rancur

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by rancur 11y ago
> useful reminds me of accurate wikipedia articles closing or being removed because wikipedia was trying to be an encyclopedia, instead of the first source for information on anything and everything you want to know about
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by rancur 11y ago
> disrupting the largest barrier to this is user training-- informing and getting people to move over. I originally conceived of this barrier 5 minutes ago when reading about HappyFinder or some other fuzzy finding tool that made it to F
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by rancur 11y ago
> Hey Siri by the way, I don't like being made to interact with clunky robotic devices in a manner that suggests they might be human for the purpose of [marketing] making unintelligent plebians think 'wow that's cool'
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by rancur 11y ago
still, considering the mess of code they release every year with new Android versions, empty promises ('smooth as iPhone') where the solutions implemented are things like 'project butter' that cranks the CPU frequency to
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by rancur 11y ago
> then what is the point of warning them using their fear to control them to reduce liability to the Google name in the form of zero-day browser exploits
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by rancur 11y ago
> Don't be evil heavy load to carry financially and liably speaking
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by rancur 11y ago
this does solve fat person beside you problem I was expecting a few inches shaved off the seat depth and came here to say 'every single time it's "most passengers won't notice a difference" and then fast forward 30
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by rancur 11y ago
> they test higher for intelligence than oh, why?
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by rancur 11y ago
we have obamaphone. now we have obama-app
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by rancur 11y ago
how would copyright work for these? They were never copyrighted, so they're not outside the copyright->public works window. could super evil publisher copyright them? maybe I should just google for copyright.
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by rancur 11y ago
this is a very good point. my own experience writing C was basically that all the fancy terms in the book didn't help me any, because they translated poorly to tacit knowledge. what helped me was running into the problems myself, comin
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by rancur 11y ago
I definitely don't see a problem telling people the plane was built with rust
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by rancur 11y ago
> Rust so you want to fly in planes using software written in Rust
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by rancur 11y ago
> the poor thing has been one disaster after another in the news everything this complicated has always had these problems, difference is news jumps on it like a hawk now
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by rancur 11y ago
people making noob mistakes in C and not learning gives me legitimate excuses to fire someone when I feel angry. Java? no excuse
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by rancur 11y ago
I don't need array checking, sometimes I might want to use a negative indices to access the last element
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by rancur 11y ago
> It's very possible that they are overwhelmed and scared at this new job. from personal experience, biggest reason
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by rancur 11y ago
> clones I read that as 'drones' and noticed...
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by rancur 11y ago
> fallacy of the excluded middle wordy synonym for false dichotomy?
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by rancur 11y ago
room for improvement is still pointing out the failure to hit the mark. Much better to stay focused on positives in code, like you focus on the positives in a relationship. 'I wish you would...' is so much different from 'st
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by rancur 11y ago
> trophy for trying trying should always be rewarded. It's the only way you get better. Raising children, chapter 7 [nods]. You're confusing 'trophy for trying' with 'trophy for half-assed effort'. Like with
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by rancur 11y ago
> teach him it's more important that he learns how to find better ways to do things himself. I would ask him if he thinks it's actually check-in worthy. I would continue asking until his doubt about it got the better of him, so
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by rancur 11y ago
> you're making waves as long as nobody makes waves, we'll have a peaceful experience until the shitstorm of the reality of unmaintainable code hits. this is one reason why companies need to die, and not be bailed out
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by rancur 12y ago
Wasn't this a strategy one empire used to control the territories it annexed? Take over, split the population, and move them to other cities. Forced them to integrated, and made revolt impossible.
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by rancur 12y ago
I'm glad there has sometime, somewhere, been a literal, physical-realm use for the term "Copy Protection"
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by rancur 12y ago
> I was, like most, disappointed but can you even??
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by rancur 12y ago
they should monetize on this as a resource since there's money available there.
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by rancur 12y ago
"sandwich artisan" --Subway
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by rancur 12y ago
> Why wouldn't it be legal? don't waste your brain capacity on stupid people there are too many of them
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by rancur 12y ago
and yet that never works for me. the offline bit

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