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by beering 14y ago
Were you working for or do you work for Yahoo? The allegations of rampant abuse of the work-from-home system in TFA is some sort of evidence, at least. And frankly, relating open-source software to productivity in a big company is a worse a
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by beering 14y ago
Well, the foreign key could have been set up to cascade deletes, in which case they would have been extra-screwed.
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by beering 14y ago
> Yes, it's mostly children. [Citation needed] For anecdotal evidence, you can look at the number of "my [husband/wife] made this in Minecraft" posts on Reddit and so on.
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by beering 14y ago
Damn it, we just went over this article on HN a few days ago. The numbers are wrong, and if you correct the male circumcision number to 18.5 million rather than billion, the total drops by half. See previous submission: http://news.ycombin
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by beering 14y ago
Might want to reread the article... I believe the paragraphs on each person were pulled from the company directory, and not everyone does up on the directory.
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by beering 14y ago
Have you actually read the CAN-SPAM Act? Do you know that it doesn't restrict existing business relations from sending you mail? How did you get on the ACM TechNews list if you didn't sign up for the list or sign up as an ACM member?
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by beering 14y ago
I'm not sure I parsed your comment correctly, but it's trivial to modify the logging format to add things like response time. "%D" for Apache will add response time. This is orthogonal, anyways, because if you can add more information with
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by beering 14y ago
So what is the purpose of replacing a common format with one that wastes space repeating labels? Many tools already support combined format, and you can look up the fields in the config if you really can't figure it out on your own. Also, t
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by beering 14y ago
A quick Google search turns up this page[1] that lists the donation as "18.5 million to establish the [MCC]". That figure would make much more sense compared to the other figures. [1] http://www.wellsphere.com/men-s-health-article/bill-gat
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by beering 14y ago
Funnily enough, this patent was reexamined in 2011 and 100% reaffirmed.
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by beering 14y ago
Singapore is where Uniloc, this patent troll, is incorporated. Just an interesting bit of trivia.
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by beering 14y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the $100 award wasn't necessary -- there are a lot of would-be Schemers out there who would jump at a chance to implement or re-implement something in Scheme, either as an exercise or for the honor and glory.
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by beering 14y ago
You would if you wanted to add it as a separate block type, or if you wanted to change non-visual properties of the block.
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by beering 14y ago
This is great to see. Tools like JOSM look like they were developed by engineers in the 80's, while Google Map Maker, for all its faults, is much more accessible to the armchair cartographer. I'd like to convert more Map Maker contributors
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by beering 14y ago
I think you missed the "Nice as it is to ...," which suggests it's not sarcasm.
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by beering 14y ago
When we needed native Android and iOS versions of our app, we contracted it out to a couple Indian developers. We figured that the development was pretty straightforward - it was essentially a port of our mobile webpage that had some perfor
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by beering 14y ago
I'm going to need a citation for what you just said because it sounds like you have a really messed up view of how cracking passwords works. Strong passwords aren't strong because they fool the computer by not looking like passwords. Wtf?
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by beering 14y ago
Does this make sense? Are there other many people that use that project? Does your contribution to it signify an endorsement of its maintainer? Have you already written the code? Is it fair to the other users of this project that you're wit
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by beering 14y ago
And yet, if Google didn't make money, we wouldn't have such a great search engine to use. Think about how much Google has helped scientific research, both for academics and ordinary people. Clicking ads is literally what supports Google.
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by beering 14y ago
I saw somebody paste an image of an iPhone into a PowerPoint slide, and draw all the screen elements using copy and paste or the PowerPoint drawing tools. He used inter-slide hyperlinks to link all the screens together and some simple trans
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by beering 14y ago
As opposed to regular docs, where I can photograph/scan/screenshot your signature and paste it in?
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by beering 14y ago
No. Is the company defrauding someone by terminating Bob? OTOH, Bob is defrauding the company by misrepresenting others' work as his. Or is outsourcing unethical in some other way?
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by beering 14y ago
Facebook is maybe not the best example. Remember, they did end up writing about 3 different implementations of PHP because of their scale. If anything, their case shows that they threw enough money at it to make it work.
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by beering 14y ago
For those wondering, there's nothing in his post that couldn't be found with some Googling. There's info in here that probably crosses the line of what shouldn't be made public, but at least he didn't go to the extent of using the internal
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by beering 14y ago
No wonder the Bible Belt has such high obesity and diabetes rates.
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by beering 14y ago
It's probably true that simply written Haskell code is fast enough for most uses. The trouble comes when that code isn't fast enough, or should be faster. How do you make Haskell code faster? Apparently it's somewhat like writing fast Java
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by beering 14y ago
It's not enough to say that it runs smoothly for most of the animation. It should run smoothly for virtually every second of the animation. I have a computer that beats yours hardware-wise running Chrome, and there were many places in the a
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by beering 14y ago
Wow, a lot of walls of text. Here's my one suggestion: Have you looked at being a PM? Product managers at companies like elgooG almost all have a hard CS background, but their day-to-day is talking to people, designing features, researching
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by beering 14y ago
What if they just gave you a onetime warning instead?
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by beering 14y ago
I think this is quite similar to Moravec's paradox, where tasks that are "natural" to the brain are the most difficult to simulate on a computer, seemingly difficult tasks are easier on a computer. It makes sense if you consider that the m

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