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by blasdel 15y ago
He is capable of adding extraordinary quantities of both signal and noise, as evidenced by his collected writings: http://moldbuggery.blogspot.com/
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Rdar://10597149: Xcode just doesn't work worth shit(openradar.appspot.com)
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I was an unskilled factory worker(mrgan.tumblr.com)
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by blasdel 15y ago
You're right, since this isn't just streaming but also use in a larger work — you can't just use someone's song in what's essentially an advertisement without their permission Kickstarter must have to deal with this shit all the time in the
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by blasdel 15y ago
So they pay streaming license fees to ASCAP / BMI on behalf of their users? Public attribution does nothing to make it kosher, only reporting it so the royalties get doled out to the appropriate artists does that.
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by blasdel 15y ago
You're conflating two different estimates: Boisjoly was certain that the particular launch would fail, and a survey of engineers gave a 1-2% estimate for failure across all flights. Both of those predictions turned out to be extraordinarily
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by blasdel 15y ago
Yes, quite like the difference between nonviolent protest for integration and armed militant separatism as independent attempts at dissolving the white man's oppression of african-americans. You missed his analogy completely.
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by blasdel 15y ago
Is the screen capture used in the announcement an "I didn't know I was pregnant" joke?
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by blasdel 15y ago
What makes you think that any remotely-electable presidential candidate would do much different once in office? Hate the game, not the player.
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by blasdel 15y ago
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id31063399... "The item you've requested is not currently available in the U.S. store."
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by blasdel 15y ago
At least in the one example you gave, 'blindness' is a terrible way to describe how hackers avoid it "fixing payment processing" is not a problem that we subconsciously avoid — but rather one that we very deliberately stay as far away from
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Schlep Blindness(paulgraham.com)
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by blasdel 15y ago
I only wish I'd known about it for the last 1.5 years — that's exactly the kind of interface to HN I'd always wanted.
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Mining dark fiber(information-age.com)
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Bad (or, my unfortunately unfavorable review of Bob Martin’s keynote)(omgbloglol.com)
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by blasdel 15y ago
Bingo -- and the "sponsored by Google Chrome" text was pulled out of the ass of the blogspam originator based on their interpretation of the FTC regulations governing this kind of stuff. All of the instances are likely the work of a single
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I'm Robert Khoo. The guy that runs the business side of Penny Arcade. AMA.(reddit.com)
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TRESOR Runs AES Securely Outside RAM(www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de)
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APL is more French than English (1978)(jsoftware.com)
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by blasdel 15y ago
and in Chrome it's populated completely automatically based on your habits! It identifies site search fields in the pages you visit, and associates them with the domain itself and whatever terms you use to get to that domain. In Firefox it
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by blasdel 15y ago
Exactly, parodying Y using a pastiche of X is not considered fair use of X.
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by blasdel 15y ago
He has in-app ads of some kind, I got one cross-selling the Gilt app.
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by blasdel 15y ago
Coffeescript doesn't even have its own standard library, much less a runtime being cross-compiled with its own garbage collector and stack frame constructs.
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Edis is a protocol-compatable Server replacement for Redis, written in Erlang(inaka.github.com)
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by blasdel 15y ago
A couple years ago a prominent user with ~9000 karma was hellbanned for getting picked on by Zed Shaw , and pg went as far as adding new code to news.arc afterward so he wouldn't show up on the "leaders" list anymore (he was unbanned a mon
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The problem with CSS pre-processors(blog.millermedeiros.com)
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Let’s Not Party Like It’s 1999(betabeat.com)
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How to Dispel Your Illusions by Freeman Dyson(nybooks.com)
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by blasdel 15y ago
In the followup article it's revealed that all his degrees are in education: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/reveal... That does not bode well for him having a lick of intelligence
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Did you ever take that test yourself?(raganwald.posterous.com)
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