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It's too relentlessly public.

It's clearly been designed to minimize all interaction friction - just using the app now generates activity which can be consumed by others and I imagine the end goal is to make it addictive as all hell.

But that's exactly what makes it so creepy.

I really dislike how much it shares automatically. Reporting whether I've read an item is incredibly hateful; privately browsing/stalking is the number one virtue/sin of social networks.

There is no way to delete comments or posts. Worse yet! I intensely dislike how there is no way to delete location checkins. No one has yet to tag me, but is there a way to untag yourself form photos or locations?

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# Execute it by loading it within an interactive ruby session by going `irb -r reorder.rb`.

require 'ftools'
require 'yaml'

@files = Dir['*.jpg'].sort

@collection = {}

#set up intro

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.fivefrontbox {
right: 10px;
}

.masthead {
width: 100%;
}

/*
within le html:

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'

bad_words = ["basement", "realtor", "finch", "eglinton", "scarborough", "brampton", "sheppard", "kipling", "islington", "markham", "lawrence", "steeles", "pape", "donlands", "etobicoke", "mississauga", "highway", "cityplace", "yonge", "mortgage", "consultation"]

search_url = "http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/search/apa?query=&srchType=A&minAsk=&maxAsk=1000&bedrooms=&format=rss"

doc = Nokogiri::XML(open(search_url))

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Git Strategy (Version 2)

16:20 < hiffy> I have a question on, I guess, architecture

16:20 < hiffy> so I have this git repo, works swell

16:21 < hiffy> and I have a prod and a test env. I’d like keep a separate
branch for my test environment and then “promote” commits to the
main branch

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=begin 
  License: latest LGPL :D

  As per my discussion with Gianni (@gf3),
  http://twitter.com/phillmv/status/2659984348
  http://twitter.com/phillmv/status/2660026344
  http://twitter.com/phillmv/status/2660059102
  http://twitter.com/phillmv/status/2660184885
  http://twitter.com/phillmv/status/2660283856 and
  http://twitter.com/phillmv/status/2660306850

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Dowd's inhuman flash exploit -- no longer available on the internets.

The evidence is now overwhelming that Mark Dowd was, in fact, sent back through time to kill the mother of the person who will grow up to challenge SkyNet. Please direct your attention to Dowd’s 25-page bombshell (http://documents.iss.net/whitepapers/IBM_X-Force_WP_final.pdf) on a Flash bytecode attack.

Some context. Reliable Flash vulnerabilities are catastrophes. In 2008, we have lots of different browsers. We have different versions of the OS, and we have Mac users. But we’ve only got one Flash vendor, and everyone has Flash installed. Why do you care about Flash exploits? Because in the field, any one of them wins a commanding majority of browser installs for an attacker. It is the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 of clientsides.

So that’s pretty bad-ass. But that’s not why the fate of humanity demands that we hunt down Dowd and dissolve him in molten steel.

Look at the details of this attack. It’s a weaponized NULL pointer attac

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var React = require('react');
var Eui_button = React.createClass({

  handleClick: function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    if(this.props.href !== undefined) {
      this.props.href(e);
    } else {
      $(React.findDOMNode(this)).tooltip({title: "Sorry! Not yet."}).tooltip("show");
    }

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set nocompatible               " VIM extensions, not very VI compatible;
                               "   this setting must be set because when vim
                               "   finds a .vimrc on startup, it will set
                               "   itself as "compatible" with vi

if has("syntax")
	syntax on
endif

map  BdW

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so, turns out that it's becoming increasingly awkward to ignore plant intelligence;

whereas before we sort of took them to be these weird, dumb things that grew out of the ground, more and more there's a reasonable argument to be made that they probably just operate on a longer timescale to the point where it's probably reasonable to attribute sentience to them

(they respond and make decisions according to their environment; they remember stimuli, they communicate with other plants, just on a timeframe of say days and weeks rather than a few minutes)

so fine so dandy, pretty neat, turns out we're really not all that special

my question then, tho, is what does this do to the question of animal rights/vegetarianism?