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by jhdevos 13y ago
Naming it Cause and Effect is misleading; it makes it seem like bayes rule only applies when there is a causal relation somewhere. It also make the symmetry of the first line seem off. I would write the first line as P(A and B are both true
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by jhdevos 13y ago
You used the phrase 'to eliminate such frauds.' The suggestion (to me) is that this is a fool proof method that eliminates such frauds. I would contend this is not true; fraud is still relatively easy. The question is how much this promote
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by jhdevos 13y ago
But right now, there isn't even a way to get a patent revoked in a court because of obviousness or triviality. Prior art is basically the only way to attack a patent. It's the entire system that is built around the assumption that 'obviousn
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by jhdevos 14y ago
Then you still have to hope that the program doesn't have any minor resource leaks that become big leaks when the process has run for a hundred hours...
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by jhdevos 14y ago
Of course, there are also the RuntimeExceptions that should really have been just Exceptions. These are often thrown by libraries where new features required exceptions to be thrown, but they couldn't be checked exceptions because the inter
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by jhdevos 14y ago
There are so many free things on Android that it's hard to get myself to try paid for games. The exception is games that I get to know through some other source, like your excellent web page with live demo. I'd pay for this game on android,
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by jhdevos 14y ago
I can't help but feel that this is battling symptoms, not the real problem. A frivolous lawsuit is a frivolous lawsuit, no matter who brings it. The real problem is that patents give far too much power (injunctions of products heavily inves
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by jhdevos 14y ago
In the original, Linus had already obscured "fucking", but not "dick". Perhaps the automated obscenity filter just didn't pick up the "f*cking".
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by jhdevos 14y ago
Or even better: # Get my IP address by checking dyndns.org curl -s checkip.dyndns.org | grep -Eo '[0-9\.]+' When reading the script, you want to know what it does, not what each character in it does. Using long flags actually hinde
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by jhdevos 14y ago
Should we now all print documents to those printers with warnings saying that they are publicly accessible?
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by jhdevos 14y ago
With the assumption that patents are worth having, that would no longer be a bad thing. The biggest problem with these trolls is that there is hardly any risk or cost in suing, and they can disengage at any point if that starts to change. T
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by jhdevos 14y ago
Wow! So, with an infinite stack of Rhino inside JVM inside Rhine ..... you could get infinite performance! Cool....
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by jhdevos 14y ago
Did you notice that you keep abreviating their name? DuckDuckGo is just not something you want to type in, and that will stop people going there.
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by jhdevos 14y ago
Yes, you can. But you have to think about it, and put a little bit of effort into it, at a moment you really want to do a quick search. It makes switching a step with some friction, instead of making it possible to 'ease into it' by simply
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by jhdevos 14y ago
Ugh. I hate these websites where you have to hover over things to get at any useful information.
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by jhdevos 14y ago
My 6 years old daughter often wants to play games on my phone. Some mode which restricts her access (I don't want her looking at Youtube etc. for instance) so I can leave her unattended with it would be very useful.
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by jhdevos 14y ago
You are not the only one who does this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI
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by jhdevos 14y ago
I just tried entering a bogus US address, and got as far as the page where you can choose a payment method (which includes PayPal, so presumably you don't need a US credit card). If you get access to the books as a download, I suppose that
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by jhdevos 14y ago
Not directly (but of course you were not entirely serious). Look at, for instance, the letter chart. The letters at the bottom are turned into very sharp forms, but not all look like letters, and those that do might not be turned into the c
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by jhdevos 14y ago
For me, awesome was the first window manager that I liked without having to tweak much. I did eventually tweak little things, but that is a very slow process happening over a long period -- the default config works well enough for me.
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by jhdevos 14y ago
>> Instead software patents seem to be mostly used to sue people who independently invented the same thing. >I don't think you can point to any statistic to back this up. I think that was already clear from the word 'seem'. To m
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by jhdevos 14y ago
The really weird thing is that "infringing product", in the judges order, is basically equal to "product that only sells because it is ripping off the other's patent". Even though that single aspect of the product (being a rectangle with ro
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by jhdevos 14y ago
European commissioners have two undesirable attributes: * Far too much power * Low public visibility If they perceive their job as "governing this part of the world without paying much attention to what lesser people are saying", then that
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by jhdevos 14y ago
That will be solved in part if patents get assigned a value (on which 'damages' etc. are based) that are proportional to the work that went in. For a software product that contains thousands of good ideas, the value of each of those will be
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by jhdevos 14y ago
Affordable, of course, is relative; I've seen a price of $1500 quoted somewhere, which is certainly not something that I can afford right now.
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by jhdevos 14y ago
That's ridiculous! Obviously, use a micro SD card, it's much smaller and easier to stick somewhere. Come to think of it, would that actually be heat resistant enough to allow the receiver to be able to read it? Hmm, perhaps some more resear
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by jhdevos 14y ago
if (somecondition): return if (anothercondition): return Now, let's say for a second that I just realized I don't want to return, I want to do some processing, then return. This happens a few times a day for
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by jhdevos 14y ago
You make valid points, but make them at the wrong point in the discussion from the point of view of many people here. By seeing many, many examples of this sort, and by our own experiences in the industry, we've already discovered that soft
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by jhdevos 15y ago
What if the person had a $100,000 worth of cash in his coat pocket -- would you reimburse that, too?
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by jhdevos 15y ago
No, this phone will actually have a 41MP sensor. It will typically produce 5 or 8MP images, though, downsampling the original image, resulting in a lot lower noise than with a normal 5 or 8MP camera-on-a-phone. It really sounds pretty neat

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