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by olliesaunders 14y ago
I’d posit: the amount of time you spend teaching and advising your coprogrammers increases with experience and competence so that you spend less and less time actually typing and more and more time talking. This makes sense because you can
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
When we aren't trying to figure out problems on transferring computer components, but when we are waking up and brushing our teeth, walking to the store, eating lunch, driving home, those are the moments were we tend to still think, when i
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Which is hard if like me, the autistic side of your brain likes to have things always in the same place just because that way of organising undeniably gives you the fastest way to get something back. To which I would ask: are you doing th
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
I’d like little avatar pictures next to poster’s names. They are much easier to recognize quickly and introduce an extra level of accountability and identity to posting. I wonder if the reason this hasn’t been done is because PG is too busy
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
You should think more. You should think less. You should be constantly thinking. You should never think at all. It’s not that simple yo. Maybe the author of this article has a particular person and a particular task in mind when he says you
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Your standard for the importance of things being useful might be slightly out of perspective when you consider the main goal here is to learn: when you first start programming it doesn’t matter what the program does just as long as it did
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
I’m being cynical but my experience of building from source even with automated tools is one where things going wrong and being very difficult to resolve: there’s a cyclic dependency here; this things compiles but won’t link; this thing jus
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
This Zemanta thing reminds me of the Alexa toolbar—I think that’s what it was, I’m going back as much as a decade here—that shows you links related to the page you are currently already on. Back in the day people were really excited about t
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
If HN believes creative thinking is a waste of time I’ll get downvoted for this but I fancy just letting my imagination go wild so here goes... Video gamers can supposedly differentiate between tones more similar to one another than non-gam
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Some more of these tricks, not specific to Facebook, are compiled here: http://wiki.darkpatterns.org/Main_Page This wiki has been around for a number of years and I always thought it was a great idea. Shame it hasn’t really seemed to have
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
> I'm not sure I buy the "hygiene is harmful" argument or that we've gone overboard with it. You can be hygienic and still cultivate behaviors that increase your exposure to safe levels of microbes. For instance, I always wash my hands
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
I’d be worried someone would steal my stuff while all my senses were so completely incapacitated.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
This was what advertising was about in the 30s maybe. Since then its gotten sophisticated, employing tricks that prey on our comparatively unsophisticated psychology making you want things that you otherwise wouldn’t. Besides, if advertisin
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
The woes of high debt has always been my argument against all debt since very early experiences as a programmer where I had to recover from a high debt situation. I thought I was being clever in pointing out a cost that is overlooked by div
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
There’s quite a precedent for OSS--actually even closed-source software--innovation driving standards definitions.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Has anyone ever read this? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Math-You-Cant-Use-Copyright/dp/08157...
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
The first two sentences.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
You haven’t actually criticized any particular point of this article only stated how obvious it is and how other stuff is more important. OK, it may be obvious to you but this might be quite enlightening to other people especially those who
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Can I ask you this: what purpose are you inferring the author had in writing this article?
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
You could even allow these accounts to exist but then have the content created by them invisible to anyone else.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Perhaps it is the nature of intelligence itself, or just the nature of computer science, but our profession seems to have a higher than average rate of bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses. Citation needed.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
There’s some science that disagrees with you http://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/NeatLK.html
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
What does WS-* mean?
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
If you do this make sure you set the permissions such that it is not possible to make changes to the files on the server independently of the remote otherwise next time you push you’ll end up with conflicts and, if you’re using an interpret
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
You can also click the X to the top right of the title text to remove the title and blurb.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
This millennial doesn’t buy this article’s claim. Consumer culture seems as great as ever--as long as you have money.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
If this privacy-invading-data-miners are using computers and mathematics they’ll surely find better and better ways of filtering the false positives. But before it even comes to that they’ll probably just scare people into submission by mak
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Does anyone know a site where all of the scary things (civil rights and privacy violations) that are going on have been aggregated? I sometimes get people asking why I’m not on Facebook. It would be nice to have a place to point people to a
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Isn’t it worse than that? Doesn’t it mean that, so long as you possess a reasonable amount of digital data, you could be hiding something in it and are therefore guilty.
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by olliesaunders 14y ago
Well I wrote it with one thing in mind and when I finished it, it didn’t really help with that thing much. I was pretty sure it would be useful for other things though. Since then I’ve discovered a couple of other uses for it. I think this

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