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Apple seeks Galaxy Nexus injunction in U.S. over four patents(zdnet.com)
7 points by edderly 15y ago|2 comments
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by edderly 15y ago
Yes at a simple level you're right, but you could use the same argument about lots of things, for example I could opt-out of using the Internet but that should not give ISPs carte blanche with my personal data. As to your question, I use FB
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by edderly 15y ago
I loathe full height single person cubes personally, however it was explained to me at my current job (large multinational) that one rationale for cube farms is that legal can treat these as 'laboratory conditions'. It's common for us to wo
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by edderly 15y ago
Gawd no. I've worked in a variety of environments and even a factory floor open plan office is better than cubicles. Cubicles in my experience promote even worse behavior like taking conference calls on speaker phones, I've never had to rel
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by edderly 15y ago
The simplest opt-in/out I think would be satisfactory would be to limit the amount of data they can associate with me to an arbitrary time period (six months sounds about right). I think there has to be a price to pay from the data aggregat
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by edderly 15y ago
I was watching 'The Pixar Story' the other day and they talked about the campus they opened in 2000. Jobs talked about the importance of 'unplanned interactions' and workplace being key to the success of a creative company. http://www.armc
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by edderly 15y ago
You have to evaluate how you want to work from a personal perspective and your relationship with the company you work for. I agree that constantly over-working can have a detrimental effect, but so can not reacting to the 'right' deadline.
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by edderly 15y ago
That's a great insight, but it's interesting (though I'm not arguing wrong) that it is required. It is problematic to associate profit with morality, and this cuts both ways. The author states that trillions spent on charity is sinful which
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by edderly 15y ago
Interesting listen. The topic is pretty challenging, especially so for the left leaning where quite often the political policy related by affluent lefties is "to give people the same opportunity as me" to compete in a meritocracy.
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by edderly 15y ago
I don't think I'm twisting the argument. You said that you believe you gathered these skills as a result of your curriculum choice. Although I think plenty of other comments defending Liberal Arts make this point more explicitly about the r
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by edderly 15y ago
I agree and disagree. If you take a historical perspective of the role of universities with respect to corporate employment a university education was just needed to validate whether someone was of 'high calibre'. In the past anecdotally at
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by edderly 15y ago
I'm curious about this, how does the price of education increase because of increased enrollment? I just figure when lot's of people go to Walmart that doesn't increase the cost of their goods. Or are you inferring that colleges could fallb
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by edderly 15y ago
Thankyou! It does appear to work.
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by edderly 15y ago
More bars than Dublin...I agree, the waste of space is annoying. I can't even think of the last time I wanted to search my RSS feeds and it's taking up a chunk of space. On a 13inch Macbook add the Mac App bar, Chrome (tabs + search-url + b
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by edderly 15y ago
Both the Nexus S and Nexus GS use an SGX540 which is fair jump in GPU performance.
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by edderly 15y ago
"Instead of being evaluated on their capability to manage the overall system architecture, Japanese IT project managers are often assessed on how they can personally relate to the team members. Taking team members out for a drink, listening
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by edderly 15y ago
I'd rather that companies who were creating cutting edge technology (software or whatever), would visit schools more often in order to inspire at least one more kid in the classroom to do something creative with their skills than become ano
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by edderly 15y ago
> creation of tools that are usable by the average person with minimal training Also consider how little the tools people are using have progressed in the past twenty years too. The fundamental issue might be that there is little incent
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by edderly 15y ago
I suppose it's difficult for him to reflect on the below par quality of the Xoom tablet, at least for the price. But yeah, $800 is sort of set up to fail. I picked up a Xoom tablet for some work use and though it feels advanced compared to
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by edderly 15y ago
Great, but slow!
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by edderly 15y ago
Some context: Gaah. Guys, this whole ARM thing is a f-cking pain in the ass https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/17/492 Let ARM rot in the mainline. I really don't care anymore. https://lwn.net/Articles/441384/ It'll be interesting to see w
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by edderly 15y ago
Is there an equivalent for Facebook? Not necessarily to deal with 'annoying' people but I want to prioritize messages from a subset of friends/family.
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by edderly 15y ago
Personally, I'd to see better editorial tools in comments. Stack-overflow / exchange achieves this with tagging and a basic rep. system. I'd like to extend this to comment forums.
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by edderly 15y ago
It seems to be better explained here: https://drumbeat.org/en-US/challenges/beyond-comment-threads...
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by edderly 15y ago
Fair point, but in systems programming where C is used a lot, the 'system' often/usually has the abstract data types you need, or you're in a lower level enough environment that you want your own custom/hardware specific solution. Crude exa
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by edderly 15y ago
Google couldn't choose to not renew a contract--effectively shutting off access to Android Although the specific issues regarding the Skyhook case seem suspicious there are a lot of half truths talked about Android, and seems to be one of
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by edderly 15y ago
The problem is that software usually needs a good architecture but solving this by creating a job for a software architect isn't always the best way of addressing this.
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by edderly 15y ago
Why Apple doesn't use some kind of MPAA style rating system? That isn't without it's politics, but at least it gives a flavor how to deal with publication of different categories of material.
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by edderly 15y ago
Interesting to listen to that. Though to be fair the question was whether college was no longer a factor or a disadvantage to gaining employment. You can't argue with the global statement over time college education results in a greater inc
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by edderly 15y ago
If I understand rightly, the AV system being discussed in the UK allows the voter to choose to vote for either one or a limited number of candidates. All votes won't be carried to the final round so this means the winner isn't guaranteed a

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