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by quasque 14y ago
"gmail filtering + email forwarding have been broken for over a year" Could you elaborate on this please?
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by quasque 14y ago
Quite probably. I was most relieved when it wasn't taken to court.
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by quasque 14y ago
"That's disgusting." I agree. This was years ago - I wouldn't do it now as I have financial freedom and (probably) a higher standard of morals. But back then, keeping my employers satisfied so my sole source of income was safe, was a large
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by quasque 14y ago
This is a real risk. One company I worked for had me modify already sent and archived emails and Yahoo Messenger logs to remove incriminating evidence in preparation for an expected unfair dismissal trial. And also conveniently 'lose' the b
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by quasque 14y ago
I must have missed something in my reading of the article - what is the relevance of " Condoms for Onions " to the essay?
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by quasque 14y ago
Interesting excerpt about a bank's approach to physical robberies: "In July 2009 a teller at a Key Bank branch in Seattle pursued a would-be robber after a botched hold-up attempt (Seattle Times, Aug. 1, 2009). He leapt over the counter, ch
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by quasque 14y ago
"There are far bigger issues in the world to be indignant about than this. We have people dying of thirst and hunger when we technically have enough resources to feed every person on the planet yet there are individuals full of anger regard
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Who speaks Latin these days?(bbc.co.uk)
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by quasque 14y ago
A world where female computer scientists and software developers feel as welcome as males sounds a lot better than the actual one plagued by rampant sexism and its corresponding denial.
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by quasque 14y ago
Imagery of nude male models (or sexualized masculinity in general) rarely features in material related to computer science or software development, so a lack of reaction in this context is to be expected.
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by quasque 14y ago
Not really, the issue is more about making computer science and related fields equally accessible and comfortable to all genders. One way to do this is to avoid unnecessarily biasing topics towards the sexual interests of heterosexual males
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by quasque 14y ago
As I am unfamiliar with the state of the US education system, could you please explain what exactly are you referring to?
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by quasque 14y ago
Lena's opinion on the matter is not really the point - the criticism is along the same principle as exemplified here: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/SmutOnRails.html
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by quasque 14y ago
I'm inclined to agree with you here. Unlike, for example, the timeless beauty of the Utah teapot, continuing to shoehorn Lena into digital image processing teaching and research does seem rather inappropriate in this day and age.
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by quasque 14y ago
Reminds me of this piece of speculative fiction, which explores the theme of robotic automation in some detail: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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by quasque 14y ago
This is a curious assault on general knowledge that you display here - what precisely would you consider to be "useless information", and why? Schooling at the level you're at now is designed to be well-rounded, and I suspect you would be d
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by quasque 14y ago
This is a bit nostalgic. Back in the day, Opera used to crash if you typed http:/// into the address bar. (Edit: talking about bugs, HN formatting won't let me put http:/// in double quotes - it eats the closing quote.)
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by quasque 14y ago
"There's also no incentive to provide useful feedback from the student's perspective." Some departments of the university I'm studying at got around this problem by bribing the students with printing credits after filling out the lecture fe
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by quasque 14y ago
Pretty neat, but I'm not sure what else it wants me to draw here http://i.imgur.com/rfU10rj.png Also it seems to fail on badly-drawn birds http://i.imgur.com/IZgrRkq.png
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by quasque 14y ago
"What you want is a medication that tests better than whatever we're currently using." This is also done, depends on the trial. For example, new vaccines are often tested against the existing one(s).
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by quasque 14y ago
Depends if you made a copy of the CDs first.
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by quasque 14y ago
I don't think the car analogy works well in this case, as both the acts of manufacturing and driving the vehicle have numerous laws and regulations - making it more akin to a software license agreement than not.
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by quasque 14y ago
Nice idea but the design looks like an poster for Trainspotting. Expecting to be emailed recipes for deep fried mars bars any time now.
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by quasque 14y ago
Interesting application of software development paradigms to cooking. I think it would be useful to have categories, e.g. breakfast/dinner/dessert, hot/cold, and suchlike. And maybe a regular 'featured menu' on the front page to illustrate
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by quasque 14y ago
You are trying to support your point by arguing against a tautology. This doesn't make any sense.
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by quasque 14y ago
"But the kids never asked to be born. As parents, you are essentially forcing life upon another being." This is illogical. They can't ask to be born because they are not born yet. In your argument, the arrow of time is pointing in the wrong
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by quasque 14y ago
One interesting detail is that each colour exposure was temporally separated by a small amount, which caused vibrantly colourful artefacts on the images where the subjects moved - as can be seen on picture 27 in your first link, and more su
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by quasque 14y ago
There's many examples of hardware currently in use that can be programmed using software rather than a soldering iron (or more modern equivalents), but they tend to be within the realm of electronic rather than software engineering. At a pr
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by quasque 14y ago
It would be interesting to see benchmarks to indicate if such a project would give a useful gain in performance, compared to say, just running Erlang on its own, via of the many available OS kernels.
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by quasque 14y ago
"---IT IS NOT YOUR PLACE TO CONTROL OR FILTER THOSE RESPONSES---" One could equally well argue that it's not your place to control or filter criticisms of those responses. You're essentially positing that the majority of people here are out

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