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by abruzzi 12y ago
Is this a new technique, specifically sending threatening letter before a patent is granted, warning of owing in arrears?
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U.S. Pat. No. 8605152: Method for Filming a Yoga Class(loweringthebar.net)
3 points by abruzzi 12y ago|1 comments
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Except DC which was built on a swamp.
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by abruzzi 12y ago
It has been a very long time since I last read BNW, but at the time I read it I felt that that was a very conspicuous tension in the novel. Specifically that our expectations of 20th/21st century people, and our veneration of individu
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by abruzzi 12y ago
honeypot is pretty standard terminology for a intentionally vulnerable system intended to attract hackers. Maybe I'm unique but I wouldn't associate the term with sex.* * I don't know wether the term originated on its own (i
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by abruzzi 12y ago
>At the same time firms like Uber are making the use of hired cars cheaper and more convenient More convenient maybe, but I was under the impression that Uber was significantly more expensive than hailing a cab? (This is based on what I
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Its interesting, his descriptions of some of the early signs--inability to sleep with thoughts moving in odd directions, slow uptake of speech, disconnected situational awareness--are very similar to the sensations I get when (as a diabetic
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I never click on Quora links for exactly this reason. If I hadn't read this anti Quora piece I would never have considered clicking on a link in the future.
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by abruzzi 12y ago
The problem with 7 is it puts the developer in control, not the user. What if the developer releases a new version with a drastically reduced feature set (ahem..iMovie). I should be able to choose which version I want to run.
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Its interesting that there are a lot of arguments against backdoors in the comments here that sound similar to NRA/gun rights arguments. Whatever I (or you) may think about guns: I don't think that is a bad thing. It may be a hi
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I was rewatching Resnais' "L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad" and I had forgotten that this game figures. I looked it up and was surprised at the winning strategy.
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Nim(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by abruzzi 12y ago|1 comments
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by abruzzi 12y ago
"Another obedient subject remonstrates after she’s finished obeying, because she quickly understands what the experiment was really about and is disgusted." This critique seems to be missing the point. Of course if all the subjec
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by abruzzi 12y ago
the odd thing about the Herzog film though is that it includes a narration that casts the images into a kind of scifi story unrelated to Kuwait/Iraq, rather than a documentary. The filming is amazing though.
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I'm not using the word "overreacting" as a pejorative, but as a simple descriptive. The "overreaction" is simply doing more than the law requires of them. In this case, not taking americans as customers. The law
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by abruzzi 12y ago
If I understand correctly, the law is aimed at banks to disclose assets of americans with more than 50k in savings, the banks are overreacting and not handling accounts of any americans as a result. So I wouldn't say the law targets t
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by abruzzi 12y ago
So I have to double click the home button to reach the top of the screen?!
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I disagree with him on one core point--while I like the upgrades to my iPhone 5S--it is a great phone, but I don't like the screen size. It is too big. Probably the reason I feel this way is I never--never!--use my phone two handed.
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by abruzzi 12y ago
this is why core based licensing frustrates me. When I license Oracle (11g) the real way to get speed increases is to let it spread out over multiple cores, but that gets expensive given Oracles licensing terms, and even finding single or
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by abruzzi 12y ago
YUI is used heavily in and enterprise application I work with (Alfresco). I wonder how this will impact them.
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I remember studying French. In French, most adjectives come after the noun they modify (ciel bleu, blue sky), but some come before (grande maison, big house). We were taught the acronym: BAGS: beauty, age, goodness, size, to determine wha
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Ok, this may be mathematically naive, but... In the cubicle example discovering that you are in cube 1-10 makes the likelihood of the 1-10 scenario much more likely than it was before you discovered you were in one of the first 10 cubes usi
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I think that why the most successful electronic controllers have essentially been patterned after acoustic controllers. It's easier to start with a basic model of a saxophone, and then add wind pressure, embouchure, and other real tec
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Part of this is the complexity of the interface (I.e. Piano keyboard vs. violin, etc.) need to be matched by complexity in controllable modulation a in the synthesis engine. The history of musical synthesis was a piling on of complexity up
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by abruzzi 12y ago
>Ithkuil seems like what a language should be: as the article said, it is both precise and concise. Which is good for scientists and logicians, but would probably be an issue for novelists and poets. Exploiting ambiguity is a common fea
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Not exactly. This isn't about creating a single protocol to replace the existing protocol, but instead recognizing that there are many existing protocols in use today, none of which seems likely to supplant all the others, and instead
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Plumbers on craigslist are, for the most part, doing lots of little 1-2 hour jobs. That means that there is likely lots of potential empty space in their calendar. They're probably lucky if they pull 20 jobs a week, so the rate has t
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I don't know how much has changed since I was doing it, but in the past there was a noticeable difference in dynamic range between digital sensors and film. This was less of an issue for stills since you compose each shot, but with fi
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by abruzzi 12y ago
The primary positive is that the disease has a very quick run from infection to visibly symptomatic to death. While long distance spread is still possible, most outbreaks have been somewhat geographically contained because of this. The w
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by abruzzi 12y ago
As an employee in local government, my salary in posted in the local newspaper every year. (The paper only posts the top 20 salaries at the organization, but all salaries are posted to the paper's website.) And while I prefer it open,

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