robinh

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by robinh 14y ago
What exactly counts as a good keyboard? I've never had any trouble with my XPS, and don't really see how one could mess up a laptop's keyboard (then again, I haven't had that many laptops). Although some of the cheaper laptop's keyboards se
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by robinh 14y ago
I think the solution to this problem probably doesn't involve trying to track down these bad nodes. Rather, more people should host Tor nodes, so as to reduce the chance of someone connecting to a bad one. As big as intelligence agencies ar
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by robinh 14y ago
Unfortunately, even Tor is not perfect. It obviously cannot prevent end-to-end correlation, and it also turns out to be very hard to do Tor right (e.g. not leaking information in the data streams).
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by robinh 14y ago
Eh, I was mostly responding to the 'grandma using an iPad' part. It's quite possible that Tor will eventually be what everyone uses for anonymity on the internet, but it might well turn out out to be something different. Hence the 'somethin
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by robinh 14y ago
But wasn't there something a while back about how people had to comply with US law if they owned a .com/.net/.org domain, since these were managed in the US?
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by robinh 14y ago
The answer might be something like Tor.
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by robinh 14y ago
Would in-game achievements also count?
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by robinh 14y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, as it seems like a legitimate question, but... I don't think so. It seems logical that Google's been keeping statistics about this sort of thing, so it doesn't surprise me that they keep track of such th
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C++ Annotations (9.6.0)(cppannotations.sourceforge.net)
1 points by robinh 14y ago|0 comments
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by robinh 14y ago
While it's an interesting idea, you're basically just basing that on a load of unfounded assumptions about the people who manage these companies.
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by robinh 14y ago
Hm... What would be easier to convince schools to do: A.) download this software package (say, Python) that allows kids to learn how to program. B.) buy a dozen $40 mini-computers kids can use to learn how to program. Most schools I know of
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by robinh 14y ago
Not a bully, but a bullied person who is still forced to sometimes interact with his former bullies. In my case, these people are quite functional in society, and when confronted laugh it off - seeing it is one big joke that isn't to be tak
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by robinh 14y ago
I think it may very well be the other way around. Example: I used to do sports. Then the bullies came. Then I stopped doing sports because that's where they were.
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by robinh 14y ago
Also, American and Western culture are used practically interchangeably. I find this quite ironic.
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by robinh 14y ago
I'm not in the USA, but 'only $950-1300'? That's more or less what I pay for a whole year of health insurance in the NL. How much does insurance cost in the USA?
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by robinh 14y ago
(The submission form won't let me go over 2000 characters. Oops.) I should add another reason why I'm wary of getting a job now: I'm not exactly the kind of person who easily finds new friends. College basically forces me to have a certain
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Ask HN: Help a fellow hacker - drop out and get a job or get the CS degree?
13 points by robinh 14y ago|24 comments
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by robinh 14y ago
Actually, there've been a lot of complaints from developers that it was much easier to develop games for the 360 than for the PS3. Thus, this is an unsurprising move from Sony.
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by robinh 14y ago
Yes. You can make a caricature out of it, but that's how human beings work .
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by robinh 14y ago
NYT doesn't actually speak of errors of omission and misleading details anywhere. You can't just go making stuff up. To take what you quoted: Mr. Broder left himself open to valid criticism by taking what seem to be casual and imprecise no
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by robinh 14y ago
No, because that's not how disappointment works. You must understand that Elon Musk is considered one of the most ultimately successful technological innovators on earth by many here: he began with a startup, then proceeded to build a comme
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Have no heroes, and no villains(lesswrong.com)
4 points by robinh 14y ago|0 comments
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by robinh 14y ago
"I've always been a fan of Tesla, SpaceX, and Musk, but I will never look at him in the same way again." I felt the same way, and that's why I think it is appropriate to link to the following post: http://lesswrong.com/lw/31i/have_no_heroe
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by robinh 14y ago
Er, that is not at all something all people do.
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by robinh 14y ago
"But they aren't doing anything in the morning as you've just woken up (think of them as a counter of how long you've been awake" How so? If you wake up sleepy and groggy and all that, then what neuroreceptors are we talking about?
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by robinh 14y ago
Thanks! And thanks to officemonkey, too! (But I can't reply to two comments with a single one, I think.)
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by robinh 14y ago
DOX?
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by robinh 14y ago
1. Let the package be delivered to a certain address in an apartment building (preferably not too close to your home), say Building X Apartment 123. 2. Once the package is delivered, get to the apartment and tell the owner "Oh, I'm so sorry
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by robinh 14y ago
"As far as it being a bug waiting to happen, C already has plenty of traps like that - '=' vs '==', '&' vs '&&', and so on." And C programmers are already spending plenty of their time cursing the world because of those things.
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by robinh 14y ago
Oh, I know. Just wondered if the person who posted the comment above mine had just seen that particular episode, too.

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