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by dpratt 13y ago
By all accounts, Unity continues to improve and actually innovate across releases, but the Canonical guys need to fix one simple thing - the out of the box appearance of Ubuntu is frankly hideous . They are doing some very interesting thin
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by dpratt 13y ago
In all seriousness, I really do think that MSFT has an uphill battle when it comes to having non-enterprise web developers adopt IE as their primary platform for development. I'm sure that IE 11 is/will be a perfectly fine browser
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by dpratt 13y ago
I get the argument that it is a derivative work, but a personal genome also has the unique property of literally being the absolute essence of my own person. I morally and ethically possess a right to the usage of that essence, and I thin
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by dpratt 13y ago
This raises a good point - perhaps I'm not looking for a patent, but rather a copyright. My goal is to ensure that the only legal owner of my particular genome is myself, and thus I can authorize who can possess a copy of it and issue
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by dpratt 13y ago
This is just me being pedantic, but I want one exception to this - every person, upon birth, should receive an automatic instantaneous patent on their own genome (and only their own genome) that is valid for the lifetime of the owner. I sho
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by dpratt 13y ago
Technically, it should have been zoning restrictions keeping homes away from the plant. The town of West actually grew up around that plant - it essentially didn't exist until after the plant opened.
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by dpratt 14y ago
This is a fair point. However, if you do what we do, Austin is arguably the second best place to live outside of SF/Bay Area. The concentration of very smart people, technology and startups in this city can be very surprising for people wh
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by dpratt 14y ago
Austin is not a 'semi-large city' - according to the U.S. Census, it's the 13th largest metro area in the country.
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by dpratt 14y ago
Not exclusively, since a Future doesn't necessarily have to be monadic to be useful - the Scala version of a Future is (of course) monadic, but you don't necessarily need to know about that to use it.
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by dpratt 14y ago
You realize that a plurality of Google's backend is built in Java, right? I know it's fashionable to hate on Java, for a lot of good reasons, but I think it's naive to dismiss the power of the platform itself. We may all have (completely va
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by dpratt 14y ago
For a more in-depth example of the way that Promises/Futures should work, check out the implementations in Scala or Haskell. The concept of a delayed computation is actually nothing new - the idea has been around for quite some time. I'm ac
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by dpratt 14y ago
I'm 37, and honestly this has started to scare me over the past couple years.
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by dpratt 14y ago
There are a few github forks that have added a couple useful things. For my use case (converting case classes to/from JSON in scala 2.9.2) it works perfectly. I've also written a Jackson plugin that knows how to marshal POSO classes - it's
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by dpratt 14y ago
I've been using Jerkson (a layer on top of the excellent Jackson JSON processing library) to do case class marshalling/unmarshalling. It works quite well - in fact, nearly perfectly, but it still uses runtime type inspection to get things d
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by dpratt 15y ago
I've used client certs several times, but not necessarily to authenticate a user. We have a few mobile apps with a public facing HTTPS API endpoint. Currently, we have it set up to use a client cert that we ship with the app itself to 'secu
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by dpratt 16y ago
You forgot AUS.
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by dpratt 17y ago
I fail to see how this would not immediately cause the cost of living and prices for most things to just rise to the level of what they were before plus the new stipend? This is basic supply and demand - If I give everybody in the country $