warrenm

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The Descent to C(chiark.greenend.org.uk)
4 points by warrenm 3y ago|0 comments
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by warrenm 3y ago
Read the product/language docs from cover to cover - preface to the last appendix Just read it - like it was a novel When you get a "goal", you will at least be nominally-acquainted with the language/product capabilities
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Ask HN: What is this community's thoughtson the Cisco Splunk acquisition?
2 points by warrenm 3y ago|2 comments
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by warrenm 3y ago
Mere number of visits seems like a bad metric - low-use [ages could still be very valuable
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Herophilos(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by warrenm 3y ago|0 comments
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Time for Password Expiration to Die (2019)(sans.org)
2 points by warrenm 3y ago|0 comments
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by warrenm 3y ago
When was it "in favor"? I've never been a big chocolate chip ice cream guy, personally It's ok - but rarely what I want when i want ice cream
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by warrenm 3y ago
This is going to depend on where you are in the world Anyone can take a photo, for example, of my hand - and everyone who does will have a copyrighted photograph that they made ... unless they choose to release it to the public domain (
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by warrenm 3y ago
>No one is writing taxRateDecimalFraction as a var name. Wait til you see Java or Hungarian Notation
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by warrenm 3y ago
how about `taxrate`? Or don't store it as a decimal between 0 and 1 - but as a value between 0 and 100 (with possible decimal points, of course), and just call it `taxpct`?
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The Operational Risks of AI in Large-Scale Biological Attacks(rand.org)
1 points by warrenm 3y ago|0 comments
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by warrenm 3y ago
HP printers are a virus
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by warrenm 3y ago
I thought maybe that's what you meant ... but your post content is still misworded if that's the case :)
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by warrenm 3y ago
If it needs "to be kept under the radar" ... why would anyone discuss it? Would that not, rather by definition, put it "on the radar"?
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by warrenm 3y ago
It's a weak first pass at an elevator pitch for something you do not understand (as the pitcher), and something you do not expect the pitchee to grok, etiher
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by warrenm 3y ago
"To understand recursion, first you must understand recursion" -- my CS professor 20+ years ago (probably borrowed from elsewhere)
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How Railroad Crossings Work [video](youtube.com)
3 points by warrenm 3y ago|0 comments
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by warrenm 3y ago
My feedabck is - it's blank, so the "sideproject" must be the emperor's new clothes
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by warrenm 3y ago
If you pay for iCloud, you can setup custom domains for email: https://www.icloud.com/mail
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by warrenm 3y ago
"Motivation" can be either intrinsic or extrinsic You are asking about extrinsic motivation - ie, how can you "make" them want to do the work Extrinsic motivation only comes in 2 forms - positive (eg a passing grade, p
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by warrenm 3y ago
I ... am similarly curious Closest I could find in a quick search on Electronic Design is The Things Conference ... https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/communications...
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by warrenm 3y ago
>but maybe something would emerge? Some indie games or open source projects live off donations. Kickstarters exist. And of course completely free art exists Sure - "free" (or efectively "free" (to the majority of us
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by warrenm 3y ago
Cue my surprised face in 3...2...1
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by warrenm 3y ago
Copyright laws, in my opinion, should mimic (with mild extension) patent laws Say...double the length of a patent (for institutionally-produced work) or lifetime of the creator(s) (for everything else) If patents last for 15 or 20 years[0],
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by warrenm 3y ago
>Industries might form their own protective alliances, but would this be enough? Sounds something akin to the VOC - private industry enforcing their [perceived, supposed, or actual] rights via force (if they wanted) with practically no o
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by warrenm 3y ago
For digital-only assets ... MAYBE (though, even a decade and a half in, we still do not know who Satoshi Nakamoto is - if even IF "he" is... and that is with one of the better attribution protocols out there) For physical
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by warrenm 3y ago
Apparently you missed my point entirely when using those examples - I could have picked any arbitrary item that was created by someone else and claim ownership/creatorship In the end, it comes down to a "he said, she said" pr
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by warrenm 3y ago
First, copyright is not "ownership of information" Copyright is acknowledgement of creatorship Without copyright, I can claim to be the author of Romeo and Juliet or Harry Potter or The Firm - and you can never prove me
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by warrenm 3y ago
I know HN's policy on submissions is to match the link's headline - so I would have titled it the same here ... it's MSN that had the broken headline :)
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by warrenm 3y ago
Shame headline doesn't match the opening sentence .. "The government failed to properly investigate unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) in the Nineties over fears they were caused by ‘demonic forces’, the UK’s leading expert ha

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