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by wtbob 10y ago
I think it directly addressed the point re. empathy in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13905286 , and was no more or less off-topic than that comment.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Hollywood can't get anything right: real police don't act like movie police; real soldiers don't act like movie soldiers; real programmers don't act like movie programmers; real lovers don't act like movie lovers;
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by wtbob 10y ago
> BUT, you guys have really got to stop this godawful stupid "point of a gun" rhetoric you're all cribbing directly from Atlas Shrugged. I've never read Atlas Shrugged. We pay our taxes because if we don't, arme
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by wtbob 10y ago
> "People in the cities" (who tend to be strongly left-leaning) literally want to give money to the less well-off people in rural areas to help support them. It's more accurate to say that they want to give other people&#
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by wtbob 10y ago
I wasn't thinking of countries like Bangladesh — I was thinking of countries like France or Germany!
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by wtbob 10y ago
What worries me about this is the detailed nature of this account. Surely every one of us has had quite a few painful years: imagine if it had all been recorded in dry, bureaucratic detail. I'm reminded of the story about æroplanes an
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by wtbob 10y ago
Well, with fibre every light bulb, ever thermostat, every smoke detector in your home could be sending all the details of your personal life to the Cloud! think of the possibilities: unaccountable corporations could analyse and parse your d
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by wtbob 10y ago
Over a decade ago, a thief broke into my car and stole some items. The feeling of violation still burns within me now. It's terrible to think that someone was in my car, my space, and took my things, and used them for some unsa
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by wtbob 10y ago
> indexes are LEB128s It's just a personal nit and beside the point of the (rather short) article, but I've long felt it sad that the more correct 'indices' is so rare and the correct-but-inelegant 'indexes'
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Why call it reverse culture shock? It's simply a realization that the United States not the best country in every regard. That's completely not it at all. Culture shock is what happens when one visits another country and rea
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by wtbob 10y ago
> One of the hardest things for me to adapt to is how "liberal" America has become. It's not an objectively bad thing One wonders, if the rest of the world is more cautious about this sort of thing, if maybe it's Amer
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Good urban schools exist, but there aren't enough of them It's not just that — due to desegregation (itself a good thing!) one can't ensure that one's kids will go to either a good school or one nearby. Parents want
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by wtbob 10y ago
Are there ads on the web? I've not noticed … uBlock Origin is a wonderful thing!
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by wtbob 10y ago
Why use electron? emacs is already available. And it includes a pretty great news reader, mail reader, git interface, source-control interface, a thousand other nifty things — oh, yeah, and a text editor too.
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by wtbob 10y ago
I think that you're misreading that: it states that: a different minimum wage (but still a minimum wage) applies to workers earning tips; and the standard minimum wage still applies if their wages & tips are insufficient to equal t
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by wtbob 10y ago
If someone wants a good development platform and is leaving the Mac, why not switch to Linux rather than Windows? Windows is IMHO not pleasant to use: the ads, the UI, the lack of speed. Linux is ad-free, pleasant & beautiful (with St
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by wtbob 10y ago
And here's the only copy I could find (sadly in French units): https://www.rulingia.com/~jashank/misc/usenet-cookbook/Cookb...
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by wtbob 10y ago
Does the amount of tilapia consumed these days mean that this is basically free (modulo transportation & sterilisation costs, of course)? That'd be pretty cool. It'd be a real shame if it's effective, without negative s
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by wtbob 10y ago
The site doesn't resolve for me.
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The USENET Cookbook: an experiment in electronic publishing [pdf](hpl.hp.com)
3 points by wtbob 10y ago|1 comments
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by wtbob 10y ago
One of my backlog-projects is an implementation of Common Lisp in Go, which can be easily used to provide an embedded scripting language for Go programs (and, eventually, an excuse to write 'Go' code which is actually Lisp). It&#
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by wtbob 10y ago
> "Over the past 10 years Apple has produced 10,975 patents with a team of 5,232 inventors, and Google has produced 12,386 with a team of 8,888," writes Wes Bernegger, data explorer at Periscopic. Those numbers are, frankly, pr
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by wtbob 10y ago
What makes you think people who buy AirPods would keep headphones after the warranty period? One doesn't want to be seen in last year's headphones^WAirPods, after all! I suppose it's kinda genius of Apple, turning a simple
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by wtbob 10y ago
Primarily because it means that ZFS will never be an integral part of the GPLv2-licensed Linux kernel.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I'm at pretty much a loss as to why anyone who doesn't specifically need something that btrfs and btrfs ALONE provides (writable snapshots from the top of my head although I'm not sure how that's different from a zf
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Of all the criticisms of UNIX, the singular one that strikes me as valid is the way that it accepts unquestioningly insane characters in pathnames. In fairness, though, allowing non-ASCII characters is what enabled the (mostly seamless
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by wtbob 10y ago
Of note for folks who don't know it, Common Lisp treats pathnames as structured objects. It's pretty nice, although it'd have been even nicer had they more-fully-specified them with respect to e.g. POSIX filename conventions
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by wtbob 10y ago
Only because it's impossible to trust the CDC to be professional in this regard.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Could even title this, 'why UX matters' to catch the general case.
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Malware sends stolen data to drone via blinking LED(wired.com)
1 points by wtbob 10y ago|0 comments

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