aristidb

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by aristidb 14y ago
Precise match is broken: People will spell addresses in all kinds of ways, and Maps needs to find all of them.
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by aristidb 14y ago
No, it's based on them being true enough that other approximations are less useful models.
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by aristidb 14y ago
Just some historical context: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/bill-nguyen-startups (HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3229299 ) That was about half a year after Color got funded with $41 million.
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by aristidb 14y ago
Or just finally fix immigration.
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by aristidb 14y ago
Why the hostility towards Notch? Minecraft will keep working on Windows 8 (just not in the Store), nothing to fear, move on.[1] It's equally unreasonable to love Microsoft as it is to hate it. [1] Well, it probably won't work on Windows RT
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by aristidb 14y ago
I'm hardly an expert in this, but doesn't that architecture look similar to Intel's MIC architecture ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MIC ) with the upcoming Xeon Phi product? See also http://semiaccurate.com/2012/08/28/intel-details-k
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by aristidb 14y ago
You're comparing the iPad with the Nomad? A curious analogy. EDIT: I do know about the old Slashdot meme. I just think the situation is drastically different here, hence "A curious analogy".
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by aristidb 14y ago
I think the point is that utility patents - as opposed to the design patents which you seemed to refer to - apply to games as well, and also do damage there.
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by aristidb 14y ago
The USA do things like reroute planes for that purpose. I suppose Argentina can't do that so easily.
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by aristidb 14y ago
Interesting story, but the "I am not taking sides" is a plain lie.
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by aristidb 14y ago
If I understand the code right, it only installs things automatically when it detects homebrew. Besides, it _assumes you're on a Mac_ if none of these three programs are found.
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by aristidb 14y ago
This is an example of insufficient abstraction, not clarity: make_person_an_outside_subscriber_if_all_accesses_revoked
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by aristidb 14y ago
The installer seems to look for apt-get, yum or up2date to find out if a system runs Linux. $ uname Linux Seriously.
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by aristidb 14y ago
Stacked DRAM, if I understand it correctly.
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by aristidb 14y ago
These Xeons probably don't have a HD4000 graphics unit?
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by aristidb 14y ago
You can still do \a b -> case (a,b) of ...
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by aristidb 14y ago
No, not everyone has a MasterCard / VISA debit card.
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by aristidb 14y ago
If you have a command line tool to access Glacier, I think what you can do is make an archive (with tar), encrypt it with gpg, and just use the command line tool to upload the encrypted archive. So you don't need tarsnap for that, but if yo
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by aristidb 14y ago
Presumably to make it harder to track down transactions to individuals?
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by aristidb 14y ago
Groklaw has proven pretty reliable in prior cases. Se's never truly impartial, but almost always quite close to the truth. And I can understand her, this really is an ugly set of cases. [EDIT: Fixed gender pronoun.]
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by aristidb 14y ago
He's suggesting improvements. You meanwhile are not constructive. If you prefer other systems over Linux, nobody forces you to use it.
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by aristidb 14y ago
There was a long comment before the sleep. It seems likely that the sleep was there for a reason.
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by aristidb 14y ago
But they're not saying that offering Facebook logins is bad. Just that _forcing_ people to log in with Facebook and not offering an alternative is.
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by aristidb 14y ago
I really want to like Wolfram Alpha. But I can't. It's too slow.
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by aristidb 14y ago
Having a full 3G modem in a camera, and a flexible operating system to control it is certainly nice. Having a camera that just uploads everything to Dropbox (or whatever), that's awesome! However, I have some doubt. One thing is that I thin
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by aristidb 14y ago
And the consequence of that is that the "new" page is less and less interesting. Perhaps submissions should indeed have a "karma cost". Perhaps only if you submit more than once a month or so.
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by aristidb 14y ago
That's a lot of static in the background. :/
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by aristidb 14y ago
But that's not necessarily illegal. Only certain kinds of copying are disallowed by the law. And also, the patents that Samsung asserted in the countersuit were _quite_ technical.
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"The Checkpoint" - Point of view of IDF soldiers(bostonreview.net)
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by aristidb 14y ago
Good point and this proves that such complex civil cases should not be decided by juries! A patent case is not about moral questions and narratives, it's about technical, legal as well as economic questions. (I would perhaps even argue that

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