ElliotMingee

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by ElliotMingee 13y ago
So, maybe I have too much faith in people here, but I think this post is satire. While it's an extreme example, the attitude the author espouses- that there is one right way to do things and anyone doing otherwise is an idiot -is defin
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by ElliotMingee 13y ago
Publicly traded American companies are obligated under fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of their shareholders. They are not, however, required to have _only_ their stock holders interests at heart.
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
I hesitate to contribute anecdotal evidence but my experience has been very similar. In college, I routinely took 200 mg caffeine pills and I would always stop cold turkey after exams, when I was usually hitting about 300 mg a day. Definit
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
Wow, pretty impressive stuff so far. Congratulations on all of your progress so far (assuming the poster is also the author); I'd love to see a blog post describing some of the more technical aspects of the project.
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
Ah, thank you very much. With this context, the verdict does make more sense now. I have one last question for you though: I've seen mention of design patents for a bezel around a screen or rectangle with round corners, however should a des
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
Fair point; I was too quick to comment there. I'm curious though: are you familiar with the reasoning behind the development of design patents? I've done some light research and not turned up much. It seems that trademark and copyright alre
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
Why does that warrant patent protection? The idea behind a patent is to protect innovation, however the innovative cost in that sense is negligible.
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
This was news not too long ago: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/09/swiss_penknife_ssd/
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
Wow, that's incredibly interesting; thank you for explaining it to me. I think my view of a lot of a lot of liberal arts majors (the curriculum, not the students) had been tainted by the people who coast through, however your explanation se
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
Not to derail the thread here, but I'm genuinely curious: what prompted you to pick up degrees in both CS and philosophy? I know pg is in a similar boat, however I didn't meet anyone in undergraduate or graduate school pursuing that path. G
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
I'm a little surprised at the lack of Eclipse support, given Java is one of the most popular languages and Eclipse is the most popular Java IDE http://zeroturnaround.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/IDEs.pn...
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
Maybe this is simply personal opinion, but I generally find it difficult to take aesthetic advice from a website with a relatively uninspired or outdated design like this. Perhaps I just have bad taste
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
Works fine on Chrome 19 with Windows 7
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
I absolutely agree. I did CS and EE at Cornell for my undergrad and there's simply no way to complete the weekly or bi-weekly projects on an hour of work alone. I could believe that someone with a strong memory and solid work ethic could ma
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
Very good point. I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet but it also isn't feasible to have an entire society (or even just the population of people with undergraduate/graduate degrees) asking the big questions and shaking everything up
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
Ah I wasn't aware the effect was so pronounced, although I can definitely see how that would happen. Out of curiosity, what's the consensus on how an overtly sexist or racist joke told among friends in a non-serious way affects social dynam
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
Fair enough, I was assuming the definition provided in the comment earlier but I think the psychology one may be equally fitting.
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
That's not how logic works... I don't mean to be condescending but, when a word has a specific definition, it's pretty straightforward to determine whether or not it accurately describes a situation. Consider it like a mathematical proof:
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
While I wholly agree with 95% of your post, especially your liberal use of comedians as references, I think the whole basis of this "that's what she said" is grossly misunderstood by those opposing it. It's a phrase that highlights innocent
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by ElliotMingee 14y ago
>"The fact that the woman is only talking because she's in bed" Maybe that joke is told differently where you're from, but I can't imagine how one could take that away from "that's what she said." Ignoring that both of our fictional c
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by ElliotMingee 15y ago
Important distinction: that's 13% of smartphone sales, not total market share. Numbers for sales available here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57355900-37/iphone-4s-inch... Numbers for total market share here: http://www.macrumors.c
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by ElliotMingee 15y ago
I beg to differ; I'm on an Asus laptop running Windows 7 and they look great. For scrolling, I simply middle clicked and moved the cursor down slightly and everything was buttery smooth.