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by sillysaurus 13y ago
throwingaway78's account is banned, but they posted an interesting comment. Here it is for non-showdead readers: http://content.screencast.com/users/shawnpresser/folders/Jin... They are apparently a pe
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Are you saying that the audience is too immature to discuss the issue responsibly, or that there can be no reasonable discussion on the topic of child porn? I had no idea it was a $10b industry, and if not for HN discussion then I probably
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Could I see a source on that $10b figure?
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Please don't blindly copy paste from reddit without at least making it applicable to what the parent comment actually said. They didn't say anything about camera makers.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
You know what. I'm outta here for awhile. It's people like you that make me depressed to read HN or try to be involved. The guidelines even say "if you wouldn't say it to their face, then don't say it." Yet yo
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Dude, you're being more than a little bit of a dick. I'm ignorant of government policy and politics in general, and it's only recently that I've begun rectifying that. Yes, it was a simple, straightforward query for inf
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Well, in what way was Apple the government's friend or benefactor?
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Our teachers are our kids' jailers. Spending more for better jailers would probably have a decent impact on the future.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Actually, a test falls along a continuum of importances. Some tests are better than others, not merely useless/useful.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Care to expand?
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
May I ask, how much do you pay each month after taxes and fees? (Assuming you opted for tethering.) Something like $45 + $10 taxes/fees?
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Wow! How much are you paying each month after fees, taxes, etc? I have the same service with AT&T, except I get 700 minutes a month. But I'm paying about $90/mo. Your service includes tethering, right?
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
John Carmack isn't thinking big enough for Elon A few years ago I had the same thought about Carmack. I wondered why he seemingly abandoned his vision for space travel by returning to work in the game industry on Rage. I figured Ca
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
I think blind people / screen readers might have difficulty with this interface, too. It's important to keep accessibility in mind when designing futuristic interfaces.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
The Art of Computer Programming in PDF form can be found on The Pirate Bay, and I encourage anyone who can't afford it (students, programmers between jobs, etc) to download it. But if you feel you learn anything from it, then you mu
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
It made me instantly close the tab.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Actually, the story is that the government knew they googled for pressure cookers and backpacks. That must mean there's a tool that someone can type your name into and get a list of everything you've searched for online.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
This seems like a good opportunity for me to solicit some advice, if I may: My writing is bad. Do you have any recommendations for how I could improve? Better question: Would you mind describing what your own path was like going from &qu
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Even then. In fact, especially then. I wouldn't be able to stomach taking away even one month of someone's life for words that I wrote. I'm writing a book. I plan on putting it on piratebay myself. I'll have an option fo
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Putting him behind bars for downloading bits is ludicrous, and history will look back on us as living in some sort of dark ages. Just had to get that out of my system.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
You may also enjoy http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~smr/papers/rt_model/rt_model.pd... http://gfx.cs.princeton.edu/proj/3dscanning/ Or you might find some things of interest in my artic
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Are mathematicians going to be using TeX in a hundred years? Two hundred? Five hundred? Two thousand? Math is timeless. TeX may be, but it's too soon to say. It's a recent invention. It's only been around for 35 years.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
I disagree. Juniors need the skills of looking things up on Google or they'll never develop them.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
No no, it's a distinction I've wanted to make for a long time. It's a positive thing to encourage discussion of how game development is different from social engineering, and what social engineers can learn from game develop
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
I'm a game developer. I want to make one thing clear: The people who make these sorts of games aren't gamedevs. They are social engineers. It's unfortunate that the distinction hasn't been very clearly defined. It&#x2
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
I don't see the scraper (the BeautifulSoup script) at that repo. Did I miss it or is it not committed?
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
I'll admit that I'm apparently a dumb American, because till now I thought those women were forced to wear those black robes that cover everything but their eyes. They really like it, and they aren't coerced with any kind of
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
Out of curiosity, where would one go to buy Twitter or LinkedIn followers?
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
It's an execlente problem. If you're bringing in enough customers to cause you scaling problems, then that's a good position to be in.
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by sillysaurus 13y ago
How is it updated hourly? Did you write your own crawler to pull the data?

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