fkdjs

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by fkdjs 13y ago
Maybe you and many others would be better off by paying attention to actions vs words, and notice which company was the first to push back on the government to provide transparency to national security letters when everyone else bowed down
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by fkdjs 13y ago
Yup, and it's used by everyone, especially execs, and acts as a swiss army knife. Yet the team is mostly leaving in droves because although it's quite useful, it isn't correctly measured and it doesn't bring home the bacon. So the project i
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by fkdjs 13y ago
That is great if your project impact can be measured, but sometimes metrics aren't available for accurate assessment. If sales uses your tool, bringing in millions, that's not so easy to measure, and those projects will languish unless some
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by fkdjs 13y ago
The problem with that is, the unsexy non-customer facing projects that allow for saving/making millions are not recognized, or at least a monetary value cannot be established for them, and become understaffed, which leads to inefficiencies.
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by fkdjs 13y ago
http://ipcommission.org/report/IP_Commission_Report_052213.p... > The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property > With U.S. companies suffering losses and American workers losing jobs Jobs. Translation: this is a P
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by fkdjs 13y ago
Do you have an example of a good software patent? Someone mentioned that having one syscall that sends multiple udp messages is patented. That is ridiculous IMO. It meets the guideline you lay out: you can define the abstract process of cal
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by fkdjs 13y ago
I just tried fish, way too slow. I held down the backspace key, and instead of deleting 10 characters, the entire line was gone. zsh is also too slow. bash may not have the bells and whistles, but it's at least super fast and doesn't get in
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by fkdjs 13y ago
Shakespeare is entertaining and metaphors are fun. Do you disagree with a poem and bring up logical fallacies? Of course not, we read them for entertainment value and anything we learn is a bonus. That is separate from metaphors used when t
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by fkdjs 13y ago
OMG, it's like we can't focus on multiple things at once. How about this revelation: people in cyprus can't use ATMs because they can't manage their money, and Chinese government-sponsored hackers are also targeting American businesses. I k
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by fkdjs 13y ago
You really shouldn't try to use metaphors when making an argument. Someone says A is like B, another person disagrees that A is like C. But no, says another, A is like D. Finally, an internet troll points out A is like B and D, but definite
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by fkdjs 13y ago
None of those things you brought up are illegal. Oracle is a scourge and just a step above SCO, but that's a pretty low bar. Making it so you designate something arbitrarily as a "language" and you can be the only princess that implements i
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by fkdjs 13y ago
In that respect, I would say we are separating into different species.
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by fkdjs 13y ago
Not only that, but it takes <1s to type in feedly.com, and lo and behold, a competitor. Not only that, but the site reveals an android app you can download. Any decent monopolist would have never allowed that. Krugman should really do s
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by fkdjs 14y ago
stopthecyborgs? Looks like more microsoft astroturfing. The backlash is growing in microsoft's dreams only.
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by fkdjs 14y ago
wow, worse than the irc python channel.
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by fkdjs 14y ago
How do you handle distributed joins with group by's? Are there certain SQL syntaxes which aren't handled well by queries? What are the 90th percentile response times?
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by fkdjs 14y ago
Here's what a bunch of smart people think: http://www.c-span.org/Events/Law-and-Economics-Experts-Discu... synposis: the antitrust case is at this point ridiculous. As a formerly poor person who could only afford a G1 and not an iphone, a
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by fkdjs 14y ago
Except the articles selected where in the pro-coffee camp, the articles against coffee were not selected. This is called selection bias. I'd take what this guy has to say with a grain of salt.
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by fkdjs 14y ago
You'll notice in that second link: > However, because the antitrust laws are ultimately intended to benefit consumers, and discounting results in at least short-term net benefit to consumers, the U.S. Supreme Court has set high hurdles
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by fkdjs 14y ago
Unfortunately for you, anti-trust doesn't work like that. You have to prove concrete harm to customers. And that's how it should be, before Google, your only option for a smartphone was to pay one company way too much money. Customers direc
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by fkdjs 14y ago
Hopefully that teaches him to rely on windows.
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by fkdjs 14y ago
This is what we've all been waiting for: CPM ads based on age and gender. This is the holy grail advertisers have wanted. But it remains to be seen if this information actually translates into better online advertising. We will soon see. I'
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by fkdjs 14y ago
There are other ways to limit the onslaught of spam: user-defined filters. Facebook could have gone that way, but then, giving users control isn't lucrative.
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by fkdjs 14y ago
Some people use browser fingerprinting for anti-spam techniques, would they need to get the spammer's acceptance before enabling this? As you can see, these European laws border on absurd.
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by fkdjs 14y ago
Maybe they expect air force vets to fly them?
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by fkdjs 14y ago
If I write a site that logs users in, I keep track of them merely by storing their username in a database as well as a cookie value representing that they are logged in, so do they need to accept terms before logging in?
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by fkdjs 14y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think everyone who licensed with moto initially was given a 2.25% rate, but they cross-licensed patents to bring that down. Apple doesn't want to cross-license hence they're whining about how they think FRAND(
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by fkdjs 14y ago
That's a bit of a generalization. Some anecdotal evidence... years ago when I was but a youngin', I didn't get along at my company, got burned out and eventually curled up in a corner and slept/played games. Needless to say I got on the PIP
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by fkdjs 14y ago
There are two barriers to entry: the network effect, s.t. the utility I derive corresponds to the friends I have on the social network, and their utility derives partly from me being on the social network, so at a critical mass it's hard to
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by fkdjs 14y ago
As someone who is on the 'high performer' list, I can tell you I have seen this first hand and this is fine, we will work harder, provided we're given an even more outrageous salary. Otherwise, I'm going to get burned out doing the job of m

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