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by pekk 12y ago
I've never been a fan of David Brooks, but I don't think the educational figures were made up whole-cloth. There's a little speculation trying to link education to skills to unemployment and disability. I can see how this isn
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by pekk 12y ago
If the attack exists in the wild, its use isn't in any way limited to the NSA.
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by pekk 12y ago
You will find it relevant that 1982 was the year of publication of a book called "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche." That title was tongue-in-cheek. This title riffs on that title, which was topical at the time - which tells us it&#
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by pekk 12y ago
I don't think we were talking about infiltrating the CIA for the purpose of dumping all its secrets, were we?
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by pekk 12y ago
It's a California issue. You can solve your own problem, and let other states solve their problems. It will not cause mass starvation. If you grow stuff (and export a lot of that stuff) it doesn't entitle you to federal resources
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by pekk 12y ago
That happened shortly after the infamous Debian vote
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by pekk 12y ago
These things are by definition not for everyone who is driven out by high property prices
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by pekk 12y ago
If you ever have to service or install Windows (and everyone has to eventually) then that is even harder because it's not primarily designed to be worked with at that level. Windows rests on a cushion of someone else providing IT suppo
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by pekk 12y ago
I don't see the men's rights angle in big cats not being stressed by consuming small prey.
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by pekk 12y ago
EP is obviously not completely pseudoscience, but it has a few global problems. It's often forced to test hypotheses about things that happened long ago, which is hard and can lead to weakly supported conclusions. It also adopts the co
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by pekk 12y ago
Why is it wise not to consider opposing arguments? Because people who disagree with Glyph are not "smart guys"?
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by pekk 12y ago
> $334 million just 3 years ago and now simply shutting it down? Sunk cost. The question isn't how much it cost how recently, the question is how much burn they have before there is a chance of making money. If there is not much cha
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by pekk 12y ago
People have been saying this about AMD for many years. Those things they did that you think are great, there was someone complaining about how stupid AMD was at the time they did them.
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by pekk 12y ago
Please bear in mind that making things work like the Mac is a matter of taste and not everyone prefers it.
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by pekk 12y ago
Reminds me of Wolfram Alpha.
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by pekk 12y ago
Maybe this should cause some hard thinking about what Wikipedia's interests are, and who actually ends up with editorial authority at Wikipedia.
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by pekk 12y ago
> you can learn to program for no more than the cost of a computer, an internet connection and electricity which by no means will ever get you a job in the tech industry. Nice hobby, though.
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by pekk 12y ago
When most of the industry hires based on the social proof of the candidate having been being hired by other companies, and doesn't have any interest whatsoever in investing in training, you have a feedback system which would amplify ev
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by pekk 12y ago
I won't ever argue that women aren't as good at programming as men (and it doesn't make any sense to suppose they've gotten worse since the 1980s...) If it's gotten worse since the 1980s solely due to cultural bias,
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by pekk 12y ago
I thought a hackathon was for people to do projects, and not always or necessarily to "beat" other people.
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by pekk 12y ago
Why should schools be in the business of deciding to help some kids and not help some other kids?
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by pekk 12y ago
HN tends to be populated by people who either are or claim to be very successful, and are very confident they will always have well-paid work. But many other people have to pay their bills and exist in a hiring environment which is somewhat
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by pekk 12y ago
OS X is hardly free
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by pekk 12y ago
Doesn't that depend on whether Linus is posting gratuitously negative stuff to HN? I don't think it matters to this guideline whether Linus bawls out kernel lieutenants on kernel mailing lists.
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by pekk 12y ago
People are also erroneously overrating things all the time. The problem with our predictions isn't a skew to negativity, just the normal inability to predict the future due to lack of knowledge.
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by pekk 12y ago
I find the broadness of this guideline really worrisome and likely to exacerbate bad traits HN has developed. It's going to be extremely easy, I invite you to watch for this, to broadly apply it to whatever is against the prevailing gr
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by pekk 12y ago
Thought experiment: wouldn't it be just awesome if Google decided to promote an alternative to the format used by go fmt, so that newbies could learn that instead and then have a constant conflict with the core Go community? edit: this
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by pekk 12y ago
I'm afraid you are mistaken here. PEP 8 reads "Arguments on first line forbidden when not using vertical alignment." flake8 does report this, but if it did not, that would simply be a bug in flake8. edit: if there are bugs in
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by pekk 12y ago
Nobody ever said China couldn't run DDOS tools. This is a deterrent signal sent to businesses outside of China. It publicly demonstrates that China has the will to punish businesses for serving certain kinds of content. Although it&#x2
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by pekk 12y ago
GitHub has the protection of the US Government, which has a vested interest in fighting the precedent that Chinese attackers are setting here. Interestingly, this also gives China more bargaining power in its negotiations with the US about

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