pjbrow

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by pjbrow 8y ago
Can't see any contact on your profile, feel free to ping me on pat@codepact.com.
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by pjbrow 8y ago
We'd be interested to see how that'd look. Will contact you via email. Re jQuery: this is an emphasis in our copy for this post to Hacker News only. We've found that it helps technical people (many of our customers are techn
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by pjbrow 8y ago
Yes, "compile target" is a very nice way to put it. The key idea is that you only really analyze all the text when there's a problem, which tends to be the job of experts, and that's not often. The wet code that "
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by pjbrow 8y ago
One of the main ideas behind the system is using simplified language to "call" modules of legalese like software functions. This technique abstracts away a lot of complexity on the top layer of the contract (which makes the docum
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Show HN: Codepact – jQuery for contracts(codepact.com)
21 points by pjbrow 8y ago|11 comments
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Lawyers should learn from software developers(blog.codepact.com)
1 points by pjbrow 8y ago|0 comments
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by pjbrow 10y ago
The primary problem with law is the technicality of the language, aka "legalese". At the moment, expecting someone off the street to properly understand a legal document is broadly equivalent to expecting them to understand what&#
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by pjbrow 11y ago
I was considering this out the outset, but one of the benefits of sending responses this way is that other people I work with have started to use it (which they wouldn't if it appeared as a snippet).
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Ask HN: Is a system for single character responses to emails a bad idea?
2 points by pjbrow 11y ago|4 comments
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by pjbrow 11y ago
Yep - that's how the commercial technical detail is often dealt with. We're stretching (and slightly rejigging) the same concept to legally substantive text.
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by pjbrow 11y ago
Hi everyone, I'm a contributor to LawPatch. We started this project because we wanted legal positions that we could call like functions (as if we were coding). Our aim is to make legal language simple without introducing ambiguity or
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by pjbrow 11y ago
Agree that foot / end noting is another good way to do it - the important thing is the drafting technique rather than the way it's implemented. We're using Github permalinks to cover the linking issue for now, but we're
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Show HN: LawPatch – JQuery for Law Using Git(blog.codepact.com)
21 points by pjbrow 11y ago|8 comments
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Show HN: LawPatch – JQuery for Law using Git(blog.codepact.com)
4 points by pjbrow 11y ago|1 comments
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by pjbrow 12y ago
The doctrines underpinning IP law are flimsy and arbitrary. It's normal for technology to change the balance of power (and the laws that enshrine that balance). In the current environment, Hollywood's business model is unreasona
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by pjbrow 12y ago
It would be great if a developer beyond the reach of the Western legal system would take this project up with a self hosted repo. Code is speech. It's a terrible precedent for devs to be afraid to have code (including me after readin
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by pjbrow 13y ago
Thanks, I didn't know that. According to Wikipedia, another of his nicknames amongst Israelis was "The King of Israel". That moniker at least, indicates that he was regarded as a formidable character.
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by pjbrow 13y ago
Nope, authored it here and then posted it on worldnews afterwards. That's quite clear from the timestamps.
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by pjbrow 13y ago
Will attempt fast responses. Don't want to piss everyone off by getting too far into the weeds on a topic that probably shouldn't even be on HN. Also, I prefer coding to dwelling on a previous life. :) You say: "My view is
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by pjbrow 13y ago
All reasonable points, here's why you're wrong, though. First, I appreciate the acknowledgment that Arafat was indeed involved with Al-Aqusa (a terrorist group bombing Israeli civilians). Not sure why you think that that would ma
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by pjbrow 13y ago
It's simply incorrect to say that Arafat kept the radicals under control - there was clear evidence that he was involved with the militant / terrorist wing of his political party, Fateh (the Al-Aqusa Martyrs Brigades), which carri
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by pjbrow 13y ago
Yes, Arafat was a known quantity to the US and Israel, but I think you've drawn the wrong conclusion. The fact was that Israel and the US viewed Arafat as a road block to a grand bargain. Israel made their best offer in Camp David, a
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by pjbrow 13y ago
At the risk of getting down voted on what is an emotional issue for a lot of people, here's my (quite realist) view. I was living in the West Bank when Arafat died, and I knew a bunch of people who worked in his compound. He got very
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An Idea to Improve the Website Terms of Use Situation(techlawyer.com.au)
1 points by pjbrow 13y ago|0 comments
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by pjbrow 13y ago
Very well said. I agree entirely - there should be a concrete change as a result of this thread. It's impossible for a reasonable person to read the opinions of the well informed people here and continue to think that everything&#x27
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Virtual Creatures Evolved by Algorithm(youtube.com)
2 points by pjbrow 13y ago|0 comments
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace(projects.eff.org)
3 points by pjbrow 13y ago|0 comments
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Kim Dotcom's Napkin Calculations on Cost of Surveillance Data Storage
15 points by pjbrow 13y ago|2 comments
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by pjbrow 13y ago
The wording "in connection with" is specifically considered in the article. Also, here is the definition for "Hosted Services" (it's extremely broad): 1.2 What's Included in "Hosted Services". "
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by pjbrow 13y ago
Yep, the logic text book that I learnt it from. Just google "inductive logic prove negative" to check out a few articles on it.

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