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by yarou 12y ago
They don't want to do this because the secret to making money in IT is creating a glut in the supply of labor for IT workers. When you add licensing (i.e. requiring a license as a doctor or a lawyer does), this creates a barrier to ent
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by yarou 12y ago
>"In Redmond, like a lot of people talk about code but don't write it, so I think Microsoft can only come back if, you know, they start writing more code." It's like you've never worked at a tech shop with a sale
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by yarou 12y ago
I'm glad you've been able to find a healthy way to solve your anxiety issues. That being said, (and I don't want to start a religion vs. atheism debate here) do you think what you do is on the whole any different than someone
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by yarou 12y ago
TAOCP by Knuth (if you can get past the maths).
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by yarou 13y ago
Don't waste the journey.
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by yarou 13y ago
A similar thing happened to me. Someone was repeatedly trying to access a gmail account of mine, which is strange because that account had not been active for over 5 years. They supplied the correct credentials every time, and the IP origin
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by yarou 13y ago
What happened to "developers, developers, developers, developers"?
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by yarou 13y ago
This may or may not be a bad change to HN, it's too early to tell. Instead of having karma as the sole criterion of whether or not to endorse comments, why not have additional criteria such as age of the account, or number of threads s
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by yarou 13y ago
That's reality, though. The past cannot be changed; the future can be.
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by yarou 13y ago
That seems like a knee-jerk reaction. We don't know what has really happened, and we've only heard one side of the story. It seems like these days people are just looking for something to be upset about.
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by yarou 13y ago
Basically, how any incompetent person behaves in the workplace. People getting shit done don't have time for this nonsense.
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by yarou 13y ago
It may be universal, but as you yourself suggest, it is highly dependent on cultural constraints. To talk of bullying in India without understanding communal tensions is ignorant and takes away from the rest of your valid points.
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by yarou 13y ago
Unvanquished is looking for developers, modelers, and mappers. http://www.unvanquished.net/ https://github.com/Unvanquished/ The game is an FPS/RTS hybrid that uses an enhanced engine based off of
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by yarou 13y ago
How is expecting something to be open source an entitlement? I guess in your world view, it's an entitlement to be free and alive.
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by yarou 13y ago
The only case where a completely random strategy works is if there are black swan events occurring at equally random intervals. I agree on the buy-and-hold index fund advice.
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by yarou 13y ago
Sure you do. All index funds disclose their holdings, and index ETFs show their constituent equities, along with any tracking error from the index being tracked. A long time ago, "proprietary" traders would perform index arbitrage
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by yarou 13y ago
In other words, there's no easy way to get rich. There is always pain involved, and people looking to get rich quick in financial markets are probably better off learning how to play poker.
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by yarou 13y ago
I think the problem is that many people are reactive when it comes to risk. Most people tend to be risk averse, which is counterintuitive to the empirical observation that they don't prepare well for so-called "black swan" ev
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by yarou 13y ago
I highly doubt that this particular bug was due to a shadowy government agency or that type of collusion. It's more likely that someone fucked up, it can happen to anyone. You have to look at it from a game-theoretic perspective. Assum
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by yarou 13y ago
Actually, they wouldn't arbitrarily price their products that way. Companies engage in a little thing called price discrimination. The only difference in a monopoly is that you are the sole price leader. That doesn't mean you can
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by yarou 13y ago
Very cool write-up of non-critical bugs that can be used together to inflict some serious damage. Great work @homakov!
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by yarou 13y ago
Once again, I'm amazed at the level of racist comments on HN. The truly sad thing is, reading this guy's other comments, you get a sense he/she is a truly intelligent person.
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by yarou 13y ago
Short answer: HN is not meant for ceaseless flame wars and drama (though it sometimes occurs). That being said, I can feel the frustration of the original author, having been f*cked over before by a company I was a customer of. Seems like t
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by yarou 13y ago
Not sure how to interpret this. It seems to be a case where a young sexually repressed woman got taken advantage of. That she was taken advantage of is not being disputed, but whether or not she was raped. I find it bizarre that the ADA dis
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by yarou 13y ago
Great idea, I've been thinking about a similar system. Wish you the best of luck Marius, all you'd need now is a human scale robot that can project a composite image of the deceased, and voila! You've become a digital necroma
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by yarou 13y ago
That I spend an unhealthy amount of time on HN. In my defense, my day job is as dead end as it gets.
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by yarou 13y ago
Exactly. You can extend it to pharma drugs as well, which potentially could save millions of lives. I respect rms' work philosophically, and he needs to take a hard line because his detractors are so entrenched in the power structures
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by yarou 13y ago
We don't know what really happened yet. "Hacking" someone's email can mean a lot of things. CFAA should only apply if there was an intrusion of some sort through an attack vector of the system, not if the mailbox owner v
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by yarou 13y ago
This sets a dangerous precedent. Soon there will be laws written that you cannot criticize the policies of the federal government on a website. And so on. I would gladly defend this guy, even if he is a scumbag.
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by yarou 13y ago
Exactly. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_Ass

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