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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Countering that you only stole his wallet, not his car might not have been the best response though.
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
This post makes your company look considerably less professional than it otherwise would have, even leaving allegations about code theft unanswered. I might have been unsure if you were running copyrighted code, but now I know for sure you
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Are you claiming that there is a difference in the class of problems that can be computer between an 8 bit processor and a network of 1 bit processors?
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
If only we could replace eye witness testimony: it's notoriously faulty.
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Wouldn't a properly formed DMCA complaint in this case be one of the few times you could commit perjury with one? There's no way they have any good faith belief they own the copyright to (or are authorized by its holder to act in
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
All being a "functional language" means is that it's easy to write with a particular paradigm in the language. You certainly can write similar code in ML, Java, or C - or whatever language strikes your fancy. It just helps wh
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Your analysis ignores the key point that bacteria operate on simple rules based entirely on local concerns, which is not the proposed case in the sci-fi story.
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
I do work in Haskell. At the end of the day, you still write some stateful, imperative code. It's just that your utility/work functions are pure, which means that you have predictable side-effects: you've stuck them all in on
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
There's a distinctly 21st century flavor to being able to store all the banal life mistakes indefinitely, to dig them up later if we ever need dirt on a particular person. Before it was varying levels of unprovable (ie, not photographs
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Except that the particular beams of light being discussed are intentionally meant by the broadcasters as resources for the public as part of fulfilling their deal to license the spectrum that beams of light useful for TV happen in, since th
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
The military and government in general makes extensive use of contractors for specialized tasks, but manages to audit and limit their behaviors to the degree that they're performing work on behalf of the government, recognizing that co
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Haskell has a very neat interface for this, in that you build a special type which remembers the dimensions of a matrix as you build them, and then return either the result or a failure. It's very simple to build a function which doesn
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Except the water is almost entirely less than 5 miles deep, which is a sliver when we're talking about something with a radius 1000 times that.
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
"We're almost certainly not trampling over your rights, citizen. Now why don't you mosey along and stop asking about it?"
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
What part of inviting a criminal you've gathered significant recorded evidence against (eg, their own telephone confession) to a place you can arrest him do you think violates due process?
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
The harm from the pervasive monitoring is greater than any benefit proposed: there's no need to run the trial to see if the benefit proposed is actually there, we already know it's outweighed by the harm.
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
My bank insisting on a hard-to-remember 8 character password isn't make it more secure than letting me pick a longer passphrase.
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
I think there's a second element to why a gallon of milk isn't $20: Walmart relies on not upsetting too many people, who collectively wield enough local political power to harm Walmart locally. It would only take a local wage init
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
There are markets with no real viable alternative to Walmart, because Walmart used their scale to crush competition, and no has made it uneconomical to start a rival business, since they'll temporarily lower prices below sustainable (u
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Except that the hurt is widely distributed at the higher price, but not at the lower price (where it's felt by a few large publishers). This kind of unequal distribution can cause the slight lessening of pain for a large number of peop
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
The point of my quotation is merely to show that as part of work activities, research on VR was being done at id (ZeniMax) prior to contact with Oculus, and that Carmack's work on the subject would thus fall under the IP assignment cla
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
ZeniMax was working on VR technologies before Carmack began interacting with Oculus, and has a reasonable claim to the fruits of his work on that (being that it was an assigned R&D project). Do you really think I should (for example) be
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
See my other reply for page cites and details, but it seems that ZeniMax was actively pursuing VR technology and that Carmac was part of that project prior to his work on Oculus. If I work for money developing a certain kind of technology,
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
According to the lawsuit filing (page 8 of the PDF linked above), Carmac was researching VR at id under ZeniMax. So yes, I think projects you undertake at work for money belong to your employer, and that this is a reasonable standard. >
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
> Their behavior is not unreasonable, but it is only possible because a prolific developer was not concerned about nuances of copyright law while collaborating with multiple companies. I expect that Facebook is going to tell Oculus to su
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
I would. I don't understand why you're so surprised that a company sued after they were turned down for a settlement from a company they gave a bunch of key technology to under an agreement. I don't find that behavior to be u
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
This is just disgusting, on several levels. A 700% rise in incarceration alone should be a sign something has gone seriously wrong with our domestic policing.
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
Things that would normally qualify as "soft power", eg, being friends with the right people, trading favors, reputation management, etc. Even the example you give requires reputation management, as opposed to merely raising a good
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
I've heard tale that because of the lack of formal structure at Valve, you need political connections to actually get anything done. Perhaps even more so than places with a formal structure.
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by DerpDerpDerp 12y ago
The suburbs being affluent does nothing to alleviate the problems that Detroit faces, which are largely having to do with a lack of taxes, because those suburbs don't increase the tax base of Detroit itself. They're the people fle

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