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by neilk 14y ago
"Don't click on linkbait."
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by neilk 14y ago
Dude, you're just embarrassing yourself. Stop. Until you brought it up, nobody had said that this article means fat is a-okay. In fact, the article treats obesity as a disease, so it's the reverse. If you ever find yourself getting mad at p
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by neilk 14y ago
You hear that, loser marriage-having people?
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by neilk 14y ago
You're right - I misspoke there. The OP was more careful, and discussed "iatrogenic" harms (an analogy to medical harms that arise from an attempt to treat a problem). So, I'll revise what I'm saying to this: if you have a measure that you
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by neilk 14y ago
I don't really know what Instagram is really worth, but it might have been worth a billion dollars to Facebook to keep Instagram away from Twitter. Twitter + Instagram is starting to look like a viable Facebook competitor. Although we know
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by neilk 14y ago
Flickr never locks you out of access to your photos, per se. The only difference is that your photostream is limited to 200 photos. Every other way that photos are accessed continues to work - whether you've embedded them on blogs, other pe
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by neilk 14y ago
tosback.com from the EFF used to do this, but it was taken offline a few days ago. I think someone took a look at it after the Facebook user agreement thing and either wanted to upgrade it or noticed some problems.
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by neilk 14y ago
Perhaps I've misunderstood, but that does not seem comparable. * You decided when the spec should be frozen. You're asking Flickr to give away control over their specs. * Freezing a spec incurs no ongoing cost to you. You're asking Flickr t
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by neilk 14y ago
I think you missed the point. Gun control might be a good idea, but not because it will reduce the likelihood of psychopathic spree killings. Psychopathic spree killings are such a low-probability, extreme event that there's almost nothing
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by neilk 14y ago
I should clarify: I used to work there but I sometimes still say "we". I'm not a ganglia wizard - maybe this comes close? Although it's just all selects. I think. http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/graph_all_periods.php?ti... You might t
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by neilk 14y ago
Would you be willing to accept the same strictures yourself, to software you have written? You are never allowed to sunset bad ideas or stop supporting them - at least, not until a government committee says so?
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by neilk 14y ago
This is a pretty bizarre idea. You really want the government applying laws designed for historic buildings to software? Even if this made any sense, when you declare something a landmark, you also make it nearly impossible to upgrade. You'
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by neilk 14y ago
We're also using OpenStack Swift for media storage these days.
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MediaWiki uses a fairly typical mostly-normalized relational design. You couldn't easily port it to a document store. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/MediaWiki... Also, most MediaWiki installs use plugins, and those pl
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by neilk 14y ago
He might be alluding to Steven Pinker's argument, which is about the decline of violence of all kinds, not just organized warfare.
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by neilk 14y ago
> Facebook won the casual social sharing of photos and 500px is winning on the "professional" side. There's probably room for a lot of different kinds of photo sharing apps. Even ones that the tech press or hackers don't care about. Shu
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by neilk 14y ago
> People only do abusive things because somebody else previously did something abusive to them. This is not likely provable, it's just a belief I have. I used to think the way you did, and then I discovered sociopathy was real. There ar
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by neilk 14y ago
No one says they have.
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by neilk 14y ago
I see, so you think if you just try to be as boring as possible, then you have nothing to fear from surveillance? Good luck with that. What if the world changes, and yesterday's orthodoxy is tomorrow's heresy? This used to happen in the old
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by neilk 14y ago
This is a lot more like a music video than an ad for McDonald's. It's more of a complementary art form, to expose you to the original in a different medium.
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by neilk 14y ago
I believe it was an example in the Perl Cookbook, but for picking a single line only. (Ancient UseNet thread: http://bit.ly/Thd4eE )
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by neilk 14y ago
I just added the SIGUSR1 feature to my hacky perl script (see my other comment). e.g. $ (while true; do cat /usr/share/dict/words; done;) | ./randline 3 & [2] 93937 $ kill -s SIGUSR1 93937 declinograph brothel
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by neilk 14y ago
This doesn't come with an elaborate test suite, but it does pretty much everything that does in a few dozen lines of Perl. https://github.com/neilk/misc/blob/master/randline I've had this script (or versions of it) around for more than a
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by neilk 14y ago
That's a good thing for today's hackers and activists to review. It shows the long-term agenda of the government in wanting to have ubiquitous surveillance powers. And it shows you can win some of these battles. Can you imagine a web withou
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by neilk 14y ago
Take pun threads to Reddit, please. http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/12wy98/viagra_pat...
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by neilk 14y ago
I think you just described the business model of a collection agency.
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by neilk 14y ago
I am shocked, shocked to discover criminals on boards dedicated to hacking. Just kidding, but it is funny how outsiders might not understand why you are surprised to find criminals in the "hacking" world. Even so, a significant proportion o
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by neilk 14y ago
Julian Assange had a similar term, "scientific journalism". Scientific in the sense that you have to show your raw data. Nate is a hybrid. The details of his model are not on Github or anything, but he does describe his general approach, an
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by neilk 14y ago
Oh no, you have the problem precisely backwards. Journalism is now a very respectable profession. Which is why it attracts people who don't know anything. It was much better when journalism was a trade that you went into. Street savviness
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Nassim Taleb: Understanding is a poor substitute for convexity [pdf](fooledbyrandomness.com)
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