aimhb's comments

That, and the terms of service.

Yes. The Boy Who Cried Wolf has other issues, as well, though; I remember thinking (as a child) that it was as much the villagers' fault for not believing the kid as it was the kid's fault for lying before.

Stopped reading after the fourth misspelling of "it's".

Calculus.

And they do. They aren't being silenced.

Do you even know what you're talking about? Miranda rights are for interrogations.

Clearly you haven't been to many comp sci 101 courses.

It was posted here on HN a few days ago, but you might find the DEFCON talk on single bit domain errors relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPbyDSvGasw

In summary, some data centers are run hotter than recommended, which leads to a lot of mostly ignored domain resolution errors, which leads to a security risk.

You can just torrent users.tar.gz (the leaked list of encrypted passwords) and then grep the file for your email address, which will give you the encrypted version of your password.

In pre-university school I would always wish that instead of trying to describe a complicated procedure/formula in words (and failing), that the teachers would just write a program. Code can be a very effective means of communication between humans as well.

Great example of a cool trick using completely the wrong tool for the job.

There are some nuggets of both wisdom and idiocy here. The short story is, yes, drinkups should not be required social functions in any office setting, including startups.

The rest of the article, which tries to tie the whole concept to rape somehow by using a pretty poor analogy with oh-so-clever wording, is pure BS. If you go to any social function where alcohol is involved, it's your own responsibility to limit your alcohol intake, and if you don't trust someone... Don't take alcohol from them.

I appreciate Black MIDI not really as a "cool gimmick" but more as a genre of music. In my opinion, its main function and appeal is to embody music that is still pleasing to the ear, even if it would be impossible in practice.

The majority of the pieces linked to in this thread probably aren't the best example of this, but I think Dream Battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzy_WrH8v7U) is quite good in this regard. The piece itself is just a normal piece -- it only happens to be unplayable, and since it is unplayable, there are a number of Black-MIDI-specific "extended techniques" that can be employed (as you'll see).

Quick! What's MCO? You guessed it — Orlando.

Pretty sure.

Also "irrelevant" isn't really the right word as much as "lost". Examining the word completely myopically, things like ability to play piano might seem relatively useless. However, science has recently been revealing that music is a lot more important — to the brain, moods, and the body, even — than we would have guessed it was 50 years ago.

If we allow our knowledge of music to be lost in between the era of musicians and some future rebirth of classical music, then what good have we done?

A good example of the waste that can occur is that of Roman formulations for concrete. Because the information about how the concrete was formulated has been lost, we have spent a tremendous amount of effort just trying to reverse engineer Roman structures like the Colosseum to figure out how they achieve the unique properties that they do. Also consider that the Romans had no way of imagining how important concrete formulations would be in the future. To them, after the fall of Rome, concrete formulations were probably just as "irrelevant" in their minds as well.

I am not so much afraid of my own death as I am that we'll lose knowledge and skill that we as a species have spent so long refining.

How is this at all annoyance with a younger generation? There's a lot of knowledge, such as of music, that's only passed on through oral or hands-on teaching. This knowledge lives on by mere virtue of the continued survival of the people who know it.

If enough of these kinds of "masters" die, some if not most of that knowledge will be lost forever.

Can someone explain how leaking a traceback is a security flaw, considering it's a lot less information than just releasing the source code (which we do all the time and don't consider it a security flaw)?

> One place I worked had the very strong rule that you start all non-emergency communication asynchronously (usually text chat), even if the person is right next to you.

A little bit off topic, but I too have experienced this, and I have to say, it's awful for productivity, team building, and team assimilation. As a new hire, I would send my mentor a question and it might be ten minutes to fifty minutes before I would get a reply. By then, I'd all but forgotten what I was asking about in the first place, since I had moved on because of not knowing how long I'd have to wait. That led to wasted time and an overall loss of focus.

No matter the environment, text-based and asynchronous communication just aren't very effective compared to spoken communication, even when considering the interrupted party momentarily losing their flow.

Why would your lawyer even try to prove you innocent if it meant not getting a paycheck?

I really wish people would stop calling this language JavaScript. It's not. Its proper name is UnityScript, and it's more like Jscript.NET than anything else.