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by slowpoke 15y ago
I disagree. Most of them are extremely intuitive. Heck, I've once found out about new bangs I didn't know by typing in the name/abbreviation of the site as a bang on a whim, and it worked! Also, if you think the bangs are unintuitive, what'
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Poe's law. It's not really obvious that this is sarcasm, especially because "nothing to hide" is such a ridiculous and beat-down rhetoric.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
If find it downright disgusting that you imply caring for privacy is in any way related to pursuing criminal activity. I seriously hope you aren't attempting the "if you have nothing to hide" rhetoric. That fallacy has been dismantled into
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by slowpoke 15y ago
While the results could sometimes be more relevant, being a "hipster" is by far not the reason many people use DDG. I originally switched because I cared for my privacy, but I stayed for the awesome features, like the bangs and often insane
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>It's a few hundred pixel banner that's trying to convince you to buy something. Yes, and that's undesirable to a lot of people. It's distracting and, depending on the intrusiveness of the ad(s), annoying to outright rude. It's gotten
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Thus my acknowledgement of the bad analogy. The point I was trying to make is that even if you know in advance that something undesirable will happen, that's still not a justification for said undesirable thing.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I've said this before here on HN, but you won't fix a system that's a gigantic clusterfuck of bureaucracy by introducing more bureaucracy. There's but one way to "fix" patents, and that's to get rid of them and never try again. We've seen
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Just because that's the way it is, doesn't mean it's the way it should be. If you know you will be ambushed and robbed on your way through the forest, would you also say "well, that cannot be helped, people know that when they enter the for
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>I always found it absurd that some languages force you to write "Math.cos(...)". I disagree. Namespaces are a good thing. The "Foo dot bar" syntax is just commonly associated with class member access. I think it's a lot better to hav
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Since he's specifically saying that he does scientific computing, PyPy is not a good suggestion. Pretty much all of the codebases of the stack for scientific computing can not be used in PyPy, and this will most likely not change in the f
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Isn't that why the tests exists - so that we aren't? False. Tests don't serve education, they hinder it. That's my entire point.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>My point is that it doesn't matter if standardized testing has "meaning" or not, people still want it. They will continue to want it. People want to compare student and school and district performance, and standardized testing is how
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>People want a way to evaluate student performance in a way that works across many schools, districts, and states. Except what they are evaluating holds no meaning. Standardized tests are nonsense. Tests in general are. What you're me
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by slowpoke 15y ago
No, I don't. He's using different tools for different jobs, which is the way it should be. Not an integrated mess of a thousand and one things that should be stand-alone programs with intercommunication ability. Those who don't understand U
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>the huge new profits they are seeing after stoping this international pirating operation. I seriously hope that was sarcasm.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Linus didn't and doesn't need money to change the world. He already did, and continues to do so.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I don't know who thought of the whole EST, UST and other nonsense, anyways. Why not just use GMT? At least you can easily convert that. I prefer using UTC, myself. I think it's the way of the future. Timezones have long since been obsolete
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by slowpoke 15y ago
There's also the PaySafeCard ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paysafecard ), which I wish would have a lot more adoption than it currently has, especially outside the EU. You can buy them at gas stations or supermarkets, pay completely in cas
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Linux Is Not UniX. Different distros have different amount of compliance with traditional UNIX. Ubuntu is one of those which has ventured the farthest away from it.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>What that sentence actually means is that the usability sucks and that if you spend enough time reading man pages you might actually get the software to do what you wanted it to do. Yes. You have to - gasp - actually understand what
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>the goal [of copyright] is to protect creativity Except that's not true. It never was, ever since its inception in the 16th century. Copyright has always been about protecting publishers and middlemen (or in other words, a busine
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Given that Git is not so great on the usability front But git is great on the usability front - if you have understood to responsibly wield its great power. I'm certainly not an expert git user (I would describe myself as intermedi
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You're essentially saying the same as "if you don't want your habits to be tracked and analyzed, get rid of your habits". I'm not planning to get rid of my DNA (why would I?) - I'm just not handing it over to just anyone, least of all a bus
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Except those laws won't do anything to prevent abuse. It's the same as with tracking data, really: the only way to prevent abuse is if there is no data to be abused in the first place. You're severely deluded if you think laws will prevent
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Something related happened a few months ago. A heap of old papers which have long since entered the public domain, but where locked behind paywalls, were leaked. There's a statement accompanying the torrent[1], speaking up against the outra
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Any language that isn't a fairly close C descendant. Haskell, Lisp, Python, Perl are languages I've done some work in with minimal OOness. At least in Python - which is the only one of those four I can speak for - all you are doing i
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I think there's a very important line to be drawn between "require everyone to know (the basics of) $tool" and "mandate that everyone use $tool". I think the former can be reasonable, if it's done both ways, ie everyone is required to be
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Don't hate the player, hate the game. In case you missed it, it's the players who make the game and keep it running - a self-sustaining spiral of endless bullshit.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
At least in my opinion, the ultimate goal of Free Software is to kill copyright. In a perfect world, everything would be public domain and at the utmost, we'd have a right to attribution (ie, you may demand to be named as the creator of som
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by slowpoke 15y ago
The winning team is the one that pays the government, not the other way round.

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