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by setrofim_ 10y ago
Browsers are insecure. Fact of life. A lot of work is being done to rectify this; but in the near future, this will continue to be the case. Meanwhile, using ad blockers for security may seem bizarre, but it works.
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by setrofim_ 11y ago
For those confused by this: https://xkcd.com/303/
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Show HN: Workload Automation(github.com)
1 points by setrofim_ 12y ago|0 comments
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Bee behaviour mapped by tiny trackers(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by setrofim_ 12y ago|0 comments
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by setrofim_ 12y ago
>Maturity: it certainly feels rushed that in less than four years systemd went from nothing to the default init system in most Linux distributions (if I'm not mistaken). For something so basic and important you'd think a good a
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by setrofim_ 12y ago
> One option would be to prevent any company from operating a last mile AND selling it to retail customers. How would that help? As long as there is still the one company owning the one last mile line. Whether it's consumers buying
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
>In particular, defense ought to be expanded to "the legitimate use of physical force or threat of force in proportionate response to the initial use of physical force or threat of force against your person or property." Why? Y
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
Well, yes, indeed. It depends on the purpose of the abstraction. It may well be that Fly() should not be a method of Bird (maybe we need a FlyingBird subclass, or, even better, a Flying mix-in). My objection was to the "solution"
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
>Property rights over tangible things (whose use is physically exclusionary) do not require the defense of a coercive third party. I would still claim that the distinction you're drawing is arbitrary. Yes physical objects and ideas
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
But now you can't assume that Birds can Fly. You have to catch InvalidOperationException on every invocation. And what's special about Fly? What above other Bird methods, surely the same can be done to all of them? Now you can&#x2
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
>It is worth drawing a distinction between that which requires a coercive third party like government to enforce (e.g., intellectual property) and that which does not require such a thing (defending property). I don't believe this d
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
It's accurate, but incomplete (it's a snippet not a complete quote -- note the // snip in there). If you look at the full commit linked in the post, there are code paths in the complete function that would make it return
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
Eric Fromm's essay "Fear of Feadom" (or "Escape from Freedom" in the US) describes this phenomenon in great detail. Well worth a read.
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
Nope: http://techland.time.com/2013/04/16/ios-vs-android/ Depending on which metric you chose, either iOS or Android is ahead. However, the data is not conclusive enough to warrant your statement. If anything, it seems to be leaning in
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
The first claim -- that older programmers are more knowledgeable -- is obvious and is not unique to the software industry. This is true of pretty much any profession: the longer you do it, the better you get at it and the more you learn abo
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
> "The Psychopath Test" doesn't represent psychology. I'm not claiming that it does. I only mentioned it because that's where I first read about the Rosenhan experiment. That experiment is not fictionalized (see the Wikipedia link),
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
> And we had to go to a psychologist or psychiatrist, pretend that we have the disease and the task was to be convincing enough to get diagnosis. That sounds like very interesting homework, and the results were certainly informative.
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
Both versions highlight the importance of a nurturing environment to the development of a child. However, the original version is about a child finally finding an environment in which his creativity can thrive; the alternative version is ab
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
> IRC safe? Definitely not. It has always been a public communications channel. I don't think anyone ever had any privacy expectations regarding IRC.
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
That's a lot to put on a sticker -- people aren't going to read that. Maybe something a bit snappier, e.g. "Freelance coder: available for gigs" or something. I would question, however, whether putting a sticker of any kind is gonna help y
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
I was only half serious with that remark (hence the smilie). It was not intended to be an Ad Hominem attack to weaken wtvanhest's argument (though it could have that effect -- thanks for pointing that out). I am aware that "I could care les
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
jdietrich argues: "I think nearly all of these 'social' startups are bad news" (emphasis added). This allows that some "social startups" might be a good idea, and is not (at least, not as I interpret it) an argument against social med
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
> Tobacco was invented in 5000 BC according to wikipedia. At that point in time it had basically none of the bad side effects you mention due to shorter life spans. It probably had numerous positive side effects. Another reason that t
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
One could argue that "traditional" AI is also about creating the "illusion" of intelligence. That is what the Turing test is testing -- whether the illusion is sufficiently good to fool the tester into thinking that they're communicating wi
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
IIRC, there was a survival horror game that claimed to learn from and adapt to the player in order to provide a scarier experience (playing to the player's phobias and such). Not sure if that qualifies.
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
Reminds me of this passage from Douglas Hofstadter's GEB: Loocas the Thinker comes across an unknown object--a woman. ... "Behold! I can look upon her face, which is something she cannot do--therefore women can never be like me!" And thus h
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
That's what "AI" usually means in the context of game development.
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
A very interesting post. However, it is making some strong claims without really backing them up. It would be nice to see some citations.
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
I'm sure we'll be fine: http://xkcd.com/1046/
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by setrofim_ 13y ago
Unless your server needs to handle comparable amounts of traffic, it's not the same thing.

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