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by bbatsell 16y ago
> He's arguing a point that nobody cares about. Right, that's why it's been in the top 5 of HN for two days. > Even RMS is probably saying, "You're being a bit pedantic here[...]" Have you ever read a word of RMS? :P His position w
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Yes.
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Has Ballmer demonstrated a particular adeptness with numbers or the nuts and bolts of operating a massive corporation? We know he's not a product visionary, but from my seat he's really a mid-level salesman who is the epitome of the Peter
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Have the exact same setup — 2009 15" MBP with an SSD and Optibay. However, I didn't have to drill any holes, and I moved the Seagate to the Optibay and the SSD to the standard HDD slot, and I've never had any bus issues whatsoever at 3Gbps
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Apple's running clear out of cats, so I sincerely doubt that they would start off OS XI with a cat. I've seen constellations suggested as the code names for the next series of OSes, which wouldn't be out of the blue considering OS X's rece
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Especially considering this is 3 weeks old.
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Pretty impressive. David Pogue has been beating this drum for a while, too; he should get some credit for calling attention to the issue.
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by bbatsell 16y ago
For the past 2-3 years or so, its fuel hedging has actually had a net negative effect on profit, as their hedged prices were higher than market price for Jet A.
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by bbatsell 16y ago
> The only solution I can think of is having an application server serve the pictures after authenticating the request. Or, make the URL fbcdn.com/p/timestamp/hash of internal salt + timestamp/unique ID.jpg. If the timestamp isn't from
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Yes. They would re-classify him as a permanent California resident with a temporary residence in WA, which would make him subject to CA franchise tax. Not paying his taxes would then be illegal.
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by bbatsell 16y ago
*Radley
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Not according to John Oliver; every pre-arranged interviewee knows exactly who they will be speaking with and what their schtick is. Man-on-the-street interviewees are told they're with The Daily Show, but it's on them to know what that is
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by bbatsell 16y ago
I could swear an admin said it with some pretty fair definitiveness; I thought I remembered that it was ketralnis, but this was the best I could find from him, and it's not nearly as definite as my memory says. http://www.reddit.com/r/prog
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by bbatsell 16y ago
I'm generally not a fan of non-competes, but if you get a $40m golden parachute, I think it's fair to ask that you not immediately jump to a competitor.
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by bbatsell 16y ago
You need to have a certain amount of karma to flag, but if I recall it's fairly low.
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by bbatsell 16y ago
For the record, I was in no way attempting to discredit this particular researcher (I'd be talking way above my level of knowledge in so attempting); I was just saying that the editorial seemed to be missing relevant information that seems
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by bbatsell 16y ago
It's discussed in nearly every article about his research. He also (obliquely) commented on taking funding from dubious sources on SourceWatch: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_E._Enstrom_...
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Digging a bit more, it seems that this editorial isn't nearly the whole story. The professor's main area of interest appears to be in studies showing that particulate matter in secondhand smoke isn't at all harmful.[1] Completely coinciden
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by bbatsell 16y ago
No, it isn't. Apache License has no virality. HTC Sense is not open-source (and is not even hinted at anywhere on the website you linked to claiming had the source).
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Of course not. If a company's execs fired someone based on anonymous comments that could easily have all been made by a single person with a vendetta, it would be one of the most ludicrous things I've ever heard. What is far more likely t
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by bbatsell 16y ago
It is absolutely impossible to fly somewhere cheaper than commercial whether you own or rent — it's pretty basic economies of scale. Private pilots do not do it to save money; they do it for the love of flight itself.
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by bbatsell 16y ago
He's moving to Portland [1]; VMWare does not have any offices in the state of Oregon, so that does not seem likely. [1]: http://twitter.com/ezmobius/status/20515487977
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by bbatsell 16y ago
Discussed here 6 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1561364
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by bbatsell 16y ago
It's possible I'm reading too much into what looks to me like careful wording on the part of Bloomberg, but there appears to be a lot of smoke here for there not to be fire. And one would think that such a high-profile article on page A1 o
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by bbatsell 16y ago
> Agreement prohibits prioritizing data traffic over landlines. Except that both NYT and Politico claim that that's not true. The agreement, according to Bloomberg, restricts Verizon from intentionally slowing traffic. NYT and Politic
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by bbatsell 16y ago
I don't think we can use Bloomberg to rule NYT inaccurate. Who's to say that Bloomberg's isn't sourced from major PR spin generated after NYT called for comment? The Bloomberg article very carefully states that the contract "restricts sel
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by bbatsell 16y ago
1999. If I recall correctly, it was one of their first acquisitions. It didn't make sense to me then, either.
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by bbatsell 16y ago
As long as this is handled well (i.e. truly opt-in, well-curated lists), it's a damn good idea. It's a good mesh of using the Internet to increase engagement in real life — the potential is huge for discovery of lots of unique places that
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by bbatsell 16y ago
No affiliation, but http://www.icheckmovies.com/ is based around a similar concept.
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by bbatsell 16y ago
In their part 1 [1], they link to a summary of a presentation [2], which says that with Tokyo, "when the dataset was larger than memory performance decreased vastly." No actual benchmarks, though. [1]: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/05/

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