fatman

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by fatman 10y ago
It doesn't. The experiment could have been done by the dad and his daughter on their own without a single form. Its when the school and their lawyers get involved. The cynic in me wants to point out that the paperwork exercise might
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by fatman 11y ago
Maybe it's my white privilege talking, but I don't see the racial angle here. Would "Corporations" be any less inclined to appropriate and profit from the creations of white teens? Would the moral wrong of the taking b
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by fatman 11y ago
Because I'm a stubborn ass who'd rather suffer a freeloader than hand in an incomplete assignment. In hindsight, I guess I should have finished the project and explained the division of labor.
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by fatman 11y ago
Seems like a good a time as any to break out my favorite anti-MBA story. I took a Masters CS class some time ago, and for our final class project, not knowing anyone else in the class, I got lumped in the "leftover" group with a w
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by fatman 11y ago
It's funny - the only two businesses that have made me use the EMV features on my card are the locally owned butcher shop down the street and Wal-Mart.
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by fatman 11y ago
I think this was Larry Lessig's position at one point. I think it's a a nice, practical solution that acknowledges that copyright is a political animal - let Disney keep Mickey forever, but the public gets everything of a lesser
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by fatman 11y ago
Shhhhh... Don't broadcast your flouting of your state's Use Tax like that!
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by fatman 11y ago
You don't need a lawyer pro-bono, just one on contingency. If you can survive the motion to dismiss at the outset, you've now entered discovery, and BigCo will now start incurring bigtime legal costs. Settlement offers will be f
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by fatman 11y ago
Wow. It's no surprise that rms lacks empathy or social grace, but I'm kind of shocked one man's availability could single-handedly delay a release of a project like emacs. What if the poor chap had got hit by a bus?
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by fatman 12y ago
Nuremburg was an exception to the general rule that you couldn't prosecute soldiers for carrying out the orders of their superiors - establishing that the mass genocide of innocent people crosses a line. However, the torture of a hand
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by fatman 12y ago
I wouldn't expect a business school professor, JD or not, to have any clue about state consumer protection law. I would expect an MBA to bluster on in an area in which he was clearly out of his depth.
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by fatman 12y ago
IAL, and I could imagine this fee getting upheld in at least a few US jurisdictions (with the right judge), leaving consumers to rely solely on the Streisand effect to get satisfaction. The classic notion of a contract as an expression of t
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by fatman 12y ago
That's an awful lot of detail from a event with no surviving witnesses.
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by fatman 13y ago
Sounds promising. Calories in, calories out - the rest is just noise.
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by fatman 13y ago
Or, what if the interviewer explicitly challenged the interviewee to come up with an interview coding challenge? And perhaps even worked the challenge, with the interviewee hinting, helping, and evaluating? Maybe it would be a good way t
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by fatman 13y ago
What would happen if an interviewee 'flipped the script' - gave the interviewer a coding challenge? Maybe under the guise of assessing the skill level of his potential co-workers? Is there any way an interviewer takes the bait?
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by fatman 13y ago
This has always baffled me. Is coding the only technical skill? It's especially bewildering when a company seeks a software engineer with expertise in a highly technical domain and populates the interview primarily with programming qu
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by fatman 13y ago
How do you get that doctor's prescription in the US?
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by fatman 13y ago
What about Nicotine? Back in college and for a few years afterward, I used to put in a big fat dip (or chew) for all/late-nighters to help me buckle down, focus, and stay alert. I stopped for all the standard health reasons, but I fi
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by fatman 13y ago
I feel the same way about ad blockers as I do about skipping commercials with the DVR - my purchasing decisions are almost never influenced by ads, so why would I bother watching them? I'm just afraid that someday, even without DVR&#x
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by fatman 13y ago
I agree with your first sentence, but not your overall premise. We are all capable of a hell of lot, usually much, much more than we realize, but not everything. I think most of us, myself included, need to take more chances to try and le
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by fatman 13y ago
Disappointing. I was hoping for some sort of matrix.
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by fatman 13y ago
That would be awesome. I just got on a new project a week ago where the PM sent me a link to Zero MQ and basically said "here, read this".
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by fatman 13y ago
This is one of my largest weaknesses. I haven't come across any good resources for self-study on this topic. I haven't found any online course-type resources, and the books i've found are hard to follow. Any recommendations
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by fatman 13y ago
Mainstream for the type of lawyers who go to court to collect on judgments? ABA maybe, ATL not so much. Oh wait, discovery after the judgment. Not a separate execution. Yeah, that could be a BigLaw thing.
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by fatman 13y ago
"Give us your Bitcoin or goto Jail"? There's nothing new under the sun. People have tried to hide assets from courts in the past. Sometimes they succeed - while sitting in jail under a contempt citation.
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by fatman 13y ago
You may be correct, but the type of lawyers drafting discovery requests to collect on a judgment aren't going to be in that parenthetical group. They probably just heard somewhere that Bitcoin=money and threw it in. You ask for anyth
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by fatman 13y ago
The counter-example that has stuck with me is the novel "The Wind Done Gone": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_Done_Gone . It's Gone with the Wind, re-imagined from a slave's point of view - a
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by fatman 13y ago
This tactic is even more common in Patent law. If you get the jump on the would-be plantiff you get to pick the venue, and hopefully stay out of the Patent-holder rubber stamp that is the Eastern District of Texas.
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by fatman 13y ago
My statement was an oversimplification, but you're right, Commercial purpose would weigh against a finding of fair use in a part of the 4 factor balancing test. Does that take "a lot" of the argument away or a little? Depen

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