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by sedachv 10y ago
> What we need here is a non-profit to vett devices and appliances against uninvited listening. The Free Software Foundation already does this: https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-f..
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by sedachv 10y ago
> You make it sound like vocational schools are only good for getting rid of the undesirables, while the real scholars attend proper universities. What do you think a university is supposed to be? Of course it is a place for real schola
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by sedachv 10y ago
> That seems like an impossible definition to fulfill by most humans today, though. I mean, how "deep" do you take it? Pre-processed code? Assembly code? Object/Machine code? There is a lot of dumb jargon, misleading label
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Our current education system isn't always the most efficient way to learn. Skip the unrelated to programming classes, the extra curricular things, make people basically sleep, eat, and code for a few months and it's doable. T
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by sedachv 10y ago
> To use an imperfect analogy, who would be better at actually building houses; a vocational school grad (who built houses all day as part of his education) or a college educated architect? A lot of programming these days is "hammer
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by sedachv 10y ago
It worked for a lot of COBOL programmers.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> By and large, companies that get a bad university applicant who can't build a web app don't let it paint their experience of universities as a whole. But if the same applicant was from a bootcamp suddenly all bootcamps are te
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by sedachv 10y ago
It is very easy to fail as a restaurant because you signed the wrong lease/for the wrong place/at the wrong location/in the wrong neighborhood, or any combination thereof. Everyone I personally know in the food services indus
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by sedachv 10y ago
> And all of these signals exist at present, but as soon as Facebook starts suppressing posts based on machine classification then obviously fake news publishers will adapt and it won't work anymore. The only reliable identifying fa
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by sedachv 10y ago
If you are looking for a way to generate flowchart diagrams from a DSL description, the classic is Brian Kernighan's PIC: http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/v8/picmemo.pdf I am surprised at the amount of people that h
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by sedachv 10y ago
It is not hard to see some statement about or purportedly by an organization, government office, or celebrity and then call the organization, government office, or celebrity media contact to verify that information. Anonymous sources are pr
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by sedachv 10y ago
How do you personally tell if a news story is suspicious? The publication it originated in, the places where it gets syndicated, shared, and re-posted, the style of the writing, and how sensational the content is. Authors that specialize in
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I don't think those technologies are well suited to this problem at all. How so? Deciding whether news is fake or not seems like a textbook application of natural language classification and search.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> What can we do? Upvotes/downvotes? Won't work at scale, because likes/shares have a connotation of legitimacy. News verification seems like the perfect application of NLP, AI, and data mining techniques. Can it make any
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by sedachv 10y ago
Tim Draper is on some kind of media crusade lately to completely destroy his own credibility: http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/draper-on-trump-great-o...
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by sedachv 10y ago
So more business managers? Why should the behavior of dysfunctional business managers be acceptable behavior in hobbyist free software projects?
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by sedachv 10y ago
Also, when heated/on fire cement will explode.
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by sedachv 10y ago
Also PLATO
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by sedachv 10y ago
You just posted a critique of the most prolific living computer scientist as not productive and then proceeded to compare yourself to him. Who are you? More to the point, how did you get to be so delusional?
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by sedachv 10y ago
From what I have read Bezos always had a minimal role in the technical management of Amazon other than yelling at people to work harder and micro-managing how amazon.com looked. I have not read anything about Ellison but cannot imagine he h
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Modems topped out at about 56K (although, in my experience, they rarely connected at that speed). 56k modems were actually limited to 53k download and 34k upload: http://www.10stripe.com/articles/why-is-56k-the-fas
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Find a successful leader of a large-scale piece of software who doesn't have a reputation for being an asshole and use them for the comparison. So pretty much everyone except for Torvalds and de Raadt? Those guys are the exception
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by sedachv 10y ago
> It's a survival mechanism. Not everyone has the time or ability to be nice to everyone they have to deal with in a position like Torvalds'. Flaming someone on a mailing list takes as much time as being nice to them. If it was
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I love Donald Knuth but let's face it, from a productivity standpoint he's strictly below average. In fact, Donald Knuth is so below average from a productivity standpoint that there is an entire book published about books an
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by sedachv 10y ago
> We should do a web-to-mardown thing since so much websites are unreadable. Opera used to have really great settings (something like 20 different presets) for overriding CSS. Really made things a lot more legible and was a quick fix for
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by sedachv 10y ago
> The problem is that by v3 the GPL was so ingrained as THE OSS license that many projects and devs just used v3 out of habit. As Stallman would point out, GPL is Free Software, not OSS. > GPLv3 has been extremely damaging to OSS, int
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by sedachv 10y ago
Sorry, I should have included more context: http://gplv3.fsf.org/rms-why.html/
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Right about what? About companies using GPLv2 software in computers and devices and you being unable to change the software the computers run. In case you did not read the linked article, it is a very long story about someone trying to
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by sedachv 10y ago
It has been over a decade since Torvalds rejected GPLv3 licensing for Linux ( https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/25/273 ) and it turns out that Stallman was right.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Nobody does that as an investor. Private equity investors that specialize in turnarounds and restructurings do that on a daily basis.

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