ghurtado

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   by ghurtado 9y ago

   > What person would ever want this "feature"? The disabled come to mind, for starters. The elderly, assisted living, I can think of a few use cases. Do you remember the Nextel phones? (push to talk) They were annoying as all he
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   by ghurtado 10y ago

   Hopefully you don't expect the average consumer to realize this, when they are clearly selling Apple products.
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   by ghurtado 10y ago

   This is correct. A lot of people don't realize that Amazon actually makes more money from Marketplace (3rd party sellers) than they do with their "Sold by Amazon" products.
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   by ghurtado 10y ago

   Well, I'll be damned: it looks like you're right. I think I was probably misremembering my experience as a software contractor, in that I don't think I ever signed a single contract that did not include the "work for hir
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   by ghurtado 10y ago

   I think you misunderstand: all work done by an independent contractor is by default "work made for hire" unless explicitly stated otherwise.
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   by ghurtado 10y ago

   Fair point. I will point a couple: - He says that contractors "by default" own the IP of the work they do for their employers. This is actually exactly the opposite: "work for hire" means that the employer owns the IP by
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   by ghurtado 10y ago

   Would it be weird if you liked to play guitar for 20 or 30 minutes in the evenings while employed by a startup? Because that would go against "using any and all your creative energy towards the business of the company"
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   by ghurtado 10y ago

   I used to respect him, but that post is so wrong on so many counts regarding US IP law and "work for hire" stipulations that I couldn't get myself to finish reading even half of it. "be careful before taking legal advice
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   by ghurtado 10y ago

   > IMO we should allow immigrants an option to fund these costs to jump the queue (eg, you can get a 4 yr visa for $500k or whatever). How many people do you know that pay $500k in taxes over 4 years? You may as well make the cost $500 mi
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    Start running down the list of classic famous artists and you may be surprised at how many wouldn't have met those criteria at the time when they created their most important work.
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    > "To err is human. To fuck up a million times in a second you need a computer." If you made that up, I tip my hat off to you as payment for all my future uses of the phrase.
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    I'm guessing your comment was inspired by this: http://www.squawkpoint.com/2014/01/criticism/
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    I happen to agree, but the statement was about "useful features".
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    A while back I made this prompted by a question in Stack Overflow: http://codepen.io/garciahurtado/pen/AGEsf It is a less refined version of the techniques in the article, the approach is different in that it uses
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    Not even PHP's "register_globals"?
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    I don't see at all how you could call this a Yoda Condition: it couldn't be written any other way, as it would cause a syntax error.
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    Sounds like the (very crude) interpretation of a foreigner who's never been to the US.
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    Those are all justice problems, but you are proposing to fix them with "revenge" type solutions. Is this maybe a cultural thing? Is vengeance a commonplace solution to problems in your culture?
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    I don't think that's the kind of encryption they're referring to, since you cannot infer anything about an individual simply for using HTTPS websites (which will soon be the majority of the web).
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    Neither of those things are mentioned in the document.
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    You don't seem to have a clear understanding of the distinction between justice and vengeance.
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    Why do you do that with apostrophes? It makes your comment harder to read and doesn't add anything to it.
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    Seems to be you'd have to possess the joint before smoking it.
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    As long as you consider smoking a joint "malicious" too (cause, you know, technically, it's illegal).
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    None of what you've said would make any sense for anyone who agrees with the list of synonyms for "Obtuse" which I posted in my previous comment. Those synonyms are from a dictionary, and they are all insults. So I have to co
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    There's a third arm that is actually bigger than retail in revenue: Merchant Services (Marketplace)
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    > perhaps I should have said persnickety. Or maybe just debate in a way such that the strength of your argument is not dependent on your choice of insult?
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    Let me clarify: when I see "you're being intentionally obtuse", I read "you are not just stupid, you're stupid on purpose". Because that's exactly what it is: a next level insult disguised under slightly f
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    Both come from the latin "Gratia" (favor), but you can thank the extremely ambiguous prefix "in" for the confusion. Depending on the word it can act both as "into" as well as "without".
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    by ghurtado 10y ago

    So you've already been banned once?