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by rev_bird 11y ago
Says the person with the freedom to publicly disagree with the article behind an anonymous account on a website.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I feel like I'm about to wander into a debate that's over my head, but I don't see why one computer (or one small group of computers) should be responsible for doing work that could easily be performed in a more distributed w
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by rev_bird 11y ago
It's no more reliable than "this is what they said," but it adds a step to the fabrication: I could just type random quotes and attribute them to a Twitter account, sure, but it would take effort to fake a screenshot.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
The one linked at the top of the page, I presume.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I've spent a good chunk of my waking life studying programming the past several years, in an effort to get good at this stuff and really understand what I'm doing. I am incredibly jealous that people get to be professional "p
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by rev_bird 11y ago
Wow, this is a really extensive answer, thank you. I really like the pull request model encouraged (enabled?) by GitHub -- it codifies the code review process, which is handy, especially when automated testing isn't up to par yet. That
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by rev_bird 11y ago
It's usually done to preserve a tweet that could end up getting deleted.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I'm with you on Adobe, but Steam is a whole different thing, even leaving out its OS aspirations. Probably most importantly, it's free -- I think of it as an unusually heavy e-commerce site that needed me to install a bunch of stu
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I'd love to see a source for this. I'm not trying to call bullshit on you or anything, but I can't imagine any hosted git implementation not at least accounting for branches. Forks are the "GitHub way," but branch
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by rev_bird 11y ago
Seems like he probably could have put a hoop in his driveway or something...
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I like that it was brought back to "risk," but it seems like the argument is using semantics to obfuscate that the thesis is essentially, "So what if someone can access an always-on microphone in your house?" The headlin
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by rev_bird 11y ago
"Privileged personal connections," perhaps minus some of the negative connotations, seems to be among the chief selling points of going into an incubator like YC. I remember seeing Sam Altman tweeting something a few weeks ago abo
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I'm having trouble figuring out which would be a bigger accomplishment -- 1 billion on Facebook's platform or Google's. I'd imagine the average Facebook user (viewing/uploading photos and video, multimedia ads, page
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by rev_bird 11y ago
"The Clintons"? We're going to lump Hillary in with the policies of an administration that she married into ?
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by rev_bird 11y ago
That's an interesting angle that I hadn't considered -- I get that it's unreasonable to ask banks to be a public trust AND a public corporation at the same time, but maybe separating the "for-profit business" side o
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by rev_bird 11y ago
This seems like a politically motivated conclusion -- I just can't find any evidence that it's necessarily true. I really can't see how "over-regulation" is the cause of banks behaving badly -- their core business i
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by rev_bird 11y ago
This is really interesting, thanks for responding. It seems, though, like the vast majority of these problems aren't coming from the necessary evils brought about by outdated technologies -- it just seems like inexperienced (or just...
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by rev_bird 11y ago
> I started to realise that it's usually just increase the time we need to spend building applications. This might be because I'm not building anything that's going to blow the doors off of the internet, but I've fou
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I was with you initially, but this seems hostile in a way that's honestly kind of confusing. The argument, as I understand it, isn't something like "websites are too complex now," it's that "web-app programming
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by rev_bird 11y ago
A TWIST! Now I have no idea what these could be.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I'm not debating the whole "cavalier with significant figures or being imprecise with language" bit, but "the best math" seems to mean "the most likely guess given current information."
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by rev_bird 11y ago
It'd probably be more clear to not use car sales as the divisor of an equation that doesn't involve losses related to actual cars, but if that's the one that HAS to be used, I think "loses more than $4,000 FOR every car
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I'm admittedly not familiar with the details of the hashing process, but it could be done client-side, no? Then the compute power required falls on the user, PLUS the 20 megs never gets sent over the wire.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I'm fairly sure the USPTO has higher-res versions.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I get that they're different records, www just seems like the one subdomain that everyone expects to be synonymous with the root. Even if that isn't where you want your resources to "live," it's an essentially free
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by rev_bird 11y ago
They're indistinguishable from work except retirement "activities" are self-directed, instead of decided by some manager. If you really like your job, sure, why replace it with other routine chores -- but I'd bet, once I
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by rev_bird 11y ago
Little bloopers like this always confuse me. The people who can create a "new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol" can't configure basic DNS?
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by rev_bird 11y ago
Holy cow... honestly, I'm not even that interested in getting better at JS, but this game looks like so much fun. If I ever find a game like this for traffic-light simulation, that's the last day I leave the house.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
That seems like too logical of a business name for these days -- it'd probably start as "Network Effects" but end up as "ZephyrLimbo.io" or something.
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by rev_bird 11y ago
I've run into this at several airports -- seems the standard procedure is to set your pick-up location somewhere near the airport, then call the driver and tell them where you actually are.

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