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by thespin 14y ago
That's what I was thinking of when I mentioned security. Maybe it's irrelevant to this story, but I thought it was interesting when I read it.
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by thespin 14y ago
Wasn't there also a book called "Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley?
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by thespin 14y ago
It sounds like Milner has a conscience. But the conduct of his managers when faced with the issue is troubling. OK, so if wardriving (sniffing wireless networks other than your own) is legally in the clear, then should everyone start collec
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by thespin 14y ago
I thought FireWire was being phased out. (Doubtfully due to security considerations. If I recall, Intel has something faster that uses a USB port.) I have some older hardware, which was state of the art when I bought it, that uses FW. Is
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by thespin 14y ago
I'll bet some developers are literally "embarrassed" to write and share "simple" code. Maybe "trivial" is good. If you can "write something in a weekend", it's easy to maintain. If you lose the code, you can rewrite it. And maybe it will
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by thespin 14y ago
The hero is the negative coder. McIllroy said something to that effect. The hero is the simplifier.
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by thespin 14y ago
By this measure, there are a lot of developers who are not good. So what are they? Great? Seriously, how do we describe developers who have a visceral perversion toward complexity? There are a lot of developers who love complexity.
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by thespin 14y ago
That story about the MFN clause (if there is even a clause) is amusing. The academic publishing industry seems a bit like the film and recording industries. They do not want to face the fact that distribution and production are becoming le
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by thespin 14y ago
Are you focussing on the post in question, and what it says, or are you just focussing on the notion of a spam filter and silly comments? No one is arguing against spam filters. FB sends a lot of email that serves no purpose other than to
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by thespin 14y ago
This is a very good summary. Spamming is very central to FB. Lots of unsolicited email, by default. Noteworthy is the early battle with Google over who gets access to your email contacts/address book. Second is the female audience. Witho
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by thespin 14y ago
The MySpace interface was an abomination. The fact that users would tolerate it says something about the standard one has to meet to hold an audience. It's not very high. FB has a clean interface, generally, but it's what's going on "behi
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by thespin 14y ago
So FB tries to filter out ASCII art. It sounds to me like FB is trying to win over advertisers who really are not interested in the web, except to the extent they can profit from it. And they may learn FB has led them to believe there is m