willurd

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by willurd 14y ago
Added to my list, with attribution. If you're not cool with that I'll remove it. Thanks!
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by willurd 14y ago
Yes, I absolutely agree with this. Too many people rush into life-changing decisions like this. It's also nice to hear another perspective on recruiters. Mine really did lie to my parents, however. We met with my parents, he told them one t
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by willurd 14y ago
I almost joined the navy right out of high school. I went through much of the recruiting process, but ultimately decided against it. For me, that was one of the best decisions of my life. For you, you should consider it, but give a lot of t
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by willurd 14y ago
I don't have a degree and I consider myself pretty successful. I'm no Zuckerberg but I haven't been unemployed since 18 (I'm 26). And, like others who've posted, I have to beat recruiters off with a stick. There is a lot of work out there i
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by willurd 14y ago
You're misrepresenting the slippery slope fallacy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope ). A slippery slope argument states that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significan
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by willurd 14y ago
I think you're on to something here. I'm going to ponder this for a while.
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by willurd 14y ago
I'm right handed and I approve this message.
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by willurd 14y ago
Yea I'm not saying Breitbart was murdered lol. I'm just saying, if we're going to talk about governments murdering inconvenient people, a case could be made for it and we shouldn't put it past our own government to do so. In any case this i
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by willurd 14y ago
I'm the one bringing up Alex Jones, as a way of being derisive about people who equate the US and China on the auspices that "the US has made policy mistakes and China has made policy mistakes so what's the difference?". I'm so
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by willurd 14y ago
Thanks for the info about the AUMF. I'll definitely have to look into that further. Notice that the 2001 AUMF, which was written in a panic, authorizes arbitrary force with no mitigating effort required not only against nations but
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by willurd 14y ago
I have read it, and I submit the relevant text from section 1021 below. Namely, the NDAA affirms the "authority of the Armed Forces of the United States to detain covered persons pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force". A "
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by willurd 14y ago
Please reread the NDAA 2012 (keyword: indefinite detention) and dispense with the ad hominem attacks. If you can't make your point without calling someone a nutjob, maybe you don't have a point to be made...
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by willurd 14y ago
I don't understand the negativity being shown towards TextMate in this thread. This thread is about an extremely popular editor going open source, something people have been asking for for a long time and something we should all be THRILLED
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by willurd 14y ago
I don't have a blog. Thanks for the support though. Anyone and everyone who does have a blog is more than welcome to take my idea and run with it. The post in question ( http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4318034 ) is now licensed with the
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by willurd 14y ago
Maybe not me, but there is strength in numbers. I think the most important thing is making it, at the very least, an uncomfortable situation for Twitter. These 'untouchable' entities need to know they can't continue to get away with stuff w
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by willurd 14y ago
Don't worry everyone, I have just filed a complaint (above). I'm sure Twitter will suspend Spike Lee's account as soon as they receive it. /s In all seriousness, you all might want to fill their inboxes with similar complaints.
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by willurd 14y ago
I've contacted Twitter via their "Suspended account" form: https://support.twitter.com/forms/general?subtopic=suspended Hi Twitter. I agree with you that tweeting another person's private, confidential > information warrants som
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by willurd 14y ago
Very cool! I wrote some quick and dirty code that adds some functionality to the page: http://pastebin.com/FZGwjJvv . It should work if you have a javascript console or greasemonkey or something like that. h - Toggle visibility of the HUD
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by willurd 14y ago
Very interesting, thanks for the feedback/corrections. I find it especially interesting that gender reassignment surgery isn't always considered elective, but having your wisdom teeth removed is. Any links to information on how the decision
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by willurd 14y ago
I guess we know how Mircosoft feel about the 2nd and 5th amendments. I'm glad I haven't used SkyDrive yet, and now I never will. EDIT: That being said: promotes or otherwise facilitates the purchase and sale of ammunition or firearms.
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by willurd 14y ago
"Gender reassignment" is an elective surgery. For a physician who performs such a surgery, how does she choose whether it's a good idea or a bad idea for a certain patient? And keep in mind this particular patient had no negative physical s
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by willurd 14y ago
While I agree in principal that people should have questioned Dani about his/her decision, it is hardly their responsibility to do so in this situation, and least of all the responsibility of the "medical folks" at any stage. The only excep
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by willurd 14y ago
"(Interestingly, the subsequent blog post contains a screenshot of a statement by FunnyJunk that, under FunnyJunk’s own logic, would constitute defamation: "[t]he Oatmeal wants to sue funnyjunk andshut it down!" The Oatmeal never threatened
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by willurd 14y ago
I was giving up before it was cool.
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by willurd 15y ago
No, I mean that he cares about giving his clients a great product. He's not just in it to soak money out of people; he actually cares about the outcome, much like an artist cares about their paintings. And look, I'm not Clark. I don't speak
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by willurd 15y ago
I actually know Clark Valberg, the founder of Epicenter Consulting, and did some work with him a few years back; he's a great guy. You guys can criticize him all you want, but he actually cares. We should direct our efforts towards the bloo
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by willurd 15y ago
Another typo on the homepage ("today" should be "today's"): "Weekend Hacker is an excellent tool for bridging the gap between two of the most useful professions in today economy, developers and designers."
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by willurd 15y ago
You left a type in there! greetABunchOfPeople people people do _ sayHello println
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by willurd 15y ago
js-lisp: https://github.com/willurd/js-lisp unit tests: http://williambowers.net/projects/js-lisp/tests/ and for some face time with the repl: http://williambowers.net/projects/js-lisp/examples/repl/ R.I.P John McCarthy
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by willurd 16y ago
Yea but if you buy it from nostarch.com you get it 1% cheaper and you get an ebook version to boot! Awesome deal.

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