YokoZar

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by YokoZar 14y ago
The resource curse is very real and well documented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse The only seeming exception I can think of is Norway, which has a highly unusual massive government savings program to deal with its oil wealt
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Not even the American jury thought that Samsung violated Apple's patent on the product in question.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
My guess is there will be a hat for people who have run the game on linux at least once, very similarly to the way there was a hat for people who ran the game on mac at least once
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by YokoZar 14y ago
The title (and article) is really bad journalism. I'm an Ubuntu Developer at the summit and listened to this talk live about an hour ago and he said nothing of the sort. He did say that Microsoft and Apple are moving away from the open pla
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by YokoZar 14y ago
This was a random audience question during the Q+A at the end of the talk, jokingly asked before a real question
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Open Source Software may be drastically cheaper compared with hiring programmers to reinvent the wheel, but that very fact also enables a lot of projects that otherwise wouldn't have happened. For every company that's not hiring 3-4 enginee
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Global menubar is not exclusive to mice: it saves considerable screen space. This is a major feature on mobile.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
"In a statement, the new OnLive said its predecessor's basic problem was not its business model but that it simply hadn't raised enough cash for its business to take off." How do you tell when a startup is just desperate for cash and when t
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Indeed, one does not need a CS degree to be a good programmer. This makes sense, cause somehow good CS degrees still seem to produce some people who can't program.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
It's still a valid observation though. People don't drive to another store to save 10 dollars on a 500 dollar couch but they will drive all the way across town to save 10 cents a gallon on gas. This isn't rational: they're clearly not buyi
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Innovation is a function of incentives and reuse of prior innovation. Patents can raise financial incentives, but obstruct the use of existing ideas. It shouldn't surprise us that some industries are more concerned with one piece than the
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by YokoZar 14y ago
This is not uncommon when criticizing bitcoin. "It can only increase in value, therefore it is worthless" is clearly a contradictory statement -- it's essentially arguing that no one will want to buy bitcoins because too many people want t
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by YokoZar 14y ago
There is no reason we can't start issuing tradable IOUs for bitcoins without actually having our hands on the bitcoins. There could even be a billion bitcoin derivatives market with only a million real bitcoins (just moving around a thousan
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Do you really want to own all your music? Rhetorically, it sounds like an obvious "yes", but if I personally think back to all the stuff I got as a teenager and hardly ever listen to anymore, not owning it might be entirely fine. Ownership
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Alternative headline: Google passes Microsoft's market value as Microsoft gives gobs of cash to shareholders rather than hold onto it to inflate market value. Still, it's a significant thing I suppose. But we tend to ignore the cash positi
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by YokoZar 14y ago
We use the lockitron app to let houseguests in (and we have many cause of AirBNB). Since you can give a key to someone with a simple email, it eliminates the hassle of arranging a time to meet for key exchange. https://lockitron.com/
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by YokoZar 14y ago
I'm pretty sure Coverity has multiple "tiers" of analysis, with the initial tier being the subset they're most certain of. Once you fix most of the obvious, almost-no-false-positive type stuff, then they're ready to show you the next tier.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Last night I gave a tour to my friend who'd never seen the place before. Just before midnight, we left a dollar in the donation box. This morning this story comes out. I can only conclude I made the difference. edit: and by sheer coincide
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by YokoZar 14y ago
You could do the economist thing and try to phrase it in terms of opportunity cost. That is, by insisting on a diamond, she's giving up a moissanite stone that's 5 times the size; by insisting on an uncultured diamond she's giving up a dia
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by YokoZar 14y ago
One possible (but not great) excuse is that there is a perverse incentive going on if the employee has any say over potential hires. If I get 20k every time one of my friends gets hired (and "lose" 20k each time a normal candidate gets hir
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by YokoZar 14y ago
One major problem with this is there are plenty of legitimate communications that will originate from a single client -- namely, those client's in-game actions! Any cheating that takes the form of something "possible" for a client to do wou
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by YokoZar 14y ago
A similar argument applies to people who always leave their furniture covered.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
How does Opus compare to Celt, its direct predecessor?
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by YokoZar 14y ago
The timing of this information is very interesting. Tomorrow is the Cloud Gaming Summit. Sony bought Gaikai, Onlive never had a way of controlling costs, but those two weren't the only players here. Agawi (a startup I joined a few months
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by YokoZar 14y ago
I've had a few of these created by OSX for me when I disconnect/reconnect to an external monitor. Only now did I realize this was not an obvious bug, but rather a manner of taste that is far more artistic than I can handle.
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by YokoZar 14y ago
In my 7+ years as an Ubuntu developer, I have yet to see a news article or forum post about a release that didn't somewhere spawn a discussion about adjective animal names. Frankly, I think it generates considerable free buzz. Everyone's a
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by YokoZar 14y ago
If not a crime the DA will pursue it could very well be at least a tort, which is why the casino was offering them their money in exchange for dropping further claims (such as kidnapping).
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by YokoZar 14y ago
I've heard from a Vegas lawyer that basically all of the serious law firms there do some amount of business with each of the casino chains. This is intentional on the casinos part, and gives the law firms a very simple conflict of interest
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by YokoZar 14y ago
Apple isn't a patent troll in only the most technical sense -- they're not a "non-practicing entity" but rather a company that actually makes things. They still have a bunch of terribly overbroad patents made by a broken patent system. And
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by YokoZar 14y ago
The former name was Gnome-App-Install, which has basically been around since Ubuntu started in 2004.

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