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by vietor 16y ago
I would expect that it would do what every other unexplainable but repeated phenomena did in pre-scientific cultures, become part of the mythology. See: Weather. But my only anthropology was a few GE classes in undergrad, so maybe someone w
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by vietor 16y ago
Fortunately, not everybody hates their job. My worry about coding/hacking scenes in books is that authors usually do something dumb. That makes it all the more rewarding when they sidestep it with something amusing, as in the given example.
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by vietor 16y ago
Right, and both of those involve UX tradeoffs. Which was my point and why I gave them both as options in my initial comment. Having read the first half of the article, I was expecting the second half to address the issues which these variou
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by vietor 16y ago
How exactly does he propose to undo the closing of an application, as the application developer? It was his canonical example for the entire first half of the post, and then he jumped to trivially undo-able actions within an application w
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by vietor 16y ago
Nice link, thanks. It should have been obvious that "eye contact" and a pointing finger would be a very common theme.
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by vietor 16y ago
> and a US bias If you'd stuck around you might have noticed that the project is, essentially, European. The main contributers all live there, they receive funding through Eurostars, and I don't remember any of their gatherings/sprints
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by vietor 16y ago
Already there, already doing that. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corundum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_alumina
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by vietor 16y ago
I completely agree that it could be an actual thing. From a hardware and security perspective it is, as you say, all of the shelf hardware and techniques, ARP poisoning vs. MitM DHCP server have tradeoffs which have slipped from memory, but
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by vietor 16y ago
Is there any outside information on this? At first glance it looks like a complete hoax. The supposed story about it is hosted on the homepage of the device in question, and I see no other hits for it on Google. Edit: It looks like ibejoeb
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by vietor 16y ago
A few thigns which immediately jump out: 1) "1934 has long been considered the warmest year of the past century." While true for the USA, it was more than offset by cooler weather elsewhere. [ http://www.ossfoundation.us/projects/environmen
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by vietor 16y ago
Yeah, I'm aware the problem was truncation, it just took me a few tries to figure it out. My making a typo seemed much more probable than something that stupid being true. In practice, what sort of process do you think would cause someone t
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by vietor 16y ago
Is there a common library that's being used which causes this behavior? I've encountered it elsewhere, and it's amazingly annoying. Nothing says fun like having to reset your password 4 times in a row because the website is silently modifyi
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by vietor 16y ago
The target repo itself isn't owned, but your connection is. The point is that you only think that you are talking to the correct repo, when in fact you are cloning whatever git repository the attacker would like you to. It's obviously a f
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by vietor 16y ago
> Any tips? Succeed, then recruit. Without a track record it's going to be hard to convince someone to be your technical co-founder. If you want to pursue your ideas, and lack the skill set to build them yourself, you need a more convin
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by vietor 16y ago
As obnoxious as these type of conversations are, I'd be interested to know what percentage of their 'my Internet is slow' support calls end up being resolved by kicking Little Jimmy BitTorrent offline and trying again. (Or turning off the c
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by vietor 16y ago
Exactly, it's a relatively minor technical issue that could be fixed fairly trivially. Yet rather than doing that it's worked around: "is not new, and had been a reality of the process for more than a decade." From my experience this is a f
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by vietor 16y ago
That is seriously embarrassing, but the attitude of "OMG there is no way to fix it!" makes me appreciate the rates that qualified consultants charge. It is in no way an impossible problem to limit it by physical size if it's being printed i
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by vietor 16y ago
It's important to highlight and actively try to fix this because it's a bootstrapping problem. Tech is male dominated, so it is a less comfortable work environment for many women, so few women go into tech, so tech is male dominated. (There
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by vietor 16y ago
One of the reasons I'm leery of using products made by startups, in addition to the risk of them failing, sometimes when they succeed you lose just as much as if they'd failed. We got burned pretty bad with a product a few years ago when ou
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by vietor 16y ago
By that logic not every successful YC startup was accepted by YC, given the existence of teams that changed their product during their time at YC. Changing direction and refining the idea are a core part of doing a startup.
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by vietor 16y ago
Interesting, thank you. It got me thinking about and paying attention to how I read things, and that I will read them very differently depending on the source. Articles linked from HN fall into the 'fast but linear' category. Maybe if I'd r
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by vietor 16y ago
Could you clarify what you mean by "fast reading"? I read very quickly and it was like speedbumps for my eyes. If the article hadn't been short enough to fit on one screen I think I would have been annoyed enough to not finish it.
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by vietor 16y ago
Obligatory snopes link: http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/fedex.asp Summary: The rough idea of using centralized switching for parcel routing was in a paper for a class, but not much else. Key quote: "in a 2002 interview Smith acknow
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by vietor 16y ago
They did advocate piracy ... http://www.avast.com/lp-talk-like-a-pirate More seriously, I wonder what the numbers are for the second most popular pirated key? And more generally, what is the frequency distribution of users per key like?
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by vietor 16y ago
I asked because it wasn't clear form the website. The tagline says file sync, what details there were said distributed filesystem. So, for example, the total data stored and accessible in the system can exceed the local storage size of any
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by vietor 16y ago
Is this simple file sync service or a full distributed filesystem implementation? EDIT: To be clear, I didn't mean 'simple' as in easy to implement or trivial or any other negative sense. But more in a functional goal sense, like 'uncomplic
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by vietor 16y ago
The Snopes page gives no evidence that it's fake because the snopes never makes the claim that it's fake. Read the actual 'claim' statment. The claim is that the exam demonstrates a decline in education, not that the exam is real .
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by vietor 16y ago
So this is actually pretty funny. In my local version of firefox, the entire icon vanishes for about 5 seconds, every 5 seconds. Causing a notable visual disturbance. In Chrome on another system the eyes blink every 5 seconds or so. So ye
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by vietor 16y ago
[EDIT: Can't edit the top message anymore, but the problem was broken browser and amusing 'blink' vs ' blink' confusion as detailed deeper in the thread. Also in chrome it doesn't appear to animate, removing the annoyance entirely.] Interes
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by vietor 16y ago
A blinking favicon? Seriously? I couldn't finish the article because my eyes jumped to the tab bar every 5 seconds. Has anyone else seen this elsewhere? It's new to me and I was surprised by how obnoxious it was given that the web isn't exa

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