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by dextorious 15y ago
So what? Why should you count this case?
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""I don't really care what the majority think.""" Which is beside the point. The question was whether looks are subjective. Well, in the aggregate statistical sense they aint.
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by dextorious 15y ago
""" "Do not accept responsibility for anything that you had to do in a very limited time." Yeah, because the ability to stand by your decision is a function of deadlines. """ It most certainly is. One can be forced to come up with something
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by dextorious 15y ago
Only, they don't have to know shit. If what they do re: blocking doesn't fit their purposes, they can adjust it so it does. If you have the power to pass laws to a specific objective, the technical details are irrelevant.
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by dextorious 15y ago
If we're to judge from this: http://www.hartwork.org/beamer-theme-matrix/ I wouldn't say that Beamer presentation themes are any better --actually worse--, than what's included with Pages/Powerpoint.
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""Genetically, looks and brains shouldn't be linked at all and I do believe there is no serious (anti-)correlation here.""" How did that "should not" come about? How about creatures with worse looks (less attractive to their species), cope
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""But seriously, surely looks are a very subjective thing?""" Subjective as in: "the beauty (or lack thereof) of a person X is not a law of nature, different people can have different opinions on the matter", yes. But subjective as in: "st
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by dextorious 15y ago
Well, if someone "wants it", it has monetary value. What you're saying amounts to "I'd want it (over other things) if it was free". Good, move along then, and don't use it because it is no.
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by dextorious 15y ago
White on black? Larger than normal font? Good god, you fooled certain death there by not reading further...
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by dextorious 15y ago
Yeah, the only difference is you're not funny.
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by dextorious 15y ago
Except if you want to use your laptop as a server, churning on with the lid closed... Then you might have to wonder if yours is maybe not the typical use case. Just sayin...
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by dextorious 15y ago
Check here for some cv far better that the boring standard LaTeX ones: http://jobmob.co.il/blog/beautiful-resume-ideas-that-work/ It's not as if your potential boss will be delighted because the hyphenation spacing and kerning is just per
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""What if your friend 'Fred' e-mailed you and asked "Can you send me that picture of us from the rafting trip last year?" Which would you rather do - dig through your photo albums until you find it, or type in a search for it and have it s
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""I think you have the causality wrong. They realized they had to get into the social space and integrate it into their product because of user data.""" They did it because of "user data" alright, but not in the way he means it. User's hav
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""At some point, photographers will need to understand that their work is not that unique and that the wealth created by the community through sharing is much greater than that derived by a single artist through the licensing and sale of t
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by dextorious 15y ago
Really? Are you doing something over IRC or SSH with the lid closed? I normally don't talk to irc with the lid closed, because I can't reach the keyboard that easily... If you want something on the other side of the SSH to continue, use sle
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""his is where I find your point to fall apart. The internet is NOT under the laws of any given nation and I doubt very much if some nations even have a sense of Public Domain or copyright. And even the ones that do can hardly agree on com
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by dextorious 15y ago
From the stackexchange thread: """Probably not before you are hired but you can impress with your good looking reports, presentations etc. after you're hired.""" I don't think so. The stock standard LaTeX templates are not that good looking
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""For me, having reliable builds is FAR more important than the editor holding my hand with respect to Java syntax.""" I don't understand what "reliable builds" means in this context. I never had "unreliable builds" from Eclipse. Also, wha
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by dextorious 15y ago
Tremendous! He got his wish re: the use of his photographs respected! Who told you that "more publicity" (or whatever else snake oil i-want-your-content-for-free types sell), is considered a "gain" by all?
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""True, but at the same time you shouldn't be hosting your pictures on the internet where anyone can copy it if you want to charge money for it. """ This is "blame the victim". Posting something on the internet does not make it public doma
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""Many folks would be happy to allow their photos to be used just for "exposure" or even for fun. Likewise many writers would happily allow their writing to be published for free. This is the case for both aspiring professionals and amateu
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""A replacement value is only relevant if it has to be replaced - if I use his photo without permission in a magazine or a website, he still has the photo, no replacement needed.""" No, he doesn't still "have the photo" as in "no damage do
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""Cameras are expensive. Photographs are almost worthless. Supply utterly outstrips demand, especially for shots like landscapes that have great appeal for amateur photographers but little commercial utility.""" Really? Then the photograph
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by dextorious 15y ago
"""I would call that a programmer error. The language certainly does make it harder to write "safe" code, but it is certainly doable.""" Everything is "certainly doable" in a turing-complete way, but that fact has not mattered at all in the
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by dextorious 15y ago
If I have any of the above, I also don't want to CLOSE the lid. What's with you people? What's next? "If I have an ssh session running, I don't want the machine to stop when I remove the battery and the charge plug"?
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by dextorious 15y ago
Those Linux machines are mostly used as render-farms, i.e dumb boxes to crunch numbers. You'd have to get their Mac (or sometimes Windows) machine out of the special effects guys cold, dead, fingers. That said, there are a few commercial of
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by dextorious 15y ago
So, basically: couldn't get my head around Eclipse, so it sucks, right? Wait till you try Emacs...
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by dextorious 15y ago
Well, "since we do most things on the web now" could also be translated as: "since we don't do much other than read emails, surf the web, do some IM/social stuff, and maybe exchange some documents". Because sure as hell, 99.9% percent of us
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by dextorious 15y ago
Except for the last part, all the others are really really minor gripes...

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