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by mwfunk 11y ago
If you try to engage with people, you might engage with people or you might not. There's no guarantee that anything will come of it. If you don't try to engage with people, there is absolutely a guarantee that nothing will come of
902.
by mwfunk 11y ago
That's reading a lot into a random joke. When some public person makes a pseudorandom comment and you perceive that as a mask being dropped to reveal confirmation of all your darkest suspicions about that person or the people he speaks
903.
by mwfunk 11y ago
I wouldn't defend any of those cases, but if that's your yardstick for "biggest patent troll in history", then you have a lot of disillusionment and disappointment ahead of you. There is no shortage of vastly sillier pat
904.
by mwfunk 11y ago
Sadly that means that there is likely one group of people in MS saying, "enforcing these patents gives us a large revenue stream that we don't have to do anything to maintain" (except for paying lawyers, but lawyers probably
905.
by mwfunk 11y ago
iMessage works fine with SMS and MMS.
906.
by mwfunk 11y ago
...and thanks to the Internet, people decades from now will still be able to marvel at what a delightful and constructive and totally not insane person that 0xABAB was. Congrats buddy, your douchebaggery will live forever if there's an
907.
by mwfunk 11y ago
He is refuting a version of "premature optimization is the root of all evil" that I have never heard in practice: "Mostly this quip is used defend sloppy decision-making, or to justify the indefinite deferral of decision-maki
908.
by mwfunk 11y ago
That's great, everybody should use whatever licenses they like, but you're implying that people who don't choose the GPL do it purely from 'pragmatism'. There are plenty of people who choose non-GPL licenses for phi
909.
by mwfunk 11y ago
What frustrates me most about Comcast is that so many common tasks that one would think would be solved by checking a box on their site requires making a call to customer service. They are not incentivized to provide decent self-help option
910.
by mwfunk 11y ago
Not sure what's Faustian about it if every participant is perfectly happy with the terms of the bargain.
911.
by mwfunk 11y ago
No, a sandbox provides an actual layer of security. You could argue about whether or not this or that sandbox implementation succeeds, but there is no getting around the fact that it is by definition an additional system-level layer of secu
912.
by mwfunk 11y ago
Agreed. It's a rhetorical technique that always makes me question the credibility of the writer (in any work, not just TCM). It always makes the writer sound like they lack skepticism and may be drinking their own Kool-Aid.
913.
by mwfunk 11y ago
This is clearly operator error. If you want good cheese, buy good cheese. If you want to be a dumbass, buy random cheese from a random store and act surprised when you get something unexpected.
914.
by mwfunk 11y ago
You are not your nation, you are you. You are not even your family, you are you. Whatever groups you were born into, cherish them as appropriate but not to the point where you are no longer you. Otherwise it's just a neverending cycle
915.
by mwfunk 11y ago
I don't think that's what was meant by not taking it personally. If you were "taking it personally" in the sense being discussed here, you would be holding modern-day British citizens accountable for the opium imported b
916.
by mwfunk 11y ago
Regarding the specific case of working in SV while living in SV vs. commuting from SF: I've lived in SV for about 9 years now. I know a lot of people who live up in SF and commute to SV. I don't know how accurate this is, but my o
917.
by mwfunk 11y ago
Silicon Valley has one of the highest male/female ratios in the world, if not the highest. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/02/the-best-and... At least by that metric, that means it&#x27
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by mwfunk 11y ago
You didn't ask. You told him his opinions were meaningless because you assumed he hadn't tried the Rift. I mean, maybe that's not what you were trying to communicate, but that is 100% what you communicated.
919.
by mwfunk 11y ago
The ACLU would make much better use of your money.
920.
by mwfunk 11y ago
I had to Google the Blub Paradox ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_%28computer_progra... ) but I see what you mean. It's based on the idea that someone who disagrees with you about something can't be
921.
by mwfunk 11y ago
I'm all in favor of credit where credit is due, but that's like saying "the Unabomber was right" because examples exist of modern technology being misused in the past 20 years. If anything, his advocacy has damaged the c
922.
by mwfunk 11y ago
I'm more confused by "clever".
923.
by mwfunk 11y ago
That person's logic is narcissism, not insight. I get that they think they're being logical, but really they're just lacking self-awareness. They're not revealing themselves to be smart people making rational choices, th
924.
by mwfunk 11y ago
Even if they came through it unscathed, it still must've been a PR nightmare for them at the time. Sometimes things like that stick in the public mind, sometimes they don't. Sometimes the media can make these types of stories much
925.
by mwfunk 11y ago
If you take the low road every time, then the best you can hope for is a world in which everyone takes the low road all the time. I don't want to live in that world. In this case, the low road probably won't even get you where you
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by mwfunk 11y ago
Put another way: if someone was going to be developing an algorithm that does anything remotely like what this algorithm does, the legal advice that that person's institution would give them would be to not read anything about this par
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by mwfunk 11y ago
If it's currently (or soon to be) patented, then this algorithm can't even be used as a starting point for discussion. Anything that comes from such a discussion would be legally tainted by the patented algorithm. Patenting this r
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by mwfunk 11y ago
No. But any site that is willing to go to that length to compromise their content (for people who don't use ad blockers) clearly doesn't value their content or the people who read it. That's the message it sends.
929.
by mwfunk 11y ago
What I'm seeing in this link: every image and every paragraph is followed by the same Teleflora banner ad that scrolls open when you scroll past that image or paragraph. At some point an animated Revlon ad also appears which expands to
930.
by mwfunk 11y ago
The advertising on redorbit.com (desktop site) is utterly preposterous- in terms of the quantity, quality, and repetition, and the relentless popups. I usually get annoyed when HN comments devolve into people discussing the page or the site

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