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by yp_all 12y ago
Why did they disallow dotless domains? Honest qyestion. As an alternative, one could write and distribute a "free" web browser with a search box that looks like an address bar where the search goes to a particular search engine t
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by yp_all 12y ago
Post a sample .csv file you believe is too difficult. I will solve your problem with only UNIX utilities. And I'm sure others will solve it other ways. Usually I only need sed and tr. Sometimes lex or AWK. Arguing about something wit
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by yp_all 12y ago
Maybe a more interesting question is whether they ever exercised their right to terminate for brown M&M's. Is there any notion of material breach, major vs minor breach, etc. in "tour contracts"?
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by yp_all 12y ago
"... competition destroys profits for ... society as a whole." What is meant by "profits"? "Progress comes from monopoly..." What is meant by "progress"? Does the Antitrust Division at the DOJ do Book
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by yp_all 12y ago
"What makes you think Mozilla does not pay taxes?" Corporate structure. (Mozilla Corp. is wholly owned subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation. Only Mozilla Corporation pays taxes.) 2008 IRS audit. 2012 settlement with IRS. Perhaps a b
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by yp_all 12y ago
Mozilla is an organization that has hundreds of millions in revenue but does not pay taxes? How many employees? What are their salaries? Whatever, I don't care about that stuff. Here's my question: Does Mozilla still portend to be
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by yp_all 12y ago
Correct me if I am wrong, but maybe one way to look at the CFAA or situations like this one is that every website has the right to deny access to any particular user. This can be done via firewall ruleset but also via cease and desist lette
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by yp_all 12y ago
I am under the impression that the information that this suit could have revealed about Mr Jobs' character was potentially far more damaging than any settlement or award the defendants might have to pay. To put it another way, I get th
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by yp_all 12y ago
Does the HN title accurately reflect the article? Was this a wordlwide study? The title of the article is "U.S. children read, but not well or often: report"
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by yp_all 12y ago
Who said it did? Consider that I was commenting in a general sense. djb's work, whether it's coding style or build system or something else, tends to differ from what is "popular". The parent's comment is along the
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by yp_all 12y ago
"You (presumably) and I have beaten ourselves into submission to the Linux style; the authors' haven't." An awakening! Is it really so terrible to have things compile quickly and without the usual ./configure nonsen
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by yp_all 12y ago
Sorry for the misquote. I guess that my misquote completely misrepresents the issue? I never said the data should be not provided in an API. If you read closely (for more than only "errors"), then you would observe the word &quot
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by yp_all 12y ago
"public domain... but can [only] be accessed in small pieces" Sounds like the wonderful world of "APIs" on the www. This sort of data should be on an FTP server. I can build my own "apps". Give me the option o
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by yp_all 12y ago
That's a valid question and one I have considered myself. So what drives the folks at McAfee to do this? Maybe it is the same thinking that drives programnmers to not want to write code. "Don't reinvent the wheel." &quot
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by yp_all 12y ago
Pot calling the kettle black. Crawling others' websites then selling ads. <--- Blekko Scraping others' websites then selling ads. <--- ???? Selling access to user-generated content. <--- OSVDB Amusing to watch these folk
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by yp_all 12y ago
Great story. It is good to know that some programmers do learn over time. For every 1 story like yours there are probably 10 where someone is still traying to get "revenge" by saying nasty things about you know who. Those more co
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by yp_all 12y ago
I think it's worse that tactless; it's brainless. Customers of a business care about who sits on the Board and exercise their right to take their business elsewhere. The horror! It sounds like the whimper of someone who stands to