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by phillmv 11y ago
We need to stop this cargo cult stuff. "Speed" as determined by rendering stuff to a page is actually something we can determine. Is it not possible to simply trace the framework execution? What's the point of having silly hy
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by phillmv 11y ago
Avi Bryant demo'd this exact concept at an old CUSEC: https://vimeo.com/4763707#t=27m20s I wish I knew which paper he was referring to - it's a great feature :).
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by phillmv 12y ago
>These aspects of the nuclear security system were designed by politicians, This is false. I suggest reading Command and Control; it is illuminating and terrifying. The setup you described evolved from a tug of war between competing bure
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by phillmv 12y ago
Maciej is just a cool guy, offering great value and excellent rants on twitter.
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by phillmv 12y ago
I had this idea earlier this year and investigating how to seriously pursue it was in my 2015 todo list. Great to see other people moving on this.
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by phillmv 12y ago
If by "have a much easier time of it" you mean live with terrible insecurity and none or limited social services, then sure :P.
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by phillmv 12y ago
I set up https://github.com/mroth/lolcommits almost two years ago and set it to upload to tumblr - and it's a fabulous, fabulous thing to scroll through.
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by phillmv 12y ago
Let those people eat cake, and in the meantime protect me from my own misbehaviour.
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by phillmv 12y ago
You have to contextualize those demographic moves. The post-war American suburban drive was in large part driven by economics and policy. Mortgage subsidization from the 30s with the Home Owners' Loan Corporation and the GI Bill in the
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by phillmv 12y ago
You say that as if it were that easy. I hadn't heard of income-protection insurance and after some googling it's no wonder: as far as I can it's a kind of disability insurance - it doesn't kick in if you're merely
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by phillmv 12y ago
>Living in Canada, I don't have to worry that a job loss means no health coverage. I wouldn't be that smug; you're still one accident or one cancer away from destitution. The surgery may be fully covered, but you're
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by phillmv 12y ago
Eh, four kids, a breakup, work that was already seasonal in nature, cancer and laid off in a recession tho. Also, authors generally don't rake it in and certainly not at the magnitude of "a few years' expenses". Maybe sh
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by phillmv 12y ago
Welcome to problems with social science! >this is really just making up numbers and calling it "wealth distribution". We can go deeper. Almost everything you hear about the "economy" is based on a mathematical model t
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by phillmv 12y ago
This is a gorgeous post and I shiver at the thought of how much work went into this! Thoughtful, detailed and chock full of great visualizations of the data. I'd be interested in a similar analysis of HN, as I'm interested in the
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by phillmv 12y ago
Not a big user but: Think of it less as "fancy IRC" and more of "tool that lets people have fewer face-to-face meetings just to catch up on what everyone is doing".
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by phillmv 12y ago
There is huge demand for cheap ad-hoc transit . The problem then is changing the regulatory framework - reduce barriers to entry and the need for Uber per se vanishes. That said, industrial-scale corporate civil disobedience is extremely u
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by phillmv 12y ago
That's a shit sandwich, though. It sounds incredibly self-serving for VCs to be pushing that cultural expectation. It sounds out-right unhealthy. It sounds like a great after-the-fact excuse to make workaholics feel less bad. I know it
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by phillmv 12y ago
Huh. Why make this wearable ? Isn't that kind of an insane design constraint? I mean, what's the battery life on something small enough to wrap around your wrist - five minutes? I mean, you go and do whatever you want. I'm j
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by phillmv 12y ago
I hereby vote to also ban the word "founder". Somehow it manages to be even more weaselly than "entrepreneur".
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by phillmv 12y ago
Not to dwelve too far into Oracle hagiography but, >During the 1970s, after a brief stint at Amdahl Corporation, Ellison began working for Ampex Corporation. His projects included a database for the CIA, which he named "Oracle"
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by phillmv 12y ago
It makes me wonder about the mindset of the people setting these kinds of policies. It's easy in hindsight to cast aspersions, but to me it seemed prima facie an 'invasion' of a private space. Like, Apple decided that owning
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by phillmv 12y ago
Anyone who has dealt with bank protocols will tell you that "organic" is certainly an apt, if perhaps too kind, word. It's not like it's all designed by committee. The difference is you don't get to see the haggli
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by phillmv 12y ago
My comment was perhaps more caustic than intended; I go back twice a year and so I only get to see 6-month snapshots of increasing misery, and I didn't want to make anyone feel bad for sticking around. It just comes up a lot whenever I
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by phillmv 12y ago
Ora, precisamente porque tirei a oportunidade de desenferrujar a escrita. Vê-lá tu, para mim fazem anos e anos desde que escreva em português :P. Regresso com frequência (tenho que marcar viagem mas em princípio daqui a duas semanas…), mas
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by phillmv 12y ago
I don't really understand this sentiment. I'm clearly targeting fellow portuguese speakers on a low traffic thread. It feels… weird to be policed for my choice of language. Can you explain why it feels rude to you?
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by phillmv 12y ago
Realmente hoje em dia tenho muito pouca idea de como as coisas estejam, mas admira-me que a malta toda (que possa fazer apps) não-se tenha despachado prá Alemanha e a Inglaterra.
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by phillmv 12y ago
1Password can store those for you as well.
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by phillmv 12y ago
I think what we're seeing here is companies using automation to offload certain costs on to their workers - and then use the guise of "freedom" to paper it over.
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by phillmv 12y ago
You're a bit of a special case, though. For starters, you've made enough of a name for yourself that you might get someone willing to go to bat for you as an 'exceptionally qualified' person once you get a few more years
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by phillmv 12y ago
It's an uphill battle if you have a degree. It's an uphill battle to get to N. America from the EU and vice-versa, let alone N. Africa. Anyone commenting here who has not personally immigrated to another country in which they we

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