neurobro

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by neurobro 12y ago
Assuming I understand what they're offering here, I'd consider something like this for self-hosting a Facebook game having no valuable data, as Facebook requires apps to use SSL, and users tend to shy away from bright red browser
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by neurobro 12y ago
Do you mean 1: affected singsong or whining speech. or 2: the private language of the underworld?
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by neurobro 12y ago
Hand-wavy explanation: (random 0.5) could represent a fair coin toss, e.g. "generate a 0 or 1 with probability 0.5". But the coin isn't necessarily fair, so we can't assume the probability is 0.5. In fact, we'd like
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by neurobro 12y ago
Disclaimer: Nobody here is attempting to "practice law" through HN comments unless they explicitly state otherwise. FFS.
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by neurobro 12y ago
My gut tells me the first one would get somebody sacrificed, but I did like the second.
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by neurobro 12y ago
I feel bad for the plaintiff. First her pictures were posted to that site, which apparently caused enough distress to seek counsel. And now, despite virtually no chance of redress for her, the whole thing will be far more publicized so this
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by neurobro 12y ago
Function hello(ByVal name As String) As String Dim greeting As String greeting = "Hello" + name Return greeting End Function
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by neurobro 12y ago
Congrats to the author on breaking the stupidly absurd font-size world record!
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by neurobro 12y ago
I'm not saying the app is less bad because countermeasures exist, only that the app is not as bad as the article makes it out to be, and countermeasures exist. Restaurants constantly have to adapt to changing conditions, which is how
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by neurobro 12y ago
There is certainly a high level of jerkiness in making fake reservations, but I think it's overblown in the article. If a restaurant is exclusive and popular enough to require reservations, and people are willing to pay $5-10 for a res
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by neurobro 12y ago
That's surprising. I would have thought they were rolling in cash and building a solid franchise, considering I had actually heard of Crytek/Crysis and don't follow the game industry at all. How does a company just keep chugg
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by neurobro 12y ago
Fully agreed up until your last sentence: It's not going to happen unless they have reason to believe it will lead to evidence of someone doing something wrong, and that it will be wrong enough to justify the effort.
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by neurobro 12y ago
I read it more like a machine in everyone's basement, next to the water heater. It would diagnose illnesses, set broken bones, stitch up wounds, and inject you with all the drugs you need.
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by neurobro 12y ago
Eliminating patents altogether may be better than what we have now, but I think there is a sweet spot to be found where they encourage more private investment and publication of research than there would be with no patent system.
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by neurobro 12y ago
Somewhat less draconian: 1. Make patent applications free of cost, so anyone can play unless they start clogging up the system. 2. Applicants must wait 2^n days between applications, where n is the applicant's number of rejected applic
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by neurobro 12y ago
Minor point, but reCAPTCHA was purchased by Google, not created by them.
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by neurobro 12y ago
So is the late 20th-century slang usage of "gross."
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by neurobro 12y ago
Yeah I'm not sure. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if I made a hidden commutativity assumption that would surface if I tried to justify treating multiplication as repeated addition like that.
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by neurobro 12y ago
Would you suppose there's any value in writing it as: 2 * 3 = (1 + 1) + (1 + 1) + (1 + 1) = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 6? Generally it's kind of pointless, but consider: 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = (1 + 1 + 1) + (1 + 1 + 1) = 3 * 2 Inte
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by neurobro 12y ago
When I was an apartment dweller, the noise, constant flow of people, and feeling of insecurity (and silverfish) went with the territory because that's the type of place I could afford. If I had been in a nice, quiet apartment with plea
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by neurobro 12y ago
Renting your residence to vacationers is antisocial now. Ok. I have to wonder what proportion of Airbnb's transactions ever cause any kind of disturbance to anyone. If it's the rule rather than the exception that "vacationers
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by neurobro 12y ago
Ah, but could your clients afford to hire you to clean up their messes if they hadn't finished something first?
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by neurobro 12y ago
Maybe. Or maybe your wording was intentional, politically motivated, and equally as out-of-place as the attention it predictably draws.
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by neurobro 12y ago
It does nothing to counteract the most harmful effects of prohibition: law enforcement resources squandered on crime associated with production/distribution, loss of goodwill between law enforcement and "criminals" involved w
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by neurobro 12y ago
Nobody can compete with Netflix because it's nigh impossible to match the breadth of their content licensing, and it will take an enormous marketing investment to displace their brand. (Even Amazon and Google have weaker brands to the
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by neurobro 12y ago
I don't want the FCC to have any authority over the Internet. I don't want the FCC giving $25,000 fines to web sites that publish dirty words or wardrobe malfunctions. If "fast lanes" ever really become a problem requiri
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by neurobro 12y ago
With the rising prominence of sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, etc., I wouldn't rule out the possibility of appealing to Google's pathos in the near future. E.g. blog farms badmouthing competitors without even the has
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by neurobro 12y ago
It's just a natural extension of the techniques that PR firms (or before the 1940s, propagandists) have been using for centuries.
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by neurobro 12y ago
If they didn't use *70, they deserved it.
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by neurobro 12y ago
Just be thankful they didn't name it "Carnap" after the guy who introduced the idea. At least "functor" is moderately descriptive.

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