saucetenuto

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by saucetenuto 12y ago
Well, they're selling it in America, right? So American behavior shapes their opportunities, even if it is silly.
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
Once again, Hacker News is tomorrow's newspaper today.
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
From the article: > Municipalities, often for good reason, gave these edge providers a monopoly (the bad kind of monopoly where consumers can’t choose to leave) and often used tax dollars to fund the development. Your guess about the aut
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
> Do you know why I pay so little? That's because we have the free-est goddamn ISP market This is a little imprecise; "free" and "free of governmental interference" are not the same thing. More likely it is beca
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
For user engagement, yeah.
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
Hell of a story. Thanks.
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
> ... there are the numerous stories of trans folks who were unceremoniously outed to their work colleagues [by Google's various service integrations]. Anybody know what the author's referring to here?
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
Seems dubious given the other half of the line. The author wrote "the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened". Did they mean "it rained, and also it rained"?
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
It's the story of a man who did a beautiful thing. It wasn't the _right_ thing, but it was still beautiful. Also, it helps that the stakes are so low. Mel's optimized program cheats at Blackjack, and the protagonist is tryi
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by saucetenuto 12y ago
I dunno, a few of them seem hard to justify. The one on line 475 could just be an "else" branch, frex, and the ones in the loop on 327 could as easily be continues.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
> the 100th version of 2048 Be fair: the internet also gave us the first version.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
Maybe? I'm not sure what you mean.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
Against people who actually need sex changes. I don't agree that it's bigotry though.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
Usually in these discussions we use the term "Unfriendly AI" instead of "Hostile AI". That gets at an important distinction: these AIs don't want humanity to die, it's just that they don't want humanity
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
The best predictor I know of is this: teams who interview their own managers tend to have good ones. Teams who don't, don't.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
It's only cheating if the developer disapproves.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
Sup. But I was one of the oldest in my grade (so I was still sorta in the right age band), and it was the second grade (so our social structures weren't all that well-developed).
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
If only. All the links I can find are behind paywalls, but do a search for "drone wedding" from 2004 to 2007, and then become sad.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
I felt the same way, and then I noticed that the authors included a Ballmer Mode. Also, I learned that someone's made a breathalyzer attachment for the Arduino (should have been obvious, in retrospect). YMMV, but it was a good use of
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
Right now the chess produced is still more interesting than the algorithms themselves. Once we've hit diminishing returns there, it's likely that they'll realign as you've suggested.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
After he's kidnapped you.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
That and "you can get an astonishingly long way on nothing but gumption". Can you honestly say that the Wired shoe story didn't make you smile? Not even a little? He seems like an interesting guy, and I hope his mystery emp
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
So now we know what Steve Yegge was talking about, when he said he was moving to some mysterious "making peoples' lives better" project. Cool.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
That was only in one particular year IIRC.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
If you're conversant in Javascript and Ruby, you know most of the hard parts of Java already. Find a normal Java book, read the chapter about generics, and you'll be fine.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
Right, but it is (used to be?) dubious even for insecure applications.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
I like the second version better because it taught me something I didn't know.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
I've heard that that actually varies a lot; sometimes you're working with the world's biggest data center, sometimes it's 30 guys with a building full of cabinets and a single TRS-80 in a closet.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
Q: How do I get attention from VCs? A: Make something that the VC, personally, himself, wants to use. Love it.
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by saucetenuto 13y ago
No apology needed, I was trying to make fun of myself, not you.

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