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by neilk 14y ago
I think almost anything is better than a giant defense contractor. I had a friend who worked at the place she called "the bomb factory" (in a completely innocuous IT role) and her stories were universally depressing.
902.
by neilk 14y ago
I don't quite agree with your analogy. If Reddit closed down /r/trees, that would be censorship of people with non-mainstream opinions. There is no narrowing of discourse in society if creepshots gets shut down. There are free speech issues
903.
by neilk 14y ago
Wikipedia took over the world while nobody was noticing. Didn't you get the memo? You are a bit confused here, but I don't blame you. Here is the legal situation as far as I understand it (IANAL, standard disclaimers apply). The Wikimedia F
904.
by neilk 14y ago
Um, thanks! Do we know each other outside of HN? But I see your point. That does make sense. In theory it could be abused -- as long as you could support yourself, and could pay off the host company in some way, you would be pseudo-immigrat
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by neilk 14y ago
Thanks for making these, but I wish you would have also acknowledged the sources in your LICENSE.txt. As for the license itself -- even though I used to work on licensing and UI for Wikimedia Commons, I acknowledge this can be quite confusi
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Computer viruses rampant on medical devices(technologyreview.com)
11 points by neilk 14y ago|1 comments
907.
by neilk 14y ago
I've been through an H1-B transfer myself, the lawyers didn't seem to think it was a big deal. From application to acceptance I don't think it was even a week. I think if your idea was implemented there would be little change in H1-B mobili
908.
by neilk 14y ago
Slap startup people hanging out all day in Mission cafés? Hell, I'd do that job for free!
909.
by neilk 14y ago
Oh, I would not want Wittgenstein teaching any child of mine. He is one of the people who deserves to be called an Asperger's sufferer . He could be roused to fury if something wasn't up to his exacting intellectual standards. When he was
910.
by neilk 14y ago
According to the OP's metric, Wittgenstein could be very influential and yet still be undervalued. I kind of agree with OP here. Most people know of Wittgenstein as this impenetrable weirdo who stressed the importance of language to definin
911.
by neilk 14y ago
I liked that opener, myself, but you're probably right. Maybe we should look on this as an opportunity to alter our vocabulary. I bet most of the people on this board are like me -- when they were twelve, they had a vocabulary like a colleg
912.
by neilk 14y ago
It all makes sense now
913.
by neilk 14y ago
Amazingly, you can submit a pull request to this site, to fix it. So I did. https://github.com/jdm/asknot/pull/27
914.
by neilk 14y ago
True. Getting it in writing is not really enough if your employer is a snake. I know an employee #3 at a successful startup who was fired two weeks before he would have vested. He got his due but only after legal action.
915.
by neilk 14y ago
I'm not sure I agree. I am consumed with interest in a particular project right now, but there are so many avenues to explore, it's very easy for me to get interested in what font the logo should be or a bunch of other stuff that just doesn
916.
by neilk 14y ago
How about a radical notion - we only fix the bugs that we got a report on in the last 30 days, or that we've worked on in the past 30 days, and still seem like they are worth the trouble. If fixing the bug is really about adding a new featu
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by neilk 14y ago
There was an art project I saw a while ago where you got to confess all your undone ideas to a "priest", and you got absolved of the responsibility for doing them. Maybe this is the curse of living in a world where so much more is possible.
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by neilk 14y ago
It's definitely confusing. I'm not sure what the best strategy for tweet archiving is. They might cut Pinboard off at some time, and they might disallow services that post on your behalf like Buffer. Personally, I use https://github.com/sf
919.
by neilk 14y ago
FYI, Pinboard.in already does this for your Twitter account. Pinboard uses the Twitter API to fetch all your tweets, but as far as I can tell Buffer is not going to see anything you didn't use Buffer to post.
920.
by neilk 14y ago
My apologies. I did try out Jetstrap, but forgot that I had done so. I remembered watching the video but somehow blanked on playing with the software. I don't know if there's anything you can do about people as dumb as I am. ;) That said, t
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by neilk 14y ago
[EDIT: I misremembered my experience with Jetstrap -- of course the software actually exists, you can try it immediately. My apologies to the Jetstrap team] [...] How well do signups from HN correlate with actual paying customers? I recall
922.
by neilk 14y ago
Yeah, I admit my comment was not all that well thought out. I was reacting to the usual dumbass theory that $BIG_ORGANIZATION is executing some master plan which explains all of their actions. It explains how they filter and rank ideas, but
923.
by neilk 14y ago
I don't think that Bret is advocating that this is the way all programming should be. That would be strictly impossible, as some functions have totally non-linear effects on their output, so you couldn't easily connect one to the other with
924.
by neilk 14y ago
Hm, you're right. There's also the scripting languages in Office, which were definitely management-driven. They share something with JavaScript - a strategy to differentiate an already dominant platform from competitors. That said, managers
925.
by neilk 14y ago
You attribute too much to these entities called "Google" and "Mozilla". They're made of people. No executive asks for a new programming language. However at some enlightened organizations, they are willing to let hackers explore radical app
926.
by neilk 14y ago
Lots of big sites roll their own solutions for this problem. Often there will even be multiple in-house technologies with different characteristics. Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook for sure.
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by neilk 14y ago
The part that amuses me is their surprise that Google sees some advantage to transactions. Journalists (of any kind) want to see things in terms of personality or philosophical conflict, e.g. SQL vs NoSQL. Because it's what their readers un
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by neilk 14y ago
I think that's the point. It shows that you're the kind of guy that can do that (and/or the company you work for). They are trying to stop immigration scams with TN visas filed by dummy corporations.
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by neilk 14y ago
Duh, Minecraft.
930.
by neilk 14y ago
Yep. Every person who knows India would find it incredible too until they see that it happened in Bihar. It's sort of like Florida for Americans, except imagine that Florida was still under feudalism.

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