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by blktiger 11y ago
It sounded to me like the latter as well. I think the Advocate General is saying you can't ban hyperlinks unless they are the only way to access a copyrighted work. As an example, I would think a link that allowed someone to get around
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This goes along with what Steve Jobs used to say about tablets being a "failure" if they required a stylus. It's not because a stylus is bad per se, and in fact a stylus makes for some superior interfaces in some cases, but r
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Most people don't understand computers and don't want to. They would be better served by a locked down device that they find simpler to understand than a complicated "open" device for the same reason that they don't
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I don't think Apple is thinking about the money aspect here. Instead they find it sad because many of these people are missing out on _progress_. Especially with regards to ease of use. Many of these people would be much better served
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This is the most interesting part of this story to me. That the test driver believed the bus would let the vehicle continue indicates to me that the human driver would probably not have done any better than the automated car in this case.
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Keep in mind that 0% interest isn't the same as free money. Usually a 0% interest deal comes with "finance charges".
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I'm curious, what about bitbucket prevents it from being a real alternative to github?
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It seems like the general advice for many years has been to just get _any_ college degree. If you have a college degree you are supposed to be able to get a good job. I think the main problem with that advice is that it was good advice when
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by blktiger 11y ago
Actually, this sounds a lot like the F22 program. They had tons of software bugs as well and management basically came in and told them they were behind schedule to screw testing and get back on schedule.
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I really like my iPad Pro. If Apple had updated the Air this year I might have gotten a new Air instead because I was worried the Pro would be too large. However, after having used the Pro for a couple of months the iPad Air looks really ti
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It's not really about being simpler, but rather that electric has _fewer moving parts_. A modern gasoline car has hundreds of moving parts while an electric car has more like 1-4 moving parts (the motors). This means that the electric
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I think true dogfooding would require a mix of both new applications as well as migrating older applications over.
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I wouldn't necessarily read it cover to cover. I did that with volume 1 and found it interesting, but I could have done without the assembly implementations. Assembly is highly dependent on the hardware capabilities. It feels to me lik
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This is a poor example since a single case of Jaywalking can only be commited in a single country. If you were to Jaywalk across a country border on the other hand, you'd could be charged with 2 instances of Jaywalking. Once in the fir
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by blktiger 11y ago
The tech experts are telling her that you can't break encryption without ruining it for everyone. She is turning around and basically saying they aren't trying hard enough. It's possible that quantum computing will offer a te
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I just can't believe anyone would say they "trust the tech experts" immediately before dismissing what the experts are telling them.
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It looks like the TF-X is planned to be an autonomous flying vehicle. The user basically just has to tell it 3 landing areas, then the car handles takeoff and landing and calculates whether it has enough fuel/energy to get there. That
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by blktiger 11y ago
According to the article, walmart wants to test a drone delivering a package from a truck and then returning to the truck. If that is the case, then they could use an automated truck to deliver packages to the general area first. Then the d
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by blktiger 11y ago
The point of the new Optional type in Java isn't to prevent NPEs, it's to make using the new Streams API cleaner. Since you can now flow through optional values in a stream you can ignore whether the stream contains optionals or n
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53% agree that he should stand trial. That's not the same as being convicted. He did break the law, so it stands to reason that he should stand trial. Snowden himself said something similar if I recall, that if he was sure he would sta
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He didn't say that was the salary. He said the final salary was that much _less_ than what the recruiter said it would be.
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Hmm, what about the batteries though. The Tesla will have to expend energy to keep them warm right?
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My Chevy Sonic has some kind of automatic braking feature. It kicked on for me once and probably prevented an accident. Edit Actually, I think it's not detecting a possible collision but recognizing that I slammed on the brakes and h
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by blktiger 11y ago
Well, that depends on the purpose of the airplane. We already have electric sailplanes which have basically just enough battery power to get the sailplane into the air, after that you don't need an engine. Plus battery storage has been
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Some people aren't effected by stimulants the same way others are. For example, generally with ADD/ADHD stimulants help calm the person down where with other in general people it would wire them up. Personally, I have to take enou
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I also find it odd how this is immediately chalked up to racism instead of simply assuming that the school administrators are simply overzealous about "something that somebody thought looked/sounded like a bomb". I mean, it c
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At Airventure last week I listened to a talk on an electric motor glider ( http://electricmotorglider.com ). One of the takeaways that I had was that with current battery technology, for electric motors to make more sense than a g
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by blktiger 11y ago
It sounded to me like the pilot's couldn't input the flight plans into the cockpit avionics because they didn't have a paper copy of the flight plan.
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Grails 3.0 Released and the Road Ahead(grails.io)
16 points by blktiger 12y ago|7 comments
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Just one more reason not to watch normal television.

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