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by arfar 11y ago
This is a great read. I'm especially surprised about what it means to be an "Average Person". "Average" or an "Average Person" now (at least amongst my social circle) is actually a bad thing, something tha
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by arfar 11y ago
I've definitely heard of someone having the "gift of the gab", meaning they speak convincingly (I think I've only heard it used to describe sales people though).
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by arfar 11y ago
I'm always interested to find out how people decide upon names for their projects. In New Zealand "gobby" is slang for a blow job, not sure if that makes me want to try it more or less though.
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by arfar 11y ago
Is this your blog? Just thought you might like to know that "Trend Micro OfficeScan" detects this website as a "fraud page or threat source"
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by arfar 11y ago
This isn't a legal opinion and shouldn't be taken as legal advice. Interestingly, I think New Zealand law does have this case covered. There's special mention of "computer-generated" works under Section 5[1] of the
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by arfar 11y ago
I'm just happy there weren't any jokes about it being a Kiwi dating site.
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by arfar 11y ago
Looks really cool, I just had one problem. I didn't know what "Steal This Book" is all about, and there's nothing on the landing page describing what the purpose/content of this wiki is all about except for the fact
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by arfar 11y ago
I don't think this is actually run by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO uspto.gov), so the website owner could be risking whatever equivalent law of Passing off the United States has. I'd also be interested as t
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by arfar 11y ago
>UNIX "ls" tool is a case study in excessive command line switches. 'ls' is a bag of weird (bad?) UX. When first starting on the command line, I could never figure out how grepping the output of ls actually worked. Th
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by arfar 11y ago
I guess the counter example to that might be 4chan. It's difficult _to_ be recognized on 4chan, if at all. Obviously it has its "ghetto" parts (weird term, I don't fully get it) but it still manages to be a successful (a
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by arfar 11y ago
I didn't think that the OS X license let you run it anywhere other than Apple hardware. That's just something I've heard though, never actually investigated it.
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by arfar 11y ago
I've always felt like "Head of Community" is a weird job title. I mean, isn't a community, by definition, imply joint ownership by those in the community? Or if there must be a leader, then they have to be elected by the
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by arfar 11y ago
Obviously this is just your opinion, but I think Brian Eno completely on point here, for music at least. The best real-world example I know is the resurgence of cassette tapes. Whenever I go to see a not-very-popular (indie, for want of a b
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by arfar 11y ago
I think Richard Stallman is (was?) aware of this. He famously condoned Ogg/Vorbis using a BSD license so that it would be more greatly adopted by developers/companies making music players and the like. This was in the face of the
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by arfar 11y ago
I think it's a reaction to Columbine. Didn't one of them make a Doom map? I think some time after, the news got a hold of it and sort of blamed violent video games for the mass shooting.
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by arfar 11y ago
Sorry, yes you're right. I should've read the link I posted, I just assumed it would be the same as how its treated in New Zealand. Obviously reverse confusion is dealt differently in different parts of the world. Looks like US tr
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by arfar 11y ago
Depends on your definition of "works". If "works" means "looks fashionable" and "impresses your peers", then the $450 shirt is works a hell of a lot better.
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by arfar 11y ago
IANAL, but I know I do know a little bit about this stuff. Don't take this as legal advice. I'm sorry to say this, but the Apple scenario you've set out isn't always going to be true. There's a thing called "
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by arfar 11y ago
I don't understand this. If there were no copyright, people would be able to copy everything they see anywhere and never be forced to disclose their changes like they do with the GPL, which is at least one intention of GPL. GPL relies
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by arfar 11y ago
Personally, I find it hard to blame lawyers on the whole for this. A lawyers job is to represent their client as best as they possibly can (within the rules of the law). The best outcome for Oracle here is copyright is valid for APIs, it&#x
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by arfar 11y ago
I keep getting: "Cannot read records from database Because: A mutation operation was attempted on a database that did not allow mutations." and nothing loads past that. Firefox 38.0.1 on Windows 7
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by arfar 11y ago
Totally minor point. When you're searching something that doesn't bring up any results, it's just a blank page. It should say something like "No results found" or similar.
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by arfar 11y ago
I suspect if a brewery took this too far, they might be up for anti-competitive behavior related charges.
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by arfar 11y ago
Do you think that art as a commodity is less valuable that "art for arts sake"? Or the fact that an artist (like everyone else in society) needs to get paid to continue to create is a bad thing or cheapens anything they might crea
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by arfar 11y ago
Reminded me a little bit of sleep sort http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Sleep_sort
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by arfar 11y ago
Is the last part actually part of the paradox, or just a funny quip at the end. I found that bit quite hilarious, I could imagine that fitting into a Monty Python sketch or something quite well. >The next week, the executioner knocks on
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by arfar 11y ago
Picking an open source platform you can audit, like Linux (Android) for example.
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by arfar 11y ago
> people being forced to stay just under the legal limit of becoming proper employees. I guess this is where New Zealand works things out differently, it's really not clear cut about where the legal limit is for employee/contra
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by arfar 11y ago
In New Zealand this would be considered illegal. You MUST get the minimum wage if you're an employee. Even if you're contract states that 100% of your earnings are commission based, the average over every two week period MUST come
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by arfar 11y ago
It's not as clear cut as that. It's just down to the wording of your claims as to whether your invention is software or not. The question that needs to be asked is whether the claimed invention involves the production of some comm

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