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by andrew1 16y ago
I assume the reason they don't want to take money from 'people(compaines)' is that once they do they will be accused of being influenced by them. If they took a $1m donation from McDonalds, how much fuss would there be over every edit to ar
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by andrew1 16y ago
Maybe I don't understand these investments but I don't think that makes any sense. Presumably the 171m that's been invested in Groupon hasn't bought the whole company, only a proportion of it, so the investors only get that same proportion
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by andrew1 16y ago
It's true that the book is set in London, but I believe that the 'native reservation' that the characters visit is in fact in the US.
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by andrew1 16y ago
They would presumably be covered by the same kind of immunity as the police/welfare officers when it is necessary for them to view child pornography (in the context of investigation a child pornographer) or to search a child (for some valid
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by andrew1 16y ago
http://chrisbroadfoot.id.au/2008/03/21/essential-mac-osx-app... Stopped reading as I found a grammatical error on the first line. I mean, I could just accept that articles that people put on their personal websites might not be copy-edite
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by andrew1 16y ago
It's funny to think that some of the physicists who've left academia to join these companies might end up being paid a fortune to work on the exact same problems that they used to be paid a pittance to work on!
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by andrew1 16y ago
If RandomHotelBookingWebsite.com announces that for every five reviews you write you'll earn a $5 credit which you can use for any booking on the site, why would that make you less likely to write a review? I can see that it might not make
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by andrew1 16y ago
Wouldn't you get stuck in a loop though? I demand a raise today or I'll quit so I'm given $X to pacify me. What stops me doing the same next week?
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by andrew1 16y ago
It might be a similar effect but it's not the same effect. There's a definite difference between wanting to say that you are making the effort to take part in the electoral process but that you don't want to lend your support to any of the
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by andrew1 16y ago
> 1) Don't try and save time (or at least don't focus on that), lawyers charge by time spent, saving time looses them money. But if you became quick enough that you could make a point of it to your clients, then presumably you could cha
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by andrew1 16y ago
I can't believe that's true; tackles from behind can only really occur when a player has broken the game line, which happens far less often than a player running into defenders on the game line.
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by andrew1 16y ago
In theory you're right, but probably not so in practice. Football players would see the consequences of the change much more quickly - they'd go from being able to dive at a player head first and have a cushioned impact to having their skul
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by andrew1 16y ago
Well, presumably if someone was considering hiring him based on this there would be some kind of interview process before he's hired.
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by andrew1 16y ago
I know nothing about Chinese names but the original comment might have meant that it must be a given name because a family cannot have two syllables. No idea if that's true or not though!
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by andrew1 16y ago
You could say the same of pretty much everything. Just because something isn't perfect or provable doesn't mean it can't be useful. Just look at this as a guide to English grammar at the date it was written.
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by andrew1 16y ago
Even if the sales of Android and iPhones are the same, it doesn't imply that spending on apps will be. If the phones are being bought by different demographics then they almost certainly won't spend money on apps in the same way.
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by andrew1 16y ago
The fruit tree numbers are a bit silly; land isn't free, they should really be including the rent/mortgage cost of the land too. The returns would be less impressive at that point I'd imagine.
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by andrew1 16y ago
You might have to mess around with the default behaviour but you can use the Firefox address bar as a search box. You can set it up so that typing 'g foo' searches for foo on Google, 'w bar' searches for bar on Wikipedia etc. It's actually
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by andrew1 16y ago
Maybe stating the obvious here, but you can just remove the search box from Firefox and they look pretty much the same.
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by andrew1 16y ago
I'm not saying you don't need a search box, but I use the address bar as my search box. That's even the default layout in Google Chrome isn't it?
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by andrew1 16y ago
> this shouldn't even be a story. If people are interested in the issue then of course it should be. Just because a law or rule exists doesn't mean that people should be happy with it, or accepting of it. If my government passed a law t
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by andrew1 16y ago
Because different jobs need different skill sets? Why does being a 'hacker' make you qualified or even appropriate to manage something like HR or marketing?
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by andrew1 16y ago
That seems a little unfair. Martin Odersky has been pretty clear that he doesn't want Scala to be 'just' an academic language. In his address at Scala Days he talks about this, and about how they are investigating making Scala independent o
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by andrew1 16y ago
I guess that this might be a little like Andrew Wiles' Fermat's Last Theorem proof where only a very small group of mathematicians were capable of understanding the whole thing and of verifying its correctness. If that's the case then those
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by andrew1 16y ago
We use Intellij 9.0.3 Community Edition with Scala 2.8 for full time Scala development and have hardly any problems. The biggest complaints I have are that Intellij doesn't recognise that some imports are necessary (although that's probably
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by andrew1 16y ago
Note then that you were probably looking for a word like 'occasionally' or 'sometimes' rather than 'often'. The phenomenon you were outlining would only happen with a tiny fraction of video game enthusiasts, so regardless of its statictical
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by andrew1 16y ago
Could you perhaps explain what it is they misunderstand about the word. I don't understand what you mean.
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by andrew1 16y ago
Too big for what, or for who?
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by andrew1 16y ago
That's an excellent response, and I'd mostly agree with you. I'd only add two things; firstly, I got the impression at Scala Days and from mailing list discussions that there was a little bit of a feeling that 2.8 was the last chance to fix
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by andrew1 16y ago
The process you've described isn't really hedging, it's effectively closing out a trade, either through booking a profit, or mitigating a loss. The equivalent in the equities world is roughly these two cases; today you buy some shares in Ac

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