ddebernardy

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by ddebernardy 13y ago
In my view, a large part of the problem is that many of the rules or the way they're enforced borders on the idiotic. Take [citation needed] as a case in point. It's aggressively and mindlessly waved all over the place, irrespec
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
And your mindset is precisely why Wikipedia has been turning new editors off for years now. Congrats! You've summarized and illustrated the entire article in three short paragraphs.
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
And moreover, they could have closed-source the parts that they eventually released under BSD.
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
Perhaps. But then, as it occasionally happens, they might also deliver something overwhelmingly superior to anything around. As Gruber recently commented on the Galaxy Gear: "About the best you could expect from Samsung without having
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
Was about to post the same remark. OP is whining that he received a C&D for using `facebook` in his domain name. Well... Duh. Cry. Me. A. River. Had he called it breakyourfbfeed.com, he'd have never gotten that letter. Perhaps FB w
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
Yeah. As a European, I had to look the city up. Heck, seeing it only has 100k souls or so, I'd wager most US natives can't place it on a map either.
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
I live in: [ ] SF / Bay Area [ ] New York City [ ] Seattle/Redmond area [ ] Random city in Michigan [ ] First house to the left after you run into the cow [ ] Vegas, baby! [ ] Somewhere on the coast [ ] Somewhere not on the coast
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
OP is a bit extreme in his conclusions, but not entirely incorrect either. Insofar as I've experienced, there's a mostly finite amount of goodwill that will go into commenting. Extra comments once that limit is reached tend to be
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
"Why a plutocracy needs state-issued money" FTFY. :-)
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
I think you're barking up the wrong tree... And that it has the potential to blow up in Firefox's face. Remember what happened to html5 video. Everyone but Firefox was pragmatic, and implemented h.264 -- primarily, but not only fo
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
Average means little, actually. If a guy makes a million per year and another four make 100k, their average salary is 280k...
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
Err... Banks manage other people's money, meaning they ought to lead in liabilities . Bank assets primarily are the loans they extend to customers, such as mortgages and car loans -- in theory anyway, since they paper it nowadays to a
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
> Your personal feelings are no justification for trying to create laws and interfering with other peoples' voluntary transactions in the marketplace. Actually, doing precisely that is at the core of living in a civilized, democrati
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
Hehe. To that site's credit, its business model is just as scummy as JustFab's.
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
In other words, Apple sold more iPhones over the WE than Nokia or Blackberry shipped smartphones during the last quarter... http://allthingsd.com/20130718/nokia-sold-more-windows-phone...
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
The public can't understand that, but it certainly forms opinions based on it. It votes, too...
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
There are some slight inaccuracies in the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane The wikipedia article is unclear on the exact number, but mentions two dozen or so survivors in total, rather than a sin
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
Sigh... Methinks the author should get a life. Here's what should really happen: my OS should adjust tracking after periods based on preferred locale. And the same for other typography rules. Instead, we have broken software that can&#
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
Their app sucks. A geographical map without the political boundaries makes little sense, and their zooming blows to a point that I'm surprised anyone bothers with it. Show me how many US citizens can place Kansas City or Atlanta on the
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
Cameras...
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
One of Ruby's benefits is UTF-8 support for strings. C-strings make it seem it's absent. Or did I missunderatand?
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
Aren't Freddy and Fanny state-owned and de facto holding most securitized mortgages in the US?
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
SAC Capital of Deep Capture fame? Why am I not surprised? http://www.deepcapture.com/tag/sac-capital/
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
His blog isn't much better: It blatantly ignores several of his own tips.
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by ddebernardy 13y ago
I'm puzzled. How is taking customer privacy seriously compatible with leaving private information indexable, let alone accessible through unrestricted urls?
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by ddebernardy 16y ago
2. You need some amount of liquidity to make a meaningful valuation. Lack of liquidity leads to price volatility. Think May 6 flash crash.