andylei

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by andylei 15y ago
if the explanations are either incompetence or malevolence, i'll usually believe incompetence
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by andylei 15y ago
i don't agree with Cameron, but CNN's headline is a bit sensationalist. > "to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminali
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by andylei 15y ago
> The bank now has $100 - all your money. But your checking account says $100, and the loanee's checking account says $80, for a total of $180 you should learn about accounting. the loanee also has an $80 debt to the bank. no money is c
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by andylei 15y ago
then it would be hypocrisy. but they didn't. so its not hypocrisy.
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by andylei 15y ago
so journalism doesn't serve society because its "about serving ads"?
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by andylei 15y ago
> I am talking about the buyers ability to get their needs met so a 'genuine need' being met is a conversion, right? isn't that what google's algorithms and advertisers optimize for? i think in your framework of evaluation, that makes b
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by andylei 15y ago
replace some instances of fopen(), not every instance of fopen()
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by andylei 15y ago
i can't tell if this is a joke or not
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by andylei 15y ago
it seems like none of the things you mention are unique to "small development teams"
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by andylei 15y ago
> without a device that is open and able to run it, it may as well be closed google doesn't make devices > would you be right to suspect the motivations of a mining company conducting a review of environmental impacts how is this a
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by andylei 15y ago
> Im so happy that google is choosing to restrict my freedom to use my devices Google is not 'restricting your freedom'. You can fork android and do whatever you want. > Android is not a gift, its intent was never to charitably dona
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My spare time project, a simple weather site. what do you think?(sunlikely.com)
3 points by andylei 15y ago|4 comments
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by andylei 15y ago
is this what passes for product announcements these days?
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by andylei 15y ago
are there any products that don't take features from other products?
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by andylei 15y ago
actually, smoking and eating fatty foods is cheap on socialized medicine. they die early, decreasing overall average lifetime costs of care.
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by andylei 15y ago
another good one: 7One study, for example, found that children who had just finishedplaying violent video games were more likely to fill in the blank letter in “explo_e” with a “d” (so that it reads “explode”) than with an “r” (“explore”).
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by andylei 15y ago
The Constitution specifically authorizes federal copyright laws. "To Promote the Progress of Science and Useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
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by andylei 15y ago
the supreme court's "liberals" and "conservatives" aren't really divided along the lines that exist in the legislature. scalia is a pretty strict constitutional originalist and pretty consistently gives broad support to free speech.
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by andylei 15y ago
the roth test was superseded in Miller v California: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v._California#The_decisi...
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by andylei 15y ago
problem is that facebook doesn't really have too much of an incentive to care about these developers. they are not like apple, whose products include third party apps as part of the core value proposition. when steve jobs sells you an iph
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by andylei 15y ago
i think you overestimate the difficulty of producing working software. cs50 requires all their students to produce working software from scratch as a final project. there are always a few very impressive ones from total novices, a ton of g
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by andylei 15y ago
it's not so black and white. it's not like you should never use anyone else's api ever for your for profit stuff; it's simply a question of risk versus benefit. in the case of apis, the risk is that there is some probability that the api w
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by andylei 16y ago
i think the point is that increased password length can make easy to remember passwords that are more secure than shorter, hard to remember passwords. even though "this is fun" isn't secure in your scenario, its still more secure than the "
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by andylei 16y ago
their marginal cost is basically zero, so both you and they would have been better off if you had paid below what you thought it was worth.
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by andylei 16y ago
Is there life on Mars? I talked to an employee at NASA, and he said, "Probably not, but I guess its not out of the question". Then I wrote a story about it.
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by andylei 16y ago
these reasons make sense, but they don't seem to be representative of anything uniquely "lady". i'm sure there are plenty of guys not interested in coding for free in their spare time, as well as girls that feel just the opposite.
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Google's and Twitter's corporate values are better than Facebook's(slate.com)
6 points by andylei 16y ago|0 comments
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by andylei 16y ago
arguably, the FOIA request cost the government as much money as the favicon, since these employees would have had to dig through old records to gather the information, as well as respond to the emails
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by andylei 16y ago
they did fulfill their contracts, which said that they can terminate service for any reason
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by andylei 16y ago
how could they have not taken political positions? they could either bow to us federal pressure or not. by bowing to pressure, they acted politically, but if they had resisted, it would have been equally political.

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