bartl

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by bartl 15y ago
This solves a problem of exuberant costs for large payments, but my main problem is the reverse: small payments, transactions of a few dollars each. $0.25 cents for a transfer of just a few dollars is way too high.
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by bartl 15y ago
What I don't like about Dropbox is that it downloads every file from a common folder (shared with other people from my group) to my local computer, whether I'm interested in it, or not. It should just give me access to it, in the cloud, not
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by bartl 15y ago
Well I don't think that in b = list(a) it's clear in any way that the purpose of "list" is to make a copy.
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by bartl 15y ago
I think it's an allusion to the quote at the start of the article: "All art is theft". Maybe it would have been more correct as "all inventions are theft".
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by bartl 15y ago
Yes.One of the more exciting things about computer science, a few decades ago, is that it was all brand new. Even the pioneers were contemporaries. These were exciting times to live in, since it made me feel like we were on the edge of a br
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by bartl 15y ago
Drupal.org most likely was not the only site they no longer indexed. Probably no code site was still being indexed, at all.
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by bartl 15y ago
It is all for science. Other people can validate you didn't make any blatant errors.
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by bartl 15y ago
If I see a new feature in Firefox is going to appear in Firefox 8, to me, version numbers are just out of control. In that case, reducing the relevancy of the version number makes sense. But I feel that, and I'm sure many developers feel th
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by bartl 15y ago
>The B.S. stands for "before strikeouts". Really. Well I was thinking something else.
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by bartl 15y ago
Yes, that's the whole problem with "defensive" patents, which larger companies only own to be able to countersue: you cannot countersue a patent troll, because technically, they don't do anything, so they're not using any technology y
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by bartl 15y ago
The thing that I think is wrong in your calculation is your thoughts that data transfer forms the highest cost for these providers. I sincerely doubt that. Anyway, a total fee of $0.03 is ridiculous, as it doesn't include fixed costs for th
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by bartl 15y ago
No. "Unlimited", to me, means you get the advertised speed every second of the month, no matter the data volume you transfer. As soon as they start slowing you down, it is no longer unlimited.
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by bartl 15y ago
If there's a kind of person on the internet that I dislike more than trolls, it is people who see trolls in everyone.
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by bartl 15y ago
http://xkcd.com/303/ ?
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by bartl 15y ago
From a comment: > Is it right for developing elementary, pre-teen or teenage sons and daughters to be seen naked on the internet because cameras were left in an apartment or house recently rented or newly purchased? That's funny: when I
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by bartl 15y ago
"Troll" is the most abused word in internet forums.
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by bartl 15y ago
They're just copying Google Chrome. Why, is anybody's guess.
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by bartl 15y ago
He calls inheritance in Javascript a wart. It's one of its major strengths, IMO: the fact that you can directly override methods for a single object. Class inheritance, as he'd like to see, is not all it's cracked up to be. Just look at Jav
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by bartl 15y ago
You should check out the format iTunes uses for its music database. It's just as bad as this.
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by bartl 15y ago
That's what you get when designers feel obliged to uniformize a user interface, thus, that buttons must look very alike, irrespective of their purpose, and be placed in a group. I bet quite a few websites and softwares have similar proble
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by bartl 15y ago
Google cannot know if you already bought the RAM, or were still merely considering buying it. So it looks like they assume the latter, just in case.
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by bartl 15y ago
Does nothing on Firefox 3.6.x
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by bartl 15y ago
My guess is that the only people left to use Bitcoins is precisely for those illegals activities... Precisely the people they're trying to stop. It's not because something isn't legal that it stops working.
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by bartl 15y ago
Not to mention that they apparently thought of hiring him. It isn't obvious of whether they actually made an offer, but I think not.
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by bartl 15y ago
>if that bit of code was small enough (ie one or two bytes) you could simply encode those one or two bytes inside a two or three byte instruction thus saving the three-byte instruction needed to jump over it. The 8080 and Z80 had a rela
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by bartl 15y ago
>At the same time, they log into every site I use and create a new random password for that site. Uh, wait. This means they can log in into every account of yours. How secure you think that is?
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by bartl 15y ago
When I click the link, with javascript disabled by NoScript, I get: >JavaScript for Mobile Safari is currently turned off. Eh? I'm running Firefox 4 on Windows XP...
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by bartl 15y ago
>The bill, now awaiting the governor's signature, was pushed by recording industry officials to try to stop the loss of billions of dollars to illegal music sharing. From using other people's login?? Yeah, right.
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by bartl 15y ago
>Should there "rightfully" be only one version of Snow White? And it's not the version by Disney, because that is not the original one.
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by bartl 15y ago
Facebook tracking my every move is the reason why I don't have a Facebook account. Ditto: I don't use GMail because I don't want Google to have a copy of all my mail. Call me paranoid if you must, but I'm sure I'm not the only one.

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