MereInterest

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by MereInterest 14y ago
Comics not allowed to have words as the primary focus? Try reading Subnormality at some point. http://www.viruscomix.com/subnormality.html
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by MereInterest 14y ago
Except that things in the common culture should be able to be built upon, and expanded. I do need not seek out the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle if I should desire to write a Sherlock Holmes book. It has become part of the common cultu
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by MereInterest 14y ago
For me, getting the first working example running is often the biggest step. Up until then, you don't know whether what you are doing will work at all. After that, you can start fiddling with it and changing bits and pieces. Saying "Serve
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by MereInterest 14y ago
It's right there in the title. ZFS does not need a fsck tool. That is the point. All the rest of it is telling you why.
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by MereInterest 14y ago
You are assuming that people are rational. Yes, a rational person purchasing an item is evidence that the item is worth the price that was paid for it. No, a person purchasing an item is not evidence that the item is worth the price that
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by MereInterest 14y ago
Is there a (non-malevolent) reason for this clause? It seems to be something put in to deliberately slow down proceedings and apply a penalty to the accused regardless of what happens.
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by MereInterest 14y ago
By the letter of the law, the arrangement is copyrightable, though the information itself is not, in the same way that the arrangement of a phone book is copyrightable even though the phone numbers are not. Yes, it is ridiculous.
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by MereInterest 14y ago
Yup. Have some sort of error code that is passed back by A1() or A2(). bool A1(); bool A2(); void A(){ bool result = A1(); if (!result){ A2(); } } Instead of your "if(corner case) raise();", you wo
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by MereInterest 14y ago
Embraced by both content leasers (I refuse to say "content owners", because copyright is a finite monopoly, not ownership.) and internet companies, but not by the general public. It is absurdity because it provides a mechanism by which fair
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by MereInterest 14y ago
> Cranks and paranoiacs will surely see all this probing and profiling as a sign of the apocalypse, or at least a serious incursion into their privacy. Well, that is certainly an unbiased sentence.
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by MereInterest 14y ago
Tell me this, then. What should we be attempting to optimize in education? Currently, schools try to optimize for maximum average knowledge. They try to put as much knowledge in each student. However, this leads to the ever-present quest
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by MereInterest 14y ago
"Do you think that raising your prices by 50% will hurt your sales by 50% or more?" For an article claiming to treat pricing like a science, this sentence stood out. If you raise your prices by 50% (to 1.50 of original) and hurt your sales
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by MereInterest 14y ago
Or, you know, investing in infrastructure where it is needed.
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by MereInterest 14y ago
The movie was Hero, a 2002 movie starring Jet Li. I tended to get a different feeling from that line. The nameless protagonist had asked for calligraphy from his opponent. However, the protagonist did not ask for any of the existing ways
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by MereInterest 14y ago
No, it's there, just not explicitly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut
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by MereInterest 14y ago
>Metric X is high, therefore disputed policy Y is boosting metric X. I would say that it is even worse than that, because the metric itself is disputed. If the police were to start a policy of giving out free GPS handguns to anyone, the