Kadin

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721.
by Kadin 16y ago
Agreed. While I wish them luck, I think they're accepting a bunch of terribly flawed premises, about the willingness and ability of women to do the "startup thing". Maybe that's not what the author of the article wants to do (and I'll be h
722.
by Kadin 16y ago
Can you get FroYo on the Incredible without any jailbreaking or other messing around? I've been thinking of getting a Nexus One specifically because of FroYo (and its wireless tethering -- which finally puts it on feature parity with my old
723.
by Kadin 16y ago
I'm not sure that MySpace was ever associated that closely with a small number of bands, but it certainly was/is associated with bands and self-promotion in general. At least in the beginning (this has changed as Facebook has become more ma
724.
by Kadin 16y ago
Also, Cryptome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptome They've been doing a very Wikileaks-ish thing since 1996, operating (sometimes just) inside the limit of U.S. law and First Amendment protection. The "PGPBoard" referred to is actually
725.
by Kadin 16y ago
That may be true, but it's not as though Wikileaks has been particularly well-managed, or done much to decrease their (by which I mean 'his') exposure. There has been a lot of what appears to be, to put it bluntly, showboating, intentiona
726.
by Kadin 16y ago
This is false. You have a duty to do what the shareholders want you to do and what is in their best interest, but you are allowed to use your own judgement to a great extent to determine what that might be. There is a great deal of caselaw
727.
by Kadin 16y ago
You still need raw materials for those factories. I suspect war will remain a popular pastime.
728.
by Kadin 16y ago
I recently read an interesting book by the guy who runs Sherline, a U.S. manufacturer of small lathes and milling machines. The book is sort of a meandering opus covering basic machining techniques but also talking about the history of the
729.
by Kadin 16y ago
> Is it really healthy for Silicon Valley if Apple has a factory cranking out iPhones in Cupertino You're begging the question; there is a country beyond Silicon Valley, and Grove's argument is that what is best for Silicon Valley (mean
730.
by Kadin 16y ago
I'm very surprised there's no prior art here. It seems like something I've seen before, although I can't think of any specific examples. (I've definitely seen old flashlights designed for those big square 6V lantern batteries so that, as
731.
by Kadin 16y ago
Even better, there was a period of time (somewhere around 2003-2004 IIRC) when the CT police decided that shaking down the Fung Wah bus would be a great way to make their narcotics quota. Supposedly it was being used by drug mules. They w
732.
by Kadin 16y ago
I remember vaguely from my time using Griffiths' book that he uses a lot of non-standard (or at least not the same as other, more introductory textbooks) notation. He pretty freely reassigns the symbols used by things that you're supposed
733.
by Kadin 16y ago
Why does the author removing them for the Market justify removing them from handsets? Just because the developer decides that they don't want to sell (or give away) the app anymore doesn't mean that they should have the power to make that d
734.
by Kadin 16y ago
Why should we treat the situation differently just because you distributed the application electronically, versus shipping it in the traditional/literal sense on CD-Rom or floppies? If you wrote an application that contained (say) code that
735.
by Kadin 16y ago
I wonder if the keyboard in question is actually different at the hardware level -- in the sense of transmitting different scan codes -- from any of their other models, or if the difference is simply cosmetic (different keycaps). Either way
736.
by Kadin 16y ago
Gotta disagree with you a bit. Most content that users watch online isn't (easily) downloadable and playable anywhere except in a browser. And even if it was, I'm not sure that anyone except a very small minority of users would ever take
737.
by Kadin 16y ago
I was going to suggest the Mims books as well. He had quite a few of them. I have several (or did at one point); the basic electronics is a decent intro, and then there are good ones on op-amps and the 555 timer. If you are totally new to
738.
by Kadin 16y ago
I thought that was surprising also. ThinkPads have a good track record of Linux compatibility. Is it IBM versus Lenovo difference, I wonder? IBM used to be fairly good about using reasonably open or at least industry-standard hardware whe
739.
by Kadin 16y ago
I used to do the same thing, but the papers were free and left out in bins by the cafeteria entrance. I think lots of people will pick up a paper and read it while they drink coffee or eat lunch (even if it's just for the crossword or funn
740.
by Kadin 16y ago
You're conflating two very different things. Lots of people have security clearances and still work for private-sector companies (contractors). They just work on government contracts, sometimes in addition to traditional commercial work.
741.
by Kadin 16y ago
Well, yes, they're considered nutters because it takes a special sort of person to specifically refuse to answer a question. On one hand you have to distrust the government with the answer to the question they're asking, but on the other
742.
by Kadin 16y ago
You are correct (IME) in your first point, about the difficulty of moving away from the high salary and benefits associated with cleared jobs, but not really on the second one. Doing secure work means you can't take any confidential informa
743.
by Kadin 16y ago
A lot of people are willing to pay for 'possibilities.' In other words, they derive intangible value by keeping that possibility around, regardless of how often they may actually exercise the option it gives them, if ever. Many people have
744.
by Kadin 16y ago
It's tax-free if you stay outside the U.S. long enough. I believe the limit is 10 months/year, but it might be higher. Of course, that means you're not subject to U.S. income tax, but you might be subject to some other country's income tax
745.
by Kadin 16y ago
I'm not sure how much money Kensington really makes from it. They make locks that fit in the slot, but so do a lot of other people now. And I don't think that they charge licensing fees -- it's just a slot in the plastic, occasionally (in
746.
by Kadin 16y ago
I mean that the implementation is not a true feature, but a quasi-bug in disguise. This definition sums up my use of the term fairly well ( http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/misfeature ): >A feature that eventually causes lossa
747.
by Kadin 16y ago
I don't see why JS code running on a page in the browser should have access to my computer's local clipboard. That's a misfeature at best, and it's ripe for abuse. Web apps that really need access to the local clipboard should have to jump
748.
by Kadin 16y ago
That's a good point and I agree, but why then do browsers let this sort of crap happen? Why do they allow JavaScript to modify what gets copied to the copy buffer, rather than just copying whatever you happen to select from the rendered pag
749.
by Kadin 16y ago
I think it's probably too soon to say with certainty. But Ixtoc I was in relatively shallow water and was closer to shore. Deepwater Horizon was in (duh) deep water and much further from shore. Ixtoc probably released more oil that ended
750.
by Kadin 16y ago
At least they're honest about it. Calling them out because they were blunt in a comment just encourages them to be more subtle, not necessarily write better code. And particularly in an open-source project, bluntness like that is helpful s

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