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by bbanyc 11y ago
Do you know if the 2-hour timeout been brought back? That was almost as annoying as the expiration.
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by bbanyc 11y ago
For what it's worth, most of kx's customers (including the one I work for) have datasets much larger than 4 GB, making the 32-bit edition practically worthless for production use.
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by bbanyc 11y ago
The modern Village of Sleepy Hollow only got its name in 1996 - before then it was called North Tarrytown. But it is certainly the place that Washington Irving was writing about and the Old Dutch Church still stands there.
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by bbanyc 11y ago
Which in turn reminds me of the Beale papers - which were almost certainly a hoax describing a nonexistent treasure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beale_ciphers
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by bbanyc 11y ago
Not a legal expert by any means, but my guess is: the authorities disapprove of teens sexting, there's no specific law against sexting (and probably no constitutional way to ban it), but the child pornography laws can be stretched to e
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by bbanyc 11y ago
Earliest known post to Usenet was from Jim Rees in 1982, who credited James Gosling. For his part Gosling thinks it was originally written circa 1979. https://blogs.oracle.com/jag/entry/shar_a_blast_from_the
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by bbanyc 11y ago
Yes. In NYC Uber is a licensed car service like Carmel and Dial7.
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by bbanyc 11y ago
"Unix" as we know it is a merger of two traditions - the spartan purism of Research Unix and the rich user experience of PDP-10 OSes (Tenex, ITS, WAITS, etc.). When DEC killed the PDP-10 a lot of the PDP-10 culture jumped to BSD,
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by bbanyc 11y ago
Similar to how Best Western and Quality Inns started as cooperatives of existing hotels some 70-80 years ago. Of course they just had paper directories and no centralized booking at the time.
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The tragedy of Cooper Union(fusion.net)
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by bbanyc 11y ago
"Life is a fountain." "What does that mean? How is life a fountain?" "... Fine, have it your way, it isn't a fountain!"
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by bbanyc 11y ago
K&R corresponds to C in 7th Edition Unix. The source code to v7 and other early Unix versions is browsable at: http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl I find it interesting to see what C was like even earlier. Nota
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by bbanyc 11y ago
The article doesn't name the restaurant, but the author's LinkedIn profile says he worked at Eleven Madison Park. This makes some of the details seem more believable. Felix Salmon: "they’re IN THE CREDIT SUISSE building ferch
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by bbanyc 11y ago
The certification was done by the Election Assistance Commission, created in the wake of the Florida 2000 punchcard ballot debacle. The EAC hastily certified the first batch of electronic voting machines, issued grants to the states to buy
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by bbanyc 11y ago
Because the major industries in Hawaii (tourism, agriculture) don't want anything to do with it.
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by bbanyc 11y ago
It's not the specific "10-minute turn" that's the key, it's having a faster turn than the competition. The regulations affect everyone equally, and if Southwest has a 25-minute turn while other airlines can only man
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by bbanyc 11y ago
Private securitizations were inflating the subprime bubble well before Fannie and Freddie jumped in. If there's any data on, e.g., Countrywide/IndyMac it'd be valuable to add.
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by bbanyc 11y ago
"Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre [programmers]. They are entitled to a little representation, aren't they, and a little chance?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Hruska#Mediocrity
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by bbanyc 11y ago
The law of wills can be peculiar. Under New York law a will MUST be signed by two witnesses to be valid (EPTL §3-2.1). A notarization won't cut it - a notary can be a witness just like anyone else but you still need a second witness. O
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by bbanyc 11y ago
It's a limited-purpose trust company - it can only accept assets as trustee and cannot hold cash as a customer deposit. Because depositors' funds aren't at risk, these entities don't have to join the FDIC and are exempt
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by bbanyc 12y ago
Although Houston doesn't have zoning, it does have development regulations in place that mimic the density restrictions of cities with zoning - lot sizes, parking minimums, etc. In effect the entire city is one big zone. http:/&
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by bbanyc 12y ago
Polanski's situation is a bit different - he was charged, pleaded guilty, then fled the country before he was sentenced. The statute of limitations only sets a time limit for when a case can be initiated, not for when it must be comple
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by bbanyc 12y ago
Every so often the debian-devel mailing list gets a message from someone asking for the sheet music to "Dueling Banjos" because the top Google result is a previous message to the list asking for the same thing. http://p
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by bbanyc 12y ago
Agreed on "way too expensive and way too long." Most of the world seems to do fine with law as an undergraduate degree. I think a mandatory apprenticeship period, as Canada and the UK have, would also be useful, as neither America
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by bbanyc 12y ago
The ETF files for bankruptcy and the creditors and shareholders divvy up the remaining assets (which will be practically nothing).
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by bbanyc 12y ago
Spy (1986-1998) was loosely based on Private Eye.
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by bbanyc 12y ago
The Hudson's Bay Company used to be the owner of its nation-of-business (Rupert's Land, now western Canada). Today it's a department store chain in Canada and the parent company of two chains (Lord & Taylor and Saks Fif
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by bbanyc 12y ago
If the Berne Convention were simply amended to make copyright terms perpetual worldwide, I'd respect the process a bit more. I'd disagree with the move but it'd be honest about what its goals are, as opposed to hiding behind
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by bbanyc 12y ago
The domain doesn't prove they knew anything then. It's too generic, it's not like it was something like anthemdatabreachfacts.com. The company just changed its name from Wellpoint to Anthem in December and could have bought u
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by bbanyc 12y ago
Here in New York City, a lot of condos are officially owned by LLCs in order to keep the rich/famous owners' names out of the public record. Full deeds are available free online (though only through a Java applet), dating back to

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