frobozz

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by frobozz 14y ago
OP appears to be under the illusion that the only living poet that anyone has heard of is "Maya" (whoever that may be) I'm not particularly interested in poetry, but even I could name three living poets immediately without thinking, and a f
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by frobozz 14y ago
That's a good point - if you can't calculate the value of anyone but salespeople, then you can't calculate the value of salespeople either. Calculating the relative value of one salesperson vs. another doesn't say anything about how much va
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by frobozz 14y ago
I'm not even sure they know how to value salespeople's contributions. Compensation in sales is often in the form of a lower salary combined with percentages of sales and/or bonuses for meeting targets. When a salesperson makes a sale, what
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by frobozz 14y ago
Here's an example of using javascript comments to set options on a parser. It isn't JSON, but it is pertinent. /* jslint nomen: true, debug: true, evil: false, vars: true */
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by frobozz 15y ago
I agree. I think this approach allows the tutorial to be useful regardless of other language programming experience. If you are new to programming reading a tutorial aimed at experienced developers, then, as OP states, it can be difficult t
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by frobozz 15y ago
> I don't get why there is always a big backlash against the photographer in these articles ... I believe that it is because they often close by exhorting everyone not to give away photos for free, or sell them for third world prices.
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by frobozz 15y ago
This guy isn't based in Nuremberg, by any chance?
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by frobozz 15y ago
I don't mean to claim that covers and remixes are any different, merely that the practice is quite prevalent, meaning that tunes penned by various artists 20-50 years ago are still being heard in the charts today, spurring a resurgence in i
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by frobozz 15y ago
The old UK system was the longer of 42 years after publication, or 7 years after the death of the author. The actual numbers might not be perfect, but this kind of system (possibly with different numbers) would eradicate the downside you me
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by frobozz 15y ago
I don't see how it is useful. a) The first instance of Berklee shows the full name, which isn't "University of California, Berk(lee|eley)". b) It consistently says Berklee in the article, never Berkeley, so there's no confusion caused by in
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by frobozz 15y ago
I disagree. I think they understand it perfectly well. They just don't like it.
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by frobozz 15y ago
If it's impossible, then the diligent engineer says so. Projects are often doomed by people with "can-do" attitudes attempting to achieve the impossible.
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by frobozz 15y ago
This is not about being able to go for long periods without bothering to charge, but about energy usage, and being able to get a long period of actual usage from a machine without having to charge it from a reliable mains supply. You do nee
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by frobozz 15y ago
And yet, according to: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509 "If a British company imports components, it has to pay tax on those (and most components are not made in the UK). If, however, a completed device is made abroad and imported
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by frobozz 15y ago
The choice of symbol for via is confusingly similar to an out-of-range symbol. If I saw it in a piece, I would think that someone had tried to use some clever bullet point without specifying the character set properly.
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by frobozz 15y ago
> or try to get a highly sought-after position with a benevolent or wise employer who takes care not burn out their employees; but the former doesn't sound like freedom at all, and the latter still leaves the majority of normal people v
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by frobozz 15y ago
According to the article, it's 12 minutes per week.
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by frobozz 15y ago
>The same can be said of professionals, as many computer professionals look primarily to the task and not to the hourly measure as the mark of their jobs. In my field, lawyers too see the hours worked as entirely secondary to their jobs
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by frobozz 15y ago
I don't really understand the point of that. The Q&A experience still exists, you just have to ask the search engine first, then a human if the search engine doesn't help. The important things about a Q&A knowledge base is that the
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by frobozz 15y ago
>fire insurance includes fire department service. you can go cheap and risk burning down One of the reasons for a nationalised fire service was because Insurance-company funded firemen had a tendency to be arsonists.
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by frobozz 15y ago
This is even worse than the GP I had in my teens. At least he recognised that my headache came from a primary headache condition, and wasn't Hay Fever.
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by frobozz 15y ago
>The iOS example was just to name one of many limitations of using GPL code. Why do you consider this a limitation of GPL, rather than of iOS? > No, for developers themselves. Dynamic vs. static linking mess etc. Can you explain thi
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by frobozz 15y ago
USA is, by the very definition of the term, not a third world country.
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by frobozz 15y ago
I feel that these taxes worsen the problem. If, every time I bought blank media, the record companies got a cut, then you bet I'd not buy any music, but copy it instead. I would see it as a right that I had paid for.
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by frobozz 15y ago
"A significant decline", not a total collapse. Prior to IP laws, individuals took matters into their own hands to prevent losses due to plagiarism. I wouldn't be surprised if the removal of legal protection would lead to more ubiquitous a
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by frobozz 15y ago
I wouldn't consider the jump from 382 to 386 words per minute to be "way faster". That said, in a periphrastic language like English, those 382 words convey less meaning.
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by frobozz 15y ago
All written languages are essentially logographic in the eyes of a literate user of the language. Given his "dragon" example, A literate native speaker of English, who is familiar with the word "dragon" would not read "d. r. a. g. o. n.", t
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by frobozz 15y ago
I would have thought the opposite to be true.
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by frobozz 15y ago
Definitely "Leonhard", not "Lennad"?
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by frobozz 15y ago
Maybe, but I suspect that the order of adoption might change that. I agree that there will probably always be a segment of personal cars, but that segment will be small and shrinking. Speaking from the other side of the fence: if I still

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