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by frobozz 12y ago
A few comments: 0: How does the street algorithm work? 1: Not everywhere can effectively be described as a point with varying degrees of precision. Some places are long and thin. How do I tell my friend that I'll be somewhere along a
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by frobozz 12y ago
>Truth: you’ll have more freedom to choose the projects you work on and how you do them This is contrary to my experience. In startups, any time you're not spending developing the core product in the quickest way possible (i.e. the
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by frobozz 12y ago
It depends on the nature of your faith beforehand, and your lack of faith afterwards. If, as a child, you were just dragged along to church by your parents at Christmas and Easter, then when you grow up and realise you don't believe, s
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by frobozz 12y ago
> A first step would be to revise our attitude toward immigration in cities. Instead of seeing immigrants as aliens, we should welcome their fresh perspectives, their wealth of new cultural traditions — and yes, their cash infusions. Lon
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by frobozz 12y ago
GRRM could take a leaf out of Douglas Adams' book(s) and just declare ASOIAF a trilogy.
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by frobozz 12y ago
If I uploaded my own picture of the Taj Mahal and it told me it was a Mosque, I wouldn't be surprised, and I'd probably be reasonably impressed. The dome and minarets do rather give that impression, and I wouldn't really exp
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by frobozz 12y ago
It seems strange that they would include in their set of example images, a picture of the most famous mausoleum in the world, without it being tagged with mausoleum or tomb or anything like that.
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by frobozz 12y ago
An event doesn't have to be purely random (whatever that means) to be an accident. An accident is something that happens unintentionally. Though I'm sure many crashes are down to genuine negligence, I'd be surprised if most
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by frobozz 12y ago
But then the government would be operating the rural postal service at a pure loss, rather than using the profitable parts of the postal service to fund the unprofitable parts. That would mean higher taxation with no extra benefits.
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by frobozz 12y ago
Macsween and McVities are both major food brands.
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by frobozz 12y ago
I vaguely recall seeing a similar thing about Milgram's Obedience experiments. The experimenters allegedly broke protocol by prompting the subjects too many times or bullying them, rather than using the prescribed neutral prompts. Ho
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by frobozz 12y ago
> especially in contrast to Dr. Pulaski, whose odd, technophobic Data-bashing felt really out of place in the 24th Century. I fancy that this was to offer a bit of continuity with McCoy's fear of Transporters. I do agree that it fel
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by frobozz 12y ago
I like this a lot. I've long considered that "As Customer A" or "As a User" thing can lead to user stories being quite difficult to read, particularly if designing anything to do with collaboration, even more so if
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by frobozz 12y ago
And (for names, at least) in the same language in different contexts. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_and_Mc_together (poor article, but the gist is there) I believe the same is true of de~ and van~ surnames, w
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by frobozz 12y ago
This article suggests that Johansson is confusing commercial success with mastery of a skill. Mastery of a skill does not guarantee commercial or financial success, nor does a lack of mastery guarantee failure. We see this in our own trade
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by frobozz 12y ago
> If everything above sounds like a description of city made for the rich, this is not the case. ... >There’s one thing that all districts of London have in common though: they are all expensive to live in. Make up your mind.
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by frobozz 12y ago
If you can change your caste, then it can't be a caste system, can it?
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by frobozz 12y ago
I don't get it - if you're not allowed to take any sick days, how can people take more sick days than when they were allowed to take a week off sick?
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by frobozz 12y ago
Your NSA quote is a little out of context. The article you link to states that German is the fourth-hardest language from a list of five comparatively easy languages. > Among Vietnamese, German, French, Italian and Spanish, Vietnamese m
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by frobozz 12y ago
It always surprises me when I see peristaltic pumps used in these projects, rather than optics.
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by frobozz 12y ago
Like Spaceglasses? https://www.spaceglasses.com/
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by frobozz 12y ago
> "Taxonomically speaking, this is unfortunate. The coati has no more relation to an aardvark than to any other vertebrate," Being mammals, surely they are more closely related to aardvarks than they are to sparrows, carp, asps
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by frobozz 12y ago
It could have been shortened even further to just "". Then there would be nothing misleading in the headline at all. As it is, the headline suggests that some plane accidentally crossed the Kármán Line, has been floating out ther
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by frobozz 12y ago
From the first paragraph: > A 16-year-old male from Ottawa, Canada has been arrested for allegedly making at least 30 fraudulent calls to emergency services across North America over the past few months. Emphasis mine. I would agree
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by frobozz 13y ago
a. They get money for: 1) Each patent claim (a patent is made up of a number of claims); 2) Each patent issued; 3) maintenance fees on granted patents; 4) Any extensions or continuations requested by the applicant; 5) Any post-rejection ame
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by frobozz 13y ago
> There is no incentive for them to stop granting bad patents. I disagree. a: If they are currently overrun with more work than they can handle, they can remedy this by refusing patents, thereby discouraging frivolous applications. Havi
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by frobozz 13y ago
I don't know the GS case at all, and IANAL, but as I understand it, if the modified code is included in a client, then surely the users must be accorded the copyleft rights, even if those users are all GS staff. However, if it is stric
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by frobozz 13y ago
This is what the Affero GPL was designed to combat: From the AGPL preamble: ( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html ) ... The GNU General Public License permits making a modified version and letting the public access
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by frobozz 13y ago
Surely a lethal homeopathic dose would be _less_ than the standard dose, not _more_.
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by frobozz 13y ago
I believe that the second clause in hendzen's reply is the point of the statement. > ... they don't want their competitors to hire. i.e. that the purpose is not to get them to do research for Google, but to stop them doing rese

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