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by scandox 8y ago
> The basic needs of the underclass are met I mean if you're going to fantasize why not bring this forward and give imaginary relief to millions? I would have predicted this easily for 2016...or even maybe 2012. Obviously any earlie
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Authenticated Received Chain(arc-spec.org)
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by scandox 8y ago
The main thing to learn in a work environment is how to finish things - or what it takes to finish things. I suspect (happy to be wrong) when you say you like learning you mean you like everything about programming except the tedious task o
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by scandox 8y ago
And Jayson Blair in the US https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair
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by scandox 8y ago
> “Quite neat, actually” – his strongest possible praise for a gadget. I wish understatement would make a bit of a comeback.
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by scandox 8y ago
I think this misses the point. Deep fakes will simply make all video and audio evidence subject to significant doubt. We simply lose a whole body of media as evidence that most people will accept - the provenance will become all important.
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by scandox 8y ago
As my old business partner used to say "All you need now is a disco ball"
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by scandox 8y ago
> A job for life also meant that your job was your life. You went into teaching or sports reporting or proctology because it was a calling—it was who you were meant to be. But it’s been a long time since anyone has been able to count on
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by scandox 8y ago
Is it possible to argue that Bernie Madoff did a lot less direct fiscal harm than many (most?) legitimate investment companies that were unwound at that time? I suggested this at the time and got a lot of flak (from family members).
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by scandox 8y ago
Every investment comes with responsibilities that are also part of the risk profile of the investment.
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by scandox 8y ago
The simple answer here is to use non-word words. A sample might be: eggscellent frantillion scrofulon Ok. I'm skewing to the letter 'L' - but they don't have to know that.
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by scandox 8y ago
Me too. One of the dumbasses apparently...
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by scandox 8y ago
It's not the dependencies that cause me concern. It's the dependencies of the dependencies.
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by scandox 8y ago
I have to agree. I read 4 paragraphs and I still haven't read anything I consider pertinent. The fact is that story-telling is powerful...but done wrong it's very boring. Nothing is worse than "back story" on people we
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by scandox 8y ago
I have to agree. His racism is critical to understanding both his work and also his editorial impact. Just as with Lovecraft, it's not some incidental factor, but actually central to who they are and what they did. In Lovecraft I think
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by scandox 8y ago
A keyboard connected to nothing is a more creative device than a smart phone.
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by scandox 8y ago
"A skeuomorph is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues from structures that are inherent to the original." To my mind any icon based interface qualifies. Ready to be wrong.
888.
by scandox 8y ago
Whenever I see a skeuomorphic desktop it reminds me to make a donation to Arch.
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by scandox 8y ago
Indeed it has. It's been there so long I think it must be considered a feature.
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by scandox 8y ago
Can you elaborate on "gets as much as". Do you mean they get as many shares? Earn the same salary? I'm a bit unclear on that.
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by scandox 8y ago
I'm curious but is SMTP DDOS a thing? Are there attacks around this? If so has anyone developed good mitigations at a networking level I mean? I'd love someone to write about that. Everything is always about HTTP/S
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by scandox 8y ago
What's with the whole "self-esteem" thing. People are allowed to enjoy their own achievements. It's actually a good thing within limits.
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by scandox 8y ago
Basically all the really useful code I've written
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by scandox 8y ago
Some people just have an incredible memory. Enviable but not necessarily the brain's only killer app.
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by scandox 8y ago
I don't know the source but I first read the following useful distinction here in HN: The difference between a cult and a religion: a cult wants it all, a religion just wants its cut.
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by scandox 8y ago
Had a colleague like this: coffee and stout only. Nothing else. Never drank water.
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by scandox 8y ago
Yeah sorry sense of humour failure on my part
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by scandox 8y ago
Well I have JS code that was written in 2005 that I know is still running in production. Even with Nodejs I have code running that is more than 6 years old happily doing useful stuff. So I'm not sure I understand your comment.
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by scandox 8y ago
Mimesis by Erich Auerbach is very good at tracing and considering these developments purely by looking at the works and language.
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by scandox 8y ago
Because 99% of scraping is parsing that column. At least that’s been my experience.

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