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by nathanb 13y ago
I'm afraid I couldn't hang on for the ride...perhaps I'm like the one who doesn't get the joke and needs the much lengthier explanation! It sounds like you're saying that programming languages are constrained on two
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by nathanb 13y ago
I realize you don't work for Square... I took exception to your comment not because I thought you were representing Square but because it seemed like your comment was using "fraud prevention is hard" as an excuse to defend Sq
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by nathanb 13y ago
There are two kinds of attitudes one can take: 1. It's a complicated problem. I will explain to you why it is complicated. Now it is your problem. 2. It's a complicated problem. I will own the problem. I will insulate you from the
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by nathanb 13y ago
Professional C programmer here... The points are great and this is generally a good primer for someone who wants to understand the C mindset. The bit at the end is a bit off, though. It feels like the author is saying "yeah, C is weird
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by nathanb 13y ago
It's attitudes like this that make life miserable for a minority of people. Google: Our products work for most people. If they don't work for you, we won't support you. Good luck with our competitors. Paypal, Square: our frau
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by nathanb 13y ago
Correct. What makes it a technical achievement is that in order for static linking to be viable, the packager has to be very aware of dependencies and library ecosystems. The developers will also need to consciously constrain their design c
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by nathanb 13y ago
How in the world is this "fighting back"? Did I just skim over a paragraph somewhere on the site? All I see are banners, social media buttons, and a mask to put over your profile picture. Raising awareness is fine and good, but th
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by nathanb 13y ago
I have DDG as my default search engine both at home and work now. As a command-line junkie, I like it that I can access everything in one place. Admittedly, maybe 1/3 of my DDG "searches" are actually commands (I can type an
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by nathanb 13y ago
What I appreciate -- and I realize this is a bit more meta than about the game itself -- is that when it says "for Linux", it really means "for Linux" and not "for some specific versions of Ubuntu and maybe a 32-bit
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by nathanb 13y ago
Bjarne Stroustrup has a great quote which is something like (from memory, so I don't guarantee complete accuracy) "I used to want a computer which was as easy to use as a telephone. I got my wish; I now no longer know how to use m
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by nathanb 13y ago
Sure. And I feel more goodwill when the company doesn't try to bribe me in to not talking bad about them. As it says in the article, any company that can't survive some disparagement is maybe a company too fragile to survive anywa
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by nathanb 13y ago
What offends me personally is the offering of money in exchange for signing the agreement. If I had a choice to sign the agreement or not, of my own free will and with no incentive, I may actually do so. Like you, I have no particular desir
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by nathanb 13y ago
I visited SA a few months ago, with an eye toward possibly moving there and working remotely (I'm a software developer for a large software engineering corporation that's relatively friendly toward remote workers). My opinion was
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by nathanb 13y ago
I am not constantly enraged at TWC. They charge way too much for what I get, but it works consistently at the advertised speed. The installer added a coaxial port for me in the room I wanted without complaining or charging extra, and my ext
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by nathanb 13y ago
This doesn't actually find almost anyone's email address, by the way. A quick search through my employer's database finds five Mark Smiths. None of them appear to have their social networking profiles linked. Knowing the <
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by nathanb 13y ago
I used to be a die-hard OpenSUSE user. When 11.4 came out, I complained to my co-worker. "Man, another upgrade. Things always seem to go a little wonky after updating." He said "wait, what do you mean?" Turns out he was
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by nathanb 13y ago
From my reading of his post, the one big failure of the system is that he had an access he didn't think he had. This is sort of like me typing find . | xargs -n0 rm -rf in the root directory and thinking "it's OK because it w
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by nathanb 13y ago
Although the responsible developer's reaction and attitude are both commendable, one element of his response annoyed me: his continued assertion that he should not have been allowed to do this thing that he did. I think it is a truism
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by nathanb 13y ago
I don't know what OS you're running, but on Linux the biggest contenders seem to be KMail (for KDE) and Claws-mail (formerly Sylpheed). I've used the latter before, and it seems to primarily be a lighter-weight Thunderbird cl
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by nathanb 13y ago
I understand that, but since scanning a document doesn't actually generate any revenue, I don't understand how there could be an opportunity cost associated with it.
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by nathanb 13y ago
I'm not sure what opportunity cost there would be, considering that their digitizing operations are not revenue-generating. But I can see your general point, that even if all the physical repairs and goods are paid for by insurance the
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by nathanb 13y ago
Why is nobody working on a better rich client for email? I use Thunderbird, which is the most full-featured of the three or so desktop email clients for Linux. Thunderbird aggregates my many email addresses in one place and allows me to man
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by nathanb 13y ago
Care to elaborate? Unless they are underinsured or did a poor job of estimating the value of their equipment, I don't understand why you are asserting that insurance wouldn't cover all losses. That's sort of what insurance is
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by nathanb 13y ago
I must be naive too, then, because this is what I thought at first. Anything that gets dollars into the hands of the archive.org folks is fine with me, but this is what insurance policies are for.
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by nathanb 13y ago
The only way I would consider using this service is if Google started advertising paid support of their own products on it.
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by nathanb 13y ago
I think you're missing the value prop of the BigStorageCos like EMC and NetApp. If all they provided was a disk shelf and loose cluster coupling, nobody would buy that. The big win (for those companies which consider it a win) is in da
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by nathanb 13y ago
What makes you assume that those who upvote Linux are writing desktop apps? There are certainly people who work in QT or GTK on desktop stuff, or even those who work in Java and target all desktop platforms, but I would posit (based on my o
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by nathanb 13y ago
Wait, how does this site "make it horrible"? The situation may be horrible, in which case this site may be an unwelcome reminder of the horribleness of the situation. But this site doesn't make anything worse or tell you anyt
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by nathanb 13y ago
Seems like we were having this same problem with email spam, and Bayesian-based learning filters revolutionized the spam filtering landscape. Has anyone tried throwing computer learning at this problem? We as humans can readily classify ima
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by nathanb 13y ago
Your second example is a fallacy of circumstance. The virtues of recycling should be examined on their own merits, not based on how well an individual adheres to them. I can provide empirical, qualitative reasons why recycling saves energy.

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