billybob

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by billybob 15y ago
I think that assumes refrigeration.
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by billybob 15y ago
"Google could pick up AOL Mail and AIM, maybe MapQuest, incorporating them into existing assets. Microsoft might even put in a bid." Really? Why on earth would Google want AOL Mail? I can't imagine that they want the code, and the users don
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by billybob 15y ago
Exactly. "This tablet made by Sony! You know it's great, because look at all the other great things Sony makes! It's the same Sony!" "Didn't Sony do that rootkit thing and have lots of security problems?" "Oh... well we're really a differen
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by billybob 15y ago
You'd have to have a pretty long dropdown menu in the data-mining centers for all the genders people self-identify these days. Some people might be uniquely identifiable on that value alone.
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by billybob 15y ago
Very nice! For those wondering how to do this, you can try it out with :imap jk <esc> (imap means "use this mapping when I'm in insert mode".) If you like it, add everything but the : to your .vimrc
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by billybob 15y ago
Yes, "delete a" and "delete inner" is how Vim explains these text object operations. See ":help da", for example.
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by billybob 15y ago
Took me years to learn that one, too. It may be favorite Vim trick now. Basically everything that can make your cursor jump can be used as a motion with a command - moving to a mark, undoing/redoing jumps with Ctrl+o and Ctrl+i, and hopping
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by billybob 15y ago
My friend's version: http://sorryrobot.com/pendula/
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by billybob 15y ago
"It's implied that the relationship was used because real ducks are real animals, not because Duck inheriting from Animal is a good idea." I just do not understand this objection. If you wrote Sim Farm, it's quite possible you'd want Duck t
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by billybob 15y ago
If this is true, surely the judge will ask: if each of these claims can be invalidated by five separate pieces of prior art, why in the world were the patents granted in the first place?
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by billybob 15y ago
TL;DR: "Most reexamination requests rely on a finding of obviousness, which is a far more subject[ive] standard than demonstrating a lack of novelty. A lack of novelty can be established by any one piece of prior art that discloses each of
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by billybob 15y ago
Maybe so, but I'm not willing to sift through whatever happens to be playing at any given time, hoping to find something good and likely wasting my time. If all of TV's content were on something like Youtube, I might watch. "Whatever I want
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by billybob 15y ago
"Why would that be a problem, as long as what they feel they're being paid for matches their actual productive output?" My point is not "it is not OK for someone to work 5 hours a week." If both employer and employee agree to that, it's
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by billybob 15y ago
Ditto. I am happy to say that I'm only vaguely aware of any of the celebs/scandals mentioned, because I don't watch TV. I can't avoid seeing celeb mags in the grocery store checkout line, but I recognize fewer and fewer of the names. Also:
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by billybob 15y ago
That's true, but imagine your employees started working only as many hours as they felt they were being paid for. If the employee feels underpaid, they should renegotiate or, failing that, leave.
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by billybob 15y ago
I don't think this is black and white. If you hire a contractor, you're paying for the accomplishment of a task. If you hire someone full-time, you're paying for... what? Not X hours, maybe, but not "whatever you feel like doing," either. S
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by billybob 15y ago
A good piece of advise which does not in any way invalidate putting some effort into getting good tools. To use the chef analogy again, you wouldn't say "sharp knives don't make you a good chef, therefore use dull knives." You'd say, "foc
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by billybob 15y ago
Is there any good reason for this requirement, or is it just inertia? If I'm submitting something read-only, PDF seems like the obvious choice. If you're going to edit it, maybe .doc is the solution, but really, Google Docs would make colla
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by billybob 15y ago
One interesting side note: Sprint/Nextel has always heavily relied on Motorola phones, and a few months back, Sprint and Google rolled out tight integration between Sprint service and Google Voice ( http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2011/
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by billybob 15y ago
I'm not sure the technical meaning of entropy in this context, but personally, I would offset the narrowing effect of "restrict to grammatical phrases" by adding uncommon words. "Besotted ophthalmoscopes gambol indicatively" forms a coheren
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by billybob 15y ago
Example generated phrase: "married greatly snake battle" These phrases would be easier to remember if they made grammatical sense. Like Chomsky's famous "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" - the words relate to each other grammatically,
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by billybob 15y ago
He's not talking about you, then. <quote>Economists who expect people to be rational won’t believe in usury. Surely, people borrow money to be better off. Yet the average credit card debt per household is over $15,000 in the USA (an
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by billybob 15y ago
Dim? The first CFLs I bought were blindingly bright. The one in my bedroom now is too dim. I don't know if this is a consistency issue or if I just haven't paid attention to the ratings, but to say "they're too dim" overall is, I think, ove
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by billybob 15y ago
If you tax it much, there will still be a black market for it, with all the associated crime that brings. It already happens with cigarettes. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1299345... And it's a lot harder to differe
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by billybob 15y ago
If you tax it much, there will still be a black market for it, with all the associated crime that brings. It already happens with cigarettes. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1299345...
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by billybob 15y ago
Nice. I also took a crack at explaining them - here's my version, in case it helps anyone. http://sleeplessgeek.blogspot.com/2009/12/so-what-are-these-...
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by billybob 15y ago
“If you examine a system’s security and it’s weakened, that system is flawed,” says Ormandy. With things like encryption schemes, definitely. But is this true for detecting malicious behavior? If you show your criteria for finding it, doesn
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by billybob 15y ago
I don't see how it could really work otherwise. There is no such thing as a good that everyone would value equally. Intrinsic value varies depending on the needs of the traders.
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by billybob 15y ago
... And the lords of the surveillance state said in unison, "Long live the emergency!"
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by billybob 15y ago
"Why is gold worth anything? Because we all agree that it is." True to some extent, but it does have more intrinsic value than paper currency. 1) It's rare enough that small amounts can be used to trade, but common enough that lots of peopl

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