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901.
by chalst 13y ago
The fiduciary duty of the directors of a company entails that they make no decisions that prejudice the general shareholders of a company. The classic case is making an issue of equity that benefits only a limited group who can buy it at t
902.
C programming: You are teaching it wrong(blog.erratasec.com)
4 points by chalst 13y ago|0 comments
903.
by chalst 13y ago
I haven't found that exact claim on the site. It does list these blockers as "Liste von bekannten seitenmanipulierenden Add-ons" (known site-manipulating add-ons) [2] and on the main page "Diese seitenmanipulierenden Ad
904.
Can Bitcoin capitalize on the death of Mt. Gox?(blogs.reuters.com)
1 points by chalst 13y ago|0 comments
905.
by chalst 13y ago
The case that subprime mortgages were in a bubble was made very efficiently in public by several people - I was subscribed to Nouriel Roubini's widely followed blog at the time; Gillian Tett at the FT also did good work exposing what w
906.
by chalst 13y ago
If images are put into a PDF as embedded media, then they will be represented whole as PDF objects in the PDF file, even if they are obscured when the PDF is displayed. Acrobat, among other utilities, allows these objects to be extracted.
907.
by chalst 13y ago
Given that the command argument is in full SQL notation, which must be passed quoted, saving three or four characters on the executable name doesn't really seem worth it. The shortest example they give, a SELECT/GROUP query, is o
908.
by chalst 13y ago
> The Navy plans to deploy its first laser on a ship later this year I seem to recall the Navy deployed lasers intended to blind enemy pilots in the mid 80s. Postscript The UK Royal Navy deployed laser dazzlers in 1982, in the Falkland
909.
by chalst 13y ago
What happened to MS in the alternate universe where MS openly vowed to crush Netscape and were as good as their word, after Apple went bankrupt in the early 90s?
910.
by chalst 13y ago
They might want Netflix to survive in some form so as to avoid awaking the sleeping antitrust dogs. Same way as Microsoft found the Mac a useful argument against the "desktop monopoly" argument in the 90s.
911.
Event: Weinstein G+ hangout to discuss Comcast-Warner deal(plus.google.com)
1 points by chalst 13y ago|0 comments
912.
by chalst 13y ago
If you are wanting a native dynamic scripting language for Go, goluago is coming along quite nicely (alpha version released at New Year): https://github.com/akavel/goluago I think if I wanted to implement a native Lisp
913.
by chalst 13y ago
What did that page say back then? I missed that story. I subscribe to several EFF feeds and I recall nothing about a Swartz anniversary protest.
914.
by chalst 13y ago
Oh, a flash protest, one that seems to have been announced with a press release only yesterday and pushed by the EFF just one hour ago. Well, it is too short notice for me to invest the time to black out my website, so I will not be support
915.
by chalst 13y ago
Quite. And mobile phones were tracking locations in a police-surveillance friendly manner before there were smartphones.
916.
by chalst 13y ago
The last big bond issue by AT&T paid 1.4% http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-20/at-t-said-to-plan-o... I'd not call the NPV of any tech stock predictable.
917.
by chalst 13y ago
The Jesuits are outstandingly good, for a religious denomination, in their respect for scientific truth. Other parts of the Catholic church (I'm thinking of Franciscan institutes like the Christian Information Centre) lean creationist
918.
by chalst 13y ago
It is not very fair to make a general criticism about the weakness of logic based on propositional logic, since that is the weakest of the various families of logic - the other two main kinds of logic being first-order logic (FOL) and term
919.
by chalst 13y ago
Elsevier does not coordinate refereeing for typical journals; this is handled by the scientific board, who are not Elsevier employees. Elsevier is in charge of copy-editing, typesetting, and distribution, and coordinates with the scientifi
920.
by chalst 13y ago
Full text - I generally don't condone pulling stuff through paywalls, but the FT's policy is particularly daft and suppresses just the discussion their "readable when reached from a search engine" policy is supposed to p
921.
by chalst 13y ago
Can you not serve a static page and then have Javascript fetch the additional, user state-dependent content? At the very least, that will reduce latency for some content. The public article will surely be interesting even if it is not all
922.
by chalst 13y ago
I have the opposite view: Bitcoins are exciting and promising as a currency, but they are very flawed as a store of value. If for some reason, I had no confidence in any currency/bonds I could get my hands on, I would prefer gold to Bi
923.
by chalst 13y ago
A choice to create a bootable USB image would be nice, since despite the existence of some automation tools, this is a hurdle that puts off some people interested in exploring RAM-resident Linuxes.
924.
Langton and Dupre try to unconfuse journalists about minds, brains, and gender(leiterreports.typepad.com)
1 points by chalst 13y ago|0 comments
925.
by chalst 13y ago
The EFF said that the Federal court had been influenced by possible negative consequences of mass invalidation of patents [1]: Warning of a 'free fall of the patent system,' Judge Moore wrote: 'Let’s be clear: if all of thes
926.
by chalst 13y ago
Kent Pitman's idea of "languages as political parties" [1] seems to me to offer the best perspective on the surprising reliability of C. The core community shaping C over the years has been: 1. Unix-centric, so the community
927.
by chalst 13y ago
Any line following a blank line and beginning with the four characters "From" marks the start of a new message. The BSD way of handling such lines in the body of a message was to prefix them with ">", which is a non-
928.
by chalst 13y ago
IIRC, the semantics used to be that if 1. You used the keep option, 2. fetchlimit was set to be less than the number of messages in the remote mailbox, and 3. The remote mailbox stayed above this limit, then you would find yourself in a sta
929.
by chalst 13y ago
Since bankers know who other bankers are, a system like the mod_virgule that powers Advogato [1,2] would solve this problem, though the site would need some tweaks [3] . The attraction of the system is that, if you keep an eye out for cleve
930.
by chalst 13y ago
You moved the goalposts there a little: why the "completely" in "It doesn't completely change their desires"? What children want is influenced by what their peers want, and what peer groups find desirable is influen

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