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by autarch 14y ago
You seem to be assuming that simply because something is a crime it is therefore morally wrong. I don't think piracy needs justification because copying something is not morally wrong. OTOH, stealing a car (without justificaiton) is morally
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by autarch 14y ago
No, IRV actually makes the strategic voting problem even worse than our current system. Approval voting seems to have the best mix of desirable traits.
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by autarch 14y ago
I've been on the hiring side many times and I never look at a resume's education section. I suppose if I were hiring someone fresh out of school that'd count a little more, but experience is much more important than what school they went to
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by autarch 14y ago
As part of my negotiations for my current job, I negotiated a 4-day (32 hour) work week. I take Fridays off and do my own projects and volunteer work. I've had a couple jobs where I've done 32 or 36 hour weeks in the past as well. But I als
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by autarch 14y ago
The difference between Angry Birds and Curiosity is that Angry Birds is at least slightly enjoyable.
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by autarch 14y ago
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6499095.stm is one article on what happened to her. It was pretty awful.
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by autarch 14y ago
Looking at the examples it's really hard to know if this stuff was copied. How else would you write this sort of stuff? This seems like really simple, straightforward code. A lot of it seems to be about creating a hash based on a well-defin
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by autarch 14y ago
JS has all sorts of problems, but I don't think being async by default is one of them. It's different , yes, but being async by default can be really useful for some tasks.
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by autarch 14y ago
I really don't understand where this oft-repeated FUD about Moose having a lot of deps comes from. Take a look at the list of deps on https://metacpan.org/release/Moose I count 18 direct dependencies, 2 of which are core. If you look at t
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by autarch 14y ago
That might explain high costs for some users (or subsidies, which I believe we have for rural access). It doesn't explain why these costs would be high in urban areas.
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by autarch 14y ago
I mostly do Perl, but I vastly prefer CoffeeScript to JS. The significant whitespace thing is actually a negative for me with CS, but it eliminates so many JS annoyances that it's worth putting up with.
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by autarch 14y ago
I think one of the biggest barriers to finding a new job that's better than your current one is lack of telecommuting options. Unless you live in NYC or the Bay Area or a few other big cities it's not like there's dozens of great companies
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by autarch 14y ago
I've tried this at home. I made chicken noodle soup with it and it worked really well. I sauteed it in olive oil in a pan first, then added it to the broth later. It withstood both form of cooking fairly well. It browned in the pan and abso
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by autarch 14y ago
I think you meant trademark law. AFAIK, copyright doesn't require an active defense to preserve your rights.
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by autarch 14y ago
They might be so friendly in that other case, but they shouldn't be. There's a big difference between the two. In the book case, they have a fan in an entirely different business who infringed. They're sane enough to realize that this is ve
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by autarch 14y ago
Cue the endless comments from unqualified nerds who are convinced they and they alone know everything about nutrition science, and that all the commonly accepted facts are totally wrong. Complete with links to random Youtube videos of some
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by autarch 14y ago
I figure for $99 this is a fun experiment. If it sucks, I backed an interesting idea and I'm not out much money. If it doesn't suck, I have a neat new toy to play with. At the very least, it might let me drop my XBox Live Gold subscription,
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by autarch 14y ago
Without knowing what his income goals are, it's hard to know how well this would work for others. Most people can't easily charge more than $100 per hour for consulting, unless you have niche, in-demand skills, or are notably above-average
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by autarch 14y ago
It's actually more than a preview. The entire book is available free of charge in a variety of electronic formats (PDF, ebook, etc.).
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by autarch 14y ago
Are you comparing John Williams to Bach and Beethoven? Williams is a very skilled film composer who's great at borrowing ideas from better composers and reshaping them for film. But his music is very unoriginal on its own.
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by autarch 14y ago
I'd phrase this differently. Once you implement Mongo in Postgres, what you have isn't a relational database. What you are taking advantage of is the incredibly solid underlying infrastructure of Pg, which provides reliability, scalabilit
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A World Without Copyright(blog.urth.org)
4 points by autarch 14y ago|1 comments
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by autarch 14y ago
Well, as employee #2 of a startup, they are for a little while at least.
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by autarch 14y ago
As someone who's done a fair bit of hiring, I'm happy to see anything out there at all. At least it gives me some real code to look at. Of course, having contributed to (or better yet, created) a widely-used project is an even bigger plus.
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by autarch 14y ago
There's a lot of variation in the quality of RFCs, both from a technical standpoint and from a writing standpoint. I've read a number of the email and MIME related RFCs, and they're terrible. They leave out so many details, and the decision
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by autarch 14y ago
It seems like the skill of building machines would be analogous. There are all sorts of machine out there that help you build more machines, and if you know how to build machines you can improve these machines to help you build better machi
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by autarch 14y ago
The "nice guy" who speeds does so in reckless disregard for the fact that his speeding can easily cause an accident that could kill people (depending on how fast he's going, obviously). Cars are freaking dangerous.
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by autarch 14y ago
Yes.
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by autarch 14y ago
Words are action. Linus wrote the words, then posted the comment (two actions write there). I hate to break it to you, but everything counts.
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by autarch 14y ago
I think this reflects more on you than on SQL. This is fairly trivial to express as a table-level constraint. I've done very similar things in Postgres. I have no idea if you can do this in MySQL, but it's quite crippled.

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