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by nathanb 12y ago
Here is my biggest problem with Hangouts (and the previous Android texting apps I've used): They seem to work pretty well most of the time. But occasionally, especially with low signal, they hit an annoying exception condition where a
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by nathanb 12y ago
I am not a doctor (I don't even play one on TV). But a friend of mine had a similar experience (he also described it as feeling like his blood pressure was dropping, in addition to feeling heart flutters). After a number of tests, turn
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by nathanb 12y ago
FWIW, I have an Asus netbook running Linux, and the trackpad seems to work fine and not exhibit this behavior. Reading the article, this seems to be a Windows-specific issue (or, more accurately, an issue with the Asus Windows driver). Oddl
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by nathanb 12y ago
The most challenging aspect of programming, for me, is the ability to turn something over in my head to look at it mentally. To be honest, I can only do that for any length of time on a good day. Writing stuff down is laggy and sometimes lo
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by nathanb 12y ago
When I went there, a number of the "latest" pixels were attempted SQL injections. I'm not sure what table they were expecting to drop, but I found it highly amusing.
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by nathanb 12y ago
For ignorant people like me trying to figure out what this is all about: ES6 -> ECMAScript 6, ES5 -> ECMAScript 5.
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by nathanb 12y ago
Yes, while I think he is culturally and emotionally toxic, he is also brilliant, and has led Linux to great success. I respect his achievements and his technical abilities. Do you think this excuses his behavior?
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by nathanb 12y ago
He calls Linus out for being a toxic element in the open source (or at least Linux) ecosystem. This is quite probably true. Trying to look at it from the other side, though, I wonder if Linus got to be the way he is because it's how he
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by nathanb 12y ago
Surely you can understand the intent of his message and of the phrase which you partially quote. "Some elements of the open source community are awful to contributors" "Open source is an awful place to be if you don't ha
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by nathanb 12y ago
Actually, I completely agree with you. I'm just saying that you can't figure out a priori what's going to be awesome and what's going to be lame. The best way to be "consistent" is to be consistently doing a lo
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by nathanb 12y ago
I find it a little disturbing how many people are commenting saying that Notch shouldn't be wasting his time on such pursuits or that he should really be focusing on something new and big. You don't become great by doing big thing
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by nathanb 12y ago
Are they just playing chicken with Twitter here? It seems odd that, because Twitter are being trademark jerks, they're going to just take their ball and go home. This feels more like attempted blackmail.
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by nathanb 12y ago
Fair point. Maybe I'm just not good at reading, though...I can't see how the city is benefiting financially from going after Jacquez. The article does suggest the possibility of cronyism -- the city is going after certain property
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by nathanb 12y ago
But wait. If the article is correct and the city's population dropped by half, I would expect there to be hundreds if not thousands of legitimately vacated and abandoned properties. Why would the city go after a slumlord's propert
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by nathanb 12y ago
Only in a tautological sense. His way works to lead the people working on Linux because only the people who can deal with his way will work on Linux. Whether Linux would be more successful with a more benevolent dictator remains to be seen.
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by nathanb 12y ago
Well, he mentioned that he noticed an exceptional circumstance right when he arrived -- notably, that computers which were usually his responsibility to turn on were already on. You could argue that a less negligent (and more aware) individ
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by nathanb 12y ago
OK, probably I'm just dumb and have poor reading comprehension (and will get downvoted again for asking a simple question), but can you explain why Itoh was responsible? It seems that the translators could have saved their work more re
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by nathanb 12y ago
I think you're wrong to ignore the consequences of the actions as an input to the punishment. A small amount of unintentional carelessness that causes huge damage could still be punished. One could argue that a certain degree of mindfu
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by nathanb 12y ago
Why? How did Itoh demonstrate that the company would be better without him than with him?
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by nathanb 12y ago
I take it you've never been in a similar situation? If you've ever dealt with an officer of the law in an adversarial situation where you believe you've done nothing wrong, it can be an unnerving or even terrifying experience
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by nathanb 12y ago
I like the new title better, thanks.
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by nathanb 12y ago
Lengthier but more accurate title: Send and receive messages to other GoTenna devices within range via alternate RF-band communications even when you don't have service. A text-mode walkie-talkie.
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by nathanb 12y ago
Ooh, helpful! I haven't upgraded my home system in a while, so I have a Core 2 Quad Q9450. Imagine my confusion when I started seeing numbers in the 2, 3, and 4k range. Thanks for decoding it for me!
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by nathanb 12y ago
Here's some advice: I can never remember any details regarding the Intel chipsets. Is a given CPU a Haswell processor? Ivy bridge? Should I wait for Broadwell? Am I misremembering code words entirely? I would love it if this site helpe
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by nathanb 12y ago
Nope, completely disagree. It is not a rational act, it indicates thoughtlessness in language. And much as I like the Emerson quote, it does not apply here. The question isn't consistency, it's accuracy and clarity. The redundancy
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by nathanb 12y ago
[meta] The title mangling introduced a case of RAS syndrome. RPG games is redundant since the G stands for game. The original title of this article is just "Dropping Loot". If you're going to mangle the title, at least mangle
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by nathanb 12y ago
I work on protocol engineering and one of the protocols I support requires fields to be padded at 4-byte word boundaries. The code I inherited uses a grungy macro to solve this problem: #define WORD_ALIGN_LEN(l) (l % 4 ? (((l/4)*4) + 4
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by nathanb 12y ago
So let me get this straight...Microsoft took down a free provider of dynamic DNS services because people have used those services to distribute and control malware? Where is the due process? Where is the oversight in this? All I'm seei
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by nathanb 12y ago
I am, in fact, aware of the difference between local, state, and federal government. Much like the US federal government, state governments are also divided into multiple branches, with law enforcement part of the executive branch. Municipa
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by nathanb 12y ago
What can we do about this? Like many of the commenters here, this article fills me with outrage. Even given the possibility/probability (as mentioned by iambateman) that the target of the SWAT team was guilty of meth pushing, armed, an

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