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by orclev 13y ago
I don't know. I honestly don't really know how the chargeback system functions. I mean, what's to stop me from ordering for instance some hugely expensive item from say Amazon, waiting for it to show up, and then filing a cha
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by orclev 13y ago
With crowdfunding the date of delivery is the date the campaign completes, not the date the rewards, if any, are shipped/published/whatever. At worst given the typical 30 day campaign that means they don't need to worry about
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by orclev 13y ago
That last paragraph is I think they key people aren't getting about IndieGoGo and Kickstater. You aren't paying for goods or services when you fund something on those sites, you're essentially donating towards the development
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by orclev 13y ago
Am I missing something here? Things like IndieGoGo and KickStarter are inherently risky, but not for the payment processor, for the one doing the backing. If you back a project and it goes belly up or for whatever reason fails to deliver or
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by orclev 13y ago
Pretty much. I refuse to use Paypal for anything unless I absolutely have no choice in the matter. I'd be really happy if they'd just do the world a favor and go out of business so someone less shifty could take over. I would rath
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by orclev 13y ago
I came to say that, but you beat me to it.
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by orclev 13y ago
Honestly I think the main reason we don't see more women in tech is because of the school system and the media portrayal of women. Women don't go into tech or science because those are "guy professions", at least accordi
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by orclev 13y ago
It's not a question of denial. The argument being put forth is that the tech sector is sexist/racist/whatever-ist, and that therefore anyone who works/is connected with, the tech sector is by association then a sexist&#x
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by orclev 13y ago
LOL, apparently I suck as a parser. I read them as just swaps of the numbers, I.E. 23 4 + vs. 4 23 +.
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by orclev 13y ago
yawn I've seen a bunch of these now and frankly I don't see the point. Maybe we should all become Zen Bhuddist monks and subsist off happy thoughts alone lest we accidentally step on an ant and take a life? I don't know exa
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by orclev 13y ago
Authy is first and foremost its own 2FA system based around ownership of a phone number. Where most phone based 2FA systems just send you a SMS message with a code you need to enter, Authy installs an app on the phone in question that finge
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by orclev 13y ago
There are too many factors at work to make that kind of broad statement. Correlation not causation etc. etc. I think it's that kind of short sighted jumping to conclusions that brought us train wrecks like Windows 8 and Gnome 3. Someon
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by orclev 13y ago
I don't even... is this some kind of joke? The website reads like a Christian version of the timecube website.
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by orclev 13y ago
> Lisp and related languages use Polish Notation everywhere. > The main benefit is that (R)PN is parenthesis-free ... so what you're saying is Lisp has all those parenthesis just to troll us? Seriously though, using PN can make i
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by orclev 13y ago
Might have been better to demonstrate that using subtraction as addition is commutative and thus either one works fine in this case.
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by orclev 13y ago
Did you look at the keyboards linked at the bottom that the author suggests as good "modern" keyboards? They all look like either toys or else some kind of weird torture device for hands. I don't want a keyboard that looks li
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by orclev 13y ago
It is impossible to own an idea. You might be given a monopoly on the application of that idea, but by merely speaking or documenting the idea you distribute it to any that hear or read it and therefore can no longer truly said to own or co
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by orclev 13y ago
That's not entirely true, at least in the United States. That's part of the purpose of the 2nd amendment. We cede some of our rights to use force to the government, but things like Castle Doctrine and the 2nd amendment mean we a
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by orclev 13y ago
Yes and no. Surprised maybe, but not perplexed. This is just a lower cost version of the 3DS. All they did was remove all the most expensive parts to manufacture. By removing the hinge they simplify the design of the case, the PCB, the scre
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by orclev 13y ago
Our only hope at this point is that that company that got a patent on patent trolling will sue all the patent trolls out of business for violating their patent.
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by orclev 13y ago
Did you... did you just seriously try to defend the N-Gage? I'm pretty sure the N-Gage is universally considered a laughing stock in gaming circles, right up there with Duke Nukem Forever and Daikatana.
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by orclev 13y ago
Just buy the 3DS and never turn on the 3D. I've got a 3DS XL and aside from the initial config where it asks you to calibrate the 3D I've never turned it back on as it gives me a headache (and makes the screen look fuzzy to boot).
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by orclev 13y ago
It should be noted that the maker of that keyboard (WASD Keyboards) sells customizable keycaps for their other keyboards. It seems reasonable that if the CODE keyboard sells well they'll probably offer to sell customizable keycaps for
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by orclev 13y ago
Yeah, how did this thing even make it to the front page? He's completely off base with 90% of his critique. About the only valid concern he seems to have is whether or not the keyboard can take a coffee spill. From what I've seen
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by orclev 13y ago
Yep, he didn't even bother to actually read and understand all the features even. He complains right at the end that it's noisy, but they mention right in the details that it uses the silent version of cherry switches so it isn&#x
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by orclev 13y ago
Not entirely sure about detection, but it seems like you could just add some "fake" indicators to your distro to make it look like it's a VM instance and the trojan will helpfully delete itself.
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by orclev 13y ago
That's a good point. People don't understand that functional purity in Haskell, while a nice goal, isn't a law, you can break it if you have a good reason to. IO is sort of the canonical example, it isn't there to preven
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by orclev 13y ago
I think that's part of why people are so interested in his opinion in this case. The games programming industry has some very unique challenges, and the focus on squeezing every last drop of performance out of the stuff you write tends
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by orclev 13y ago
I've been trying to come up with a general way to rank Haskell experience, and so far I've got: Beginner: Can read the basic syntax, knows about E.G. Monads and folds Intermediate: Understands and can use the more advanced classes
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by orclev 13y ago
Since GHC is bootstrapped by a lower stage compiler I'd imagine there are some limitations to what kinds of language features at least parts of it can use as well. I haven't looked into all the details, but last time I did look in

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