Read her post. She does not think that Groklaw communications are of interest because of national security.
It is that she feels the NSA's grubby fingerprints over everything she reads and writes, and she can't stand the privacy violation. She likens it to when she was robbed and the thief pawed through her clothes.
My own company announced that they would give each employee $1,500 to kit out their work area however they like. Extra monitor, some nice plants, miniature trebuchet, whatever.
I kind of hate this recent assumption that all open-source programmers with work on github must be programming geniuses.
That's the thing about metrics. "If you cannot measure it, it means it doesn't exist." Consequently, the only things that exist are the ones that you can measure.
They can measure your contributions to GitHub. They can't measure your contributions at your job.
It sucks, but any improvement is welcome. After all, according to another maxim, "the perfect is the enemy of the good."
Selling hardware at a loss is always a loosing proposition
I dunno, the market might be tightening up. Personally, I'm riveted by the turns that the economy has been taking. Granted, we were all screwed by the banks, but the recovery has been nuts. Everyone's been really driven, and I think we're really threading the needle, here.
In fact, I'm going to go mix up a screwdriver and drill down into some quarterly statements.
For the record, there never has and never will be races that exist as "genetically distinct units". Humans have always been too mobile, even in prehistoric times
Hell, we banged Neanderthals back in the day. People aren't picky about who they shack up with.
This is a problem with English. What is a good word for a collection of processes and interrelationships that exist but were not designed by people? But not as an independent noun, like "system," but as an properties of a system?
It also has the distinction of being invisible - out doesn't even feed back.
It wasn't always invisible. As far as I know, the Macintosh brought the clipboard concept to the masses, and it came with the "Clipboard" desk accessory where you could see whatever the clipboard currently had in it.
In fact, I've just discovered that that feature is still in place. The OS X Finder has a "Show Clipboard" command in the Edit menu.
Don't talk to me about JSON. JSON does not specify a date/time format at all.
That means the date will be transmitted in some half-assed quote-unquote "format" imagineered by the whimpering skunk fetuses that oh-so-poorly serve as the brains of the inbred sasquatches that are writing the server side.
You'd be amazed at how many programmers don't understand the concept of time zones.
The Polarans solved FTL travel ages ago, and now use it to troll other civilisations by placing their star along some life-bearing planet's axis of rotation, waiting for people to develop advanced astronomy, then randomly feinting at them to mess with the scientists' heads.
Applying Occam's Razor to the question, you are almost certainly correct.
Seriously, I rode a bike for years, and had a few encounters with cars (and their inattentive drivers) that could have ended fatally if I didn't have quick reflexes.
Did you miss the part where you're supposed to do something to raise your heartbeat? A near-fatal accident will do the trick.
More seriously, though, reflexes and attention to surroundings are like anything else. If you don't use them, you lose them. If you want to keep those skills, you want to ride in (or at least near) traffic.
I presented an analogical story about why simpler thinking could be better for survival because it allowed faster reaction times.... Like everything, intelligence can have diminishing returns depending on the level and the context -- although it might also have threshold where exceeding some level may change the nature of the survival game entirely too.
You would be interested in a fiction book called Blindsight, by Peter Watts. Check it out!
In general, if you give a homeless guy $10, he'll spend it immediately. If you give a homeless guy $100, he'll call his friends and spend it immediately.
There's good reason for both these behaviors.
For the first, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. You've heard of that experiment with kids and delayed gratification? The ones who don't force themselves to wait for the extra cookie are the ones who got burned in the past. They, and the homeless, know the score. When you can't count on promised payment, you stop taking chances like that.
For the second, of course he's going to spend the money with his friends. His friends were there for him; they helped him in the past. He's got to repay that generosity, otherwise he won't have friends next time trouble comes.
Lisp and Dylan use something called conditions. The signal() function (equiv. to throw) calls condition handlers; the stack is not unwound. You get a perfectly understandable stack trace that looks like normal function calls.
Even better, the code can retry operations, since the stack is not unwound so the context is preserved.
The listener doesn't really need to look the speaker in the face from the listener's perspective. The listener knows he's listening. This is something the listener has to do for the benefit of the speaker.
The speaker doesn't have the inner perspective of the listener. He doesn't know if the listener is paying attention. The speaker needs the listener to respond or at least make eye contact so he'll know if he needs to repeat something or continue speaking at all.
If you, as a listener, care about what the speaker is saying, then you ought to be giving him that feedback. If you don't care, then acting uninterested is the accurate way to go, but don't be surprised if it pisses someone off.
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Read her post. She does not think that Groklaw communications are of interest because of national security.
It is that she feels the NSA's grubby fingerprints over everything she reads and writes, and she can't stand the privacy violation. She likens it to when she was robbed and the thief pawed through her clothes.
My own company announced that they would give each employee $1,500 to kit out their work area however they like. Extra monitor, some nice plants, miniature trebuchet, whatever.
That is what I call appreciation.
Jailbreak, inject a new encryption key?
If I remember correctly, the fundamental encryption key is burned into ROM. Can't inject a new one.
That's the thing about metrics. "If you cannot measure it, it means it doesn't exist." Consequently, the only things that exist are the ones that you can measure.
They can measure your contributions to GitHub. They can't measure your contributions at your job.
It sucks, but any improvement is welcome. After all, according to another maxim, "the perfect is the enemy of the good."
Selling hardware at a loss is always a loosing proposition
I dunno, the market might be tightening up. Personally, I'm riveted by the turns that the economy has been taking. Granted, we were all screwed by the banks, but the recovery has been nuts. Everyone's been really driven, and I think we're really threading the needle, here.
In fact, I'm going to go mix up a screwdriver and drill down into some quarterly statements.
Maybe, but you'd think you'd notice a dude in a gorilla suit wandering in amongst a bunch of basketball players, and yetâ¦
For the record, there never has and never will be races that exist as "genetically distinct units". Humans have always been too mobile, even in prehistoric times
Hell, we banged Neanderthals back in the day. People aren't picky about who they shack up with.
This is a problem with English. What is a good word for a collection of processes and interrelationships that exist but were not designed by people? But not as an independent noun, like "system," but as an properties of a system?
"Not like a gymnast, limber and spry, but rather a broken man. Shattered beyond discernible anatomy."
http://sodiumeyes.com/2008/08/08/the-language-of-words/
It also has the distinction of being invisible - out doesn't even feed back.
It wasn't always invisible. As far as I know, the Macintosh brought the clipboard concept to the masses, and it came with the "Clipboard" desk accessory where you could see whatever the clipboard currently had in it.
In fact, I've just discovered that that feature is still in place. The OS X Finder has a "Show Clipboard" command in the Edit menu.
Yeah. It's like...talking about the miles per gallon of an electric car.
The problem is not that an unsafe program might not be updated in the next 25 years.
The problem is that an unsafe program might have to look into the future.
Don't talk to me about JSON. JSON does not specify a date/time format at all.
That means the date will be transmitted in some half-assed quote-unquote "format" imagineered by the whimpering skunk fetuses that oh-so-poorly serve as the brains of the inbred sasquatches that are writing the server side.
You'd be amazed at how many programmers don't understand the concept of time zones.
(Invective courtesy of Sodium Eyes.)
The Polarans solved FTL travel ages ago, and now use it to troll other civilisations by placing their star along some life-bearing planet's axis of rotation, waiting for people to develop advanced astronomy, then randomly feinting at them to mess with the scientists' heads.
Applying Occam's Razor to the question, you are almost certainly correct.
Seriously, I rode a bike for years, and had a few encounters with cars (and their inattentive drivers) that could have ended fatally if I didn't have quick reflexes.
Did you miss the part where you're supposed to do something to raise your heartbeat? A near-fatal accident will do the trick.
More seriously, though, reflexes and attention to surroundings are like anything else. If you don't use them, you lose them. If you want to keep those skills, you want to ride in (or at least near) traffic.
I presented an analogical story about why simpler thinking could be better for survival because it allowed faster reaction times. ... Like everything, intelligence can have diminishing returns depending on the level and the context -- although it might also have threshold where exceeding some level may change the nature of the survival game entirely too.
You would be interested in a fiction book called Blindsight, by Peter Watts. Check it out!
http://what-if.xkcd.com/26/
One dinosaur-killer every few days.
In Canada, shouldn't they be measuring snow in meters?
In general, if you give a homeless guy $10, he'll spend it immediately. If you give a homeless guy $100, he'll call his friends and spend it immediately.
There's good reason for both these behaviors.
For the first, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. You've heard of that experiment with kids and delayed gratification? The ones who don't force themselves to wait for the extra cookie are the ones who got burned in the past. They, and the homeless, know the score. When you can't count on promised payment, you stop taking chances like that.
For the second, of course he's going to spend the money with his friends. His friends were there for him; they helped him in the past. He's got to repay that generosity, otherwise he won't have friends next time trouble comes.
Dresden Codak has great art. But...Ashley Cope somehow manages two or three pages a week of this, this, and this.
That's respectable.
Lisp and Dylan use something called conditions. The signal() function (equiv. to throw) calls condition handlers; the stack is not unwound. You get a perfectly understandable stack trace that looks like normal function calls.
Even better, the code can retry operations, since the stack is not unwound so the context is preserved.
Here is a brief overview: http://opendylan.org/documentation/intro-dylan/conditions.html
The man's got a 5-digit user ID. You hooligans better sit up straight and pay attention.
So, maybe a dollar?
The listener doesn't really need to look the speaker in the face from the listener's perspective. The listener knows he's listening. This is something the listener has to do for the benefit of the speaker.
The speaker doesn't have the inner perspective of the listener. He doesn't know if the listener is paying attention. The speaker needs the listener to respond or at least make eye contact so he'll know if he needs to repeat something or continue speaking at all.
If you, as a listener, care about what the speaker is saying, then you ought to be giving him that feedback. If you don't care, then acting uninterested is the accurate way to go, but don't be surprised if it pisses someone off.
Do you really want the gubmint to know enough about your personal finances, assets, and living situation to calculate the exact withholding?