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by sgentle 7y ago
I think your definition of unprofessional needs recalibrating if it applies more to the people calling out professional negligence than to the people committing it.
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by sgentle 7y ago
There are two reasons why that does not make a lot of sense. Firstly, the term "work for hire" refers to a quite specific situation where the copyright for work you create is not held by you as an individual but by the company emp
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by sgentle 7y ago
Possibly one of the most intriguing ideas I've ever heard is that there is no difference between "true" in the sense of "1+1=2" and "true" in the sense of "polar bears exist". The universe isn&#x
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by sgentle 7y ago
The cc-by-sa note in the pdf is presumably because that is the copyright listed on Commons and Flickr. However, the original work appears to be in the public domain. R & L Lambry were a father (Léon) and son (Robert) who died in 1940 an
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by sgentle 8y ago
This must be a really rough day for you. Take care of yourself, okay? Make sure you're talking to someone about this, even if it doesn't seem like you need to.
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by sgentle 8y ago
Fascinating. I notice some arguments that sound a bit like CA applications of Noether's theorem (symmetries correspond to conservation laws). For example, "as a consequence of the time-reversibility, no pattern can completely disa
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by sgentle 8y ago
This is super cool! By any chance have you seen Dave Ackley's Movable Feast Machine and related projects? He's working on some similar ideas – cellular automata with different classes of cell that pass local state around to build
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by sgentle 8y ago
If you are able to perform the following steps for any of Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Microsoft or Twitter, I will literally eat a hat (you may choose what kind): 1. Discover an easily exploitable vulnerability that allows access to
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by sgentle 8y ago
Yes, CSS is a hot mess for a few reasons that all basically boil down to historical baggage. CSS was designed for an era where the web was made of documents, probably closer to the environment of a modern ebook than a modern web app. In an
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by sgentle 8y ago
I think that's exactly why LJ was replaced by the latter titans of social media. When they say "we never had the clear mental model of what the site was", I hear "we never had a clear plan for how to turn our users into
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by sgentle 8y ago
I think this is the core difference motivating this change: do extensions necessarily act on behalf of users? If that were true, there'd be no such thing as extension malware.
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by sgentle 8y ago
Well there are multiple things that "simple" could mean. If I'm looking to learn about construction, why not start with sticks? I already know exactly how sticks work. I can find them on trees, lash them together with bits of
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by sgentle 8y ago
I think the biggest problem is the fundamental impedance mismatch between companies and independent open source projects, especially smaller ones. As any b2b startup will tell you, the number one concern of a large client is "how do I
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by sgentle 8y ago
A little while back I used this combined with a physics simulator to make a toy where you throw polygons in the air and they scream: https://ohgodwhathaveidone.stackblitz.io/ Code's here if anyone wants to play: https
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by sgentle 8y ago
Is it just me or is the cloud era of developer tooling fundamentally weird? It seems like there used to be this tacit assumption that a good tool is one that starts small with you and grows as your needs grow. How do I log in to a remote ma
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by sgentle 8y ago
Joel "Nostradamus" Spolsky in 2001: > Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like “Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music” and ignore everything but the architecture, thinking it’s interesting bec
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by sgentle 8y ago
Looks like a standard brushless case fan – most of the PC/ATX ones are 12v and prioritise low noise over power, but I have a few I pulled out of laser printers that are 24v, about palm-sized, and put out silly volumes of air.
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by sgentle 8y ago
I disagree with you, but to really understand why you will need to read my book. It may sound like a lot of effort, but I can assure you that my disagreement is as intricate as the celestial orbits, as deep as the darkest ocean, and as as d
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by sgentle 8y ago
That page has a custom scrollbar.
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by sgentle 8y ago
Don't do anything. The number one difference between needing and having is that when you need, the status quo is your enemy; when you have, it's your friend. If you need to pay rent, you gotta make money. If you need a new job or
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by sgentle 8y ago
So if I understand correctly, this was found by scanning the Alexa top 1M for exposed .git directories. It's based on research from 2015 where the authors... scanned the Alexa top 1M for exposed .git directories. Anyone want to hazard
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by sgentle 8y ago
Have you considered meal prep? The majority of cooking work is duplicated across meals so if you can batch it up on the weekend it saves a lot of time during the week.
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by sgentle 8y ago
A more likely reason is that Google and other internet companies see internet infrastructure as an economic complement: the better and cheaper the internet is, the better and cheaper the total internet + Google services package is. That&#x2
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by sgentle 8y ago
PDF: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/af34/2af4d0e674aef3bced5fd9... Also the Liquid State Machine paper they cited, "Real-Time Computing Without Stable States: A New Framework for Neural Computation Based on Pert
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by sgentle 8y ago
Lightly edited extract from the paper, for anyone curious about the method: BrainNet relies on two well-known technologies: Electroencephalography (EEG) for non-invasively recording brain signals from scalp and transcranial magnetic stimula
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by sgentle 8y ago
Be careful not to confuse solemn and serious. If the Apollo engineers could have fun shooting a tin can at the moon and the Manhattan Project engineers could have fun creating humanity's most terrible weapon, you can have fun making a
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by sgentle 8y ago
You might be interested to read more about this not particularly difficult problem, known in general as "dynamic software updating". You can get a general overview on Wikipedia, but I'd recommend having a browse through the w
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by sgentle 8y ago
> Help! Companies are exploiting my open source software for profit! Uh, you told them they could. > Yeah, but they're doing it without contributing back! They're just taking what I wrote and building it into a proprietary
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by sgentle 8y ago
> I hear “but you fought back wrong” while no one was there to help when I begged for weeks for help fighting back “right”. No one can seem to say in my shoes what would have been “right” is other than lie down and let them do what they
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by sgentle 8y ago
I've got no great love for telemarketing or the advertising industry, but as a point of fact it's not true that if you make something people want they will seek you out to find it. If you make something that people want but do not

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