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by yellowredblack 15y ago
This statement confused the heck out of me (wow! magic free memory) but of course, the pointers are being held to the contents of the memory, just not to the start of the object, which is what the GC cares about. Perhaps the GC could be mod
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
And had the 1password article stated that, then I would not have needed to post.
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
I believe it was changed because the first version caused a massive furor. I don't believe that dropbox has any intention of screwing people over. Nor do I believe that they had any intention of allowing users to log in to any account witho
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
No, I think they completely missed the issue. Which is * dropbox's customers are not lawyers * serving up people's files without passwords one week reduces people's confidence when the read new TOCs next week. No, nix that, the real issue
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
It is not significantly different to a lawyer . Is dropbox's target market lawyers?
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
to the extent we think it necessary for the Service vs to the extent reasonably necessary for the Service. This license is solely to enable us to technically administer, display, and operate the Services. I am astounded that people here
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
Here's my complaint. The author is complaining about a big furor over the TOCs, and then proceeds to show us the TOCs that "seems" to be behind it. Here are the facts: * Dropbox released new TOCs. * There was a big furor. * Dropbox
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
Ah yes, the old "we can fuck you as long as we use nice words while we do it" argument. I made a "civil" argument and was modded down. Censorship isn't civil. And your 2.8 avg isnt anything to shout about either.
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
Dont fucking mod me down. The author claims that this is the paragraph that caused the furor: We sometimes need your permission to do what you ask us to do with your stuff (for example, hosting, making public, or sharing your files). By su
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
Except that the excerpt you posted is the new, modified version after all the furor. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/0515218/Dropbox-... Compare the above version to this new form: "This license is solely to enable us to techn
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
The big "Play Angry Birds NOW" button in Chrome seems to be evidence to the contrary.
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
I once pair-programmed an IK animation harness. The math was hard (for me anyway). There were plenty of times where I'd have balked and gone and made a cup of coffee but my partner had the insight and we plowed ahead. Sometimes I was the on
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
How are regression bugs more dangerous than other kinds of bug? Here's how I'd rate the "dangerousness" of a bug: 1. How easy is it to detect? 2. How easy is it to reproduce? 3. What are the consequences of it occuring? 4. How lik
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
The complaint: but unfortunately the culture at RIM does not allow us to speak openly without having to worry about the career-limiting effects The response: it is particularly difficult to believe that a “high level employee” in good st
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
Can we PLEASE lose the paper-on-desk metaphor and have a 7 day calendar that always shows the next 7 f&*!@##! days!
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
Testing: testing is at the forefront of our development philosophy. We never need to check our code coverage to know that it's at 100%: with disciplined TDD, no line of code will be written without a test. Bravo. In my experience that can
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
This is what I learned from a half-day legal seminar in california aimed at startups: In California, unless the work is for course credit at an established institution, an intern must be paid minimum wage. If not, the intern can do the work
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
Eddie Murphy said it best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpPdgrr5diM
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
What's next? a 556 loveseat?
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by yellowredblack 15y ago
And oh god i had to install it from floppies. I think windows NT was 20 of them.