Vivtek

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by Vivtek 14y ago
Are you kidding? America in _Sheep_ is decaying so badly that at the very end of the book a guy in Ireland sees a freaking dust cloud on the Western horizon because that's all that's left of the United States.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Telecommunications and networking - the wife has to carry her exercise script on a physical card instead of the house sending it through the network.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Works fine, same setup. Nice work.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
... or a court ordered them to do this.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
... music, movies, and pizza delivery?
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by Vivtek 14y ago
To be honest, a software patent should be required to include working code. The entire point of the system is not to provide money for trolls and lawyers, but ensure that technical knowledge is disclosed to the public while ensuring the in
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by Vivtek 14y ago
The SHIELD Act is not intended to fix everything broken with the system - just slice off the low-hanging fruit. More comprehensive reform would probably include a ban on patents in software, or at least a much, much shorter patent period fo
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Odd word choice - 97% isn't really a shave.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
I was Kickstarter contributor #1 and got the first address handed out. I don't even remember how I heard of it. ... But damn, that would have been clever back in the day. Thumbs up!
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by Vivtek 14y ago
It really isn't that expensive, is it? Hmm...
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Well. The old rural electrification coop is back in the 21st. How about that?
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by Vivtek 14y ago
I will say, though, that OSS on Windows has really come a very long way in the last ten years. I use a normal OSS toolchain (Mingw32 and Strawberry Perl) end-to-end now, and that wasn't always possible.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Is this worth pursuing? I've been doing half-assed sysadmin for over a decade, and maybe something organized would be useful.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
goatse.cx isn't objectionable any more. It's a (novelty, of course) email provider.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Dammit, Indiana, there you go making me cringe in the news again. At home? What does that even mean ?
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by Vivtek 14y ago
I think it's mindblowingly effective. The eye just really wants to interpret those headlines as funny... and manages to fail, but just barely.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Oh come on. I'm not going to make a prediction one way or the other, but there's one thing I do know: simulating the brain and simulating the current stock market to predict the outcome of a stochastic process (which is unknowable because
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Grantmanship is grantsmanship. At least this way the research will be public from the get-go. I think it's a fantastic development.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
It certainly doesn't apply to anything medical.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
It's the first thing that occurred to me - drive up the price? It doesn't make much sense, though.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Hey - great way to make sure nobody can afford to deliver rural mail. That ought to work great. "Let the market take care of the issue" really isn't always the best policy.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
I'm not sure I can add anything that's not been said already in response to this post, but yeah, you don't make sure somebody else doesn't sell your product better than you. But note this: if it's open source, they have to credit you - a
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by Vivtek 14y ago
You're presumably the best person to work on finishing it. Don't underestimate that position and the respect it can earn you. (edit) I guess, emotionally speaking, I'm in the position that if it were already on Github, I would actually fun
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by Vivtek 14y ago
No. You don't need to polish it further. If it were free right now, I'd be using it today and helping you polish it. As it is, yeah, I feel disrespected. You want my free help (or the free help of other somebodies like me) but you w
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by Vivtek 14y ago
My guess is that "Yeah, me too" posts rarely add anything to the conversation - sorry, I'm being blunt here, but that's the way HN rolls. If you find a post humorous, just upvote and move on. You'll get your chance to crack a joke in due
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by Vivtek 14y ago
I'm interested in this question, too. As I understand it, the patent law in the country of sale governs each sale - but I'm open to the possibility that I don't actually understand it.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
What, you've never left the United States? Continental European universities are often organized like this. Or have been recently; I can't speak for right now.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
And yet PE certification is - under a different name - apprenticeship.
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by Vivtek 14y ago
I totally get it. I don't know how you originally got into programming, but imagine you were good at it during your early teens, like many of us, and like Aaron. Now imagine that when you met the outside world, people other than your pa
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by Vivtek 14y ago
Yeah, my grandma died four years ago - 2009 - and I'm pretty sure she considered Jews kind of a third group, neither white nor "colored". I couldn't swear that my own contemporaries still in Indiana don't think the same, but everybody's wi

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