dx211

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by dx211 11y ago
> But in retrospect I can see that my touchiness in that moment probably cost me tens of thousands of dollars. I don't know if it's a side effect of living in a western society, but I see people make this kind of mistake all th
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by dx211 11y ago
I think his point is you wouldn't get the same thing. If Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain today, a decade or two from now nobody would know who he was. You might get some cheap Pooh-themed lunchboxes from China early on, b
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by dx211 11y ago
> The fact that nobody benefits much is very much worth pointing out. Warner Brothers, Disney, etc. benefit from this, as do their employees, in quite concrete terms.
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by dx211 11y ago
I think the part about "scuppering" is just some nautical-sounding nonsense that the author of the article threw in. If you read the account I linked to above, it's saying they jettisoned the masts, then cut the rudder, then
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by dx211 11y ago
A contemporary account states "Il y a eu de si violents coups de talon que la barre du gouvernail a fait sauter le tillac de sa chambre, malgré six barreaux en plusieurs endroits, et qui fit déterminer Mr. de Castellan a L’aller couper
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by dx211 11y ago
It's interesting to see that even with the proliferation of satellites these days, there are only about a dozen above the continental United States right now, with all the categories selected.
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Why I Left the Best Job in the World(medium.com)
2 points by dx211 11y ago|1 comments
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by dx211 11y ago
When you factor in the number of people who are going out biking/hiking/vacationing/etc. so they have something to show off to their friends, I think Facebook probably has a positive effect on our collective health. (Present
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Why I Left College to Start Learning(blog.uncollege.org)
3 points by dx211 11y ago|3 comments
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by dx211 11y ago
That's a misleading comparison. I think the argument is that if you have a gun you can protect yourself from another person with a gun. A better analogy would be how some jurisdictions make bullet proof vests and gas masks illegal be
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by dx211 11y ago
I have this thing where I wake up at 5:00 AM and my internal monologue sounds like someone twisting the tuning knob back and forth on a radio. Anyone know a name for that?
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by dx211 11y ago
.Net provides a couple of different ways to dynamically emit IL, but that's not quite the same as being able to emit your own native machine instructions, though. I think the challenge would be that you'd need to work out a calli
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by dx211 11y ago
Way back in the day (mid high-school), I wrote a Tetris game in Pascal and Z80 assembly for the TRS-80. At some point I realized that since what was displayed on the screen was just a representation of an area of memory, I could keep track
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by dx211 11y ago
Huh. I always assumed Stalin was being overly paranoid when he exiled all of those folks to Siberia for breaking farm equipment, etc. Still a terrible, awful way to address the problem, but it makes a bit more sense if that's exactly
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by dx211 11y ago
O' the demon of rum is abroad in the land. His victims are falling on every hand, The wise and the sinful, the brave and the fair. No station too high for his vengeance to spare. O woman, the sorrow and pain is with you. And so be
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by dx211 11y ago
The first thing that came to mind when I read that headline was we could maybe save a couple bucks making homemade toilet cleaner.
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by dx211 11y ago
It seems like if they don't have enough pressure in their lungs to expel the bite of ham sandwich, you wouldn't necessarily be able to suck it out with this device. On the other hand, I have a hard time blowing up those skinny ba
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by dx211 11y ago
Well, hold on now. There isn't a 1:1 correlation between credit card debt and poor spending choices. Someone who'd never charge more on their card than they could pay off at the end of the month might do it, for example, if they
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by dx211 11y ago
"All of which means that because Anderson was too poor to pay his $170 fine, his overall debt ballooned to $580. His fine more than tripled, solely because he was too poor to pay it." This seems pretty much like the status quo. I
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by dx211 11y ago
A couple of years back, I was hiring some vendor developers for my team, and since I had some flexibility in the interviews that wouldn't be allowed for full-time employees, I tried an experiment: For one of the vendor candidates, I t
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by dx211 11y ago
Fremont is not Bothowoodinredmokirkllevue. But it is basically the same as Ballard.
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by dx211 11y ago
Weird - something about the form factor makes me want to violently toss it off a loading dock. Anyone know how much that would translate to in Gs? (The article says it will survive 6 Gs of shock.)
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Wikipedia's Laws(google.com)
1 points by dx211 11y ago|0 comments
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by dx211 11y ago
Do Chrome for PC and Chrome for iOS come from the same code base, and if so, how do you automate testing for closed systems like iOS? (I ask because from my totally anecdotal perspective, Chrome for PC is a rock-solid dream of an applicati
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by dx211 11y ago
No Hire. As a software developer, 110% of your passion should be for code, followed by a couple of harmless, minor interests like bicycling or craft beer.
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by dx211 11y ago
40, started using Linux in '93 or '94. You're probably old enough to realize that even though you're kind of in the same casino, those "upper management idiots" are playing a vastly different game than you or
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by dx211 11y ago
Hey, I've still got my complimentary MySpace zip file kicking around somewhere.
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by dx211 11y ago
And they probably didn't count all of the test crap and IDW tools that nobody's used since Bill Gates was there, but still get built every time.
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by dx211 11y ago
When I got out of the Army in the 90's, I had to fly back to America, and since I didn't trust the government's shipping contractor I took all of the guts out of my PC, stuck them in a carry-on bag, and went through security
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by dx211 11y ago
You say that, but now that this is out it's only a matter of time before the bad guys realize they can stop using their nukes for leveling cities and repurpose them for disrupting HBO.

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