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by nemo 11y ago
The web site is agonizing, been slow for weeks, and today I've been seeing the bad panda a lot. The iPad app is screaming fast, which makes it more painful since I really only want to use the web UI on a desktop.
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by nemo 11y ago
I don't have any idea what "tactic" means in this context, and didn't claim to dislike a term where I've already explained that I don't even know what the term means. In fact, I didn't make any claim to d
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by nemo 11y ago
"Is this what passes for clever?" Swedish humor is no laughing matter.
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by nemo 11y ago
When someone is condemning others for being filled with hate while labeling their object of condemnation as "vile" and labeling them with a term virtually always used as a pejorative, they are looking very guilty of the crime they
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by nemo 11y ago
I have only ever seen SJW used as a pejorative, YMMV.
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by nemo 11y ago
If you use the term "SJW" you really might want to look in a mirror before accusing others of being "vile hate filled people."
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by nemo 11y ago
The very last link in their "are you serious?" section is the sentence "Or maybe you have some clue about how the internet actually works, and you don’t need a manifesto to tell you what you already know" with a link to
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by nemo 12y ago
Brooks writing about this topic is really rich given what a morally bankrupt SOB he is. From cheerleading the Iraq war, to whitewashing Abu Ghraib and attacking people for mentioning it, and all manner of other promotions of terrible ideas
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by nemo 12y ago
"My experience with 40+ year olds is that they tend to sacrifice user experience/security for what they know." I'm sure there are some people who don't expand, though I am in my 40s and am constantly pressing for th
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by nemo 12y ago
Age makes employees less flexible in some senses like not being willing to put up with some of the crap that younger people will (60 hour weeks, endless crunches, etc.) I once did, but will no longer tolerate that crap from an employer. Bu
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by nemo 12y ago
"If documentation doesn't match behavior, and you're not going to change the behavior, change the documentation." I think it'd be better to fix the rules than design them to encourage things detrimental to society.
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by nemo 12y ago
"Pretending that everyones voice is the same by removing money is wrong." I can't see how that's wrong at all. The wealthiest will always have more influence, but deliberately granting the wealthy more political influen
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by nemo 12y ago
"Remember what citizens united was about, it was about people releasing a film -- that's it" It was about a bit more than the pretext, the Justices' attempts at legal arguments to justify the ruling were absolutely horri
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by nemo 12y ago
I worked at Apple for more than 10 years in various roles (have the Glass apple). Some of them were a grind, some were awesome, overall it was great and I'd do many the jobs again. A ton of the people I worked with were sharp, intere
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by nemo 12y ago
There are two orgs in Apple that are soul-crushing - AppleCare and IS&T. AppleCare is a depressing meat grinder of dealing with unhappy customers with broken things. IS&T uses parasitic funding (other orgs. are "customers&quo
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by nemo 12y ago
Whether they are used as a justification to use C/C++ for new projects (which isn't an argument I've seen), it's still better to have some solid tools available to find security issues in the existing C/C++ code tha
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by nemo 12y ago
I wonder if he read Bruno Snell's "The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought." A lot of what's described in the article about the Greeks and the Iliad/Odyssey is akin to Snell's approach
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by nemo 12y ago
There are leucistic ravens that are beige and albino ravens that are white.
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by nemo 12y ago
FWIW, capitalism isn't the same thing as "free market capitalism." There are plenty of good reasons to favor some forms of regulation (preventing monopolies, collusion, managing externalities like pollution, etc.). We have
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by nemo 12y ago
"PFIs are perfect, though, if you want to let an external body decide what you need and make you pay for more than 6 times the value of something that doesn’t solve your original problem." That does seem to be the standard operati
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by nemo 12y ago
Yes, you're right. I was generalizing about Westerners, rather than all travel. I had been told that while in Thailand years ago, but apparently there were some (complicated) ways for Westerners to get visas in the past.
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by nemo 12y ago
It's only relatively recently that travelers could visit Myanmar (legally). For a very long time it was very much like North Korea - a hermit kingdom ruled by a brutal military junta under international sanctions and completely depend
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by nemo 12y ago
His writing there is pretty confusing. He started by complaining about a glyph that was missing until 2005, but was either fixed in 2005 or approximated by combining some characters 'ত + ্ + ‍ = ‍ৎ'. He doesn't really make
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by nemo 12y ago
I wonder if the author has submitted a proposal to get the missing glyph for their name added. You don't need to be a member of the consortium to propose adding a missing glyph/updating the standard. The point of the committee a
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by nemo 12y ago
There are good reasons to care about markets, though it needs to be recognized that markets serve humanity. If you go to the Marxist extreme of a centrally planned economy people aren't taken into account. If you go to the extreme of a
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by nemo 12y ago
Whether it sucks depends on whether you care more about humanity or markets.
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by nemo 12y ago
Maybe they updated it, I'm seeing the page list mail and auth. outages from ~4-~8 AM.
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by nemo 12y ago
The bands are nice for people who go casually, maybe once a year at most. People who are really into the parks or go more often feel the weak spots more. The old FastPass system was far better for those who knew how to work it, we used to
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by nemo 12y ago
It wasn't Newton who labeled them with the "not fit to be published" stamp, but his executor. That someone at some point didn't think something was worth publishing doesn't mean everyone will always see it that way
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by nemo 12y ago
They were threatening his business, not his life.

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