metageek

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by metageek 13y ago
IIRC, it takes just as much energy to reach L4 (or L5) as to reach the Moon--they're in the same orbit. If you've got settlers on the Moon, or beyond the Earth-Moon system, L4 is probably a good place to build a commercial and ind
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by metageek 13y ago
That makes more sense, thanks.
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by metageek 13y ago
Back at Netscape, Jim Barksdale hated the term "browser war", on the grounds that a war justifies extreme behavior. He didn't want us believing the browser war meant we should be breaking the normal rules.
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by metageek 13y ago
>Seriously if AT&T doing this, there is no reason to believe that other providers do not. The article says AT&T has the data for any telco that uses AT&T switches. This is a little odd, given that the company currently known
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by metageek 13y ago
ARM doesn't make anything physical--but neither do most software companies. ARM makes products that their customers actually want. Patent trolls don't.
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by metageek 13y ago
If LR operated as described in the indictment, it didn't really have information about its customers, so those records might not have been all that useful.
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by metageek 13y ago
paddy_m said browser engine, so Chromium doesn't count. And WebKit wasn't actually new; it was based on KHTML.
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by metageek 13y ago
Isn't JS injection a copyright violation, since it creates a derived work? Or has that idea been shot down before?
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by metageek 13y ago
Or as soon as the states close the loophole so that this program is treated the same as a lease.
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by metageek 13y ago
It did have one, but it ablated.
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by metageek 14y ago
"Neesh" is taught as Correct in the US, though it's not universally used.
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by metageek 14y ago
I agree, except for the "focus" bit. The engineers that worked on this alleged feature would not have been much help signing new content distribution deals. (Well. I'm generalizing. I'm an engineer, and I know I wouldn't be.)
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by metageek 14y ago
My main Netflix player is a Blu-Ray player from 2009. I don't think Samsung is going to push an update to add the Don't Share This button. I'm just not going to connect my accounts.
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by metageek 14y ago
Doesn't that run afoul of the same problem as Righthaven? There is no bare "right to sue" that can be transferred without transferring the copyright.
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by metageek 14y ago
>I'd apply the same copyright principle as phone books So would I—phone books are not subject to compilation copyright, because there's no editorial choice going on. That was settled in the _Feist_ case.
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by metageek 14y ago
And presumably the autistic community knows about ASL, and the children who can learn it, do—it'd be greatly preferable to carrying around a multi-thousand-dollar device. I think we can assume that this child's problems leave her unable to
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by metageek 14y ago
Yes, but that sort of regulation doesn't require medallions.
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by metageek 14y ago
> One may argue that Europe went too far with their "social" expenses (hence, the current financial meltdown). I'm not sure Greece in particular went too far, as such; isn't the problem that they've got a massive epidemic of tax evasio
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by metageek 14y ago
Nor is "how not to be interrupted" covered in the CS curriculum.
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by metageek 14y ago
Interesting; I've encountered "yak shaving" as meaning something slightly different: it's when your main task depends on a subordinate task which is long, difficult, and stupid --e.g., in programming, it's something which the tools should
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by metageek 14y ago
They're not even using the Android sharing system. The only way to share from the Instagram app is to upload to Instagram, and optionally tell it to forward the photo to one or more of the sites they support (Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare,
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by metageek 14y ago
>And is there anything wrong with people feeling like they are creative? Yes, there is, when they aren't being creative. When they're just choosing a cookie cutter, telling them they should feel creative is cheating them of the real
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by metageek 14y ago
I think ianterrell's idea was that, if you're going from, say, version 2 to version 3, you release version 3 for free, but all the new version 3 features are a single in-app purchase. No nickel and diming. One result of this approach is
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by metageek 15y ago
Yeah, but up here we're more likely to slip on ice and drop ourselves.
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by metageek 15y ago
I'm getting the right cert.
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by metageek 15y ago
You'd probably have to write new code; but you could port the algorithms, which are the distillation of their trading expertise. That'd boost you several years ahead in domain knowledge—and, as GS pointed out, you'd also know how GS was go
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by metageek 15y ago
I just ran into it for the first time. I bought an MHL cable from Monoprice, and it was DOA. I requested an RMA; they asked one question to make sure it wasn't pilot error, then said they'd send a new cable, and I didn't need to send the
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by metageek 15y ago
Even if you're not putting the RString struct on the stack, the embedded string optimization means calling malloc() just once instead of twice.
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by metageek 15y ago
And are they also good engineers? That's the hard part; the kind of obsessive focus usually required to be a good geek tends to impair the social skills required to be a good manager. Not always, I admit, but usually. I did work in Silic
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by metageek 15y ago
> I've always assumed that e-books are expensive because their buyers are known to be affluent. That's probably part of it, yeah. Maybe we'll see that eroding with the spread of smartphones. The problem there is that generating multip

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