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by carbon8 18y ago
the philosophy department only teaches the class Most or all undergrad pure logic classes, as far as I've ever seen. There aren't usually a whole lot of pure logic classes, so it's entirely possible that your school(s) might only have had
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by carbon8 18y ago
potatolicious has a point. In fact, in universities, logic (formal logic, with symbols) is usually taught by philosophy departments.
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by carbon8 18y ago
Logic is not "a ka maths," it's very much interdisciplinary, and it's the bridge between math, philosophy, computer science and linguistics. That's why even something as simple as an SQL query uses concepts drawn from each of those fields.
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by carbon8 18y ago
Thinking logically about how to model and solve a system using abstract concepts. Which is often just as much or more in line with philosophical applications of logic than purely mathematical. As I noted in other comment, you could then a
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by carbon8 18y ago
What's the difference between mathematical inclination and logical inclination? Logic is a strange area since it bridges fields, primarily math, philosophy, linguistics and computer science. In my experience, designing software more frequ
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by carbon8 18y ago
As I stated elsewhere, the internal software architecture (or licensing) is not the issue here, the cloned result presented to users/customers is. Your argument was that someone can't take a web app and "copy it to China," yet this is exac
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by carbon8 18y ago
and StackOverflow was unabashedly a derivative of Digg or Reddit. "Derivative", not clone.
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by carbon8 18y ago
Creating a competing product or service is absolutely not the same thing as cloning a product or service. With web applications, this is even more true since they are literally operating side by side on the internet.
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by carbon8 18y ago
You clearly have missed everything since it's exactly the opposite. The internal software architecture is not the issue here, the cloned result presented to users/customers is.
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by carbon8 18y ago
And that's what they would have to do..."copy it to China" Which is basically all the clone is at this point. I still think your focusing too much on "language" rather than "community". I'm focused on language because that's the justifi
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by carbon8 18y ago
If someone else's "Collaborative Shell Client" takes off and mine doesn't... There's a massive difference between a competitor and a clone.
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by carbon8 18y ago
The position that an English based community can serve the world shows you do not understand that the Chinese community This issue is absolutely NOT about an "English based community" or a "French based community" or an "Arabic based comm
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by carbon8 18y ago
So if I clone your ShellShadow software, design everything to look as identical as possible and the market overwhelmingly chooses my clone, that's OK with you? Somehow I doubt it.
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by carbon8 18y ago
What exactly is the problem? The original stack overflow is CC-SA. I'm not addressing the license aspect of this particular case, I'm addressing the attempt to use language support as a justification for this practice. Furthermore it fre
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by carbon8 18y ago
My statement was a conditional if statement: If someone clones a product or service to the point that it confuses users, that's borderline fraudulent activity and deceptive. This is usually a different kind of issue for material products an
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by carbon8 18y ago
I don't see what the big deal is For one, it's borderline fraud if users don't know what site they are on. Perhaps that's not the case in this situation, but there are many situations where it is the case. Secondly, it's a dirty move. Clo
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by carbon8 18y ago
The language argument is a red herring that appeals to an outdated, pre-communications revolution worldview and tries to ignore the central issue here. Language support has absolutely nothing to do with anything in this situation. If someon
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by carbon8 18y ago
Mininova doesn't host or distribute the content.
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by carbon8 18y ago
This is the first time I've ever heard an mba as practice (vs a study of theory) Considering that this is the basic model of MBA programs, not to mention that it's also the basic model of pretty much any professional graduate program in p
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by carbon8 18y ago
what part of the coursework was hard, not the actual practice of business An MBA is practicing business, at least at the top tier schools (possibly at the others, I don't know). Most of the focus is on case studies and group projects tack
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by carbon8 18y ago
Well, first of all, what's hard for one person can be easy for the next. Plus, people have a lot of misconceptions about many business related fields. Take marketing, for example. It is often misinterpreted as purely "promotion" when really
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by carbon8 18y ago
you can argue that an MBA is very shallow on technical skills. There is a large difference between MBA, and getting something like Masters in Finance. First of all, the top-tier programs aren't all the same. The University of Chicago MBA
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by carbon8 18y ago
In addition to blueprint, you could go meta with compass: http://wiki.github.com/chriseppstein/compass
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by carbon8 18y ago
This change in what version numbers mean definitely isn't known by the entire Ruby community. The O'Reilly books' statements about 1.9 versions being development versions and the fact that 1.9 has been in development until today has made th
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by carbon8 18y ago
Maybe in a small town public library, but you will be dealing with kids all the time. Otherwise, you won't have time. I spent years working in academic libraries and you are always expected to be doing something. If you aren't working a des
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by carbon8 18y ago
blocks all outbound ports except 80 and 443. So I couldn't do alot You should tunnel everything through ssh or vpn when on a public network, anyway, so having a server or router you can ssh into on 443 and use for tunneling is a must for
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by carbon8 18y ago
Scope the place out, try to sit away from doors, leave my jacket, throw my laptop in a sleeve and take it with me. I would never leave a laptop on its own.
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by carbon8 18y ago
In
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by carbon8 18y ago
> Consumers regularly counter act companies. Brands are so valuable that companies fight to protect them. There are many kinds of businesses that exploit faults in the public and market, yet don't even have any relationship with brandin
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by carbon8 18y ago
As always, this kind analogy doesn't apply to digital copies. For the analogy to work each digital copy would need to be recoded from scratch by the original developer.

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