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by polemic 13y ago
Would've been great if the author had contacted Elise to discuss the article. Of course content should be used legally, but IFLS has grown so quickly that I think it's fair to defend Elise as having made an honest mistake, or simply not con
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by polemic 13y ago
Nifty, although I personally think that you might as well just use CSS and save the HTTP request. Of course, if you are going to use SVG, by all means provide V ector G raphics where you can!
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by polemic 13y ago
> "if enough miners agreed, coins from the Satoshi blocks could just be blacklisted from the network. Some irony there, eh?" Well, if enough miners agreed, anything can happen, but I doubt you'd get the required majority. It would und
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by polemic 13y ago
Hah, reminds me of back in my grade 8th grade (equivalent - ~13 years old?) 'typing' class (circa 1995) - a friend made a 3d engine in QBasic that let you fly a wireframe spaceship around. It was pretty amazing, all things considered.
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by polemic 14y ago
Yeah, that edit was needed. My daughter plays with the lego I had as a kid (going on 20-something years now) and it certainly appears to have just as much stick as before. The small ones still defeat my fingernails.
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by polemic 14y ago
Anyone know if Wikipedia has any tools to detect that sort of thing?
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by polemic 14y ago
Real link: http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=277
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by polemic 14y ago
Beardy: "$8/month billed annually"
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by polemic 14y ago
Sure, but if you're security concious then you're going to notice the lack of SSL. Meanwhile, you've added a VPN provider into the chain. And you still have to keep an eye on the SSL status considering that, hey, maybe they get MITM'ed? If
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by polemic 14y ago
Duh, you're correct. Baleting and getting coffee.
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by polemic 14y ago
You're looking for slights when there are none. At the end of the day a product needs to be sustainable. That's just reality, and it applies to music and art as much as it applies to an online service. Sorry, but being offended about it doe
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by polemic 14y ago
First you say: > If you decide that anything a company isn't doing or stops doing must therefore be "not worth doing," you're going to wind up concluding a lot of things aren't "worth doing." And then: > Google - and Google alone
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by polemic 14y ago
I think you're right, but I think it also shows that the service will always be niche. That's fine, but it's not "regression".
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by polemic 14y ago
Ah, so Alerts and Reader is like healing the impoverished. Clearly, I'm against all those things too! Nice strawman there. Google is a company, and if you read the post, it was specifically about "how quickly would VC firms throw MILLION
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by polemic 14y ago
This isn't regression: it's progress . Alerts and Reader didn't fly - not because it didn't work - but because it wasn't worth doing . There is an implicit assumption, perhaps borne out of the relatively 'youth' of the information sector
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by polemic 14y ago
Probably not for the reason you think. Actuaries happen to be quite good an quantifying risk. If the price is right, someone will be willing to insure it. An insurer with a specialist background in systems and security could do well. The ac
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by polemic 14y ago
This is wrong in so many ways. If your bank is hacked you as the user are not liable for the loss. Online transactions are traceable and reversible. Banks are heavily regulated and the legal regime is well defined. Etc etc etc. Having you
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by polemic 14y ago
That's all true. It's also the only way anyone is going to trust an online bitcoin wallet. Why is it surprising that it would be expensive?
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by polemic 14y ago
> "How is the non-tech user ever going to be able to use this with anywhere near level of trust/safety they do with current traditional currencies." Insurance.
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by polemic 14y ago
As someone who also made the jump from primarily using PHP to Python a while back, I have to say that a lot of this is very trivial stuff. Maybe my experience was different because I was already heavily using ORM's (SilverStripe in partic
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by polemic 14y ago
> "attended tech / startup community events (meetups, hack days, etc)" This really is the key to doing what you love. "Hanging around" leads to opportunities, whether it's through open source contributions to a project you like, peste
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by polemic 14y ago
Consider looking for positions at computer security companies. It's an entirely respectable field with a... "training dilemma". Good pay, in need of developers, pragmatic about the background of people who end up in the field. A lot (most?
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Novopay debacle solved by restarting computer [satirical](thecivilian.co.nz)
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by polemic 14y ago
Not really. They thought they were emailing administrators at the one organisation. From the recipients point of view, it would be much easier to deal with if you saw who it was going to. A bunch of BCC recipients within the same organisati
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by polemic 14y ago
> "It has the same programmer dread that Sharepoint has." Ultimate zing. That's my experience too. There are so many great options that I can't for the life of me think why you'd pick Drupal. Maybe you had to choose between Drupal and
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by polemic 14y ago
That ain't orthogonality, this is orthogonality: dict() = {} set() = <> tuple() = () list() = [] (btw, does anyone actually use `<>` as `!=`?)
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by polemic 14y ago
> "Accept that "the grind" is part of the job" Of all the pieces that struck home for me, this. Especially doing what I'd call my 'dream job', it's 'the grind' that I most struggle with, even if it's ultimately what ends up being the
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by polemic 14y ago
"Gupta was not talking about the stock market for the entire article" Except when he refers to the drop in their stock price - the entire basis for the "Apple naysayers narrative" . Unless you think the opinions of a few business writers
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by polemic 14y ago
Sure, but it's also largely irrelevant. Movement of stock price is the metric that Gupta's audience is interested in. Apple's current profit margin is already priced in - a reduction in profit (via an increase in margin, loss of market shar
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by polemic 14y ago
Gruber has only changed the terms of reference. The idea that Apples original aims anything at all to do with the current state of the smartphone business is laughable. Apple's stock price is not based on the relative success versus their

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