BrandonY

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by BrandonY 12y ago
Are you suggesting that it should be illegal to rent an antenna via a recurring fee?
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by BrandonY 12y ago
Phones do that now?
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by BrandonY 12y ago
Nope. This is also a disaster. I typed "daft punk" into that box. Daft Punk has four full albums available for prime music. None of those albums are in the search results. Instead I get a "Daft Punk's Top So..." pla
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by BrandonY 12y ago
I did not expect that article to be nearly as long nor as interesting.
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by BrandonY 13y ago
Sure, it seems like every time you get to the whole truth, the truth just divides itself into smaller and smaller pieces and falls out of your hands. Eventually, though, there must be some fundamental smallest unit of truth that is much sma
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by BrandonY 13y ago
I remember being in a computer vision class some years ago where the professor was explaining to us how RGB fails to capture a wide range of colors. I was annoyed that his presentation didn't show any examples of these other colors, an
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by BrandonY 13y ago
Much of the technical advice in Steve Yegge's article boils down to this: "Study a data-structures and algorithms book. Focus on complexity, graphs, discrete math, operating systems, and algorithms." While you could consider
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by BrandonY 13y ago
> big list of salutation options, including awesomeness like "Baroness"... That's interesting. Including titles of nobility makes things much more interesting. The appropriate thing to write on an envelope for a Duke is &q
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by BrandonY 13y ago
Trying to foster? No. Fostering? Yes. What Apple intends to achieve with their policies is an interesting but academic discussion. Policies, laws, and features can have all have plenty of bizarre side effects. For instance, I'll bet ya
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by BrandonY 13y ago
> Since the new system was implemented, involuntary departures have increased by 50%: this is because...the new system requires executives and managers to have regular “tough discussions” with employees...rather than putting them off unt
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by BrandonY 13y ago
Smalltalk also is rather famous for giving developers enough freedom to more or less destroy the environment with the terrifying looking command "Smalltalk := nil"
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by BrandonY 13y ago
For me, I have a young kid and am the sole breadwinner at the moment. My goals are to a.) generate money reliably for my family, and b.) be with my family as much as possible, and c.) not die of boredom at work. Startups are risky and can r
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by BrandonY 13y ago
User community as testers presents some interesting pros and cons. Pros: * Tests are self-updating. Add a new feature: tests come in for free. Change a feature: tests automatically update. Fail to document a change: tests fail. * Tests are
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by BrandonY 13y ago
I'm not a financial expert, but I might suggest that paying off you credit card debt is probably the strongest investment you can make right now.
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by BrandonY 13y ago
Edward Snowden on this ruling: "Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans' rights. It is the first of many." Well said, sir.
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by BrandonY 13y ago
Elsewhere in the thread somebody mentioned that a particular location in China around when you got your phone is likely the phone being tested before being shipped to you.
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by BrandonY 13y ago
I'm certainly no lawyer, but for me the argument goes like this: We all agree that math isn't patentable, so let's assume that. As math is not patentable, no mathematical theorem, proof, or function is patentable. All process
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by BrandonY 13y ago
Indeed, there are over 4 MILLION top secret holders. That's almost twice as many people as are in prison.
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by BrandonY 13y ago
Are you thinking of Aardvark? I think Google bought that a while back and then discontinued it.
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by BrandonY 13y ago
> it's a banana republic Milk republic? Potato republic? Egg republic? Atlantic salmon republic?
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by BrandonY 13y ago
The RSA patent, 4,405,829, was pretty innovative and also quite useful, although even it had been invented in secret a year earlier by the British. That said, I don't think there's any evidence that the existence of the patent sys
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by BrandonY 13y ago
The hardcopy has EXTRINSIC value. You own it, and you can resell it. The softcopy has very little extrinsic value. You neither own it nor can give it away. There is some intrinsic value to the softcopy, but mostly convenience and being free
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by BrandonY 13y ago
This is precisely how Feynman got the patents on the nuclear submarine and the nuclear airplane.
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by BrandonY 13y ago
There's a hot new technology for accomplishing this called the Common Gateway Interface. Apache has an experimental new module that supports this, but I'd wait to see if this mod_cgi thing sticks around for a while before relying
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by BrandonY 13y ago
In his example, he did not suggest that there were any downsides to voting yes. What was your basis for voting no?
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by BrandonY 13y ago
Yeah, that makes it really convenient for me if I have to decrypt an important message from a public computer.
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by BrandonY 13y ago
AES is really great compared to RSA, so I put my AES key on my website instead of my RSA public key. It's made it very easy for people to contact me securely.
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by BrandonY 13y ago
I don't know much about biology, but I imagine that if your legs were very lightweight and bumpy, and you pressed them firmly against each other, they would probably stick together pretty well, and so if you tried to move them both in
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by BrandonY 13y ago
One of those pornstars is wearing a shirt that reads "@eat24 is the official sponsor of my muchies." I'm not sure how that could be less organic without removing all the carbon.
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by BrandonY 13y ago
Apparently WebGL doesn't work on Chrome for certain types of hardware, including Intel Mobile 945 Express, NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200, certain very old drivers, and a variety of other certain pieces of hardware/software, see http:&

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