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by Spoom 14y ago
He's lucky. If I remember correctly, Microsoft did something similar a while back, asking how much it would take to transfer a domain they considered infringing to them. Upon receiving the reply, they turned around and claimed the guy was
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by Spoom 14y ago
Unless you have a lawyer on retainer and don't mind fighting an ongoing legal battle, I'd do everything they demand, including transferring the domain immediately. You could try to negotiate, but I'd imagine they have absolutely no problem
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by Spoom 14y ago
For a beginner, I'd say learn Rails. The other frameworks are nice in their own ways but Rails has the largest community by far. PHP is, as others have mentioned, just a language, and while there are good frameworks for it (CakePHP as you
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by Spoom 14y ago
I'd be willing to bet there were one or more National Security Letters in play.
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by Spoom 14y ago
I'm familiar with both, but it's a little difficult to make a recommendation with so little context. Why do you want to learn one of these languages? Is there a specific reason / project or do you just want to "learn to code"?
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by Spoom 14y ago
Linux Mint user here: This was never a big issue for me. They explain it thoroughly at http://www.linuxmint.com/searchengines.php and let you click through to install Google (plain vanilla, non-custom Google) very easily. Plus, so far t
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by Spoom 14y ago
Interesting, I didn't realize he had been detained so much. It does make one wonder how much detaining "activist" types actually helps anything though. Also, do we know if he was detained by USCBP or CBSA (i.e. Canadian Customs)? You did
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by Spoom 14y ago
I'm guessing what happened was something like the following: - They asked him what he did for work (as they pretty much always do at a border crossing, in my experience). - He said he developed software. - They asked what kind of software.
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by Spoom 14y ago
I think if you learn Rails, build an app in it, and open-source it on GitHub or similar, that would be fairly strong evidence that you know what you're doing. If I were in your position, I would go to the source ( http://www.uscis.gov/ )
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by Spoom 14y ago
Another post saying that if I don't have a highly populated Github and a well-trafficked blog, I'm worthless as a candidate to a startup. Good to know; my employer will be disappointed. Nearly all of my work is behind the screen of an NDA.
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by Spoom 14y ago
I'm curious; what's to prevent a casino from saying that prizes were actually technical errors whenever it was convenient to them?
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by Spoom 14y ago
If you're on the east coast like I am, the timing of this article is perfect. notes to cook pork a little beyond the recommended temperature in future
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by Spoom 14y ago
Good thing I get Facebook messages by email. Even if they're using an email image bug to set the "read" status, I'll just avoid downloading images. Sorry, but when I read your message to me is up to me, and whether or not I read it is pri
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by Spoom 14y ago
Under current laws, wouldn't the way the Terms of Service are presented be considered a contract signed under duress? I mean, they are saying that if you don't sign the contract, they'll kill you, which is kind of the textbook definition o
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by Spoom 14y ago
No. Wait... I see what you did there.
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by Spoom 14y ago
I recently closed on a house in Ohio. At closing, the notary verbally summarized every contract we signed. I'm not sure if it was legally required (I believe he stated it was) but I also took the time to read them. Most of them were copi
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Google Stockholder Sues to Prevent Stock Split(telegraph.co.uk)
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by Spoom 15y ago
A key point to draw from this: When the other party's lawyers come out, bring out yours or refuse to talk, depending on the conversation's importance.
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by Spoom 15y ago
"...Under the bill, officers cannot be found liable if they reasonably believed that the interference was necessary to (1) lawfully enforce a criminal law or municipal ordinance; ..." Is there anything that would prevent a police department
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by Spoom 15y ago
A nice idea, but many developers' employment contracts already state that they assign all inventions created during the course of their duties to the company, free and clear. How would this help such a situation?
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by Spoom 15y ago
This seems like a startup opportunity. Take photos of your standardized forms, upload them to a server, server calculates your taxes, only asking questions when the pertinent data is missing from the forms. IMHO this service should be offe
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by Spoom 15y ago
Good luck everybody. Hopefully one day I'll be ready to submit an application.
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by Spoom 15y ago
So then the question becomes this: Should trademark owners be able to quash any unauthorized "connections" to their product, even if it's made clear that the connection is not a sponsorship, only a mention? Frankly, that seems like an incr
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by Spoom 15y ago
If someone posts a prominent disclaimer that they are not an official sponsor, why should they be prevented from referring to an event by its actual name? If I owned a bar, and I was showing the London 2012 games on the TVs, I would adverti
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by Spoom 15y ago
Some of the comments on the bug report asking for the operation of == to change are misguided. Such a change would break many real-world applications. As I understand it, PHP is casting number-like strings to integers, and this fails beca
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by Spoom 15y ago
Should languages be required to ensure the security of the code produced for them? IMHO this is more of a complaint about the security of Wordpress, not the PHP core. People love to bring up phpBB or Wordpress in these discussions, but the
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by Spoom 15y ago
Per the docs[1], this can be turned off in the ini by setting expose_php to Off. So if you tell PHP to hide its presence, it will do so. 1. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.expose-php
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by Spoom 15y ago
Google is, of course, free to do whatever they feel is best for the company, but I've always thought that social is very tangential from their mission, which is to organize the world's information. You can spin social all sorts of ways to
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by Spoom 15y ago
I was overwhelmed too (here's simple wrong solution #1, here's simple wrong solution #2, here's incredibly complicated but more correct statistical solution #3 that you may not understand) but since this is relevant to my day job and we use
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by Spoom 15y ago
I liked the hint he dropped here: "But today something went seriously wrong. I have been interviewing senior hires for the crucial tech lead position on the Fizz Buzz team, and while several walked out in a huff when I asked them to let me

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