bostonpete

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by bostonpete 16y ago
Doesn't this kind of undercut the argument you made above about simplifying the censorship issue? If .com sex sites continue to exist, then nothing really changes at all... (?)
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by bostonpete 16y ago
I always assumed it was because women are lousy drivers and the stakes are much higher when you get behind the wheel of a plane... duck
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by bostonpete 16y ago
"Yes, totally. I'll get some facts about xyz and get back to you, so you can choose the best thing for the team." The manager comeback to that is: Manager: Fine, but let's put the fact-finding on the back burner as it's not a high prio
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by bostonpete 16y ago
I'm new to the notion of the silhouette test (had to google it) so forgive my ignorance, but how does this logo pass that test? Isn't its silhouette just a circle...?
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by bostonpete 16y ago
Anyone know what that card means or why it says "20 min."? If these cards are just repeating common suggestions for dealing with and overcoming addiction, there's something distasteful IMO about charging for the downloadable version...
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by bostonpete 16y ago
tl;dr: Legion's tl;dr sucked.
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by bostonpete 16y ago
Even worse than that is the anti-(anti-(patterns zealot)).
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by bostonpete 16y ago
I think it must depend on the environment. In my company, development managers (right up to the VP of software) are extremely competent developers and are expected to be able to solve the problems (or help solve the problems) that individua
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by bostonpete 16y ago
> The term "bubble" is reserved for really extreme cases. Maybe so, but it doesn't tend to get tossed around until cases start to get extreme. There are a lot of rumblings that there's a bubble building here. Can you think of any exampl
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by bostonpete 16y ago
"since you have to check every single line of code (indeed, every sub-expression) and think about what exceptions it might raise and how your code will react to it" Yes, that's my concern with exceptions as well. It seems like the Java mode
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by bostonpete 16y ago
Is this some sort of licensing model that they don't advertise? The only commercial licenses I'm aware of are per-developer licenses with no royalty structure.
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by bostonpete 16y ago
How would a comment pining for the days of yore have fared two years ago?
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by bostonpete 16y ago
I see where you're coming from, but I think there's another aspect of the value of Groupon that you're ignoring. A groupon allows local businesses to send an e-mail to many thousands of nearby residents, one which those residents have opted
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by bostonpete 16y ago
Just because those words didn't appear in the article doesn't mean that they're not an accurate description of the author's tone.
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by bostonpete 16y ago
> I'm not even sure where the idea that they are behind the Xoom spec-wise is coming from. I wouldn't be surprised if there's another side to this argument, but the article explicitly lists where the XOOM exceeds to ipad2: - higher reso
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by bostonpete 16y ago
I'm not sure I buy it, or at least that reasoning doesn't match Apple's apparent position on this. For example, at the iPhone 4 launch, the retinal display was the big topic. It would seem hard for them to then turn around and say that the
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by bostonpete 16y ago
I wasn't making the case for software patents -- just pointing out that the logic doesn't work. Just because the constituent parts of a whole don't satisfy some legal criteria doesn't mean that the "whole" itself doesn't.
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by bostonpete 16y ago
Isn't that like saying...? - Books can be copyrighted - Words can't be copyrighted - All books are basically words
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by bostonpete 16y ago
I think it's intended as a joke.
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by bostonpete 16y ago
This is no joke. My picasa usage just went from ~20 GB to 0.6 GB. While I appreciate this change, I can't comprehend the rationale behind it. It doesn't seem like storing lots of little files would be cheaper for Google, so why would they i
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by bostonpete 16y ago
OK, then what about The Blair Witch Project? One of the most polarizing movies on the graph, but not exactly what you'd call "safely" manufactured for an existing fanbase.
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by bostonpete 16y ago
> The key, we think, is to look for movies that some love and some hate, which is the likely profile of a bad movie that's "safely" manufactured for an existing fanbase. But according to the graph, Toy Story 3 was the least polarizing m
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by bostonpete 16y ago
I'm of the opinion that the argument that we shouldn't optimize without measuring is only true to a degree. Most of my experience is with building engineering software/tools using C++, so the considerations may differ with different types o
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by bostonpete 16y ago
Also, don't forget that Nokia's CEO was the head of Microsoft's business division until last fall. I think that may have been a factor as well.
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by bostonpete 16y ago
Absolutely. My 8 year-old has been asking a lot of questions and expressing concerns about death lately. In an effort to reassure him, at one point I explained to him that the pace of scientific discovery is accelerating rapidly and that th