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by yzzxy 11y ago
Well, lots of vitriolic responses here. Let me say that I don't really have a strong opinion on this article here because I don't really wish to delve into the entire bibliography, but: 1. The points I mentioned are at very least
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by yzzxy 11y ago
This isn't ad hominem, it's directly related to the topic at hand (ethics, motivations in journalism). Ad hominem doesn't mean the mistakes of the past can't be mentioned, it means that character flaws can't.
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by yzzxy 11y ago
NOTE: Techraptor is a site set up by Gamergaters to talk about games and tech news without reprecussions from people who find their views exclusive of progressives, minorities, feminists, and LGBTQ folks. They call this "ethical journa
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by yzzxy 11y ago
The major issue is the revenue stream to the creator was removed. Someone (facebook and/or the page) was profiting directly or indirectly from the work, and not the author. That's copyright infringement and theft. The removal of t
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by yzzxy 11y ago
MUDs are significantly different in that you have to read, solve, and think a lot more rather than the "watch six timers tick down and then hit a button" gameplay loop of most modern MMOs. But I would also agree that playing RPG g
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by yzzxy 11y ago
This is a big enough project to justify a bespoke wiki-style system. Perhaps a thesis project for someone, along with tooling to convert existing content from TAOCP. Get some kind of grant to cover employing CS-literate undergrads on a UROP
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by yzzxy 11y ago
There's a lot of law in California related to this specific IP topic, but IANAL so maybe someone with legal experience could chime in.
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by yzzxy 11y ago
It's a social experiment involving technology. Pretty much directly in the crosshairs of a lot of hacker news readers.
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by yzzxy 11y ago
I agree there's disparity in artistic prominence here but I was going for more of a metaphor than a comparison.
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by yzzxy 11y ago
Yeah, just like abuse of photocopiers. They're meant for letter size documents only! http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artmarketwatch/warhol-... Nobody is required to use a given medium in a way that
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by yzzxy 11y ago
Wired Magazine did a stunt where they ran an early ASIC miner as a coffee warming coaster in their office and displayed it on a webcam.
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by yzzxy 11y ago
I think this is roughly how demos (in Quake, et al) are recorded. I think most demos also include the state introduced by RNG if the game involves that. It's interesting to think about that idea with relation to functional programming.
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by yzzxy 11y ago
So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness. We have heard of those princes' heroic campaigns. The first word of the first known English document is "so" in thi
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by yzzxy 11y ago
This doesn't apply very well... HN is heavily archived... this comic is about being rude to people for not knowing about something, not justifying shoving the same cyclical content in people's faces repeatedly.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
We're only 10 minutes in.... Get flagging, people.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
That's one specific (and extremely counter-intuitive and complicated) area where reporters probably have weak domain knowledge. It's somewhat unfair to extend that criticism to every other part of human existence that journalists
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I don't follow Al Jazeera America personally (I think they are mostly focused on TV?) but I know there are a lot of parallels to RT. It's not blind "hate" for Al Jeezera as much as concerns that the parent organization i
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by yzzxy 12y ago
The official cyber force of China is not the biggest suspect in most attacks like this. The loosely controlled civilian hacker force (think privateer pirates) launch most ddos-style attacks on foreign soil.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I can almost guarantee that most of those outlets have more stringent policies regarding fact-checking and quotation than the "average" internet source.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, and many others. I'm sick of this mentality that old-media news is all evil. Fox News and MSNBC are not the industry. Disclaimer: I do not work in journalism.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I think you've hit on something here, whether it was an intentional motive for the video or not. Piracy occupies a weird place in the world of music production - most DJs probably torrented more than a few of their gigantic collections
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Yes. It would be a good way to fix misclicks. However, I would recommend a quick time-delayed lockout similar to that present for comment editing (or is that lockout related to child comments? It's never been clear to me). That would r
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I'm not sure what's notable about this bug - I think most of these sites are run by the same company but that's the only point of interest I can find.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Good luck. That crapware is often there, as I understand it, to offset the cost of an OEM Windows licence. So unless he wants to give it Windows out for free, he'd basically be telling PC manufacturers to delete their profit margin. Wi
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Title should maybe be amended to make it clearer that this is not a Raspberry Pi Foundation product.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
It's the novelty I'm interested in. It will be 99% used as mobile keyboard feeding into vi.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
A vast fraction of DNA is thought to be junk code, actually. Some of it is even believed to be remnants of viruses that inserted themselves into human DNA.
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by yzzxy 12y ago
On a similar note, I've recently become very interested in buying a Lemote laptop. It's exactly the tiny form factor I'm looking, runs an open MIPS chip, and comes preinstalled with some version of Linux, though I'd prob
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by yzzxy 12y ago
Because it's silly to ask web developers to cater to a specific extension used by a marginal minority of people. Much better to use a more general method for when JS is unavailable. And people using noscript or similar tools (like myse
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by yzzxy 12y ago
I like the doorstopper Fire In The Valley a lot and have read it several times. It hits basically every part of SV history, following personal narratives of major players in each time period. This style makes it very interesting to read.

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