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by fpgeek 12y ago
Google considered a DMCA-like notice. The court found this to be an attempt to circumvent the ruling, since it would make it too easy to find removed material. Instead, they settled on a notice for any search that might have been affected (
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Clearly this person should sue Google on the grounds that all of the time, effort and energy they put into their blog entry means that it has a "right to be remembered". Or, at the very least, they have a right to a specific expla
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by fpgeek 12y ago
- How do / would you interact with [role]? What do you most want from people in [role]? - What do you like / dislike most about working here? (I'd typically lead with like for obvious reasons). - What surprised you the most a
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Android L preview code hitting AOSP for current Nexus devices(androidcentral.com)
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> Those friends don't talk about it publicly for fear of further retaliation, but given their experiences, what OP wrote doesn't surprise me in the least. But what is surprising, especially given the prevalence of these anecdot
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It's the same play in both cases - creating extra friction when you step outside of Apple's ecosystem. Users who switch to an Android phone aren't any more "lost" to Apple than developers who publish on Android. The
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Well, taking 2+ years (and at least one lawsuit) to fix the "iMessage switcher" bug seems to fit the same pattern.
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That makes me wonder if they'd have gotten the same reaction for a successful Windows Phone app (though, for practical reasons, I don't expect many developers to end up testing that).
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As someone who's spent more time than I'd like to remember improving type class error messages, this sentence boggled my mind. Then I remembered what C++ template error messages are like and it all made sense again.
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by fpgeek 12y ago
What is Go demonstrating about programming without generics that Lisp, Java (pre-2004), Python and tons of other languages haven't already demonstrated?
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Google's "Right to be Forgotten" Disclaimer(googlesystem.blogspot.com)
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I agree that changing the incentive structure would help, but I don't think targeting individual examiners is the best way to do it. I think the right target is the patent office itself. The only thing you've listed above that wou
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As I understand it, the policy is that only emails that should be permanent, official records are supposed to be saved - and the judgement of what those are is left up to the individual employee. If you're someone investigating that em
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> People are worried about credit rating but medical bills are excluded from that. This is dangerously wrong misinformation: http://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit/will-unpaid-medical-b... It's also worth
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Hold on. You can't just say: Computers are implemented physically, so grounding a patent in a computer-based implementation makes it a physically-grounded patent. If you want something physically-grounded you'd have to say: I want
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Oh my god. I can only hope his views aren't mainstream. Quoting from the link: "This doesn’t mean that moving forward software won’t be patentable, it just means that getting a software patent will be much more difficult than it e
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Well, consider the example of Carrier IQ. The Carrier IQ software was installed on some Android phones, some iPhones and some Blackberry devices: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9222319/AT_T_
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by fpgeek 12y ago
The article already singled out Android. So far as I can tell, "Generic Star N9500" phone in question is an Android phone: http://www.amazon.com/Generic-Star-N9500-Android-MTK6589/dp/...
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> Did I miss one of Asimov's Laws that says androids are always programmed to be more socially-minded than neoliberals? If you missed Asimov's Zeroth Law [0], then yes, you did. That being said, since, AFAIK, we don't know
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> False. The software running on your Android phone's application processor is not open source. You're skipping over an important practical distinction: The precise software running on the application processor may not be open
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> NSLs exist, and is there any reason to believe they're not enforceable for non-US data? Given the pains the NSA took (no matter how tortured the logic got), to keep trying to claim they weren't spying on Americans [except whe
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> Have they done that before? As you note, not really, but YouTube is an excellent place to start. YouTube ads suck on pretty much every dimension compared to search/Gmail ads: They're irrelevant, repetitive, interrupt what you
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That sounds like a fundamental disagreement about how much video-wrapped audio streaming is worth (with Google saying enough people will pay to avoid the extra overhead/complexity and the labels thinking that people will walk many mile
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Is there any evidence labels don't have option (3) provide some videos for free (presumably for promotional purposes) and pull the others? On what planet would Google forbid that? Practically speaking, how would they (absent the label
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How does that make any sense? The only YouTube subscription worth paying for is one that gets you out of YouTube ads (and, ideally, unlocks videos that are currently desktop-only on mobile devices, TVs, etc.). Perhaps they'd throw in a
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by fpgeek 12y ago
Upon reflection , I think this article (and others like it) are starting from the wrong place and end up confusing the issue more than illuminating it. I think the right place to start is that Google wants to offer a premium, ad-free YouTub
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New study suggests patent trolls really are killing startups(arstechnica.com)
4 points by fpgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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You may have been lucky, but I'd suggest looking at http://cafbit.com/entry/rapid_dhcp_or_how_do There's been plenty of debate about whether this rapid DHCP behavior is desirable (e.g. Is the improvement in u
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Wow. The iTunes for Android rumors weren't entirely wrong. Apple has decided they need to engage with Android. They just did it in a way no one expected: buying a separate brand for "insulation". From that perspective, the Be
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Absolutely. For instance, improved latency is the big advantage of LTE for me. The extra bandwidth is nice, but I hardly ever push that limit. It's the latency improvement (~200ms to ~50ms, IIRC) that makes the connection qualitatively

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