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by youngian 17y ago
The GIMP has a Scheme-based console that would be pretty suited to this sort of thing.
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by youngian 17y ago
Other fun stories of software gone wrong, off the top of my head: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5_Flight_501 http://www.pcw.co.uk/computing/analysis/2073427/emergency-ro...
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by youngian 17y ago
No, haven't you heard? Health insurance in America is the best in the world! Obama only wants to change it because he's a Commie! </sarcasm>
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by youngian 17y ago
I've always felt that RMS is basically an extremist (every movement has them). But I think that's actually a good thing. Yeah, he says some crazy things, but his ideas are always worth listening to. It's for the best that most of us don't t
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A new phishing attack on SiteKey(blog.iangreenleaf.com)
1 points by youngian 17y ago|0 comments
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by youngian 17y ago
Someone really oughta code up a resume in Ruby and submit it. I think they wouldn't have any choice but to hire you.
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by youngian 17y ago
Right on all counts. I wish everyone had these kinds of priorities and that sensible outlook on life. I wouldn't trade my education at a broke-ass, shoddy, prison-like public city school for any private or suburban school with vaulted ceili
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by youngian 17y ago
Yeah, I hate lists like this. Don't just spit some generic marketing blurb at me for each item. Tell me why I would want to use them.
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by youngian 17y ago
Your last sentence is dead-on. Microsoft ascribes to the traditional enterprise-y business model. The products work okay but often need support, and if you pay enough you get great support (and if you don't pay enough you get passable suppo
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by youngian 17y ago
I disagree. Google is just being Google. They've always been a company that does very cool (and non-evil) projects, but doesn't really bend over backwards to listen to customers. I always get the impression that they're too busy working on
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by youngian 17y ago
Yeah, that sounds reasonable. Sure, they may not have had a conference call where AT&T said "Jobs! Kill the Google Voice app!", but it's not like there aren't other ways for the message to get across. Competition with AT&T is the si
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by youngian 17y ago
Also, "according to both Apple’s and AT&T’s responses to the FCC inquiry, AT&T in fact played no role..." So we're just taking their word for it? Did they provide any evidence that this was the case?
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by youngian 17y ago
One of my biggest criteria when I was looking at frameworks was how much each one wanted you to "drink the kool-aid." I'm not saying it's a bad thing to have conventions built into the framework to make developers' lives easier, but some fr
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by youngian 17y ago
This is an incredibly tough question, both because it varies widely from person to person and because it's very hard to quantify in numbers. We are in love with numbers, and we think that we can just count the calories that go into our bodi
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by youngian 17y ago
You got me - I haven't read his books thoroughly either, just a few chapters. I don't have references on hand, but I believe there's a fair amount of accepted research that shows that we eat far more meat (and probably dairy) than is good f
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by youngian 17y ago
I'm happy to settle for Michael Pollan's advice: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Although I admit I don't follow that as closely as a maybe should. Sure, it would be nice to have some better science in this area. But I think eati
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by youngian 17y ago
I think there's something to be said for actually walking the walk, however cushy it might be. And to me, the most interesting part of his setup was the use of technology to balance sources of energy generation and consumption, and report o
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by youngian 17y ago
My college insisted on paying for Outlook Web Access for all student email. It was more than half bad. I still get the shivers just thinking about it.
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Making Chroma-Hash Less Leaky(blog.iangreenleaf.com)
1 points by youngian 17y ago|0 comments
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by youngian 17y ago
I think this is personal preference. One way is not "saner" than the other, it's just a design philosophy that must be consistent within an app. I can't speak to Emacs, but Vim assumes that if you put something on the same line, you want it
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by youngian 17y ago
Again, what he's really suggesting is this: < http://forabeautifulweb.com/blog/about/universal_internet_ex... . He's just chosen to introduce it with a poor first paragraph.
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by youngian 17y ago
I especially like the explanation provided in the comments: "This was done as a passive-aggressive motivation to get someone to create the linux close/min/max/restore buttons, I believe. And the message got through, and the work was done.
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by youngian 17y ago
This is the first meta-discussion that hasn't started off on a sour note for me, because the OP is not just saying "Heyyyyy I hate it when people downvote boo hoo etc." He's offered his thoughts on the causes of downmodding tension and has
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by youngian 17y ago
The fourth headline down, "Windows 7 so great Microsoft is giving it away for free," was the last straw for me. It's a release candidate. There's nothing new about MS giving their early betas and RCs away for free, and in fact it's one of t
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by youngian 17y ago
Bleh. I tend towards viewing MS as truly evil too, but that site is a bad example to offer. I clicked through expecting to find a factual chronicle of corporate foul play, and instead just found a bunch of uninformed opinion-spouting combin
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by youngian 17y ago
Does anyone else find it ironic that an article about Linus saying some level-headed and pragmatic things carefully selects a quote out of context to serve as an inflammatory headline? I know you gotta have a hook, but jeez.
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by youngian 17y ago
This is essentially what Andy Clarke suggested: http://forabeautifulweb.com/blog/about/universal_internet_ex...
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by youngian 17y ago
How depressing. I think we all knew this deep down, but he puts it very eloquently. IE will always be holding the web back, at least for the entire forseeable future . Even as a lifelong cynic, this still bummed me out.
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by youngian 17y ago
It's a pretty slick service - the best part is that it's very user-friendly, which means you get very nice results without reading a bunch of arcane documentation that expects you to understand the math (yes you, Inkscape). Sadly, what star
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by youngian 17y ago
Yes. Anyone care to give a short explanation of what exactly is so promising about Mono that it's worth all the worrying? Whether or not these fears pan out to anything, they're substantial enough that there should be a pretty good motivati

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