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by aiscott 15y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. Apple certainly brought competition to the market. Amazon was reputedly leveraging it's other profits to sell books at a loss in an attempt to corner the market. Seems pretty anti-competitive to me. Howe
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by aiscott 15y ago
Yes, I see you are right. I guess it seems like I'm more likely to run afoul of the clause with Pinterest. Youtube is like "Funniest Home Videos," Pinterest has gallery like qualities. Your examples after the link don't seem to have much
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by aiscott 15y ago
I'm an amateur photographer, and I wasn't too concerned about this until I read that by Pinning something, their TOS says I am granting them rights to sell my work. I don't like that very much. By making available any Member Content thr
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by aiscott 15y ago
This is true, but if you want to receive statutory damages for copyright infringement, you have to have registered your copyright. http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#register
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by aiscott 15y ago
I know politics is a tiny bit taboo for discussion here, but imagine how much saner political discourse could be this technique was used (in earnest.)
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by aiscott 15y ago
I didn't think I would like this. I'm a nuts and bolts kind of person and I like to try to understand from the ground up if I can. However, this is a pretty good narrative, and is filling in some blanks for me. For instance, the git what
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by aiscott 15y ago
Sounds like the music in the game Osmos. http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/
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by aiscott 15y ago
I doubt this is the best way, but you could launch it in a GNU Screen session or a TMUX session. You can then "detach" from Screen or TMUX, end your ssh session, and scheme will still be running. The cool thing is you can later ssh into yo
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by aiscott 15y ago
You are right.
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by aiscott 15y ago
As an integrated circuit designer I can say that a lot of hardware is somewhat less complex than the software world. At the chip level anyway. In the hardware world at the chip level, the environment is fairly rigid. A designer has a pret
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by aiscott 15y ago
[edited: I was wrong]
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by aiscott 15y ago
You can spend a lot of time digging a hole in the ground. Spending a lot of time on a project is not sufficient in and of itself to create wealth.
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by aiscott 15y ago
I see a big difference between Google's "don't be evil" and StackOverflow's "contents are the community's property." One is lip-service, a campaign promise: An empty claim that is difficult to quantify; the other is a done deal. The conten
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by aiscott 15y ago
It's the iPad //e
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by aiscott 15y ago
And what is Path? What is Journey? The website looks nice, but I have no idea what the product is and the website doesn't bother mentioning this. edit: Oh wait, I see it now. At the very bottom, last thing. I'd consider bumping that pa
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by aiscott 15y ago
I wouldn't think that the whole of PG would be a single repository. What came to mind when I read the article was that each book would be in its own repository, and that seems to me to be well within Git's capabilities.
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by aiscott 15y ago
Which is really too bad. OneNote is among the few windows apps I really like.
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by aiscott 15y ago
I've been using OS X for years as my main OS, and I do occasionally use launchpad. I've got a boatload of stuff installed and I don't always remember what I have. Launchpad provides a nice way of viewing all the apps. I don't use it every
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by aiscott 15y ago
Works good with whatever the release version of firefox is as well (on osx). I've noticed for a while now that firefox has very smooth scrolling. Way better than both chrome and safari on my laptop.
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by aiscott 15y ago
I recently downloaded iTerm2 because I had been hearing this. I can't for the life of me see why anyone thinks it is better than Terminal. It might just be my usage pattern, which is basically tmux. I was even briefly excited about the so
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by aiscott 15y ago
This is one of the better examples of "literate" programming I have seen. I do have a couple of criticisms though. The first criticism is perhaps more of literate programming, the concept, than this example. I personally find it difficult
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by aiscott 15y ago
Hopefully you type fast enough that by the time your brain noticed any lag on the "j", you are already a few letters down the line. If you are too dependent on visual feedback while typing, you'll have a difficult time typing fast in any en
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by aiscott 15y ago
US citizens at least, should be upset about the state of patents in the US. I don't begrudge companies playing the game--for them it is a fact of life in US business. What I take issue with is the granting of such trivial patents in the fi
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by aiscott 15y ago
The about page mentions that they are going to put the code on github. http://hackful.com/about I didn't see a link to the about page on their front page, but it exists none-the-less.
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by aiscott 15y ago
Just as an FYI, you can drag those HN verbatim/code text elements horizontally on iOS. It wasn't obvious to me because the box doesn't have an outline.
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by aiscott 15y ago
From the article: "The hype around Node.js on this issue makes me want to punch faces." "But the kind of misunderstanding going on in this video clip seems to pervade the Node.js hype and gives me rageface." This seems like a really over-th
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by aiscott 15y ago
I believe the GP was referring to the condescending tone.
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by aiscott 15y ago
A git pull request is a request for the owner to merge a change or fix you have done back into the original. It's called a pull request because you are asking that they pull the change from your fork.
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by aiscott 15y ago
Doctors are what I had in mind.
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by aiscott 15y ago
Healthcare is a scarce resource. You can hardly legislate it into existence. All "universal" healthcare does is trade price for waiting in line.

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