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by dmbass 15y ago
in a drug bust, it's pretty cut and dry as to whether the targets are doing something illegal That's way too subjective for law. The prosecution has to prove to the jury (NOT the judge) that what they found is, in a criminal case, beyond
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by dmbass 15y ago
IANAL, but isn't this situation equivalent to a drug ring bust?
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by dmbass 15y ago
Do the faxes get sent straight to a computer or printed out? If the former, I wouldn't expect anyone to care, but the latter, en masse, could surely cause some disruption. No?
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by dmbass 15y ago
I always wished the kind of mouse+command line interface found in AutoCAD existed for more applications. This seems like an nice step in that direction.
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by dmbass 15y ago
Doing well on essays is part of doing well in school, and doing well in school leads to a better life! That line is particularly appalling and represents one of the many things that is wrong with our education system. That logical progre
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by dmbass 15y ago
I too own a Kindle and one of the major downsides I see is that you cannot share it. You cannot give or lend a book to someone when you are done. You cannot put a Kindle on your coffee table and have anybody who picks it up be able to flip
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by dmbass 15y ago
You might like this: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/ They even provide an RSS feed of new trailers.
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by dmbass 15y ago
Doesn't this model work for cell phones because they are really cheap and the provider doesn't care if they get lost/stop paying? Afaik solar panels are expensive to make so how does this make any sense?
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by dmbass 15y ago
There are lots of examples of artists blowing up without labels (though some subsequently start their own or get signed) in the past few years by distributing their music on the internet for free. See: Pretty Lights, Girl Talk, Odd Future,
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by dmbass 15y ago
1. Home Timeline 2. Connect 3. Discover 4. Me
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by dmbass 15y ago
Doesn't the phone have to be local to the AP in order to get the MAC to send to Google for the location?
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by dmbass 15y ago
Well, you would probably want the person to know you are out of office/on vacation/not checking email, not that you have a full inbox.
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by dmbass 15y ago
I agree that audio is a very important aspect of games (and other forms of media like video), but do people really play mobile games with the sound on? When I do, it's either to my own soundtrack or none at all. Has anybody actually polled
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by dmbass 15y ago
A reference to http://abovethecrowd.com/2011/03/24/freight-train-that-is-an...
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by dmbass 15y ago
Google already links to Zagat in their places reviews. This is Google buying a large and influential slice of pie to make it harder for others to compete.
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by dmbass 15y ago
Keep digging that moat, Google. As has been the case throughout history, the guy with the biggest moat wins, right? Oh wait, nope, that's not it. It's the guy who figures out how to bypass the moat who wins. Google, please go back to innova
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by dmbass 15y ago
Do you choose what version of a web site you use? Generally no. You trust that whoever is running it cares enough to not break it for you, just like Chrome users trust Google to not break their web browser.
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by dmbass 15y ago
http://www.google.com/search?&q=For+Google+CEO+Larry+Pag... Actual Google search link that will work when clicking through to WSJ.
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by dmbass 15y ago
I imagined something like http://dl.dropbox.com/u/408087/hn/button.png
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by dmbass 15y ago
There are a lot of stations (numbered lines only, I think) that have "time to next subway" signs which I've found to be pretty accurate. I'm not sure if there is an API for subway info, but they run so regularly (~5 mins or less during the
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by dmbass 15y ago
This explanation did not add anything to help me better understand closures and anonymous functions. I already understand that closures allow you to pass an anonymous function around and it maintains the variables that were in its scope whe
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by dmbass 15y ago
About your pet peeve, "art" has more than one definition, so you may want to rethink being annoyed by calling a style of fighting a "martial art." See: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/art?show=1
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by dmbass 15y ago
Woah seriously? Google needs to cool it on the padding and add a little bit more definition/differentiation to the different app areas. This is getting a little bit out of hand; brains need at least a little bit of direction to know where
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by dmbass 15y ago
I agree. I was looking forward to some useful information, but this is really the first thing you learn after "hello world" in C. I'm somewhat baffled as to why this was even submitted to HN much less how it made it to the front page. In my
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by dmbass 15y ago
Design is the most important part of your product if you are not creating a new market because that's the only way you can differentiate your product. Everybody is going to have the same features and what you are really selling is your desi
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by dmbass 15y ago
On point 2, they also release at least 4 new phones every month to "stay competitive (with each other)". That can't be cheap.
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by dmbass 15y ago
"Completely" is unfair. See: http://andyrutledge.com/images09/newsSite/nyt-redux-article.... But just come out and say "we had to cover the site in ads and couldn't do a better design" if that's the case.
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by dmbass 15y ago
The only really egregious criticism was that "the front page of a news paper is not editorialized". Someone DOES choose what the most important stories are at the time of publication and puts those on the front page. That is editorializing.
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by dmbass 15y ago
...the argument that the redesign’s author makes is not quite so persuasive, mostly because it makes some rash assumptions, misses some critical realities and, perhaps worse of all, takes a somewhat inflammatory approach in criticizing the
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by dmbass 15y ago
The point is that today we don't hit the caps, but metaphorical-tomorrow, we will hit them and it will be too late to change the precedents set today.

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