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by Luyt 15y ago
And if it will, we'll be able to follow the proceedings along with excellent comments, on http://www.groklaw.net/
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by Luyt 15y ago
$120k is maybe peanuts for a copyright troll firm backed by millions from investors. As long as investors are willing to put money into these kind of firms, a lot of lawyers will be seduced to keep up the trolling. They need to make a livi
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by Luyt 15y ago
On the other hand, “[...] if you learn to write on paper, you can still write if water spills on the computer or the power goes out.” (last sentence from the article)
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by Luyt 15y ago
And that ended thus: "In November Gold & Silver Reserve CEO Douglas Jackson was sentenced to 300 hours of community service, a $200 fine, and three years of supervision, including six months of electronically monitored home detention.
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by Luyt 15y ago
As he remarks, he doesn't take in account the corner cases. Suprisingly, or maybe not, his concatenation statement is similar to what I regularly use: def commalist(f, endword="and"): "Concatenate a list of strings in the form of
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by Luyt 15y ago
The 80-char limit recommendation is a thing I regularly sin against; most of the time caused by a comment behind a statement.
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by Luyt 15y ago
I wrote an article about the same subject, albeit much shorter and from a slightly different perspective: http://www.michielovertoom.com/python/ugly-python/
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by Luyt 15y ago
I guess the majority of these fires are caused by lightning. There are some 16 million lightning storms in the world every year[1], or about 44,000 every day. An interesting video of lightning seen from the Space Shuttle during night time
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by Luyt 15y ago
This is to counter spam and malware, done the Microsoft way (like Outlook not being able to receive attachments with certain filename extensions): "Michael Atalla, Director of product management for Exchange Server and Exchange Online, con
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by Luyt 15y ago
Their excuse: "His access to legal advice would have mitigated the impact of the police’s relentless and skilful efforts to obtain a confession from him"
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by Luyt 15y ago
"This address is restricted This address uses a network port which is normally used for purposes other than Web browsing. Firefox has canceled the request for your protection. " This 'port banning' is described in http://www-archive.mozi
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by Luyt 15y ago
That site is excruciatingly slow. I had to wait 20 seconds for every page!
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by Luyt 15y ago
WikiPedia on this: "Many English speakers use "begs the question" to mean "raises the question"; for example, "this year's deficit is half a trillion dollars, which begs the question: how are we ever going to balance the budget?" Many phil
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by Luyt 15y ago
Peavey writes: "I go out on the factory floor and I see a resistor on the ground, I pick it up. That's a penny to me. You see a penny on the ground, you pick it up." This seems to contradict the saying 'he who thinks in dimes will never
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by Luyt 15y ago
"You’ll soon learn to see through the brackets" @I @hope @that @also @applies @to @the @the @at-@signs. ;-)
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by Luyt 15y ago
Thanks for the mention of the Stanford courses: I just watched the first one, in which Paul Hegarty explains iOS' interpretation of the MVC pattern (including iOS-specific terms like 'outlet', 'delegate', 'target', 'action' etc., which are
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by Luyt 15y ago
That's funny, I noticed these stray pixels too, but I assumed they were put there on purpose, to make give lettering a 'dusty' appearance.
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by Luyt 15y ago
From the Skeptoid article: "The only people who lost any rights under Chinese rule are Tibet's former ruling class, themselves guilty of cruelty and oppression of a magnitude that not even China can conceive. The vast majority of Tibetans,
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by Luyt 15y ago
'root', no password.
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by Luyt 15y ago
and in that browser, JSLinux, running another browser, running.... you guessed it, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect ;-)
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by Luyt 15y ago
Yes. And why? Probably because the majority of the personal computers of German citizens use Windows as their operating system.
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by Luyt 15y ago
"Jobs was considering not having the surgery at all. A Buddhist and vegetarian, the Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) CEO was skeptical of mainstream medicine. Jobs decided to employ alternative methods to treat his pancreatic cancer, hoping to av
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by Luyt 15y ago
Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeWfkPeDQbY
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by Luyt 15y ago
Names of new users are green. 'jonathantneal' registered 3 hours ago (it's now 09:08 CEST).
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by Luyt 15y ago
Mark is fine. See update on http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2011/10/04/searching-for-m... Previous HN threads: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3073798 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3073842
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by Luyt 15y ago
That rule is for 'ordinary' people/users. Certain 'special' people are exempted from this, and are allowed fictitious names.
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by Luyt 15y ago
The author writes: Usually side projects help you learn something new that you can incorporate back into your start-up. How true is this! I'm on the side learning Django (because I want to use its admin feature to do a lot of CRUD) and on
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by Luyt 15y ago
With my left eye, I can't focus on objects closer than 12 inch. With my right eye, I can't focus on objects further than 26 inch. I have glasses to correct this, but without glasses I can comfortably use a computer at a 'sweet spot' distanc
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by Luyt 15y ago
On a slow day, you could TYPE C:/COMMAND.COM and watch all the gibberish fly by, with the occasional beep due to the BELL character.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Same here, FF 6.0.2 on OSX 10.6.8 Teh interwebs are broken since 1993. Luckily there is View/Page Style/No Style, and the Readability AddOn, both of which bring web sanity back.

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