mkelly | 14 years ago | on: City living affects neural social stress processing in humans
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mkelly | 14 years ago | on: My weekend project - AES encryption for Gmail or anything else
OTR supports this for pidgin, and has a proxy for other clients: http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: Do you have trouble waking up? Please take a survey and help our #startup
I ran into this from the other direction: I don't get much natural light at all in my bedroom, and when I moved in I had a terrible time waking up until I installed a lamp that automatically turns on every morning and blasts the room with light (starting before I actually want to wake up).
After that, the alarm is much more effective.
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: CEOs vouch for Waiter Rule: Watch how people treat staff
> It's difficult to retain your composure when you're inconvenienced by the incompetence of your social inferiors, but it's usually worthwhile.
Wow. I'm not sure that's the point of the article.
Who do you see as your "social inferiors" and why?
I'll judge people based on their actions. I'm unconvinced it's fair to do it based on something else.
[Edit: formatting]
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: Why email is crucial to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo
So how does Alexa get these numbers, exactly?
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: Vanity Fair reporter freak-out
If others haven't had the same experience w.r.t Al-Jazeera, it's possible I got confused about reporting vs. opinion.
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: Vanity Fair reporter freak-out
It depends on the subject matter. Reuters and Al-Jazeera are by no means objective on all subjects -- the obvious example is Al-Jazeera and anything to do with Israel. (They immediately begin frothing at the mouth and spouting angry gibberish, just like, e.g., Fox news does in the US when reporting on Democrats.) But Al-Jazeera has useful reporting on other subjects.
I think the key is to try to figure out who's useful for what subject matter. Vanity Fair is probably not reliable for anything.
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: A Beginner’s Guide to PPC: Introduction
You weren't the only one. I remember learning a bit about powerpc assembly several years ago, but never did anything with it. I've since learned a fair bit about sparc, and was eager to compare. Oh well!
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: Sergei Brin: Windows is torturing users
So, I don't mean to be a hardass, but Sergey picked a latin transliteration for his name, so let's stick to it, okay? (I know, cry me a river about "И" vs "Й" and "i" vs "y".)
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: C to Go: Could Go replace C?
To what end? Is vertical space at some kind of premium? I have a scroll bar.
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: Facebook Roulette pits you against three friends, the loser's account is deleted
...Except it takes 30 days of no account activity to take effect.
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: C to Go: Could Go replace C?
Is this person intentionally trying to make the C harder to read? What's with all the missing newlines? I didn't get past the first few examples, because the C was so unnecessarily difficult to read, I assumed the Go was in similarly bad style. (I don't know Go.)
Maybe there's a point in there somewhere, but bad code samples distract from it.
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: (Ubuntu) 11.04, a leap forward
One of the great things about Linux in general is that this is non-news plenty of users who don't use the default window manager anyway. Prefer something else? Just switch. You're not married to the window manager like you are on OS X and Windows. I'm very happy for that.
(Edit: I should clarify that I'm writing this in anticipations that the general sentiment will be that Unity is terrible. If you don't think it's terrible, then it's also not an issue.)
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: Show HN - My weekend Django project (Pick the violent felon)
For a while I was convinced that a distinct mustache (vs general unshavenness, etc) was a very strong indicator. It's amusing to watch yourself try to develop heuristics.
(Edit: grammar.)
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: The Time I Accidentally Destroyed a Production Server
He put himself in a position where only chance protected him from a disaster. (Imagine if the update did trash the running server.) That's reason enough for a good sysadmin to be worried, IMO.
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug
sex
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: AV? Google says no
Hi, HN. What is AV?
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: The EFF SSL Observatory
Interesting read. It reminds me that projects like monkeysphere (http://web.monkeysphere.info) are out there, which tries to address some of this.
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: Why I went with them and not you: feedback to an interviewer
Hiring qualified people is hard. Just because you're the applicant today doesn't mean you won't be an interviewer tomorrow. It's better for all of us if there's more communication about these things.
mkelly | 15 years ago | on: How I Lost $100 and Blamed It On cal(1)
(And, I should mention, hopefully my notion that '08' is octal isn't shared by that many people, since '8' can't be part of an octal number...)
It looks interesting, but not $32 interesting, to me.