ghubbard

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by ghubbard 13y ago
They've not made the images Public Domain. It is part of an "Open Content Program" and usage must be credited. http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontentfaq.html#usingimages
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by ghubbard 13y ago
https://identicons.github.com/elephant.png
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by ghubbard 13y ago
Put him in jail for contempt of court, which has the benefit of being effectively indefinite and doesn't require finding him guilty of anything other than contempt of court.
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by ghubbard 14y ago
Trying to unit test the internet is not a good idea, your life will be easier if you refactor things and simplify a little. public bool StringIsEvenLength(string somestring ) public string FetchRemoteString( string uri ) public boo
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by ghubbard 14y ago
"Zeppelin has played Stairway at every performance since 1971, yielding somewhere in the neighborhood of $150,000 in royalties." They have to pay themselves royalties for their own songs? Must be nice to be the middleman in that deal.
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by ghubbard 14y ago
Why are you working 12 hour days?
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by ghubbard 14y ago
The name on the birth certificate need not necessarily be the name by which the child is known in day-to-day life.
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by ghubbard 14y ago
If each infringement "costs" them $150,000 then $25 is a small price to pay...
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by ghubbard 14y ago
Is there any way to tell if the link I have is expired, or show what the long version of the link is before I visit it or am I likely to get goatse'd if I'm a minute too late clicking the link?
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by ghubbard 14y ago
It is not currently possible to keep files on Securesha.re for longer than 7 days; this is a feature, not a bug. We do not use HTTPS at the moment. As all file transmissions are encrypted, we did not consider it necessary at the moment.
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by ghubbard 14y ago
This article is actually worth reading. It's actually written by somebody who knows what they are talking about. "Buffy vs Edward remix was mentioned by name in the official recommendations by the US Copyright Office (pdf) on exemptions
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by ghubbard 14y ago
How do the new results compare to Mayzner's?
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by ghubbard 14y ago
Or you could go direct to the Google page [0] and hover over the coloured stripe at the bottom. [0] http://www.google.com/zeitgeist/2012/#maia-signature
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by ghubbard 14y ago
I accept that, and deserved to be called out on it. My apologies.
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by ghubbard 14y ago
I'm guessing downvotes are more due to your incoherent ramblings than mentioning "Ayn Rand". For example: "too many renonciation might kill up the sparkle for good." makes no sense to me. [Edit: Removed the non-constructive comment which is
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by ghubbard 14y ago
Just store your mail in an EncFS or truecrypt container on your VPS then? Who/what are you trying to defend against?
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by ghubbard 14y ago
I think requirement 2 is a problem here. If your cloud provider has the plaintext how can you trust it?
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by ghubbard 14y ago
> A few models did have a feature like this, but it was only a transient one that appeared at certain times of the solar cycle. How transient is transient? 30 days is not a large fraction of an 11 year solar cycle.
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by ghubbard 14y ago
SICP - Structure And Interpretation Of Computer Programs Is an MIT computer science textbook. http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structure-and-interpretation-c...
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by ghubbard 14y ago
Is it supposed to do anything or is it just a picture?
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by ghubbard 14y ago
Have you asked them why? Maybe you're giving them too much choice.
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by ghubbard 14y ago
What is your sales pitch to them?
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by ghubbard 14y ago
Previously discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4756263
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by ghubbard 14y ago
tl;dr He should just send email newsletters.
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by ghubbard 14y ago
But you can afford to outsource your representation?
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by ghubbard 14y ago
tl;dr: Google using partial information to find the rest.
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by ghubbard 14y ago
How long do people's tests usually take? Longer than about 15 seconds I start getting distracted waiting for the answer, so I try to keep things fast. So 1:27 still seems slow to me. However we also have a set of integration tests that take
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by ghubbard 14y ago
For those who don't know: "CLRS" is "Introduction to Algorithms" by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest and Clifford Stein. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms