Nwallins

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by Nwallins 16y ago
It does not tell you how to calculate the interchange, but it does explain what interchange is and describes the variables that go into the equation.
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by Nwallins 16y ago
Interestingly relevant to BSD-style vs. GPL-style licensing: > The vision of freedom that most of the big corporate interests had was the ability to make their platform sticky: to destroy interoperability so that (for example) Java sof
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by Nwallins 16y ago
#!/usr/bin/env ruby # you insensitive clod!
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by Nwallins 16y ago
> The argument for evented concurrency assumes threads work. Async design isn't a reaction to MRI's crappy green threads. Truly? To my understanding, event loops require inversion of control (and likely callbacks and broken exception
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by Nwallins 16y ago
Too bad they don't dogfood it (source: Default.aspx): <div class=mainholder> ... <div class=sidebar> ... <div class=maincontent> ... etc. Also, the classic (header, 3-col, footer) lay
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by Nwallins 16y ago
> Can you explain that further? Here's a stab: The culture here is such that comments are for the sake of the readers and not the writer. Some amount of self-promotion is fine, but too much is not appreciated.
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by Nwallins 16y ago
Sounds like Jamie Dimon, of JP Morgan Chase. He ended a multi-billion IT outsourcing deal with IBM in 2004: http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/outsourcing/s...
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by Nwallins 16y ago
> Many Microsoft decisions since the mid-90s (when I first started holding MSFT) have made life overall worse for me That has nothing to do with your being a shareholder.
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by Nwallins 16y ago
> Big corporations tend to operate in their stock's best interest, and this can still cause serious problems for their shareholders. Erm, what? This seems contradictory on its face. The shareholder's only interest in a company is it
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by Nwallins 16y ago
The punchline is at the end: > Nobody wants to work for it anymore. There's no honor in taking that after school job at Mickey Dee's, honor's in the dollar, kid. So I went the white boy way of slang ing crack-rock: I became a stock bro
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by Nwallins 16y ago
> don't the US corn subsidies for ethanol actually make corn more expensive? My understanding is that the subsidies are there to incentivize corn production . The video says that the subsidized cost of corn production is actually ne
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by Nwallins 16y ago
> These are obviously mutually exclusive definitions! Not at all. He is saying racism is a subset of tribalism, as is being an OS fanboy. Tribalism the the umbrella term.
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by Nwallins 16y ago
> However, the other counter argument against HFT is that it actually doesn't really provide liquidity to the market, as evident by the June flash-crash. As far as I can tell, this is the only argument presented against HFT. >
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by Nwallins 16y ago
> the researchers hypothesized that, given some premises about evolution, poor women would have more kids earlier. Um, isn't this already well known? Did they not craft the hypothesis to fit their existing understanding? > Then
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by Nwallins 16y ago
What exactly do you mean by replication with devices?
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by Nwallins 16y ago
The "trouble" is only when you want a single process to monopolize the entirety of CPU resources. In today's (and even yesterday's?) processing environment, there are often tens if not hundreds of processes running at once, and 5 or 15 of
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by Nwallins 16y ago
Erm, so the trouble with meritocracy is that higher education is bad? And we don't want to subject underprivileged demographics to the intellectually conformist ... education conveyor belt ? That we want to keep underprivileged demographi
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by Nwallins 16y ago
I came across it in James Clavell's 1981 novel, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_House
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by Nwallins 16y ago
> partly because I'm paranoid about getting sued by the RIAA. No need to be paranoid, here. They only go after big distributors , not downloaders (aka leeches).
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by Nwallins 16y ago
> the reuters/AP of ... Unintentional irony? Both of those organizations' reputations have become quite tarnished. They are certainly not contemporary bastions of fair-handed transparency -- witness Reuters' photo manipulation and A
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by Nwallins 16y ago
> Option – Open Source the Product > No, Not really an option at all. Who would work on it? Sure lots of people love to consume open source projects, but very few people contribute to them. And I have put a LOT of money into this
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by Nwallins 16y ago
Given that the story is a defense of people who generate wealth, I am not surprised that he did not focus on people who do not generate wealth. I am not sure it is a failing, either.
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by Nwallins 16y ago
> it totally failed to address the question of wealth received through means other than entrepreneurship These people receive wealth. They do not necessarily generate it. Athletes and movie stars are certainly talented, but entert
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by Nwallins 16y ago
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/07/500x_s...
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by Nwallins 16y ago
I don't understand this point: > I don't remember the exact details of the buyback at TheStreet.com but we started buying the stock and it kept going down. We kept buying it. But we were losing money on each buyback because we were ove
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by Nwallins 16y ago
Old story is old. The guy's name is Joe and gave his name to news reporters as 'Gray Powell'. Flagged.
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by Nwallins 16y ago
49 weeks worth of steak, presumably...
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by Nwallins 16y ago
> Here’s why – complicated corporate tax rules will let Aol write off the full purchase price of Bebo if they declare it worthless and abandon the asset. ...yet another perverse outcome of overly-complicated, micro-managed tax codes.
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SparkleShare - Inspired by DropBox, built on git, FOSS(gitorious.org)
44 points by Nwallins 16y ago|3 comments
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by Nwallins 16y ago
Ah, it is nice to see the licensing issue is directly addressed -- http://wiki.github.com/behlendorf/zfs/faq > The CDDL does not restrict modification and release of the ZFS source code which is publicly available as part of OpenSol

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