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by aneth 15y ago
Ok, one good counter-point below: You can't loan an individual book (other than through the Amazon program) using a Kindle. Folks, this is not an Orwellian conspiracy, but rather a limitation of matter and energy which is a consequence of t
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by aneth 15y ago
First, this is not a loss of freedom. You are free not to buy products, and people are free to write and distribute their work without compensation. Thanks to technology, publishers and distributers are now only relevant for works where the
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by aneth 15y ago
Interesting question. I'm not lawerly enough to answer outright, but regardless of the current law I don't that a case against someone lending their Kindle would ever be upheld. It's analgous to saying letting someone use your computer is a
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by aneth 15y ago
Major flaws in both points here: 1) You can lend your Kindle out all you want and let people read your books, just as you could before. You just can't duplicate the book onto someone else's Kindle or in any other way, just as you couldn't b
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by aneth 15y ago
Yes, he's at the board level, so he has no need to qualify his statement and introduce ambiguity. If you take everyone, particularly people with great power, at the surface level of their language, you are missing most of the meaning. Indir
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by aneth 15y ago
If you look at the language: "I was a strong proponent at the board level for the deal being done" What was he at other levels? The presence of "at the board level" is distancing language. If he was personally fully behind the deal, he woul
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Networking for 50 Years, Not 15 Minutes(maplebutter.com)
1 points by aneth 15y ago|0 comments
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by aneth 15y ago
> Generally, peer pressure prevents that sort of behavior, he said. "It's like parking in a handicapped spot," Shaich said. > "The lesson here is most people are fundamentally good," Shaich said. "People step up and they do the righ
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by aneth 15y ago
It's nice to see the precise mechanics explained, and it might be rather "negative" to make your point, but it is a pretty obvious solution and I agree with you.
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by aneth 15y ago
Yes, Apple was focused intently on copying Vista's technology coup.
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by aneth 15y ago
I'm referring really to functional clarity. Fancy ruby DSLs that invoke method_missing and parse function names make for aesthetically pleasing end user code, but obfuscate the functionality for anyone unfamiliar with the code base. Aesthet
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by aneth 15y ago
I think it's highly unlikely the patent office would ever have the sophistication necessary to distinguish a truly new approach to an algorithm or architecture from a derivative one. Additionally, there is so much depth and breadth in CS th
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by aneth 15y ago
Would you take the test and be curious about the results? "Scientists" proposing "ethical restrictions" on tests because they fear the public is archaic thinking, and it's half of what I got out of the article.
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The £400 test that tells you how long you'll live(independent.co.uk)
7 points by aneth 15y ago|2 comments
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by aneth 15y ago
Looking at the difference between the Microsoft Kinnect and the Apple iPad demos, the marvel is how Microsoft manages to make something really amazing both boring and uncool, while Apple spends 15 seconds and inspires. Fortunately, the Kinn
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by aneth 15y ago
> with a test suite that takes less than a second to run I'm jealous. That would probably save me a huge portion of my development time. Node is my top contender if I dump rails.
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by aneth 15y ago
It would take me many days to create and test an admin with multiple objects, even a simple one, and then I have to maintain it. I install rails_admin and I've got what I need. This is for internal testing and maintenance. I don't care if i
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by aneth 15y ago
Great work! Yehuda is brilliant, although I'm sure he's busy now and I don't know how much bandwidth he would have to address that. I think he's full bore on Sproutcore. If I calculate (20 seconds) x (number of times I bootstrap rails), it
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by aneth 15y ago
True that gems often do more than I need, but should I? 1) Write my own authentication code 2) Write my own ical feed code (just added this in about 2 hours using ri_cal, which has way more features than I need) 3) Write my own code to inli
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by aneth 15y ago
> Good design is a relative term. In ruby I frequently see it interpreted as: Pack as many layers of magic as possible, and then test that with as many layers of testing-frameworks as possible. I have the same feeling sometimes. I wish
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by aneth 15y ago
More good suggestions. I'd love to get spork working, but rspec syntax makes me cringe and I haven't gotten it to work with test-unit. I found a plugin and a fork, neither of which I could get working.
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by aneth 15y ago
Autotest doesn't help startup times, but it can help mitigate the problem somewhat since the tests will start almost instantly when you change a file, saving a few seconds. It's a good suggestion, but doesn't solve the problem.
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by aneth 15y ago
"Long startup times or not, sounds like you should probably be using autotest or watchr. 20-30 seconds is not normal. Unless the app has a massive amount of code and dependencies, that sounds like an environment issue." Autotest helps some,
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by aneth 15y ago
I don't understand how that helps. This is a problem for pretty simple Rails applications. Besides, why should I have to set up and learn RabbitMQ to have a decently performing web framework? This is 2011 and this shit is slower than my old
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by aneth 15y ago
Yeah, I tried Django 2 years ago and sort of wish I had stuck with it primarily for this reason. (Additionally I much prefer the Python "no magic" philosophy, although I've gotten used to tracing through Ruby craziness.) The Rails community
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by aneth 15y ago
Pretty much ANYTHING you do. Start a console, start a server, run a test, migrate your database, run a rake task. It's a huge productivity killer for me. And as other comments have stated, it's surprising this issue is not discussed more.
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by aneth 15y ago
I've been a Rails dev for 5 years. I'm frequently considering leaving for another framework because of one thing: bootstrap time. Starting a test or server on my dev machine takes 20-30 seconds. Particularly with tests, this is a huge probl
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by aneth 15y ago
jquery is a great counter-example. Every version is significantly faster than the previous one, AND adds features.
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by aneth 15y ago
There are so many ways this could be lying with statistics: 1) Healthier people work more - does this include the disabled? Having morbidly obese or disabled who earn little and live shorter lives will skew the stats. 2) Poorer people eat
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by aneth 15y ago
Risk and trust are inherent in entrepreneurship. We all count on any number of providers to behave fairly, from technology service providers, to API services, to retailers, distributors, and other partners. Sure, it's best to have many legs

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