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by sprout 14y ago
It's a key design constraint of status.aws.amazon.com that it not depend on any AWS services. (Or so I've heard.)
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by sprout 15y ago
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
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by sprout 16y ago
It was a series of reading comprehension problem-solving problems with short answer response. One bit was five documents relating to an environmental issue in a small town. The exam asked the student to analyze the documents, looking for bi
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by sprout 16y ago
I actually took part in this study. A few notes: 1. The exam was supposed to be administered 3 times, Freshman, Sophomore, and Senior years. I took it my Freshman and Senior years. 2. The exam was not a normal exam. I won't say it was point
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by sprout 16y ago
From personal experience watching my CPU usage, you're dead wrong.
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by sprout 16y ago
>It seems reasonable to expect that such tools can hardly improve the battery life over unrestricted Flash. If you mean to say what you're saying, that Flashblock doesn't make a significant change from unrestricted Flash, you're dead wr
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by sprout 16y ago
I disagree. I don't want to rely on Google for social. Separation of concerns is very important. As is data portability. This isn't an anti-competitive move, this is a pro-openness move.
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by sprout 16y ago
Not at all. I'm gainfully employed with no intention of moving to Reddit, but the last time they put up a puzzle I solved it just for the fun of it, and wrote a cover letter just to stay in the habit.
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by sprout 16y ago
Politics are politics. Any time more than 10 people form an organization, there are odd political heuristics used by the establishment that can be gamed.
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by sprout 16y ago
If Apple's Click2Flash is really letting 1x1 apps through, that kind of kill Safari as a reasonable Firefox alternative in my book.
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by sprout 16y ago
Given the fact that my 6 year old desktop I never use would serve me just as adequately as "the future of notebooks" for things I need to do, I've always found that attitude to be a useful hedge against needless spending.
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by sprout 16y ago
s|s/_/*| s/_/*| And since I haven't debugged that regex even if it was legible, add two spaces to the beginning of a line to reproduce text verbatim. (Even if it's on one line.)
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by sprout 16y ago
I take fundamental issue with the idea that a single metric should be sufficient to disqualify a student. If papers and research are exemplary, I see no reason that exams should disqualify someone from obtaining a Doctorate. The bar should
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by sprout 16y ago
If the Republicans continue to stonewall, I'd expect the filibuster to be abolished. The inaction is getting poisonous.
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by sprout 16y ago
Wow, you travelled to a warzone and you dealt with weaponry. Clearly you're interested in expanding the warzone.
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by sprout 16y ago
I think there's an interesting statement being made by this professor about speed, if the thing in question is really his exams. I mean, he seems to be making the statement that someone who produces excellent papers and research but is inca
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by sprout 16y ago
The article also curiously lists IBM exclusively as a "software" company, which seems like an even more clear weasel omission to push an agenda.
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by sprout 16y ago
I don't think the criticism is premature. The has been visible as long as I've been here. And it definitely discourages commenting in low-traffic threads when the average isn't normalized for viewers.
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by sprout 16y ago
Who are they going to attack? As with Oracle's suit, you can bet Google will be chomping at the bit to invalidate anything they put in the pool, which doubtlessly would weaken their bread and butter MPEG patents. And the thing is, hardware
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by sprout 16y ago
>What taxes are going to be raised to pay for the radical increase in spending? That's an unanswerable question. In order to determine how much taxes will have to be increased to pay for current expenditures, you would need to be able t
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by sprout 16y ago
One thing I like a lot about HN's lack of comment replies is that a direct reply to one person is an indirect reply to the parent, and I think that's a valuable thing to keep. It saves re-hashing arguments in separate threads.
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by sprout 16y ago
You're not paranoid if they're really out to gat you. (They in this case being your hardware, the network, and your co-workers fooling with either.)
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by sprout 16y ago
Mobile webkit?
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by sprout 16y ago
It's all obvious in the natural world (and living things reuse code without regard for law.)
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by sprout 16y ago
Link bait headline distracts from content of article, as usual. (As a pacifist I wouldn't contribute to this project, but your comment doesn't really address the substance of the article, which is very interesting and makes some interesting
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by sprout 16y ago
In essence, the GPL plays the long game and BSD plays the short game. This statement: >The GPL ends up standing out as the "free" license that makes it hardest to actually distribute free software and reuse free code in other free softw
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by sprout 16y ago
More than making a living off iOS applications. And there's probably a lot of overlap in fact. If iOS is the client, I think it's a pretty good bet Linux is the server.
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by sprout 16y ago
Hm, it seems to me it's very difficult to reuse the BSD code that underlies iOS. Yeah, you can use the code that Apple gives you, but as far as making modifications Apple actively makes it so you run into problems. In other words, talking a
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by sprout 16y ago
It's unlikely that the removal of agricultural subsidies would create a significantly large market for locally grown produce and meats. In fact, it would probably do precisely the opposite, as food could be outsourced just like the rest of
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by sprout 16y ago
>I guess we could all print fake boarding passes, though. That would actually be really effective. What's a good upcoming holiday to pull that as an act of civil disobedience? Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving might be an ideal day to reassert

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