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by andreyf 9y ago
In what sense is the app store a part of "the communication channels for the internet"?
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by andreyf 9y ago
My point was that Taiwan has about 20x the population density of the US. The higher a population density, the cheaper it is to deliver broadband per capita. And what's your point? Are you saying that population density is not correlate
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by andreyf 9y ago
The most population-dense of the 50 US states is New Jersey. Taiwan seems to have roughly double the density: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+density+new...
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by andreyf 9y ago
I don't consider Aaron's death a suicide, either. It was not exactly a Magnitsky-style beaten-in-prison death, but overly-zealous prosecutors trying to "make an example" of him had more to do with his death than mental i
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by andreyf 9y ago
What did SOPA have to do with Net Neutrality?
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by andreyf 9y ago
Nice! I guess the width of the wires is the limiting factor? Or a cooling system? Regardless, curious to hear an informed analysis.
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by andreyf 9y ago
In the case of a truck, that seems less likely -- surely they could come up with a design that hooks in 2, 3, 10 plugs the moment the truck is ready to dock.
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by andreyf 9y ago
Towards the end of the video, the owner makes a point that this democratic distribution of mining power instead of large miners controlling the network is a good idea. Curious to hear more about this -- does anyone know good writing re: Dem
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by andreyf 9y ago
By "use patents as a weapon" you mean "ever plan to enforce patents against Facebook"? That's quite a stretch. Still, folks more knowledgeable than me on this topic say it's not a big deal: https://m
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by andreyf 9y ago
I wonder how they define intelligence. I suspect the cognitive traits that will serve an economy best in 30-40 years, when these babies reach the top of their economic productivity, are not what one might expect today.
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by andreyf 9y ago
The reference implementation of GraphQL has a patent grant identical to React [1]. It does not seem wise to use anything with that rider if you have or would like to leave open the possibility of having patents which you license to / e
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by andreyf 9y ago
Renaissance Technologies? That's not a list I would have expected them to be on...
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by andreyf 9y ago
It's a very cynical argument, I'll give you that, and I'm certainly biased by wasting a bunch of time & money on x-rays and drugs and acupuncture. A slight more realistic explanation may involve liability - twisting and s
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by andreyf 9y ago
That advice could leave people paralyzed. Slight modification: when it hurts, give it rest. When it gets better, don't forget to keep healing it.
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by andreyf 9y ago
Seems like this advice could hurt a lot of people if they have a different issue with identical systems.
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by andreyf 9y ago
On the flip side, I had lower back pain of varying intensity for about two years before it got really bad really suddenly and I went to someone recommended by someone knowledgeable in the subject who fixed it in about 30 minutes of some ser
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by andreyf 9y ago
Imagine understanding this was something you were assigned at work. What would you ask first? I am a web programmer with no specialty in any of this, but here's my top list: - what's min / max usage and production? - de
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by andreyf 9y ago
I agree that Travis sounds like an exceptional leader and great boss, but unfortunately, it looks like he may have had direct knowledge of possibly felonious IP theft against an investor with an above-average legal team: https://
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by andreyf 9y ago
> I'd have a hard time imagining a good workplace rejecting him if an actual human saw his resume. Then you haven't ever worked with someone like this. All the resume says to me is "internally motivated engineer with resou
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by andreyf 9y ago
Except most workplaces don't need any of that experience, and certainly not the "I am so great" attitude. Note how none of his projects involve "collaborated a team people to get done something bigger than what anyone co
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by andreyf 9y ago
But does it run Linux?
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by andreyf 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8MjQ5Z7ZNo
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by andreyf 9y ago
It has this to do with this thread: programmers who say they don't need to unionize because "their needs are being met" in return for "40 hours a week" don't understand the basic economics of their craft of wha
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by andreyf 9y ago
No competent programmer I know has to work 40 hours a week to have their needs met. The best ones charge rates would allow them to have their needs met working <10 hours a week.
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by andreyf 9y ago
Which would be super creepy if they were a company which is beholden to advertisers for their revenue. But alas, they are not.
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by andreyf 9y ago
Google might not show you ads, but they still index your emails for recommendations in Music, YouTube, etc. There might be exceptions for university students and the like.
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by andreyf 9y ago
That's for the court to decide, assuming Facebook has patents on Webpack. To minimize liability, probably best not to.
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by andreyf 9y ago
If you license something under BSD and continue to license under the BSD, the question of sub-licensing seems moot.
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by andreyf 9y ago
Careful. I don't know what his motivations are, but the info is misrepresenting both the context and the meaning of the language he references: http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Implicit_patent_licence#USA
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by andreyf 9y ago
Not only does not all of the case law say this, that's not even what that case was about nor what that language said: http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Implicit_patent_licence#USA

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