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by navait 8y ago
Things I'd like to ask the author: The problem has only gotten worse in the last 3 years, from what I've seen. Has the adtech industry gotten larger in the meantime? Has their surveillance technologies delivered on their promises?
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by navait 8y ago
Are there similar frameworks for ZSH?
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by navait 8y ago
> He says that one of the company's irksome traits is deluging its members with advertising. "You know how when you log off, you get this message, 'Please wait while we update your software?'" says Cassel. "
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by navait 8y ago
I think that actually proves the GP's point. The Dark Tower was started in 1982, and not finished until 2004.
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by navait 8y ago
What about Analytic philosophy? It's come up with new ways to discuss and illuminate what we are trying to understand, and starts in the late 1800's.
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by navait 9y ago
Why should we care what the trade deficit is?
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Mike Beedle, co-author of the Agile Manifesto, passes away(chicagotribune.com)
4 points by navait 9y ago|2 comments
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by navait 9y ago
> because the original premise was that you had ALL rights Where does the ninth amendment fit into that?
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by navait 9y ago
> think the point is that "manifesto" is a term that is a bit loaded [[Citation Needed]]
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by navait 9y ago
How is a 10 page treatise on something not a manifesto?
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by navait 9y ago
My manager threatened one of my co-workers with termination if they didn't take a more proactive approach towards making the code he wrote more robust. He took out specific examples of shit code he wrote, and had us criticize it and th
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by navait 9y ago
Would libel/slander laws cover making fake videos of a real person saying things they didn't? Even if they did, I don't know if they would cover creating fake news if it didn't say anything untrue about a specific person
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by navait 9y ago
ABET requires an ethics course.
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by navait 10y ago
It's worse than that. I'm a tinder user, and I understand the swipe. But I see the phrase "swipe right" so often, my brain automatically saw swipe right in the title. I read the on with a different expectation(that VCs w
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by navait 10y ago
The idea is to put yourself at less legal risk, not more. The penalties for drug dealing are pretty harsh in most of the world.
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by navait 10y ago
Sadly, I could not find the original paper, but we studied this in my security class. Google allows add-on extensions in google docs that are untrusted. They do this by transforming un-safe behaviors in the source javascript to safe, conta
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by navait 10y ago
No, it's true, it's my problem. But I don't know what. I have good hygiene. I did a lot of research into fashion and purchased a well fitting wardrobe. I think I might come across as odd for reasons nobody will be honest with
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by navait 10y ago
> find that people appreciate social interactions where they feel comfortable How is that done?
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by navait 10y ago
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/08/501199606/...
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by navait 10y ago
I am rich, and don't have many friends.
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by navait 10y ago
From my perspective, I think most people want to be socially isolated, or at the very least, never change their social bubble. After completing school, I didn't want to be lonely when living in the working world. So I bought a few book
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by navait 10y ago
I don't doubt W. is a smart man, but I seriously doubt this: > One of my students asked “How involved was President Bush with what was going on?” I smiled and responded, “What you really mean is, ‘Was President Bush smart enough to
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by navait 10y ago
Thank you for clarifying the case.
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by navait 10y ago
> Apple seems to consider macOS purely a client OS from which one ssh's to the outside world but not the other way round. I'm not knowledgeable enough, but this seems a pretty reasonable assumption for 90% of use cases. And if
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by navait 10y ago
I'm a little confused on why you think dorm life is less social. I went to college, and am now employed/live in a major US city. In my college, we had regular dorm events and I knew everyone on my floor, and was friends with many.
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by navait 10y ago
If it makes you feel any better, last week's issue of the economist was about how the future is bright for clean energy and the fight against climate change, even with Trump in the white house. http://www.economist.com/
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by navait 10y ago
Children want to play minecraft. All their friends play that, not Minetest. Who will they play with on their minetest server? You? It's like when I was a young kid, I wanted a game boy, but I got those shitty tiger electronic games. My
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by navait 10y ago
You can actually have it both ways. I use Karabiner to map ESC to caps lock if it's touched by itself, or CTRL if you hit caps lock with another button.
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by navait 10y ago
I'm a developer, but I got the job after my third try there. Most people I work with took 2 tries to get in. As far as the interviews went, it can be up to a lot of random chance, depending on what the interviewers' hobby-horses a
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by navait 10y ago
An interesting analogy to this is Stalin and the film Ivan the Terrible . Stalin commissioned the film because he admired Tsar Ivan, and thought of himself in his mold. His version of Ivan was a great man who was surrounded by corrupt boya

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