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by trothoun 13y ago
Hmm... I'm not convinced. I think you want john carmack as an engineer with a lot of freedom and resource and a limited amount of management responsibilities. He seems far better suited to being first among equals (first among equal e
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by trothoun 13y ago
Google's stated goal is to organize the world's information. That (presumably) includes linking and making easily searchable all those pseudonyms at those diverse forums you use. Trusting that those bits of interaction will stay
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by trothoun 13y ago
This does make me wonder if the shape of the Tesla's underbody (very flat [1]) is such that debris is more likely to make a direct rather than glancing impact. Perhaps Tesla should take a leaf out medieval armor design and add more co
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by trothoun 13y ago
I agree. Google doesn't seem to understand that the way in which a thing is expressed is important. It's like they don't understand the difference between something announced at a press conference, and something mentioned in
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by trothoun 13y ago
Everyone knows that scheduled downtime doesn't count as downtime.
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by trothoun 13y ago
That puts a whole new light on the line, "the world's most human wasn't human at all." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7y2xPucnAo#t=125
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by trothoun 13y ago
Is anyone maintaining a reasonably exhaustive, searchable index of these resources? If you have a particular subject you want to learn about it can be difficult to get a good picture of what resources are available. edit: just saw bruceb&#x
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by trothoun 13y ago
Now, if only they could maintain long term support for their own services, everything would be great.
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by trothoun 13y ago
This is a set of magnets that counts down from 14 days.
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by trothoun 13y ago
If you s/anti-government/anti-government surveillance/ then I think the article would be considerably improved. Was Lavabit explicitly anti-government?
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by trothoun 13y ago
I'll be sure to pass your criticism on to Winston Churchill.
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by trothoun 13y ago
Yep. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other ones.
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by trothoun 13y ago
sometimes you can't even really express what the problem is, until you've taken a stab a solving it. The problem might be something like 'This feature is awkward and doesn't feel quite right.' When I'm doing
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by trothoun 13y ago
It could be anything embarrassing or that would be dangerous/costly to talk about. Government interference is only one possibility. Maybe a competitor paid them to shutdown. (probably not, but it's possible)
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by trothoun 13y ago
Net worth is probably not a great metric. There are a lot of well-paid people in the US who live expensive, flashy lifestyles that cost them just a little more than they earn every year, and consequently have a negative or near zero net-wo
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by trothoun 13y ago
It's a shame that CogniToy's MindRover is not mentioned, it really captured my imagination, and I wish there were more games like it. It does appear to be sadly defunct, however.
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by trothoun 13y ago
hmm.. line feed for open paren, carriage return for close paren, non-breaking space for token seperator?
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by trothoun 13y ago
Doesn't the reliability of bitcoin stem from it being very difficult for any one entity to control over 50% of the computing power in the network? News like this makes it seem like a state sponsored actor could do it without too much t
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by trothoun 13y ago
Hmmm... if your password was password30jf0sd09jga09ja0i9sdfasi09djf0-sdj9faspiodjf and they only used the first 8 characters, you'd think you had a strong password, but would really have a very weak password. Hashing then truncating
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by trothoun 13y ago
At least this petition clearly asks for something within the remit of presidential power, unlike most other ones (including Tesla's).
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by trothoun 13y ago
Even state supreme courts seem to sometimes have trouble determining what "navigable" means. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-218.pdf
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by trothoun 13y ago
The core.match example uses python-style triple quotes. Is that actually possible in clojure? I would be enormously excited if it is.
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by trothoun 13y ago
In this case, he sprayed the crop grown from the seed bought from the grain elevator with roundup. This is how everyone knew that it was in fact roundup ready. It would be interesting to see a case where The seed were used as if they were