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by navait 12y ago
Also an extremely pretentious way to refer to the users of this forum. I have no reason to believe HN users are more cultured than the rest of society.
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by navait 12y ago
I temporarily worked in safety-critical software development. There's a lot of tools in that domain that simply aren't as googlable(read: expensive) and cannot be learned online. Often, in these sort of situations, the field isn&#
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by navait 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand - what's the benefit to the customer? If you gain alpha from hiring (3), you gain proportion of alpha + alpha. If you hire (4), you're paying a fee of alpha for a gain < alpha. The customer assume
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by navait 12y ago
Worked wonders for getting to the top of HN though.
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by navait 12y ago
Correct. My bad.
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by navait 12y ago
I think it might be worth adding C-x C-c to the list of shortcuts, since people would like to know how to get out of the application once launching it. C-g is labeled as quit, which might be confusing to a beginner.
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by navait 12y ago
This, I hope is the end result of indie gaming. When your target market mostly consists of 16 year old boys, or people who have the same level of taste, it puts hard limits on what you can build. Add in risk-averse nature of high-budget AAA
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by navait 12y ago
While you are technically correct that tragedy of the commons only applies to nonexcludable-rival public goods, your pedantry has helped nobody in this comment thread learn more. There's a time for it, and most pedants fail to see when
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by navait 12y ago
You're missing the part where criminal intent is required.
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by navait 12y ago
I think halo is a good smart marketing move to associate future Microsoft consumer products with halo. The 360 is by far microsoft's biggest consumer electronic success, and halo it's flagship franchise. Kids growing up now with t
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by navait 12y ago
Every time I read ESR's stuff, I get the impression that he believes all hackers think exactly like him. Even worse, I can't imagine anyone, hacker or otherwise, wanting to be around a person that was anywhere near his conception
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by navait 12y ago
Pentadactyl is dead with the last several versions of firefox.
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by navait 12y ago
pentadactyl seems to be dead these days(hasn't worked in the last several Firefox releases), so for Firefox i moved back to vimperator. http://www.vimperator.org/vimperator
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by navait 12y ago
Given the sheer number of officials doing thing this, I can only assume this is done mostly out of ignorance about how email works. If I knew nothing about email, I could see myself assuming IT has a magic way to archive this. Remember when
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by navait 12y ago
Hardware manufacturers actually do pay money to try and prevent some attacks(the main problem of course is that preventing side-channel attacks has a performance cost) The article even notes hardware manufacturers worry about firmware attac
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by navait 12y ago
Well, as long as you have credintials, any email client will let you use your account on any system I think the main thing is that you can't really add on a lot of things to webmail. Look at the success of outlook in office, because yo
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by navait 12y ago
Any idea sounds awful if you phrase it right. Any idea sounds good phrased right. I don't think this is a good metric at all to evaluate a start-up.
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by navait 12y ago
Breaking connections to faculty has consequences, namely in letters of recommendation.
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by navait 12y ago
Given that the working paper is free, I have no idea why you would say that. http://bis.org/publ/work490.pdf
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by navait 12y ago
It really only makes sense for organized crime to manage this within their own ranks. You already have trustworthy people, and people with the relevant skills and connections. How would you know if the "startup" you're fundin
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by navait 12y ago
yes, this is exactly what I was looking for. This is so much better than the other "vim" chrome extensions. Thanks.
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by navait 12y ago
I love firefox, mostly because of the pentadactyl extension(not compatible with firefox 35, sadly) but it has a huge number of problems. Namely, it crashes far too often. It's extremely frustrating, and no number of bug reports I fill
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by navait 12y ago
One thing the article fails to discuss is Evolutionarily Stable Strategies. Dawkins discusses the idea in The Selfish Gene and The Extended Phenotype, and it can show how specific behaviors become resistant to invasion and thus settle in an
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by navait 12y ago
This is about more than mere p-values. This is a fundamental problem of tools themselves. Using a programming language, hammer, or stats tool incorrectly courts disaster. But some tools are better than others about teaching people how to us
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by navait 12y ago
Let's be completely honest, writing stuff on minor internet forums is not real activism. Real activism is engaging with voters outside of your safe space, presenting policy papers, working with leaders, etc. Perhaps he used his money t
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by navait 12y ago
Are there republicans actually criticizing the the Digital Service?(ignoring healthcare.gov) I certainly have no clue why they would, as everyone needs better IT infrastructure. A project like this, run well, would be in line with republica
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by navait 12y ago
Well, what's someone going to use the site for other than getting the torrent files?
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by navait 12y ago
Hopefully, that won't be a problem with code written for a paper. You can freeze it then(for that version), unless errata is required.
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by navait 12y ago
Heh, true. I've seen too much time thinking of computer security, and neglected to think of real world security.
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by navait 12y ago
If security through obscurity is having secrets at all, all security is obscurity.

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