Lewisham

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by Lewisham 15y ago
Sun Microsystems did exactly what you are saying, and Google has gone on record, multiple times, saying it would do exactly what you are saying. It is not without precedent at all.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
No, but you can play "what if" games to death. You can't be slighted as being hypocritical for something you haven't done yet , which is what Gruber is claiming.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Do you know of any case of where Google has used its patents offensively? I don't.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I used to really like Gruber, but he's become a very twisted orator, who seems to bend everything to Apple's favor. Maybe he was always that way, and when Apple was the underdog, it felt more like cheerleading than dishonesty. I felt a dece
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by Lewisham 15y ago
To be fair, I think it's a decent smile, but the lighting, combined with Brian's dark eyebrows, creates this shadow which is easy to interpret as slightly sinister. If his head was raised slightly and lit more strongly, I don't think you'd
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Well, here's one for Exxon Mobil (first I chose) Exxon Mobil Corporation is committed to being the world's premier petroleum and petrochemical company. To that end, we must continuously achieve superior financial and operating results whil
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Absolutely. Google's mission statement is: "Google’s mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Nothing in that statement necessarily presumes the use of ads to pay for it. If users said "
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by Lewisham 15y ago
My wife has used RRT quite successfully to gauge the amount of illegal abalone fishing in California. Before that, the Fish and Game department did little more than guess (and of course, underestimate) how much illegal fishing was going on.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I don't think that's especially relevant. She put her belongings in a position where someone had days to get access to them, without any external evidence at all. Neighbors would notice a broken window/door on the outside. A smashed in lock
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by Lewisham 15y ago
My feeling is that if she is generally vulnerable, and genuinely private, it doesn't make a lot of sense to rent out your apartment with your belongings inside it and then leave for days. I could never rent out to AirBnB, because I'm also f
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if EJ doesn't have a PR person nudging her along. Her statements about being "violated" and "unsafe" means she sounds like she wants AirBnB to do the impossible and repair her , not her belongings. She sounds like s
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I was just thinking this. Presuming most AirBnB users rent regularly, you could quite easily swipe some jewelry (stuff at the bottom of the box) before anyone notices. Even if they do notice, they might go "I wonder where they went...?" and
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I agree with this. The games industry has conditioned itself to believe it is unique in software development, and that as a special snowflake, it is able to define whatever is reasonable for itself. Whatever is reasonable is what's come bef
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Someone has one of these printed out at my grad lab. I can only see Marilyn from a very long way away. You might have to print it out.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I've personally found the Google hiring process disappointingly vague, and I felt a lot like the OP. Do you want me to build a solution or do you want me to tell you what the Big-O notation is for an algorithm? These two are not necessari
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Infinite Mario is actually a rather useful piece of code for all sorts of games research. It's a very good "simplest non-trivial example". The code itself is decently clean, OOP code, which a lot of open-source games, even those written in
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I think it's easier to explain than you think (and, for once, not at all due to the class system at all). Britain has been under relentless cultural assault from the US for decades. It is no secret, and no surprise, that it was Friends that
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by Lewisham 15y ago
The white Macbook was cannibalized by the Air's lower price point in the last generation, so keeping it around always looked anachronistic.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
re: Flash content: I was playing with an last-gen 11" MBA in the Apple Store a couple months ago, and saw that it wasn't capable of playing the YouTube video of All of the Lights < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAfFfqiYLp0&#62 ; at 108
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Yes, this is probably the correct thing to do. Unfortunately, most universities are too cash-strapped for such a thing.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I feel that Wordpress should be smarter about this. You shouldn't need to download a plugin to make sure your site doesn't choke. However, lots of people get confused by caching plugins when they're editing templates and things. Idea: Wordp
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by Lewisham 15y ago
FWIW, I've generally noticed Americans assign about the same value on USD prices < $100. $10 here is worth the same to an American as £10 is to a Brit. $10 isn't worth £6 to them. This is hard to understand until you've lived in both pl
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I don't think acquiring the patent portfolio had much to do with patents Google actually needed. The idea was just to hold onto enough patents that you could threaten other people when they come for you. This is what Sun used to do.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Yes, fair enough. I was using it as a "B or C grade" as in "beef grades" in my mind, but I realize what I typed was about actual marks from universities. I totally agree with your assessment :)
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I don't think I was overqualified for the actual job (by my own interpretation, and of the way it was advertised). I was overqualified for their interpretation of the job role. More specifically: I was the only full-time developer on a data
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Fair point :)
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Hah, if only it was so simple! The integrity of the job is the problem. It's been coded to failover problems (as the original data integrity its mining from isn't good), so it will happily do something stupid for hours. That's why I have to
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by Lewisham 15y ago
This person is/was not your friend.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but this is entirely true. I'm sat here watching a data mining job. It's wasted time, largely brought on because the job doesn't have unit tests, so I have no confidence it'll actually complete correctl
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I worked for a 30 person database consultancy for my first job out of uni. Their Intranet home page contained a large and prominent link to "Internet access by user", which listed the amount of bandwidth being consumed by each person throug

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