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by cduan 18y ago
Note that the opinion considers this exact analogy, on page 13. The question in this case is whether Google's product placements on search result pages cause "consumer confusion." The distinction between this case and the shop is that, with
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by cduan 18y ago
Oh dear. From the one lecture of his that I attended, I knew that Charlie Nesson had some unconventional ideas, but this is a bit excessive. (You know you should be worried when Lawrence Lessig dismisses your fair use argument.) The student
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by cduan 18y ago
I'd say that it is less than "terrifying" to plot the national debt on a log scale. Most numbers in economics (and in nature) vary in an exponential manner. Consider, for example, inflation, interest rates, and population growth. Nature dea
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by cduan 18y ago
Thanks for pointing this out--this is either a new feature since I wrote the tutorial, or I didn't get it right the first time around. I think it is correct now.
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by cduan 18y ago
I appreciate the comment. To be fair, this was intended to be an introductory tutorial--it was written to teach Git to a friend of mine. Its purpose was to introduce Git in terms of underlying concepts rather than as recipes of commands, as
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Understanding Git(eecs.harvard.edu)
258 points by cduan 18y ago|12 comments
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by cduan 18y ago
My undergrad thesis, written four years ago, was a taxonomy of anti-spam systems. Since then, every anti-spam system that I've seen both (1) falls neatly within one of my categories and (2) fails to account for the problems I identified in
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by cduan 18y ago
I think your hypothesis is correct, but that doesn't make Git any less of an achievement. Certainly it is the product of technologies that existed, but it is the manner in which Git packages those features that is innovative. Indeed, much o
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by cduan 18y ago
Isn't the probability still 2/3 even in the proposed alternative? The fact that we "arbitrarily announce the gender of one of the children" provides new information for calculating the probability, which is ignored if you assume that the or
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Programming and the law(blog.sbf5.com)
2 points by cduan 18y ago|1 comments
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by cduan 18y ago
I would just add all of my friends to see who picked me.
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What happens when you ask Gmail’s SMTP server for help?(blog.sbf5.com)
3 points by cduan 18y ago|0 comments
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User-based Website Directories with Nginx(blog.sbf5.com)
4 points by cduan 18y ago|0 comments
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by cduan 18y ago
Why don't we make like TCP/IP packets: if there's a collision (i.e., you reach voicemail on a callback after a dropped call), wait a random number of seconds before trying to call again. I actually do this all the time, and it works great.
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by cduan 18y ago
You should look into the DMCA safe harbor provisions for Internet Service Providers. The basic idea behind them is that, if you comply with certain requirements (establish a DMCA officer, respond to takedown notices, etc.), then your servic
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by cduan 18y ago
mandatory comic post: http://xkcd.com/224/
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by cduan 19y ago
It's supply and demand. Where demand is scarce, the supply competes for it. Where supply is scarce, demand competes for it. Programmers are the supply; startups are the demand. Put in real terms, if you've got a really great startup, develo
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Geek Love (NYTimes Gary Gygax obituary)(nytimes.com)
1 points by cduan 19y ago|0 comments
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by cduan 19y ago
http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html the tilde operator (for synonyms) is pretty useful.
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by cduan 19y ago
http://youtube.com/watch?v=k4RRi_ntQc8
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by cduan 19y ago
I usually just background the cp and ls -l the source and destination files. Not as pretty, but it works just as well.
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by cduan 19y ago
http://xkcd.com/224/
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by cduan 19y ago
Maybe we've got a false dichotomy on our hands? Rather than a binary programmer-not, we should think of a spectrum of programming ability. It's just a label after all; what really counts isn't what I call you, but what you can do.
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by cduan 19y ago
If possible, why not just use a totally random string rather than a hash? That way it's truly unbreakable.
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by cduan 19y ago
Ironically, the NY Times ran a serious article on this same subject--with essentially the same conclusion: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/health/04mind.html
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by cduan 19y ago
Yes, that is where www.anything.com goes. Try, perhaps, "ebay anything"?
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by cduan 19y ago
Interesting, didn't know about that, but it looks cool. It looks like it just uses a list of aliases though, while I default to treating the keyword as the domain name itself and extracting the form from the HTML of the page.
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by cduan 19y ago
This was a little midnight web programming project of mine. Maybe there's another service like it, but I haven't found it yet. If you have any suggestions for additional shortcuts, send them over!
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Search Anything(search.sbf5.com)
5 points by cduan 19y ago|7 comments
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by cduan 19y ago
I'm actually working on writing something like that. If anyone is interested in helping me test it out/write it, shoot me an email--[my username] at eecs.harvard.edu .

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