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by dsrguru 13y ago
Very true. At least prior to the cloud model (back when companies sold proprietary executables), a software industry limited to F/OSS applications would have meant innovation only came either from personal projects or from trickling do
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by dsrguru 13y ago
I took away four things from this enjoyable, well-written, but overly long article: 1. The author's sister might not have been crazy to question the fairness of capitalism. 2. The average software engineer in the Bay Area innovates a lot le
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by dsrguru 13y ago
The only realistic way to fight untargeted spying is to protect yourself from being made a target.
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by dsrguru 13y ago
I remember asking my high school's one-man IT department this exact question, and he said that the school needs someone to sue in the event something goes wrong.
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by dsrguru 13y ago
I haven't seen the data, but I assume you mean 88% of the patents that are challenged are found to be flawed?
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White House takes aim at patent trolls(eff.org)
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Makes sense. I guess I never associated the ideomotor effect with spelling, and I still don't see how that would work, but I guess it does. Do you happen to have a background in magic/mentalism?
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by dsrguru 13y ago
The latest as of May is that suicide is much more likely than foul play. See the last paragraph in the introduction on Wikipedia (beginning with "A different picture"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Shane_Todd
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by dsrguru 13y ago
First of all, I don't mean to insult you or your expertise on the subject. I know very little about autism spectrum disorders and nothing about this "facilitated communication" debate. However, that Daniel's parents are unconsciously invent
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by dsrguru 13y ago
I'd imagine the effect of open-plan offices on productivity greatly depends on the nature of the company and how the company operates. If a company mainly produces software in a non-mission critical domain where, say, a 5x gain in productiv
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by dsrguru 13y ago
The following seems a lot more likely. From Wikipedia: Fast Company's investigation brought up circumstantial evidence that indicated a link between an encryption patent application filed by Neal King, Vladimir Oksman and Charles Bry on 15
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by dsrguru 13y ago
This is a highly contested subject in linguistics and very much not definitive like the article makes it out to be. There are many languages where mama does mean mother, but there are many languages where it does not. In some cases, you get
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Looks like I wasn't far off... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5661443
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by dsrguru 13y ago
No, that feature is the reason Waze has so many users.
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by dsrguru 13y ago
No clue if this will fall through like the talks with Apple, but it would be awesome if this app became more widely used here in the US. I've heard there are enough users in Israel that drivers can get up to the minute details on traffic, r
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by dsrguru 13y ago
That "some reason" is, as other comments have said, to only get responses from the most gullible marks. If you're gullible enough to respond to a typo-ridden email from someone claiming to be a Nigerian prince who just needs you to pay him
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Countries whose primary gun control measures are currently at the point of sale will have to decide pretty soon if they're going to ban personal 3D printers or resign themselves to the fact that as in the US, the average petty criminal will
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Good point.
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by dsrguru 13y ago
What I find most interesting is that the dawn of anatomically modern humans is actually visible on the 4.54 billion year timeline of the Earth. 200,000 years out of 4.54 billion might only be about 1/23000 of our planet's history, but that'
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by dsrguru 13y ago
Or smash your window in far less time than it would take to pick that lock.
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by dsrguru 13y ago
But if you pay by credit card, that applies to any key copying service, online or not.
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by dsrguru 14y ago
That's in Watertown not Cambridge, so it sounds unrelated. All this stuff happening around Boston at the same time jeez http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...
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by dsrguru 14y ago
I think a much more likely explanation is that the creators wanted to develop a cryptographic currency that was sound enough to become wildly popular and, in doing so, to let early adopters (i.e. themselves) make a ridiculous amount of mone
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by dsrguru 14y ago
From Wikipedia: Fast Company's investigation brought up circumstantial evidence that indicated a link between an encryption patent application filed by Neal King, Vladimir Oksman and Charles Bry on 15 August 2008, and the bitcoin.org domain
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White House threatens to veto CISPA [pdf](whitehouse.gov)
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by dsrguru 14y ago
> Seeing Americans in movies go "best country in the world!" sounds absurd to us That sounds absurd to most Americans too. I've only heard that kind of rhetoric spoken by politicians, and it's definitely not a view most of us espouse. T
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by dsrguru 14y ago
We can't propose effective solutions to the conference imbalance until we accurately identify the source. Your post assumes that the problem is with the function being used to evaluate speakers. That's far from certain. An arguably much lik
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by dsrguru 14y ago
While the linguist in me is appalled by the author's joking (hopefully!) prescriptivist notion that British English is equivalent to such a thing as "correct English" (the American in me is also perturbed by such a claim), I'd like to point
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by dsrguru 14y ago
> If real markets could get 1 hour behind in transaction processing because of a spike in volume it would be the end of capitalism as we know it. The Facebook IPO was pretty damn similar and didn't end capitalism as we know it :)
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by dsrguru 14y ago
The parent is referring to people selling their bitcoins, then launching a DDOS attack on the exchange server to get the rest of the world to sell in panic, and then buying back bitcoins at the lower rate. I haven't been following the bitco

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