YokoZar

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by YokoZar 14y ago
I doubt the expense would be particularly micro ;)
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Last year I uploaded an empty package to Ubuntu titled "Free Launchpad Karma" -- the idea was that whenever an Ubuntu developer wanted more Launchpad karma points, they could easily file a bug against it, close a bug against it, upload a ne
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by YokoZar 14y ago
"D3D emulator with OpenGL as the backend" sounds an awful lot like Wine. There've been reports of Wine apps running faster than their Windows equivalent too, although usually some wine bug or another gets in the way of performance.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
What if we have a product manager who's asking for a status report on every single open bug every meeting?
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by YokoZar 14y ago
How do I communicate this when I'm in such a team and daily meetings are regularly going 30 minutes?
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by YokoZar 14y ago
If you don't think statistics apply to you as an individual, you are essentially claiming to be different from the statistical average in some meaningful way. It may help to articulate what that is. So maybe most people fail this class, bu
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by YokoZar 14y ago
There's always mechanical turk.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Well there was an entire lawsuit about the environmental impact of the ships which the government lost, so presumably there's SOME evidence that they're harmful.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
At some point you wonder if putting more teabags into the same pitcher doesn't actually make it any stronger. There's gotta be a saturation point for tea solutes. Except maybe for the flouride in them.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
The stock market is not economic growth. A far simpler explanation is that investors simply expect things like the labor market to recover, which is exactly why the markets react dramatically when the monthly jobs numbers are released.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Those historical economic expansions occurred precisely because of those labor saving technologies. It was not mere coincidence.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
If you don't think building a usable linux distro is an enormous amount of work you've never actually tried to do it. Canonical (and the Ubuntu project) is an awful lot more than a few Canonical-originated upstreams.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Yeah. I hate to sound snarky, but a Gentoo user swearing off desktop linux for good is exactly why we shouldn't be using Linux as a brand name. Ubuntu and Gentoo are miles apart in terms of how well tested they are on the desktop, and lum
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by YokoZar 14y ago
It's a clear backpedal, they're trying to claim they asked for something completely different because what they were asking for was so obviously unreasonable.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
In principle if bitcoin takes off you could hold a bitcoin account and purchase things in bitcoin directly, making some of your transactions not subject to the "cash out" overlooking.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Your teacher was asking the wrong question. Ask these same women if they'd rather have a larger diamond at what would be twice the cost were it not for technology, and they'd probably agree. If we want to help fix this diamond bullshit, we
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Personally I'd rather rebase than commit.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Is there a reason more companies don't do what Google did and simply sell the initial shares by dutch auction? Even without the perverse incentives, I can't see any possible advantage to hiring a wall street bank to guess a price and alloc
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Notwithstanding softer claims about this experience effecting you psychologically for life or depleting your life savings, it should be noted that discrimination against convicted felons is entirely legal and a frequent practice of most emp
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by YokoZar 14y ago
It is entirely possible to invent technology that both saves on labor costs and creates more jobs in aggregate. A historical example was the very thing the luddites protested: weaving machines that replaced expensive weavers with greater n
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by YokoZar 14y ago
There have been a few occasion's where I've managed to pry the number of Wine users out of Valve over the years -- the Linux usage numbers look fairly similar. Unfortunately, there was a period of about a year or two where the hardware surv
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by YokoZar 14y ago
It's not even clear that the rolling release will be intended for non-enthusiasts at this point, however as a matter of policy you can be pretty sure that any update applied to the rolling release will need to be tested against users as old
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by YokoZar 14y ago
The decision hasn't been made yet. Canonical's CTO may have decided he likes it, but the Ubuntu project hasn't yet given it a pass. If you've got workflow-critical programs you don't want updating, use the LTS release. That's what it's fo
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by YokoZar 14y ago
It is neither interesting nor helpful to point out that the defendants of this patent troll could have avoided a lawsuit by avoiding podcasting altogether. The described mechanism is how podcasting has worked for over a decade and it is who
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Perhaps that's precisely the problem -- a large set of people were notified, rather than anyone in particular
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by YokoZar 14y ago
What on earth makes you think the agency wouldn't cover for her even if it knew everything was true as stated?
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by YokoZar 14y ago
But if something isn't expressible in plain language, how could anyone claim to have a valid contract about it? that sounds like the very definition of "unconscionable".
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Law is only meaningful in so much as it can be understood by those obeying, enforcing, and judging it -- otherwise you may as well have simple arbitrariness. Source code is a rather off analogy to use here for that reason: judges can read a
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by YokoZar 14y ago
I had similar thoughts about "edit: removed words"
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Spelling out the implied, creating long lists, and adding wordiness are common features of legalese. I'm fairly sure it has something to do with making the text more appealing to clients -- if they hire you to write a contract and then give

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