thenerdfiles

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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
Uh. There's the aphoristic style, the "5-paragraph" style, the dialogue, the trialogue, the research paper, etc. A paper should be as simple as necessary, but no simpler. Depending on your topic, you could have 20 paragraphs,
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
This is pretty awesome.
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
James Mickens ?
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
Like I said: 10,000 hours for boys, 8,000 hours for girls. But the environment has been colored, offset by slavery and sexual politics. It is inevitable that agents like 'pg' (Paul Graham) must say and show, despite personal capac
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
I thought I was arguing from environment, and not biology. I thought that was clear when I said "environment plays a significant role here." Does "environment" mean "nature" to you between "nature/nur
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
„Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.“
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
And because 4th gen. programming languages, surely girls, who command on average a wider variety of language concepts due to social capability and variation, will more readily digest the grammars of these languages. Boys are very often emot
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
Don't women pick up concepts faster than men? I mean, it's pretty clear that women excel at language acquisition over men, and these are just computer languages . Let's say, ceteris paribus, 10,000 hours for adolescent boys
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
If ya ain't codin' in Vim, I don't wanna hear it. [Sasscasm.]
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
Scheme and Pharo Smalltalk; Spanish.
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
Hm. I suppose that said it doesn't "go without saying." I'll recant there and say that I think leisure-lunching is, in my view, a kind of "crutch." Nourishment is essential, leisure is not.
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
Use a modern WYSIWYG -- SquareSpace? -- and drop in KISSmetrics and GoSquared. But honestly, a startup is just as much about the team and the development of the iterative product w/r/t the given market. Certain products need to ta
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
Well, I wanted to give a "frank" tit for tat, to anyone who might argue this "crutch" position. I personally enjoy the pain of hunger as I code. That's why. I smirk in that I more fully realize my difference from ot
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
To be clear, I am not being facetious. If you want to throw around cut-throat, myopic terms like "crutch", then let me first note that caffeine is a performance-enhancing nootropic; and I've worked with a developer who never
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
Poor sleep quality affects short-term memory.
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
Ditto on reliance on food.
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
"We started with Linux" (that's a subheading , mind you!) — "That’s crucial for hackers, because although the temptation is to focus on their tools, the job is as much art as science" — "If you can get physica
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
I'm with the other poster who intimates that something extremely egregiously bad just happened out of this. It's just not about the government's structuring anymore. A term in the Fourth Amendment just got emptied of all se
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
OP mentioned Burpsuite. You're just being unnecessarily deflationist and reductionist. You're missing the article for its words (missing the forest for its trees).
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
???[0][1] I really don't mean to be rude, but how are we not on the same page about this? "at least that we know of"? They're not storing [terabytes of metadata]. They're storing [terabytes of content and metadata
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
Yes, but X-ray ? Sure someone might take a second look at an envelope photograph and come to the correct conclusion that something illegal is inside — but it's already been delivered. It's just getting back to this point of &qu
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
The difference here is: "Can the Postal System provision X-ray systems to scan all mail and hold a database of its scans up to 18 months to prevent unlawful activity?"
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
Such institutionalized equivocation can only go on for so long...
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
If someone let's you borrow their desk, you place it in your home. Does that person have the right to enter your home and use that desk whenever that person sees fit? Oh, I forgot that I left my [really important item] in th
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
In legal philosophy there is the notion of "proximate cause" — this needs to be re-purposed for "effects" such that we define the notion of "proximate effects" w/r/t to content producers. If a music a
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
Indeed. If you've solved a generally applicable problem of computer science, you can leverage that. If you've solved a generally applicable problem of computer science within a tech stack that aligns with the [EDIT: company in que
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
Even further: it seems like we have to abandon all proprietary formats. What is a record is not something you technically own. Your idea or concept is codified in the record. What's that saying?: Files are a myth .
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
Even further: We don't possess the copyright to the algoritms of non-plaintext. So effectively we don't own anything we codify in a proprietary format...
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
Well, yeah. But what are we going to do about it since it's clear past due to update such laws. Now we're in the thick of an infrastructure that has just busted any practical sense of minimal right to self-governance.
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by thenerdfiles 13y ago
I still don't get it. There's equivocation with the verb to produce . I'm going to play Socratic Advocate here. When a music producer produces a record of an artist, who owns it? How do we conceptualize this relationship o

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