csneeky

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by csneeky 10y ago
Not all lions kill as well as other lions though. Take a snapshot of all the lions in the world alive right now and rank them by their ability to kill and the number of offspring they have. Some are better at these two things (they killed
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by csneeky 10y ago
Scientists are employees in many contexts (almost all contexts). We may just have to agree to disagree on that one. Be they in service for an NGO, school, or oligarch. But to say nature has no hierarchy? I suppose "hierarchy" c
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by csneeky 10y ago
All employers want their employees to "do the job to the best of their ability". But the freedom given to you to decide how your success is measured is proportional to your experience and past performance. There are those in bot
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by csneeky 10y ago
Tech workers are as disparate and varied as non-tech workers... There is a hierarchy and I think it is unlikely we will see common ground emerge. Survival of the fittest and the best will still win the day. Just like the labor unions of t
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by csneeky 10y ago
Choice for what? The article talks about a very specific domain (web applications solving a certain class of problem). Many organizations use multiple data stores and handle different problems. At Goldman Sachs there is almost every imagi
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by csneeky 10y ago
They have not. But any attempt to make them see the light will fall on deaf ears and make them dig in their heels when it uses rhetoric. My main quip here comes from my strong belief that much of our political climate comes from incendiary
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by csneeky 10y ago
We can also give Georgia the benefit of the doubt and assume there was a decision maker involved in this at some point who (rightly and in good faith) thought annotations might be a great thing to add to the official law to make it more rob
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by csneeky 10y ago
Could not agree more. I think this is a great point and I hope Georgia does what it can to renegotiate whatever deal it made to this end (making it all clear and free) when it gets the chance. If that is indeed the problem here.
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by csneeky 10y ago
I don't know what is means for something to be "official" in this context. I do think they (the Law and the metadata) should be clearly separated and what is free should really be free, and what isn't should be made ava
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by csneeky 10y ago
Not debating that Georgia should make it easier for folks to do what they want with the copy they publish for free but... What's fair is that LexisNexis be compensated for the value it has added to that Law (e.g., the "annotations
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by csneeky 10y ago
What an excellent distillation! It isn't uncommon to see someone w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶a̶ ̶f̶r̶a̶g̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶e̶g̶o̶ explain this stuff in a way that is needlessly complex and full of jargon that scares folks off. Thanks for the great work here. We
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by csneeky 10y ago
Choose the right tool for the right job. We are all building unique systems solving unique problems. SQL is good for some things and NoSQL is good for some things. If you are taking the time and (someone else's) money to build somethi
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by csneeky 11y ago
Seems like a nice place to read and learn about Philosophy. Reading it feels more like an old school physical Encyclopedia (e.g., no hyperlinks or people having discussions publicly about the editing process to confuse and concern you). Ins