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by frossie 13y ago
Why not give money to the Guardian to extend their US operations.... they have been doing a stellar job the last few years
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by frossie 13y ago
Is it that ironic? Git is inherently decentralised, github is just a publication method. Everybody's repo is still good if github gets nuked and can be used as the new public. It's nothing like, say, Facebook where They Have All T
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by frossie 13y ago
In fact the actual court decision quoted has everything you would want to know about what was on the web page: 14 Webley, “School Shooter” Video Game to Reenact Columbine, Virginia Tech Killings, Time (Apr. 20, 2011), http://new
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by frossie 13y ago
You mean like Judge Alsup, who taught himself Java so that he could rule that Oracle's APIs are not copyrightable? Or Judge Wells, who ordered SCO to show him the code and then threw the case out when the failed to do so? We haven&#x27
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by frossie 13y ago
Note this: "Tsay took the actual audition recordings of the top 3 finalists" It seems entirely possible to me that the top 3 finalists in a prestigious musical competition are so close in skill (or so complementary in strengths an
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by frossie 13y ago
"My phone is turned off and I normally check voicemail once a day around 5pm. The best way to reach me is ..." Works for me. I use the standard iOS features to make sure important callers (eg. the children's school) can get t
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by frossie 13y ago
Have you called 911? The operator essentially does triage over the phone, and advises what intervention the caller should engage in. They are not just there as dial-an-ambulance.
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by frossie 13y ago
Yes, it takes just years of practice to achieve proper indentation, or, you know, one key press in emacs. I was a TA for an introductory computer class and yes, some people do write clean code within days. There are people who naturally get
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by frossie 13y ago
If you want to tilt at windmills, try medical records....
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by frossie 13y ago
Not just social sharing, I am amazed how many regulations there are that protect businesses from disruption by other businesses. For example, Tesla cannot sell cars in Arizona, because it is against the law for a manufacturer to sell a car
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by frossie 13y ago
There's work being done in this area; whether it is going to be ultimately successful I don't know. In terms of generating metrics better than journal publications and citations, there's projects like this: http://
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by frossie 13y ago
Yeah but the focus has all been on Google+. Is Docs a + thing? No. I'd worry if I were you.
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by frossie 13y ago
Well this is not my field, but as far as I can see the study (DOI helpfully at the bottom of the OP) was published in a journal called "Self and Identity" and according to http://www.issiweb.org/ this is peer revi
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by frossie 13y ago
I think the point is that Pandora acts as a discovery app. It plays you something and you think "hey I like it, I'll go buy it on iTunes". Now I have no reason to believe I am representative (and in fact I would be surprised
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by frossie 13y ago
I didn't post it, but I assume s/he was cutting and pasting from their URL bar, and they use HTTPS Everywhere or similar to encourage their browser to always prefer HTTPS connections (which xkcd provides, but to my ongoing annoyan
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by frossie 13y ago
This is news now because there is a UK parliamentary committee hearing (analogous though not identical to a US congressional hearing) into corporate tax avoidance schemes, and Google is being accused of having misled the parliamentary commi
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by frossie 14y ago
Maybe you don't agree with his motivations, but explain to me how using DuckDuckGo (a startup with a fresh approach to search that only hired its first employee in 2011) as opposed to Google (which has been around since the previous millenn
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by frossie 14y ago
Yeah but. I somehow doubt that people leave a service over a single explainable outage. From my personal experience, I move when the outage is the straw that broke the camel's back - when I have been unhappy with the service but have lacked
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by frossie 14y ago
The problem is that reading their website it seems like it does not support multiple users? If I am going to self-host, I'd rather do it in a way that can support my family and friends.
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by frossie 14y ago
Just to be clear, not only do authors not get paid for journal articles, but it is not unusual that they have to pay to submit their articles (so-called "page charges"). Given that sometimes these researchers belong to organizations funded
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by frossie 14y ago
Yeah - CSAs have their place, but you are constrained to local vegetables in season, and often you don't know more than a day in advance what you are getting. They are great for supporting localvorism, but it doesn't cover the "hey come rou
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by frossie 14y ago
Well, maybe. The "wrong size" problem is only part of the story. Another is that many bras are generally poorly constructed, lose their shape after continued use, and sizing is not the only issue (fabric tolerance, flop etc). But more than
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by frossie 14y ago
You mean something like http://www.itelescope.net/ ? Also check for a local amateur astronomy association. Research telescopes often have live feeds for popular events (such as the Venus transit). Finally depending on your location you m
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by frossie 14y ago
Is there a way to avoid the backlash altogether? Err, write TOSes that are not a land grab of other people's intellectual private property and/or private data? You make it sound like it is unreasonable to care about that.
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by frossie 14y ago
It takes more effort, but I think it can be effectively balanced against the other advantages of working remotely. Yes, that is the trade-off the remote worker makes. However it is important to understand that the folks on the employer's
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by frossie 14y ago
Imagine the chaos if my wallet started deforming! I realise you are being funny, but your comment is analogous to an extrovert going "sheesh, imagine the chaos if you actually came out with your coworkers for one beer!" to an introvert wh
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by frossie 14y ago
the fascination with spelling seems to know no end in the USA It's not unique to the USA - the French could tell you a thing or two about the Championnats d'Orthographe.... I agree with your point though. There is a telling moment in the
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by frossie 14y ago
And I find it hard to imagine a situation where a family will be fighting Apple to transfer Britney Spears' last CD from grandpa's account I realise young folk think they are immortal, but people don't just die from old age. And the probl
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Are You an Optimist or a Pessimist? (opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by frossie 14y ago
Yes. For example Amazon offers quite a poor consumer experience for clothing and shoes, even if they do sell them. There are reasons why Zappos can thrive (and presumably why Amazon acquired them). [Edit in response to comment below: I do n

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