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by pingswept 13y ago
I think it's the "you get annoyed" step that people would prefer to avoid by default, rather than having it imposed on them by default.
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by pingswept 13y ago
I don't think that the pricing structure you describe is mentioned in the article. Maybe the books were the same retail price in both cases and the school chose Amazon because (for example) it made the accounting easier. Kind of weaken
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by pingswept 13y ago
I'm not worried because my repos are filled with code.
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by pingswept 13y ago
I don't know that I would agree with you that morality is relative, but I strongly agree with your larger point that you shouldn't let other people build your moral code for you. I also would never[1] work for the NSA or a defense
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by pingswept 13y ago
Some Americans think working for the NSA is ethical. I'm an American engineer, and I would not work for them, given their recent history. I would be surprised if you found an American working for the NSA who didn't do so willing
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by pingswept 13y ago
Your BS detector should be bleeping at full force. There is a long, long history of failed attempts to build ducted wind turbines. The fundamental question is whether, for the revenue you'll gain from the energy gains, it's more e
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by pingswept 13y ago
Think of it as "machine learning for humans."
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by pingswept 13y ago
(The author is a woman.)
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by pingswept 13y ago
This looks cool, but doesn't appear to be open hardware.
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by pingswept 13y ago
Does an open hardware phone exist? I'm not aware of one that I can actually buy today. The closest I know of is the OpenMoko GTA04, but it's not clear to me that the project is still living.
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by pingswept 13y ago
I was planning on doing this as well. If you do it, where might it appear on Github?
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by pingswept 13y ago
You can. I've done this using a different web editor based on CodeMirror: https://github.com/rascalmicro/red I do suspect that Xylakant may be right elsewhere in this thread when she points out that it's not
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by pingswept 13y ago
Agreed, but I think it's a pretty big multiplier.
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by pingswept 13y ago
The evidence in this article is: 1. Jason Lahoz couldn't sign up. 2. @Ginnyproffitt was frustrated. I tried signing up a couple of days ago. The site loaded quickly and worked fine. The only quirk I noticed was that I received
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by pingswept 13y ago
Just clicked the confirmation link that appeared in my email. Had to accept some terms and conditions. I can't actually get insurance this way because I already have insurance through my state's exchange (I pretended I lived in Ma
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by pingswept 13y ago
Hmmm. I just created an account. The site loaded quickly. Took maybe 2 minutes to create an account. The password rules were weird, but I don't see what all the fuss is about. It seems to me that scaling a site from 0 users to millions
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by pingswept 13y ago
I strongly agree with you. It is not clear to me how a billionaire like Larry Page is being forced into anything. It is not conceivable that he personally would be jailed if Google were to defy the US government. It would be interesting to
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by pingswept 13y ago
Hey, that's where you bumped into me. Yeah, the Cambridge/Somerville nexus is pretty amazing. http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
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by pingswept 13y ago
Housing in Boston is substantially cheaper than Silicon Valley. Anecdotally, when I moved from Silicon Valley to Boston, my rent stayed the same price and but I got to live in twice as big a house. Non-anecdotally, look at these real estate
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by pingswept 13y ago
Somerville (bordering Boston and Cambridge) is home to one of the world's largest makerspaces: http://artisansasylum.com and a big cleantech incubator: http://greentownlabs.com/
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by pingswept 13y ago
Ah, I get it. Instead of relying on one guy, I can see that lots of different people who don't trust each other all agree that the binary hash should be X. Lots of people unknown to each other are unable to conspire to backdoor a binar
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by pingswept 13y ago
Is the idea behind deterministic builds that you build the software on your own trusted system and then compare a hash of the binary with the hash the original builders got for their build? Thus you know that the binary you have must not co
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by pingswept 13y ago
The Crying of Lot 49 is also good to start with because it's only 150 pages or so. His collection of short stories, Slow Learner, has some gems in it. I really liked the second story, Low-lands, the last time I read it. Around 20 years
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by pingswept 13y ago
This has been my experience as well. Roberto kicks ass.
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by pingswept 14y ago
The jump to 3 was made arbitrarily after 2.6.39. Here's the announcement last summer from Linus: https://lwn.net/Articles/452531/
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by pingswept 14y ago
I actually noticed your Labradoc comment earlier and took a look. It's more or less what I'm looking for, without the weirdness of being embedded in Github. There are 2 reasons I'm not switching to it right now: 1. My system already works f
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by pingswept 14y ago
Yeah, if my vim infection weren't so advanced, I would investigate org-mode more closely.
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by pingswept 14y ago
I've been keeping a project journal in a series of notebooks for a few years. As I've filled more and more notebooks, I miss the searchability of computerized journals. For a while, kept a text file open all the time and tried using it as a
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by pingswept 14y ago
For reference, oil is at $113 per barrel today (August 9, 2012).
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by pingswept 14y ago
Distasteful, or maybe imprudent, sure, but I don't think it's unethical. When I signed up for Gmail, ads weren't part of the bargain. "Gmail is built on the idea that email can be more intuitive, efficient, and useful. And maybe even fun. A

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