pimentel
Joined 15 years ago
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Comment · 9 years ago
Heh, this takes me back, due to the "Slayers" anime series. Although it looks a bit like a juvenile history (fantasy, magic, demons), the background story takes a lot from Ars Goetia, like the demons' seals and whatnot. A huge wikipedia rabbit hole :)
Comment · 10 years ago
The alternative would be a government committee deciding on what should or shouldn't be printed/displayed on the internet, I suppose.
Comment · 10 years ago
If it was an iPhone 6, the FBI could just use the dead finger to unlock the phone, no?
Comment · 11 years ago
It "falls" but with good publicity because of the team. After that it's just a matter of hiring new developers and profit on the SW team's work.
Comment · 11 years ago
Exactly. The best place to hide from the US is staying in a country who won't quickly deliver you to the US with just a fingersnap, like a good dog. Like any EU country would. Even if that means a not so free country.
Comment · 11 years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
By that criterion, we shouldn't talk about a murder in our neighborhood, about our children failing at maths, about unemployment... War is worse than all these.
Also, it's not news when every headline every day is "more 150 people dead in war". You think people would keep watching the news, let alone caring about some war far, far away?
Comment · 12 years ago
I just saw Memento last night (for the first time), so reading the article felt like an incredible coincidence.
Comment · 12 years ago
All the stories I know and heard of stroke victims in their 30's or 40's make me think and ask: is there really a way to prevent or predict a stroke?
Would the "controversial routine full body scan" help? Specially to people who have a parent being an early stroke victim?
These things are scary as hell...
Comment · 12 years ago
Because if everyone starts doing that, no one will understand anything in this community.
Comment · 12 years ago
"You don't have architects who draw UMLs for you"
You better not, who cares about UML diagrams?
But startup code doesn't have to be messy. I don't write messier code (to be used in a company that pays me), just because I'm in a hurry, and neither should anyone.
Comment · 12 years ago
This has been awesome. Thanks! I was kinda disappointed that I didn't need to get to Death Mountain after getting the 8 pieces. A 1-pixel Ganon would be cool!
Comment · 12 years ago
Check http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/07/three-reasons-child-porn-mus... to think a bit more about the other side of the matter.
Comment · 12 years ago
Whenever I see rich guys forfeiting on more money so they can help the poor, I remember this: http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gj/efficient_charity_do_unto_others...
TL;DR:
If a high-powered lawyer who makes $1,000 an hour chooses to take an hour off to help clean up litter on the beach, he's wasted the opportunity to work overtime that day, make $1,000, donate to a charity that will hire a hundred poor people for $10/hour to clean up litter, and end up with a hundred times more litter removed. If he went to the beach because he wanted the sunlight and the fresh air and the warm feeling of personally contributing to something, that's fine. If he actually wanted to help people by beautifying the beach, he's chosen an objectively wrong way to go about it. And if he wanted to help people, period, he's chosen a very wrong way to go about it, since that $1,000 could save two people from malaria. Unless the litter he removed is really worth more than two people's lives to him, he's erring even according to his own value system.
If he feels it's unfair that he makes so much more many than others, he should make even more and give out what he think is enough to make it fair.
Comment · 12 years ago
I saw that and just registered/tried.
Although it has Clojure (my target language), you still send code instead of an answer, and you get problems like not knowing what's available in terms of libs and whatnot.
Interested in entrepreneurship, always seeking to learn how to build better software.