful CLI, which is exposed within Xcode as well. From a developer perspective, it's a very similar situation- the CLI gives you full access to the capabilities of the debugger, a

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