punctilio

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by punctilio 9y ago
Brooklyn, 1970s: Eenie meenie minie mo / Catch a tiger by the toe / If he hollers, let him go / My mother said to pick this one (with the last line being the most common variant I remember, although I think it was common to
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by punctilio 10y ago
Indeed; I believe casual dress in general-purpose, public adult leisure contexts was initially associated strongly with the upper/upper-middle classes and was seen as a signal of higher status, even in cases where the dress item in que
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by punctilio 10y ago
I flew from JFK to Heathrow in 1986 (don't recall the airline but assume it was either a major US carrier or British Airways) - I vividly remember the cabin being full of cigarette smoke. I suppose there must have been a nominal "
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by punctilio 10y ago
Actually, plagiarism and copyright infringement are different things. For example, it is possible to plagiarize something that is not copyrighted, and many forms of copyright infringement wouldn't fit the definition of plagiarism.
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by punctilio 10y ago
Oracle owns copyright on OpenJDK, so it can't 'violate'. Maybe more precisely, if you regard the API in question as copyrightable, Oracle has clearly licensed it under GPLv2 plus the Classpath Exception. Also, the issue of co
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by punctilio 10y ago
Source for "In the 50's congress was made up of Engineers"?
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Docker and the 'F'-word(thenewstack.io)
1 points by punctilio 10y ago|0 comments
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Forking Docker Not(linkedin.com)
12 points by punctilio 10y ago|0 comments
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Suspending Patrick McHardy as coreteam member(marc.info)
22 points by punctilio 10y ago|5 comments
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by punctilio 10y ago
WildFly is the project formerly known as JBoss Application Server.
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by punctilio 10y ago
"Yeah no" is now fairly common in American English too. See, e.g.: http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/05/yeah-no.html
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by punctilio 10y ago
Right. And there's been a trend at least over the past 10-15 years at larger companies of more work being done in-house -- the baseline, routine stuff you speak of -- rather than being outsourced to firms, another factor in the increas
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by punctilio 10y ago
That's essentially right. Law schools have generally not focused on providing any sort of training for the actual practice of law. The model of education established by the elite law schools and imitated to a large extent by most of th
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by punctilio 10y ago
A small number of law schools have debt-forgiveness programs for graduates who take low-paying public-service jobs.
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by punctilio 10y ago
A lot of what's been going on at the higher end of the legal services industry is greater cost control by clients. Expensive, elite law firms had a long run in which they were able to justify heavy pyramid-like staffing of matters base
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by punctilio 10y ago
Patents have been granted on claims that essentially cover an API. I think it would be harder to get such patents issued today than 10 years ago though.
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by punctilio 10y ago
OpenJDK isn't a good example, as Oracle owns copyright on it.