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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
The plot thickens: "Dell Denies Discussing China Move With India Minister": http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a5Hy... Something tells me the tech media is a bit too eager to jump on the China-bashing bandwagon.
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Point: Bloat in cat is bad and un-UNIXy, cf. http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/ Counter-point: If cat is becoming your performance bottleneck, you're doing it wrong: http://sial.org/howto/shell/useless-cat/ Yes, the GNU version looks dread
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
I had to make some lucky guesses on #7 and #8, but I'm a bit embarrassed by my perfect score. It's a sign that I'm succumbing to the hive mind :( Probably time to turn on noprocrast.
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Perelman, by casually posting a proof on the Internet of one of the most famous problems in mathematics, was not just flouting academic convention but taking a considerable risk. If the proof was flawed, he would be publicly humiliated, an
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
IE6 is packaged with XP. A large part of why it's around is that people who bought XP couldn't be arsed to upgrade to anything better. If some corporate IT department wants to upgrade to Windows 7 but still reinstall IE6 over it for some c
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Have you tried listening to Shostakovich? He was moderately successful at blending jazz and classical elements, as well as at polarizing critics in the process.
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
By this logic, English-language opera (yes, it exists) ought to be doing well in America. Check your local opera house schedule and see how many performances you can find that are not in Italian, German, or French. There is some merit to t
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Sorry, my sarcasm meter needs some calibration. While HTML5 video driving forward web standards is certainly nice, I can't even bring myself to believe that we will rid ourselves of the rotting carcass that is IE6 within the next three yea
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
The point still stands, though: the app doesn't digitize the sheet music, it displays it from sources that have already digitized it. Unless the scores are beying keyed in by hand, the actual digitization of the sheet music is basically a s
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
IANAL answer: if you want to release under a different license, you are urged to do a "clean room" implementation that could not possibly have derived anything from the original. If it's a mere translation from one language to another, you
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
The real trick is to figure out a way to both charge $350 to the people who are willing to pay $350 for it, while also collecting 99 cents from the people who won't pay more than that. I wonder if a viral $349 off coupon would do the job..
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Heh - is TweetForACause coming next?
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
I think the more appropriate analogy is "shit filter." I really appreciate project managers that know when the customer is full of shit and can filter that out from our discussions, keeping me and my colleagues focused on the things that ac
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
I don't mind being a subordinate so long as I can use the "just following orders" excuse whenever something blows up in a customer's face. Part of management's responsibility, after all, is to shield us mere developers from the ugliness out
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Well, at least my profile on HN will no longer be the first result for a Google search for my username (it can now revert to some blog that's not mine). But I really wish HN were searchable; I try to find insight on the comment threads her
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
I agree. I "work for a living" (whatever that means, though in the context used here it's as opposed to being a "greedy banker"), and I can sympathize with the plight of the unemployed, but I've also made sure I had sufficient savings as a
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
As a nice bonus, Lilypond is also usable via a graphical interface, Denemo [1]. I've never used Sibelius or Finale so I can't comment on how they compare. What I really wish were available, however, is the IMSLP catalog [2] in digital form
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
The first time I used emacs, I thought half of its features were easter eggs. Even today I'm still not sure.
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
For an extremely weak version of "compliant," and definitely not out of the box. You'd have to grab Services for Unix, Cygwin, etc. to even get close.
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
That sounds plausible to me. I wonder if anyone would have noticed if they slipped "theological" in there, just to continue the trend.
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
Fair point. I've basically resigned myself to the fact that Apple, Nintendo, etc. are happily raking in the green from developers who are willing to play by their rules and consumers who are content with living in their walled gardens, and
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
> Every two weeks, he held all-hands meetings to beg people to work, unpaid, for another two weeks. That went on for two years. What's really astonishing is how long he managed to keep this up. He must have been an extremely good motiv
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
I sincerely hope Tufte can successfully counteract the Washington tradition of applying the methods from How to Lie with Statistics . A good visualization can just as well expose the fraud from a contrived one.
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
I'm not sure I understand your position. At the risk of beating a dead horse with another contrived analogy, in my opinion dealing with the App Store as the only channel for apps is akin to buying a house and being forced to get all my fur
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
In the "real" world, you're also welcome to buy from a different store when you have different values from the vendor. Nobody can force you to buy from Target when you're happy with what's carried by WalMart. You can't do this with the Ap
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
I'm curious how this might be applied to startups, as well as how it meshes with pg's advice to work in a startup "hub" like Silicon Valley, where the cost of living is anything but cheap. Is it really worthwhile to be subjected to the min
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
> You can't use traditional chroot kind of setup with nginx. I'm curious why this is the case. If even a beast like apache can be run from a chroot jail, shouldn't it be easier to do it with something lightweight like nginx?
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
I wouldn't put it that way. Think of the subsistence farmer struggling to make ends meet after the social safety net got taken away. Or the factory worker whose newborn child has birth defects likely induced by hazardous pollution in the
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
1. Do highly-paid consulting work for 1-2 months. 2. Move to your cheap country and take the rest of the year off. I hear Richard Stallman can actually pull this off in a not-so-cheap country, too.
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by CoreDumpling 17y ago
I realize that El Reg has the reputation of a tabloid, but I didn't think it could be this embarrassing. A quick search on the author revealed the following: GCG was founded in late 2001 by Dan Olds and is based in Beaverton, Oregon. The c

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