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by cgoddard 15y ago
Even if under certain circumstances it might be okay for that person from another company to say they find you very attractive, it is extremely inappropriate in a professional context and objectifies that person. Now rather than the audie
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by cgoddard 15y ago
That's a great idea! Provide funding for movies solely with advertising! I'm sure that will result in no conflicts of interest that will severely compromise artistic vision and reduce people to no better than buying machines. </sarcasm&
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by cgoddard 15y ago
It's really amazing he raised that much money so quickly, with so many in the higher tiers as well, especially since the higher tiers of funding are still a donation and do not provide any equity in the project. I suppose the original art w
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by cgoddard 15y ago
Aversion doesn't necessarily have to reflect an underlying natural law. In the case of killing, indiscriminate attempts to kill would threaten personal fitness, because there is a good chance the attacker could be killed in turn. This risk
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by cgoddard 15y ago
Educate yourself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_Libre
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by cgoddard 15y ago
If they don't want to contribute any coding work back to the community at large, then let them start from scratch and build something they have full control over. I don't see why the open-source community should have to accommodate them if
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by cgoddard 15y ago
There would definitely be a downside commercially if porn were to be declared uncopyrightable (not that i think it has any chance of happening). Sure there might be amateur free porn that would still be made, but there wouldn't be many prod
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by cgoddard 15y ago
Even if they excised the old methods from the code, hopefully no one is linking to jQuery trunk or something as their primary library. The old versions would still be around. Just some simple work might have to be done to update a web app t
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by cgoddard 15y ago
They could deprecate the old methods and still keep them around as long as makes sense. There's no rule that deprecated methods have to be gotten rid of during the next major revision or anything.
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by cgoddard 15y ago
Anyone else unable to access the article? Could the content provider be so kind as to provide the content here in the thread, or get the page back up again?
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by cgoddard 15y ago
Not only did Curebit copy 37Signals design in this case, they also essentially copied the source code. If Zynga was somehow able to decompile another game's source code, change the assets, and then sell it as their own, it would be just as
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by cgoddard 15y ago
There is extremely strong evidence for a genetic basis to intelligence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ Though other factors come into play, environment, education, etc., we are not all gifted with the same faculties, and
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by cgoddard 15y ago
The discount is a nice thing for students, but there are plenty of non-students in the US and especially other parts of the world where dropping a few hundred dollars on software that makes their computer work is a major burden. Given the l
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by cgoddard 15y ago
Why are customers being made to jump through hoops that do practically nothing to deter actual infringement?
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by cgoddard 15y ago
What's more laughable is that a minority decide to pirate a piece of software, and everyone gets punished. No, actually, in large part only the people who chose not to pirate get punished. How far does it have to go before people realize
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by cgoddard 15y ago
How does exclusivity add any value to a piece of software? The utility and productivity that I get out of a piece of software is in no way influenced by how anyone else obtained it. Sure, I might be bitter that I didn't also break the law a
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by cgoddard 15y ago
Huh? Microsoft has a very tiny hold in mobile computing. Android is Google.
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by cgoddard 15y ago
Haskell must be on the slow road to failure. Maybe in another 20 years it will be gone for good. :-)
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by cgoddard 15y ago
At least internally Rails 3 is a lot less crufty and hackish than Rails 2. If you ever tried writing your own plugins and such to deal with certain internals there is a lot to appreciate about Rails 3. From a general use perspective, Rails
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by cgoddard 15y ago
There are more lenient wiki providers out there, like Wikia. Whether these services will be around for the duration remains to be seen.
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by cgoddard 15y ago
Writing also doesn't factor into the main combined math / verbal score. It is considered separately and is on a completely different scale.
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by cgoddard 15y ago
Peripherally related is really stretching it. The way I understood chrismealy's argument is this: Biological essentialist arguments were previously used to explain the disparity of men and women in law and medicine. Now that we know that
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by cgoddard 15y ago
Been using Unity and natty for a few weeks now. The only feature I really miss from the gnome interface right now is the ability to add / move / remove toolbar widgets. Has anyone figured out if it's possible / how to do this in Unity? Ov
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by cgoddard 15y ago
I've had the 11.04 beta installed for a few weeks now, and though there have definitely been some bugs that have come up, even the beta of natty has been really stable overall, much more so than some of the previous Ubuntu releases.
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by cgoddard 15y ago
It's no big deal if you don't mind having a few partitions on your system. Personally I have a large partition for my /home directory, and smaller partitions for testing out new releases, distributions and such. If one of the releases is/
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by cgoddard 16y ago
Actually for small values of n, an n^2 sort can be quicker than an nlogn sort, depending on how it is implemented.
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by cgoddard 16y ago
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol(apostrophe_should_go_her...
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Ask HN: putting single quote character in an HN comment. How?
4 points by cgoddard 16y ago|2 comments
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by cgoddard 16y ago
You could strongly argue that collecting clickstream and other user browser session info via a toolbar is not a form of web robot (crawler, spider, etc.), and thus robots.txt does not apply.
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by cgoddard 16y ago
Our office uses Netbeans for Ruby on Rails. It has worked quite well up until now.

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