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by restalis 11y ago
"Those will not be a career path for much longer." How can you tell? EDIT: Swift being dependent for the most part on someone's ecosystem - maybe, but Python?
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by restalis 11y ago
I remember my musical teacher mentioning me about Mozart being over-solicited in his childhood and that that affected his adult life. He died young, after years of health issues.
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by restalis 11y ago
They (as parents) are probably looking at it as other parents do when are asking for menial house work that should be good for the family and for the child's readiness for the life ahead. I would rather prefer something like "you
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by restalis 11y ago
"I would say you were paying $500 for a vanity bug" No, it would be just an (admittedly shady) business investment. "What 'dsacco is saying is essentially factual. The places that buy vulnerabilities don't buy Fb
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by restalis 11y ago
"Being a good programmer has a surprisingly small role in passing programming interviews." "And that just says it all, doesn't it?" An interview is for both prospective employer and potential employee to meet an
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by restalis 11y ago
"Don't move the goalposts. I'm not saying there aren't black hats that target Facebook." Actually, you didn't limited yourself to "black hats that target Facebook", you put "he's right&quo
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by restalis 11y ago
You may choose (like you actually do) to make-believe whatever you wish about the exploits' worthlessness, but you may also assume that there already were a lot of black hats out there that provided "service" relying on the r
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by restalis 11y ago
By reporting the problem to the owner you should assume that it might get fixed before you'll manage to sell it to other interested parties.
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by restalis 11y ago
"If security of your authentication credentials matters one iota to you, you'll use scp to transfer files, not FTP." If security maters then use a secure version of the FTP (SFTP or FTPS). FTP has a greater multi-platform s
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by restalis 11y ago
The only reason GIFs are a better solution for you (i.e. not taking 100% of the CPU resource) is because it's about a quality GIF render. What you really need is quality of the software that powers the alternative solutions.
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by restalis 11y ago
"it was all I could do to keep up with the hidden meanings behind the things they were saying." I wonder if that is only a personal conclusion (about the very existence of the mentioned manager's secret social play to not b
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by restalis 11y ago
"we'd have to explain why it couldn't happen, before speculating on less-likely scenarios" The colonization of Americas is the perfect counter-example for disease wipe-out explanation. Pre-Columbian American population h
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by restalis 11y ago
"They also exhaust their land with poor farming practices, that isn't climate change, either." The climate change adepts will argue with you on this one, as human induced (micro)climate change is still considered a climate
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by restalis 11y ago
"Think about how many times you talk about the weather with whomever." About as many as the moments in which we have to talk with somebody but lack something better to break the ice! __________ P.S.: I've read so far about a
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by restalis 11y ago
"Could this more easily be explained by an aggressive disease or plague that wiped out anyone it contacted" This sounds so familiar! "The previous local populations just vanished and we, the current inhabitants, had nothing t
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by restalis 11y ago
Can't they choose not to sign and just look for legally non-obliging alternatives? Etherium tries to sell just the idea of digitizing¹ the legal contracts, it won't fix the practice of the involved actors! ¹ Digitizing as conversi
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A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight [pdf](deepspace.ucsb.edu)
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by restalis 11y ago
This will make a wonderful Turing Test, won't it?
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by restalis 11y ago
"When they find out, they are outraged and sue the company..." So knowing this possibility, write a disclaimer first! A generic one of course, that won't rise awareness in (the unlikely) case your clients actually bother to
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by restalis 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11161388 (in this page) It's not only lawyer's trick, it's actually something pretty basic in persuasion's toolkit.
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by restalis 11y ago
"The point is to get to 'truths' everyone agrees upon." That is actually a psychological textbook trick - you are more productive in persuasion when you first manage to make your targets agreeing with you. From there y
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by restalis 11y ago
«But when you start off with having "a duty to help seemingly enlightened people like me", you turned what could have been a productive point into a patronizing insult, so I'm not inclined to even have that discussion.» A p
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by restalis 11y ago
I hate to be cynical, but I somehow feel a duty to help (seemingly enlightened) people like you, so... "The way to get to your core principles is to ask yourself what aspects of your company are so critical to its integrity that you w
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by restalis 11y ago
Even assuming that there are such things that may be called "first principles", there usually is an awful amount of movement (leeway) around them which may not be always admitted openly and which makes the object of politics. (The
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by restalis 11y ago
I've heard a lot about the Middle East being a place of unrest for so long in the history, yet looking on this map it seems pretty quiet (compared to others)! This means that either too many quarrels in there went undocumented, or thin
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by restalis 11y ago
Indeed. Roads, bridges, aqueducts, and many other kinds of infrastructure works was being done by the roman military when they weren't marching (i.e. stationing and "resting").
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by restalis 11y ago
"To save a child from malnutrition costs only $10 per year." This reminds me of jokes I've heard where pretty much everything (no mater how absurd) could be made looking better or worse depending on the frame of reference whi
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by restalis 11y ago
"Suppose Adam is tall and Bob is short. Maybe English ought to have different pronouns for men of different heights (or hair colour, or...). It would help relieve this terrible ambiguity here. And yet we get by without this precision
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by restalis 11y ago
"This will be interesting when self-driving cars don't ever disobey traffic laws." It will be even more interesting when the passed laws and administrative acts will be automatically checked and validated (by something other
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by restalis 11y ago
He somehow assumed that choosing the Apple products have something to do with their price affordability.

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