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541.
by bediger 16y ago
And none of these myths were about the economic side of that business, which is what I half-expected from that author.
542.
by bediger 16y ago
The author of this one doesn't even consider The Most Holy Intellectual Property. Why not?
543.
by bediger 16y ago
Unfortunately, the mathematics points to "you need good judgement": http://www.idiom.com/~zilla/Work/Softestim/softestim.html At the very least, large limits exist as to how accurately one can estimate this sort of thing.
544.
by bediger 16y ago
I think he's conflating "astroturfing" with "trolling". Astroturfing has come to mean paid advocacy in the guise of grass-roots advocacy, in hopes of the advocacy assuming the crediblity of mere enthusiastic advocacy. Trolling used to mean
545.
by bediger 16y ago
tl;dr version: to be compatible with MS-DOS, a system that was detrimentally "parsimonious" with memory.
546.
by bediger 16y ago
All this does is reiterate a few voodoo "tips": move your router, update firmware, blah blah blah. It does nothing to promote understanding of any problems, nor does it propose systematic troubleshooting.
547.
by bediger 16y ago
A facile answer. How can you tell if I invented the circular ice scraper, or the folks who hold a patent on it invented it? If they invented it, why do I still scrape frost and ice off my car's windshield with a yellow plastic coffee mug,
548.
by bediger 16y ago
> Is it fair for software developers to make money by mass producing and distributing at almost zero cost? Well, what about simple Econ 101? In a competitive market, prices tend towards the marginal cost of production. Wow! Someone ju
549.
by bediger 16y ago
> You can steal an idea, for example. How so? I can't even really write about it without getting mired in semantics, but here goes... Suppose, one icy winter, I see you scraping your car's windows with an inverted plastic coffee mug.
550.
by bediger 16y ago
Interesting and inflammatory, but I want to see some Wagg-Ed refugee admit that they've had a special office full of people baiting slashdot, groklaw and other sites.
551.
by bediger 16y ago
You beat me to recommending "alpine" ( http://www.washington.edu/alpine/ ). Alpine is super fast, you can use it just about under any OS (as long as it has terminal window) and it understands SMTP and other protocols well enough that I've
552.
by bediger 16y ago
Shocker! The USA has off-shored all entry level tech jobs, getting rid of its "farm teams" for more advanced jobs and technical managers. The USA has declared a War on the Unexpected (see the "Mooninites" in Boston ad campaign) so nobody g
553.
by bediger 16y ago
I'm not asking this to be snide, or sarcastic, but... Do you have a source for that? I'd be interested in seeing such a thing.
554.
by bediger 16y ago
They missed one: Rock-n-roll. That derned rock-n-roll is EVIL. It's just a bunch of long haired young'uns, a jumpin up and down and a twangin on gee-tars. It causes the kids to GYRATE!
555.
by bediger 16y ago
Isn't God going to be a little upset about that?
556.
by bediger 16y ago
Before you even bother with this one, consult Google about "Captain Cyborg": http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=captain+cyborg Kevin Warwick is widely regarded as a self-parody.
557.
by bediger 16y ago
Here's one comparing Java and C++, and where Java wins: http://www.lanl.gov/projects/CartaBlanca/webdocs/PhippsPaper... And there's always the Script-o-Meter: http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/language-study/scripting-l...
558.
by bediger 16y ago
Perhaps the most un-biased comparison I've ever seen. It even includes a bit about different VMS filesystems, a neglected topic. But I think this misses a lot of key points. You cannot compare operating systems without comparing a few key p
559.
by bediger 16y ago
All that observation does is move the question slightly, from "Did the ROI on the litigation make sense?" to "Did the cost of the litigation scare off $64 million worth of file sharing?" It's pretty clear that the ROI on their litigation di
560.
by bediger 16y ago
Does NYC school district have enough schools that this kind of a curve makes sense? I've certainly been in classes that the teacher chose to do a normal-form arrangement of the number of grades, and in a lot of classes, that just didn't fit
561.
by bediger 16y ago
Does the article's author's misuse of "installation" instead of "installment" bother anyone else? I mean, I hate to be a Usage Nazi as much as the next guy, but an "installation" is just not the same as an "installment". Those two words ju
562.
by bediger 16y ago
Like a lot of these Junior-Midlevel-Senior ratings, it exhibits a big disconnect between Midlevel and Senior. A clear path exists between Junior and Midlevel, but the Senior criteria seem orthogonal. For example, "Can elucidate requirement
563.
by bediger 16y ago
The other common trap to fall into: thinking that all programming problems are solved. All you have to do is code the "business logic". A corollary of this is that it's impossible to speed up "business logic" at all. You have to drop from
564.
by bediger 16y ago
Arrrr, I'd have to say I doubt it. Plenty of methods of (partially) counter-acting "piracy" exist, mate. Shiver me sides! The "Madonna" wench put sound files full of swearing that would embarassa deckhand on file sharrrring networks. The
565.
by bediger 16y ago
Aren't the epistemological challenges of programming merely a reflection of the epistemological challenges of mathematics in general? For example, you can derive numbers (and number theory) from Combinatory Logic or Lambda Calculus or Set
566.
by bediger 16y ago
Sounds to me like you're already doing it. The other thing you'll want to do is understand why things work, not just be a "configuration file programmer".
567.
by bediger 16y ago
I have some stuff on my personal web site: http://www.stratigery.com/ I do not submit anything to the copyright office. I do not know of any other measures for protection in case of a conflict. I personally doubt that anything I've ever o
568.
by bediger 16y ago
Why bother write a malware that has got an order of magnitude less chances to spread? Taking that viewpoint means explaining Windows malware like this: http://www.virusbtn.com/virusbulletin/archive/2009/09/vb2009... That's an old school W
569.
by bediger 16y ago
This is a few weeks old right? Where did it go from there? Are we (linux users) all infected with lots of rootkits and file infectors and worms? No. The interesting question is not "Are linux machines infected with a cloud of malware like
570.
by bediger 16y ago
I thought Bing was a "decision engine" and Google was a "search engine". Isn't this comparing apples to oranges, metaphorically speaking?

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