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by qu4z-2 14y ago
To add to the Wadjet Eye love, I also enjoyed the entire Blackwell series. And Machinarium is definitely charming.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
As sibling comments said, I advocate that I'd defend one's freedom to advocate limiting one's freedom.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
In my workflow, I almost always want substring match as that allows me to input either the filename (object) or the command (verb).
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
> Its almost like my logical circuitry is co-oping my visual processing circuitry to solve abstract logical problems. Wetware CUDA, nice.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
> 2) GoogleTalk, who uses that? Everyone I know. It's the only person-to-person (ie not irc) chat protocol I use. OTOH, at least it's jabber, which is federated. So yeah.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
He's not arguing against privacy; he's merely pointing out that requiring authentication to send emails isn't the same thing.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
Would your bank close your account if you tried to withdraw $10,000 from it in a ski mask though?
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
Just to expand slightly: If you type www.paypal.com, click login and then check for the padlock, it may very well show up. https://www.paypa1.com is a perfectly valid site, and you're accessing it over ssl, after all.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
23. I started when I got bored of the games on the computer my parents had at the time, and I started opening random programs and eventually ended up in the QB3.0 editor. After early attempts at using it as a word processor failed (it kept
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
It is a sad world we live in where some people don't have sl installed.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
I'm afraid you did not, in fact, say enough. Care to elaborate?
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
You are very quick to dismiss psychological egoism :) (Not that it's a very useful hypothesis, really) I'm undecided on the matter, but the $20 thing is clearly not self-less altruism. Someone willing to spend $20 to prove they're "right"
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
These days I "drop out" of my editor with C-z to run compilers/system tools. That way you don't lose your editor state, but you also get the full shell (reverse-i search, etc) for whatever other tasks you're doing. Just something that works
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
I think you're right that this is not the reason for the gender skew, but I feel obligated to point out that the men might just take different actions in response to the trivial motivations.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
But it only recomputes them when you edit them. It's like changing the source code of the program and rerunning it. let x = 3, y = 5 in x + y No (mutable) variables there, but if I change the y = 3 bit to y = 4, the value of the
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
I find map f xs = [f x | x <- xs] the most readable, but given that list comprehension is basically a map and a filter joined together, that definition is kind of cheating. I find the python version hardest to read (even though i
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
Not quite haiku, but this is my favourite poetry-twitter-bot. https://twitter.com/pentametron
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
"We" is programmers as a group, in > We're in a funny profession where we're both the people making and using the tools. I don't mean that every single programmer is making and using the tools, just that the skillset for making and usin
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
I thought tarsnap's main selling point was cperiva.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
I'm all for internet freedom, and I have no objection to whatever information cyberbunker may be hosting. I agree that they provide a valuable service. I dread the sterile showroom that some wish the internet to become. But at the same time
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
You're both right. Java can take advantage of an IDE, but as a result is unusable without one.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
We're in a funny profession where we're both the people making and using the tools. In other professions, blaming your tools is essentially a "There's nothing I can do about it -- the tools just suck." In programming, we can go "These tools
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
I suspect the people DDoSing spamhaus aren't doing it for internet freedom.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
That sounds like the opposite of mindfulness :)
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
You know what he means. Also, if we're to pick a definition of "natural" that means something more specific than "exists", cities seem like a good candidate for the "unnatural" end of the spectrum.
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
A group of people exists that uses "hacker" for people coming up with creative solutions to problems, and "cracker" for any sort of malicious breaking of security, etc. But I fear that ship has sailed. Then again, Hacker News isn't about ne
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
In fairness, Columbus was also wrong. If they hadn't happened across the Americas, they would all have died. India was nowhere near where he thought it was, and almost exactly where the common knowledge of the time (and Eratosthenes) said i
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
This is not directly replying to you, but something you said made me think: > so long as you measure wealth by the value and owner-/consumer-perceived quality of what is owned and consumed What about things that aren't really owned or
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
I can also recommend the book that the comic is taken from. (Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman)
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by qu4z-2 14y ago
I agree with you, but I just wanted to point out that it's fairly easy to read the Maybe as applying only to the first clause: > (Maybe with a gun I have a better chance of retaliation) but (I'm also more likely to die).

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