thespin

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by thespin 14y ago
Costs >> Benefits
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by thespin 14y ago
I would guess because he developed his solution while at work and his employment terms require all inventions are assigned to the company. Hence it's not his to license.
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by thespin 14y ago
How do people in the Netherlands feel about the notion of "common carrier"? http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/wp/citi/citinoam11.html Is common carrier a useful concept for society? What do you think?
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by thespin 14y ago
Yes. I think some of the other publishers are more egregious than Elsevier. Everything is bundled together as you say and access is monopolised that way. But things have to start somewhere. Maybe it's only with Elsevier and maybe it with
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by thespin 14y ago
If there was a generic utpclient/utpserver pair of applications that I could use to proxy non-uTP applications, as there is with CCP, I'd try using uTP/LEDBAT. But to my knowledge, there isn't.
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by thespin 14y ago
Mathematics Departments are going to be the heros in lowering the costs to access scholarly journals, in all disciplines. It has to start somewhere. Low cost, online education, which is a popular topic here on HN, is a neat idea. But to re
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by thespin 14y ago
I'll stick with CurveCP, thanks. It works, it has the added "perk" of encryption, and it's not tied to a single application, like uTP. Then again, if you tie something into an application that hundreds of thousands of people already use, l
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by thespin 14y ago
Bert, you forgot epigenetics, specifically methylation. Or maybe that was intentional, since technically this is "code" that is passed outside of DNA. But it forms a significant and mysterious part of the "final program". Not to be ignored
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by thespin 14y ago
I'm willing to bet this problem doesn't end with Yahoo. How many CEO's do you think have resumes that contain false data? CEO's, older, experienced CEO's, only expose their resumes to a very limited scope of reviewers. I'd suggest that th
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by thespin 14y ago
What does your last paragraph have to do with the clause you excerpted? This clause appears to have nothing to do with the company suing you. It appears to deal with the reverse. When you mentioned "people who use lawsuits as a normative
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by thespin 14y ago
Do you think Dragon's Den does this? Imagine if every reality TV actor had to agree to give a portion of their future earnings to the network, in the event they become very successful. The question is, if you ask ABC to delete this provisio
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by thespin 14y ago
I'm at the circus graveyard right now and there is no headstone for Morty Smith! I would post a picture but "I'm going old school" and left my phone at home. ;) You gotta love this guy's story. It's really well done. Now, suspend your di
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by thespin 14y ago
Isn't it "slow" because it dates back to the practice of flying cargos of checks across the country to be cleared by other banks? For each check, that process could take up to a few days to complete. Hence the applicable time periods for
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by thespin 14y ago
If others can replicate what the author did, then it might rise to the level of "exhaustively researched". If you are a Comcast customer, try to replicate the experiment yourself. See if you get the same results. "Set Top Box" == Black Box
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by thespin 14y ago
If Lincoln was as honest and ethical as history tells us he was, I doubt he would support a guy like Zuckerberg, and certain other backers of FB with whom FB users are not so familiar.
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by thespin 14y ago
Gotta love the way this is written. Well done. As for the story, it appears President Lincoln understood the sensibility of decentralisation. Each town manages its own Gazette. The townsfolk have a personal relationship with the person i
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by thespin 14y ago
To understand why MySpace was designed like it was, perhaps it's helpful to look at the man behind the orginal MySpace: it's the guy behind Demand Media. They own the domain name registrar eNom and Google SEO operations like eHow. His idea
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by thespin 14y ago
True, especially the part about the need for great writing. Unfortunately, re: your first point, that's a large audience, one which advertisers are happy to target. And I'm not sure good journalism was ever relevant to those with short att
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by thespin 14y ago
I have had a special love for music all my life. But I sometimes wish I did not know what I now know about the Recording Industry in America and how they do "business". I simply do not see music the same way. These people are disgusting. T
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by thespin 14y ago
I'm a Journalist Trying To Come To Grips With Technology That Is Making My Profession Irrelevant
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by thespin 14y ago
I use them constantly but almost always BRE. And I'm still discovering new tricks using only BRE. I guess I'm too dumb to use anything more clever. I'll never be a Larry Wall. I still feel I have more to learn just on the level of BRE.
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by thespin 14y ago
I'll bet he was referring to code he wrote himself. It's slightly more complicated (pun intended) when it's someone else's code you are negating.
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by thespin 14y ago
Nope. Quite the contrary. I was trying to avoid bringing the strange sentiment to which you are referring to the fore. Mere mention of those initials causes an adverse reaction in a lot of developers and admins. I voluntarily use his sof
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by thespin 14y ago
Perhaps I wasn't clear. What I meant was that I would have expected you to have looked at CCP and evaluated it for your purposes, as you did with RED.
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by thespin 14y ago
I'm surprised he doesn't mention CurveCP. He's taken ideas from that author before (e.g. netstrings, which you'll find in the .torrent file format). TCP does suck. If you try to use it for lots of short lived connections. And that pretty
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by thespin 14y ago
You should read this guy's story. Read his settlement. You might observe that the companies he was reporting on were far more deceptive than he was. He was but a pawn in their game. You might even conclude he was more or less the fall g
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by thespin 14y ago
"rise to the top"? I think you mean protecting his position at the top from "executives". Some of who may have little skill to offer the company (as someone above said, age is a factor) but are who are quite adept at maneuvering their wa
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by thespin 14y ago
You're right. Too cynical. I took it out. But remember we don't know who the executive is. He/she may have been even worse than Zuckerberg on the ethical scale. I don't doubt there are some very creepy "executives" working at Facebook.
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by thespin 14y ago
"Facebook was not intended to be a company." I'm still not sure it is a company. What exactly does FB produce? It's main asset is your personal information. Which of course it does not own. FB users produce everything, and hand it over f
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by thespin 14y ago
HN needs more Adobe bashing.

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