HeWhoLurksLate

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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
If you are a relatively new company, getting on stable ground, would you appreciate it if someone stole your IP and then proceeded to copy you, and get a huge boost past the part that nearly bankrupted you and left you homeless? That'
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
To add on that, patents require the disclosure of a method in exchange for a protection of that method. If Tesla applies for a patent, they have "opened the source" by that action. If Tesla then goes and open sources their p
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
In line with this: [1] Senator Warren gets her anti-Facebook ads blocked, too. It seems like Facebook just feels threatened by everything right now, and that they recognize that they're dependent on people being on their platform to st
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
Inspiring! As a middle schooler, I was given free non-destructive reign in my tech class to do whatever I wanted. From that, I learned so much- I set up a Beowulf cluster out of old desktops, scavenged RAM from a pile of unused desktops t
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
This article is one of a very small few that have made me cry. It's worth the effort.
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
This is one of the best descriptions I have ever read. Thank you.
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
I was going to post a text-heavy reply to you about that, but I decided not to. Essentially, my family got an iPad 4 and bluetooth keyboard case. A few years later, when Apple was prepping for their iPad Pro and positioning tablets as des
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
> Especially those sprinkles that get stuck under the keys ;) Excuse me, wouldn't the sprinkles be the things that PC users take for granted?
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
Outside of Intel Phi, is there anything like an eCPU? That would be really cool, and could be exactly what we need. Back before Thunderbolt, I used a mini-PCI-express to PCIE adapter for more GPU power. This was great for games, but I imm
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
Is anybody else here still really confused by USB-IF's decisions recently? From what I can tell: Formerly-USB_3.0 was "USB_3.1 Gen1" is now USB 3.1 Formerly-USB_3.1 was "USB_3.1 Gen2" is now USB 3.2 Gen2 The ne
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
> Uses script to copy programming course. That's a little meta, don't you think?
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
This is a very narrow view. The code is not just a company asset, it's a customer asset as well, and their needs ought to be considered as well . Have you ever had software you were using just stop working because remote servers fa
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
> Corporations are people. Corporations are entities made up of people that have incorporated . Corporations are therefore supported by people. If the people aren't there, a corporation will fall. Forests don't need people,
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
> What you're missing is that I wasn't looking for entertainment, I was looking for knowledge. These are the exact words that I was looking for. Thank you.
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
"Connections" is one of the best TV shows I've ever seen (I have it on DVD) and I'm barely even an adult.
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
Weather forecasting is not a small program, NOAA & NWS are both pretty big, but they're not the largest. Actually, scratch that. On the scale of government, they're more medium size.
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
> Now, God doesn't exist Do you have a definitive source for that?
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
> I'm beginning to think sites that don't just let you download the catalog and search it yourself are probably trying to hide something. You know what would be a great feature? Letting you prioritize different categories, in
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
Mapquest still exists, should we hold a community rally?
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
> One of these values is "Respect the User". The language here bothers me to the core. User ? That's the same term drug dealers use to describe their "customers", who are nearly all captive to them or others
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
When I first started using Linux day-to-day, Firefox, at least for me, was an absolute nightmare and didn't run well. I've switched to Vivaldi (Chromium-based, very power-user / I-never-want-to-move-my-hand-to-the-other-inpu
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by HeWhoLurksLate 8y ago
Honestly, I think that this is <i>not</i> the best option- requiring some certain solution is not the best option, as it stifles innovation and there might be something better around the corner that won't even get look