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by JackC 14y ago
You seem to be saying that as a defense of Amazon's treatment of warehouse workers. It's not. Read the Mother Jones article linked above. When people are working in terrible conditions, and they believe those conditions are better than the
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by JackC 14y ago
Don't worry, it's still true. They'll be on the market in 18 months. :)
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It's worth noting that, essentially, they committed to supply a machine with the given specs if they reached roughly 9,500 preorders. They are currently at roughly 23,000 preorders (adding up the different donation levels) in the first two
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by JackC 14y ago
The other issue is where I live, people put all kinds of random keywords in their Craigslist apartment ads to try to get attention. "Just 25 minutes' walk to Foo Square, Bar Square, and Baz Square! Four hours by horse to Lexington, and a sh
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by JackC 14y ago
The idea that he's "being a dick to Craigslist" is the weirdest part of this whole thing. The PadMapper service consists of advertising that certain content is available on Craigslist. I mean, it literally consists of saying, "oh, you're
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by JackC 14y ago
I find it difficult to believe that you have searched for an apartment in a tough rental market on Craigslist and consider their interface "fast and simple." If you've never had the task of finding an apartment within a mile of a given spot
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by JackC 14y ago
I think in this context (and usually) hipster means "someone who pretends to like something new or unusual in order to broadcast their superiority." That's why everyone thinks someone else is a hipster -- it's a claim about sincerity. As
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by JackC 14y ago
The other reason things work this way in functional languages might be the way your nesting tends to work out. For example, it would be common in Clojure to write something like: (set-result-to (do-this-to (do-that-to (do-the-other-th
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by JackC 14y ago
You're making sense in general, but the other justification for patents besides encouraging disclosure of details would be encouraging exploration of a wide range of options. For example: I, the inventor, will experiment with thousands of
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I'm not saying you're wrong, but none of those logos is nearly as simple as this one. For example, I wasn't taught a formula for calculating their area in elementary school. Are there any successful logos that really are this simple?
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by JackC 14y ago
Hey, thanks for the clarification. That's a totally fair point. I was probably a little over-eager to reply here since this story so much invites the lawyers-are-evil thing and I've been looking for a chance to put it in context. Like, "yes
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by JackC 14y ago
I think it's just something about Law as a discipline that it attracts people who can be very literal-minded and who at least in their own mind are moral crusaders. Since this whole case is, um, horribly embarrassing to my profession, I'l
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The other thing I think is worth considering in a move to Clojure is how different functional thinking is. I mean, if you're used to moving between C and Perl and Python and PHP and Java and Javascript and so on, you're used to language tra
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by JackC 14y ago
How did it happen? Apparently there's a single-serving site for that: http://barefigur.es/ The short answer is the iPod, iPhone and iPad. Starting in 2004, Apple started releasing hardware products so popular they made its previous unit
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by JackC 14y ago
In 2008, shortly after App Engine launched, I was running an app that was a totally bad fit for it (tons of concurrent writes to the same rows). I actually talked on the phone with a Google engineer to try to figure out how to optimize the
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by JackC 14y ago
Also, exhausting. Waving your arms all day, just to scroll. Still its coarse motor control instead of fine motor, which is less tedious. Yeah, I'd be shocked if this replaces the scroll wheel. I can see a few ways it might complement exis
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by JackC 14y ago
All of those are to leapmotion.com, though. It's exciting to see a third party saying, "yes, it really is that good." Because if this really is that good, and that cheap, they've crossed a fundamental line. We're looking at a hardware acces
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by JackC 14y ago
Yeesh. What a mess. So first of all, let me recommend SCOTUSBlog and the actual court decision rather than the Atlantic: http://www.scotusblog.com/?p=143279 http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/kirtsaeng-v-john-... Now what's goin
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by JackC 14y ago
What they're doing here is good strategy. Option A: EFF: "Hey, legislators, you should abolish this system that we've had for decades and you don't understand. Let me tell you why the interlocking parts of a software algorithm are totally d
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I think that's probably covered by this: "Patent applicants should be required to provide an example of running software code for each claim in the patent and tell the Patent Office which claims are covered by which lines of that code." The
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by JackC 14y ago
Really? Is that how legal retainers work at this level? On the kind of cases I work on, cost is always a factor in the decision whether to appeal. But they are not remotely like this case.
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by JackC 14y ago
Yeah, you can (just about) always fire your lawyer. The right to have the lawyer of your choosing -- or not -- is pretty fundamental. If they're working on a contingency ("I get X% of anything we recover"), you'll have to pay them a fair ho
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by JackC 14y ago
This was the important part for me: What I’d really like to leave you with here is the essence of how last night made us feel: the industry is shifting – not only its medium, not only its focus, but with it – and most significantly for the
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by JackC 14y ago
What makes it funny is that the bulk of the article isn't "here's how we did it and what we learned," but "here's what you need to do to get our code running on Ubuntu." Then you get to the footnote: "PS: It's pointless to get our code runn
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by JackC 14y ago
Thanks! That makes sense. I could be wrong, but I think a lot of this is because FCP 4 doesn't speak h.264 and doesn't take good advantage of the hardware. When/if you can switch to FCP X or a modern competitor (not saying that's an option
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by JackC 14y ago
And what am I supposed to do if I don't want to spend $2200 on a computer that only lasts me two years? Well, it depends. If someone says "hey, did you check out the new MacBook?" say "yeah, I didn't really like the weight vs. upgradabili
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by JackC 14y ago
Your assumptions are completely wrong, and it only shows that Apple target customers are not really doing any kind of serious computing. This is true. I for one do all my computing with a goofy grin on my face, while riding a unicycle. In
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by JackC 14y ago
I agree with you it's a big deal, but it's also out of the price range of most of their customers -- until the new design trickles down in a year or two, like it did for the Air. This is the part of the product cycle where you make a produc
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by JackC 14y ago
I know a dude who's done fulltime HD video editing with a MacBook Pro for years. Not 2K or 4K though. Out of curiosity, have you tried editing video with a top-of-the-line MBP and been frustrated? For special effects/render-heavy stuff I kn
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by JackC 14y ago
I'm by no means an expert on trade dress, but look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress , especially the law itself (which is pretty straightforward) and the section on distinctiveness. The key point is that to win a trade dress su

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