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by watt 16y ago
Please do not propose technological solutions to political problem, one that needs political solution. Meaning, centralized DNS system will work just fine, we only need a law prohibiting government blocking or removing domain entries. That
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by watt 16y ago
Do you remember Internet Explorer with VBScript?
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by watt 16y ago
By that logic, I can quote you thousands of people who die or "blow their kidneys" thinking they are drinking ethanol (vodka), but instead get methanol, ethylene glycol, or similar poisonous additives in their conterfeit alcohol. (That's ex
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by watt 16y ago
I would suggest bit.ly people to register, say, bit.lt as back-up plan (Lithuania), then if .ly shuts them down, to fix links people would need to change only one letter. (Which happens to be next to "y" actually).
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by watt 16y ago
There already are tools that can colour the text of article showing how old or new (or change-resistant, or controversial, or important - if proper metrics are discovered) the section or sentence is... Basically all kinds of interesting met
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by watt 16y ago
The analogy with peak oil is somewhat incorrect, because new people are being born (and enter dating scene subsequently) all the time. Dating sites will not run out of people. (As contrast, new oil is not being "made". Once it's all pumped
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by watt 16y ago
The Lady Gaga article was too deleted one time (maybe more) in the beginning (in year 2008). If that's saying something. ( http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Lady_gaga... )
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by watt 17y ago
Add the feature that it automatically downloads the compliant flicks and pics, and you might have something there.
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by watt 17y ago
Oh boy, an ancient article about programming on an ancient version of Rails.
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by watt 17y ago
... of all Time! Of All Time!
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by watt 17y ago
Cure seems to be worse than the disease.
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by watt 17y ago
That article is about 5 years old. Anyway, modern web applications(python/ruby + javascript) are very different and very similar: to debug them, you run, edit and re-run one "page" at a time, just by reloading the page you are working on in
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by watt 17y ago
isn't this almost 10 years old?
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by watt 17y ago
his point, for the second issue, is that the option should be on by default. and that makes sense. however, the sad thing about article is that it shows Seth does not understand software development. There is no people who make "desktop" vs
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by watt 17y ago
privacy must be respected, and actually should be enforced by everybody, including you. meaning: even if you know him, you should pretend that he is anonymous person, disconnecting the _why persona from the real-life person. for example, if
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by watt 17y ago
"In fact [...], I quickly close the tab and forget the contents of the article or why I thought it was insightful in the first place" Do you think the problem is "follow me" or "on twitter"? If the second, in my opinion you have a deeper pr
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by watt 18y ago
seconded. what is written in contract, only matters when there is dispute - when you decide to fight in court. and then you don't want to be disputing what was the "spirit" of thing.
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by watt 18y ago
Yeah yeah, well Joel is not fan of those "Chief Software Architects" at Microsoft either. If you listen to the #44 stackoverflow podcast, he really disses those "architect" types. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/03/podcast-44/