pjbrunet

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by pjbrunet 13y ago
Maybe it's our prehistoric roots. You could compare programming to hunting: no talking.
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
I tried learning in middle school and just memorizing all the letters was a pain. At that age it's just not that exciting, at least for me it wasn't. I can totally appreciate the value of it now, the ability to send messages aro
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
Cool blog post but I can't get excited about "micro-transactions" when we've heard this same story so many times since the 90s. Zzzzzz. Few weeks of hype (1 cent to read my blog = $120,000!?!) and it never materializes
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
That's nice but you still have to worry about tampering with evidence, planted evidence, bad assumptions, bogus experts, etc. Or maybe I just watch too many movies ;-) Like after watching the movie Gattaca, I wonder how much of our DN
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
Newer laptops have 6+ hour batteries. Not having a power outlet won't deter anyone in the future. Also, if you have Clear or tethering you don't need WIFI to get online. I have Clear and it's been fun to find new places to
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
Paying was easier than obfuscating the js.
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
Supposedly I don't have a Yahoo account, deleted it several years ago. It was very difficult to delete. They make you talk to the fraud/abuse dept, ask you personal questions to prove who you are, ask you over and over again are
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
That info has been resold 100 times already ;-)
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
Would be nice if there was an option to delete our profiles from Hacker News too.
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
In theory it sounds like a good idea, but imagine a scenario where your bank needs to confirm your identity and they outsource this task to a 3rd party that has incorrect data about you (actually happened to me) and when you provide the cor
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
Also I'd like to see a "Certificate Cleaner" app that could just erase all the non-mandatory certificates. Or even better, show app-certificate associations so people could better decide which certificates they need/wan
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
I don't think it's just a coincidence or necessarily a secret: "Equifax Inc. (EFX), EBay Inc.'s (EBAY) PayPal and Intuit Inc. (INTU) have beguntrials to see whether social posts can help prove identities,and, in some cas
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
No, I just discovered this moments ago and posted it. I had disabled a lot of my security certificates the other day and then realized I couldn't get into Play. So I added just about all the certificates back except the creepy ones l
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
I'm no expert, but seems like a big deal for all Android phones to report to a major credit bureau that determines whether you can rent an apartment, buy a house, get a job, a promotion, etc. Not only that a) It's mandatory, not s
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Google Play (Android App Store) does not work at all unless you enable Equifax(twitter.com)
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
In Gibson's world, I think the algorithm would have been obfuscated and released to the world in stages, anonymously, building up a cult following. Till one day it's revealed the algorithm has a hidden aspect which boots Wintermu
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
This is why you need the museum, art critic, docent and the monstrous gold frame around a humble Cezanne painting of some fruit on a table. Half of Van Gogh's work was destroyed, dismissed as trash. Van Gogh was an unsophisticated ma
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
Whoever initially decided to repurpose McDonald's sales language, I passed the downvotes to them. Coincidentally, my girlfriend/classmate worked at McDonald's through college. She took no student loans. (Her father was kic
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
I'm just wondering if your username is a reference to Virek from Count Zero.
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
"At the time, if anyone had asked me "what are you going to 'do' with that? what about the economics?" (and I know this, because they did), I would have said that economics aren't everything. Are they?" Wh
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
LOL. That bothered me too. I don't think art is limited, or should be limited, by our humanity. Just because we're physical beings, doesn't mean we're limited by the physical world. I'd argue many artists find t
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
Representational art was valuable in those days, worth spending time on, because they didn't have Internet, TV, movies, photography, magazines, etc. 3D representation of objects on a 2D surface was still a new, challenging concept. T
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
Would you like fries with that?
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
What I want to know: Why can't these phones use plastic screens? Good acrylic is more clear than glass, lighter, safer, more durable. I wouldn't be shocked if iPhones were designed to shatter easily. I'm seriously thinking o
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
I think constructive criticism is underrated. Criticism often leads to improvement which most everyone benefits from. As far as his data, sure most people can't be bothered to criticize something they don't care about. But imagine if Pica
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
Real social networks don't need technology. So technology will never measure up to the real thing.
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
Curiosity killed the cat or something like that. I'm not into anything controversial but if I was, I'd probably leave the country before playing Cloak & Dagger with my computer. I'm currently reading Spook Country and there's a charac
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
@rayiner I can't reply to you directly for whatever reason. Maybe we're not getting the whole story. Reminds me of the McAfee story, some nut building what looks like a meth lab in the jungle, is he nuts or just trying to impress his girl
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
Congrats __chismc. Shortly after this post it appears they moved the "Install" link under the permission requests.

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