elarkin

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by elarkin 12y ago
Actually, it's already illegal in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudne...
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by elarkin 12y ago
> The question is are they obligated to give the best advice? I didn't get this from the article. I understood the issue to be: 1. It is undisputed that the lottery is required to display odds (return $$s per $$s spent). 2. It is un
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by elarkin 12y ago
Back when I worked in law, it was the case that the EU had very strict laws regarding where (physically) you store data, and who can access the data. That meant that EU based firms could only buy our Install-behind-your-firewall version. Is
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by elarkin 12y ago
My ebook purchases also skyrocketed after I got a Kindle. But it didn't rise because the kindle made it easy to buy ebooks, or even because I prefer ebooks (for technical stuff, I actually don't). It's because I was reading a
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by elarkin 12y ago
Can you give an example of where you find Clojure to be implicit? I don't find the Clojure that I write to be implicit.
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by elarkin 12y ago
You aren't wrong. David Auerbach at Slate has written a small piece on it: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/09/gam...
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by elarkin 12y ago
Cynically, I would say that it depends on whether or not you can get your case to the Supreme Court. Normally, though, algorithms are not copyrightable. Though Books about algorithms are. In this case, the guy published a book containing a
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by elarkin 12y ago
State lawyers are well versed in state law. As this is a state case, involving state law, a Texas lawyer would be required to make knowledgable statements on the case. A lawyer of another state or country could likely recognize some similar
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by elarkin 12y ago
Premium SMS is already gone: http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/12/premium-sms-billing/
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by elarkin 12y ago
Without being too specific, you should assume that Large stores already do this. Any store claiming to have "in store wifi" is almost guaranteed to be tracking you through your mac address. The system that I'm familiar with o
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by elarkin 12y ago
Likely not, because that would implicitly expose the other 6.
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by elarkin 13y ago
Fortunately, not all high schools are like this. Mine had 1 classroom devoted to computer classes. These computers were Windows NT workstations. Students logged in with normal accounts (not administrators) but there were no other restrictio
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by elarkin 13y ago
Windows makes this a little easier than bash does. batch scripts in windows behave like scripts on unix do when you source them. That means that you can write a batch script called "foo.bat" with the contents of "cd \whatever
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by elarkin 13y ago
I occasionally do interviews for my company, and I use Github in the manner that fecak describes. Before the interview, I will check out your stuff and make sure I have compilers/interpreters for your favorite languages (as best I can
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by elarkin 13y ago
I have two macs that both run emacs. I have a private git repository for my .emacs.d folder (an old mirror can be found here: https://github.com/elarkin/.emacs.d ). I have taken special care to make sure that the init.el file is readable,
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by elarkin 14y ago
Have you used transients in Clojure? http://clojure.org/transients They allow mutation as long as it's localized.
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by elarkin 14y ago
I've taken to using Chrome for Flash. It includes Pepper, a Google maintained version of Flash. You will never be presented with an Adobe Reader prompt again.
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by elarkin 14y ago
Well, you probably would not get this chromebook if you were only going to use SSH. You'd buy the $250 one.
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by elarkin 14y ago
BrainTree does payments. They have concerns about security that most apps do not. Who really cares if bugged timeout/retry logic makes your app post twice to facebook? Probably no one. Who cares if bugged timeout/retry logic makes your app
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by elarkin 14y ago
On my mac my keyboard has an eject button right next to f12(volume up). If I press that then the primary disk drive ejects its disk. If I had two disk drives, I'm not sure which it would eject. I suspect that this is what WayneDB was referr
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by elarkin 14y ago
They took down the one he sent me. Here's the hackernews page about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3270841
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by elarkin 14y ago
Never
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by elarkin 14y ago
A co-worker of mine (US) lost his kindle library about a year ago. Amazon closed his account and refused to tell him why. It took several tech blogs and newspapers phoning up Amazon with the story for him to get it back. In other words, he
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by elarkin 14y ago
I have yet to see a typical user use keyboard shortcuts. My mother, for example, will still use the mouse to click File then Quit/Exit when she wants to close a program. Your testimony tells me that Win8 may see better adoption amongst wind
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by elarkin 14y ago
Isn't Microsoft pushing Metro as the primary environment and the desktop as a legacy environment?
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by elarkin 14y ago
In his demo video, he needs to run a specially crafted program to actually achieve privilege escalation. That's why you need both physical access and a local user account. Social engineering only gets you both if you can autorun the execu
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by elarkin 14y ago
In the original, the supposedly black tiles were actually just missing images, allowing the black background to show through. That's why they're white here. The author has used a solid background for the whole map, instead of having a black
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by elarkin 14y ago
There very well may be a legal requirement. There is with email. If I understand right, a company must retain all communication for something crazy like 3 years.
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by elarkin 14y ago
I was a TA for computer science classes. I barely read variable names when grading. It was quicker to compile/run and then check over the structure of the program. Also keep in mind that if you're grading 50 people like I was, you won't rem
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by elarkin 14y ago
I suspect that you are a minority (as you admit). My monthly student loan burden exceeds my rent burden by almost $200; my loan debt is far less than the median. There may be a cultural factor to it as well. I don't find the need to drive e

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