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by secstate 13y ago
Almost makes me want to cry to see the impact this can have on someones life. And at such an absurdly low cost. It allows an agile development process for advanced prosthetic limbs. Of course, the inventors who came up with the design deser
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by secstate 13y ago
Hear, hear. I believe your comment suggests some of the societal issues that I was at a loss for how to correct. Thank you, and I wish people like you were not squeezed out of public education.
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by secstate 13y ago
I fail to see how this is a hack. A hack suggests some sort of unexpectedly clever solution, often simple, that solves a specific problem. The failure of the American educational system is not a specific problem. Having worked for a newspap
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by secstate 13y ago
Tribbles! Downvoted. But here's my point: http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/04/29/what-will-rm-rf-actuall...
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by secstate 13y ago
While i agree with the general folly of piping to a shell, have you ever actually tried to do a rm -rf / ? Most modern posix systems will catch you, even if you sudo it. Also, barring that example I can't come up with many other h
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by secstate 13y ago
Sorry to dwell on this, but this is not a nihilistic view, this is what's called the Pragmatic view of truth and was expounded by 20th Century Chicago School philosophers like John Dewey. Feynman was oft quoted as being a pragmatist, a
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by secstate 13y ago
Just finished commenting on the post about the failure of science. Can't help but comment here on a post about SAD. And I am by no means making light of things. I myself struggled with SAD while in college for a few years. It's no
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by secstate 13y ago
Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time. (PLoS One) [1] Seriously? The greater issue here is modern day "scientists" or people who are interested in and consider themselves scientifically-minded, reading something like tha
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by secstate 13y ago
First off, I'm pretty sure he was trying to make a point about the inefficacy of name-calling in such an argument, not literally calling you stupid. Second, Intel advances very specific, safe-bet science like shrinking the semiconducto
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by secstate 13y ago
As I understood CoreOS (and SmartOS and their ilk) the benefit is to run it on bare metal and then spin up VMs or docker images or zones to do your actual computing. What, then, is the benefit of a VM with CoreOS? I suppose you could run a
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by secstate 13y ago
A fair point and I was mostly joking about shoes. Though the child to this makes a solid point that if you've ever done GUI work, HTML5 is at the very least comparable to the pain of the myriad toolkits provided on other platforms. Als
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by secstate 13y ago
Hrumph ... should just port it to shoes[1] and be done with it. Just kidding, just kidding. But really, why can't we have an HTML5 layout engine for native applications? 1: https://github.com/shoes/shoes4
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by secstate 13y ago
I've said this before here, but to me Django occupies a very different place from a lot of the more recently developed frameworks. And as lame as it sounds, a big part of it is in the large, complicated content-heavy site (go figure, i
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A reusable app go-no-go guage for Django(labs.fiveq.com)
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by secstate 13y ago
Me thinks the comment is referring to some folks who live rent free in a relatives house or some such. Hard to live even a poor game dev lifestyle on $20K, let alone pay multiple people living expenses. Unless they wrote the whole thing in
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by secstate 13y ago
Seems to me this is more an aspect of programming ... especially amongst such trendy topics as JS or Rails, which are full of 20-somethings who have a lot of disposable income and generally small, if any immediate family responsibilities. S
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by secstate 13y ago
I sure will. I actually didn't mean to be so dismissive in original post. ScreenHero seems like it was designed to solve a different problem than something like Sococo, and I can't imagine trying to pair-program when your screens
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by secstate 13y ago
Oh my, that's fabulous! Thanks so much. I knew something like that must exist, but didn't know how to search for it.
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by secstate 13y ago
I think fog is a great metaphor for the communication disparities in a remote work environment. That said, I don't think screenhero is the answer. I telecommute, and here's a story that I believe is a much better solution than scr
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by secstate 13y ago
There's gotta be some law of marketing at work here ... yahoo is the pepsi to google's coke ;-)
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by secstate 13y ago
Sigh. Having never lived on the West Coast or been swept up in Valley culture, I'm having trouble even parsing this blog post for value beyond the, fairly obvious conclusion, of BMOrg's actual mission statement (which is partly in
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by secstate 13y ago
Not to be overly philosophical, but this problem was more or less created by the urbanization of human culture. I live in a small town in Maine and telecommute to my job. If I need a tool, before I ever even think of hitting up Amazon or Ho
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by secstate 13y ago
That's valid. But I would also argue that solar power has yet to deliver on promises made anywhere in this country. And countries like Germany that doubled down on subsidies for solar are seldom heard from these days (as are wind farms
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by secstate 13y ago
You miss a major point. I live in rural Maine and there are plenty of folks trying to live "off grid" and generate their own electricity. Here we sit, 2013, those with solar panels on their house have to make sure not to run the d
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by secstate 13y ago
This has been argued a multitude of times already. Cars are massively less efficient than coal power plants at converting fossil fuel to energy. Massively. More concerning to me about 100% electric cars is the dependence it places on the po
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by secstate 13y ago
To your first point, CoreOS is SmartOS for linux :)
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by secstate 13y ago
In an age of REST, I'm not sure why sites still insist on hiding behind GET parameters for primary functions of the site. I think one of the more successful aspects of Reddit is that each section has it's own full URL, making it e
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by secstate 13y ago
I just wonder what city will arise as the capital of the Eastern American Empire. How long did the Roman Empire last after the split? 80 years (395-476, give or take). Yeah, I don't expect to live that long, but it's going to be r
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by secstate 13y ago
The same problem arose during the Crusades when the Christians and Muslims both fought with God on their side. Of course, in this case you have patriotism used as a prop for furthering secret government and corporate objectives, or patrioti
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by secstate 13y ago
When are people going to start appreciating the biology of the human species for the miracle that it is? I'm not talking faith-based logic here ... but consider for a moment that the placebo effect exists. That's it. Game over for

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