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by thedudemabry 6y ago
Spectacle is not the only motive for journalism like this. Speculation about presidential conflicts of interest is valuable and relevant to national discourse because the public's reaction to their existence directly impacts their powe
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by thedudemabry 7y ago
This tool reminds me of the advice once given to NaNoWriMo participants (National Novel-Writing Month, super fun if you've never tried it in November). If you can't think of anything to write, just repeat "Ninja. Ninja. Ninja
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by thedudemabry 7y ago
That's the point of extradition agreements. If we're worried that Brazil's Senate has passed morally incompatible laws and wants to extradite folks from the US, then we won't agree. The State Department is (or tries to b
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by thedudemabry 7y ago
Agreed. As a former MS-focused engineer in a previous life, I was constantly surprised by how many executables just continued to work 20 years after authorship. It's a different set of tradeoffs than other OSs have made, but a really r
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by thedudemabry 8y ago
Lots of great advice in this thread. But as someone with a moderate fear of flying who travels occasionally for work, one analogy has helped me reason through my fear. At speed, an airplane is dealing with air as if it were a boat in water.
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by thedudemabry 8y ago
While I support any effort to improve the situation of anyone being denied communication with their family, lowering the bullshit vendor costs of such a system seems like a cynical approach to what should be a human rights issue. The free m
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by thedudemabry 8y ago
I would second this. Enabling your child's interests takes observation and work. One of the more surprising things I've discovered as a recent parent is how prominent tablets are as a distraction or learning tool. I'm no exce
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by thedudemabry 8y ago
While a valid point, setting up a merchant account also imbues the merchant with some trust properties that are not available with a cryptocurrency wallet. Namely, the ability to procedural and legal recourse if something goes wrong with an
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by thedudemabry 9y ago
While I agree that a problem is exposed by these findings, let's not judge college grads by their ability to judge how well they fit employers' privately-held expectations of an entry-level employee. Companies suck at training, ba
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by thedudemabry 9y ago
Let's not forget the most important thing that I personally resisted for over a decade of my working life before legitimately giving it a try: allow yourself the opportunity to get 8 hours of sleep per night. You won't always get
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by thedudemabry 9y ago
Thanks for the explanation. As someone who in a past life developed Java systems (post-2006) for a variety of targets, I was never super clear on what Java EE's value proposition was or how it differed from frameworks that didn't
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by thedudemabry 9y ago
Initially, I didn't care for the few books of hers that we received as baby shower gifts. But after multiple readings, I've started to see them as not trying for Seuss-like verbal gymnastics, but instead acting as creative prompts
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by thedudemabry 9y ago
Oooooh, snuggle puppy of mine! I literally just read this book twenty minutes ago before sending my kiddo off to school. They are pretty great, if a bit different than the rhyming books I remember from my childhood.
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by thedudemabry 9y ago
One of my favorite electrical engineering professors gave incredibly well-planned lectures via overhead transparencies. He was quick to adjust the pace of an individual lecture to the audience, but also provided his presentations as PDF dow
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by thedudemabry 9y ago
Similarly concerning about cries of "witch hunts" in the media is that the term originated when a powerful group assaulted individuals with little power to distract from their own shortcomings, injuring or killing them in the proc
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by thedudemabry 9y ago
I totally agree. Mr. Fowler's article lays out a good case for ORMs being a good, leaky abstraction with manholes for diving deeper when necessary. That implies that we can't, as application developers, use it as a black box, beca
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by thedudemabry 9y ago
It is relatively common to hear pre-roll advertising, and sometimes hosts do speak too slowly. A very niche solution to the problem is a popular iOS podcast player with a connected web service called Overcast (after downloading the app, you
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by thedudemabry 9y ago
Wow. I remember playing the original almost 20 years ago on a PC that really didn't support it at a terrible framerate. The fact that I can play it now in a browser window on a netbook without it breaking a sweat is astonishing.
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by thedudemabry 9y ago
I agree that it would be neat, but I fear that the reason only big banks and credit card processors have attempted to dabble in this space is because you've just described a bank. Building one of those carries a whole host of regulatio
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by thedudemabry 9y ago
Even a pilot has to operate within the constraints of the law or be sanctioned. They have operational authority to do pretty much anything while a plane is in flight, but that doesn't shield their airline from the legal consequences of
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
I was introduced to this site by a colleague, and it is indeed a good place to see thoughts explored. While I sometimes disagree with the conclusion reached by the author, the tone puts a great deal of emphasis on humility and empathy. It&#
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
My first thought was that this would be an interesting protocol for calling someone. I often receive more annoying robocalls on my personal phone than welcomed calls from unknown numbers. My usual solution is to quickly google the number to
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
This is a fair point. I don't agree with your conclusion, though. I have felt outrage against specific policies in the past. The news media has expressed outrage against specific policies in the past. But political inertia, for better
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
True, and I don't want to jump the overprotective-parent gun here, but what I think is worth keeping an eye on with these videos is how they are not an underrepresented group expressing their creativity, but rather a very well represen
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
I love your description of the game, and felt the same way. But what interests me more, as an occasional Nintendo system-owner, is that this game provides a nostalgic, but limited on-ramp to full-fledged console or mobile games. If this gam
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
I downloaded the demo today (have yet to buy the full game, but will likely give it a shot) and was very impressed. I didn't realize the internet connectivity was a requirement, which is a minor bummer, but I was gratified to find a sm
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
I had thought this was the case as well, but just tried signing up for a throwaway google account from the US browser homepage and it seemed to go through without a phone number or alternative email.
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
Neat article! Coming from a Haskell background in my first post-college job, I also modeled several problems using Haskell types and later translated them into C++. It felt a little silly at first, but really did help clarify my understandi
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
Also possible in implementing such a system are a variety of accidents or abuses that may unfairly benefit or harm different groups. "Seeding" the central database from the existing patchwork of forms, licenses, decisions, databas
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by thedudemabry 10y ago
To be fair, those have been very effective in keeping my non-techie family members from accidentally installing malware because they'll at least check with me when presented with a scary system dialog. And it hasn't impacted my ow

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