tdoggette

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tdoggetteon SpyParty: a Turing Test disguised as a game

Deus Ex (if you're not familiar with it) is a first person shooter with some RPG elements. One of the reasons it's so well-loved, even years after its release, is that within each area, the player can choose their own pace and method. You can play through the entire game without being seen, or without killing anyone, or pretty much any way you want.

You should try it.

tdoggetteon House Passes Health Care Reform

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/03/the_five...

Ezra Klein knows what he's talking about (though he is coming from a pro-reform standpoint).

tdoggetteon House Passes Health Care Reform

But the government's not running the system, contrary to what you may have heard from the people that got the GOP talking points memo. The bill keeps the private-insurer system in place.

tdoggetteon House Passes Health Care Reform

See rajat's thread, above.

tdoggetteon Psychopaths among us

The words "psychopath," "sociopath," and "antisocial [personality disorder]" do not appear on that page.

The closest thing to your original claim is "'Our results might lead to fertile research on the role of oxytocin in several mental health disorders with major public health significance.'"

tdoggetteon Milgram experiment redone: crowd "tortures" man on fake TV show

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/17...

Glenn Greenwald compares this linking of television and torture to the swing of public opinion in America regarding our government's use of torture.

tdoggetteon Psychopaths among us

[citation needed]

tdoggetteon Etude sheet music app coming to iPhone, iPad

Okay, picture a roughly paper-sized screen with sheet music on it. Each "page" has 8 lines on it, say, but the screen has room for 10. At the top and bottom are the last line of the previous page and the first line of the next.

Pages "turn" by scrolling up, and there's a reminder of the previous page at the top.

Whaddaya think?

tdoggetteon Greenspun applies a book of sales advice to his business

"Folks have explained" isn't a useful data point. It just reflects some people's perceptions, which, as you point out, are already negative.

tdoggetteon Review my startup - shouldget.com

Why is search behind a link? It seems to me that that might be one of the main things people want to do on the site first-- see if anyone's already asked about what they're looking for.

tdoggetteon Ask HN: Recommendations on how to run an open source project?

You should check out Launchpad (https://launchpad.net/).

tdoggetteon This is amazing. HTML5. No Flash. No Java. Works on iPhone.

The actual item (link is a blog with a couple of screenshots and no content other than the title): http://mrdoob.com/lab/javascript/harmony/

tdoggetteon Boiling Frog

You pointed to a previous discussion, about a point on which there was disagreement, and then said, "tl;dr - the side of that argument that I was on is right."

That's not a good summary of what you linked to.

tdoggetteon Edward Tufte appointed by Obama to help track, and explain stimulus funds

Ezra Klein of the Washington Post deals with this claim (that the stimulus was ineffective because of how much money it spent per job created).

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/02/bad_stim...

Tax credits, Pell grants, unemployment support: it's not all jobs.

But you have to blame the administration for this [perception], at least in part: They sold the stimulus in terms of job creation, rather than simple economic growth.

tdoggetteon Boiling Frog

That's not a good summary. The frog story is dubious.

tdoggetteon Startup Digest: The Best Startup Events in Your City

I signed up because it looked good, but the one-comment shills at the bottom of this thread make me distinctly nervous. Does anyone know what's up with this?

tdoggetteon Weaponizing Mozart

From an outside observer, Britain seems pretty clearly to be creeping toward an authoritarian state. Why is there no pushback to things like ASBOs being used to criminalize everything and omnipresent CCTV cameras?

EDIT: Not that this topic in particular is anywhere near the most serious example.

tdoggetteon Tell HN: Daeken Discount Program

They pay $15,000 for it, as far as I can tell from the blog post.

tdoggetteon The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work

No, the hate will come from 2 directions: One is the pirate crowd that are mostly angry that they can't get the game for free. The other is the people that bought the game and now the damn thing doesn't work because the servers are down or there's a connection issue or they're trying to play the game they paid for on their laptop somewhere where there's no internet.

tdoggetteon Are you feeling touchy?

Not google, it's a redirect to http://ajaxian.com/archives/feeling-touchy?

tdoggetteon One Born Every Minute (about Backupify)

Maybe I wasn't clear: my main issue with the post isn't that it approached the topic from a non-factual angle, it's that it does so in a way that looks like an accusation of a very serious crime.

The line at the end isn't subtle, it's clearly sarcasm intended to mean the opposite of what it says, that is, that this post is about Backupify. Well, the post is about a company that provides the same service as Backupify but instead steals bank account details.

tdoggetteon One Born Every Minute (about Backupify)

You're not wrong about the issues involved, but the way you went about it was attacking Backupify, not directly for bad security practices, but indirectly through the "Backupiphish" scare-mongering.

And as for your accusations, you started with setting up a hypothetical company that looks like them and commits massive bank fraud, then saying that it "has nothing whatsoever to do with Backupify. No sir, not at all. Pure coincidence." If you want to make those accusations, back them up. If not, write a post about their bad security practices, instead of a post about a (hypothetical) web service backup company that's (ahem) entirely unrelated's crime.

tdoggetteon One Born Every Minute (about Backupify)

If you're going to say something, just say it.

Unless it's not true, in which case you wouldn't want to, because that would be libel.

tdoggetteon Bloom Box: What is it and how does it work?

That's my default position on something like this. I'm waiting for someone who knows what they're talking about to say "yeah, this does what it says on the tin."

tdoggetteon "Basically, It's Over" by Charlie Munger

You're opposed on principle to rhetoric?

tdoggetteon Hate ChatRoulette? Then You Hate The Internet

I love the internet, but if 4 out of every 10 clicks led to a video of a man stroking his dick, I'd find something else to do.

tdoggetteon FBI tracks suspects' cell phone without warrants

Title is uninformative: suggest change to the title text of the page, "FBI Tracks Suspects' Cell Phones Without a Warrant".

tdoggetteon The next twenty years are going to be completely unlike the last twenty years.

What do you think Y2k would have looked like if there hadn't been a serious date-format conversion effort?

tdoggetteon Fred Wilson: The Golden Principles For Successful Web Apps

This is the entire content of the slide deck. I'm sure the talk will be good, but this isn't really anything at all.

Speed

Instant Utility

Voice

Less is More

Programmable

Personal

RESTful

Discoverable

Clean

Playful

tdoggetteon Semapedia

I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that in order to ride the current wave of science-fiction-as-reality I'll need a smartphone.