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by glimcat 14y ago
FWIW, I've avoided licensing "must cite" resources several times because the terms were worded problematicaly (e.g. they encoded invalid assumptions, etc.). But I've never had a problem with "how to cite" - in fact, it makes integrating the
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by glimcat 14y ago
"Taking Any Rand seriously" seems to be something of a persistent folly.
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by glimcat 14y ago
I usually robots.txt any big text variations anyway. A short delay in indexing isn't going to do any major harm and that way you get the right version cached.
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by glimcat 14y ago
Why would you not just do the following? interface LinkedList class BasicLinkedList implements LinkedList class XORLinkedList implements LinkedList
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by glimcat 14y ago
"The point here is that while technical options exist to prevent premature opening of the bag, such as reducing the initial air pressure in the bag, attempting to add this to the existing processing equipment would be a nightmare. So it wa
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by glimcat 14y ago
Intranet site, Wordpress install, search function. Or internet site, if your summaries are of sufficient quality that you wouldn't be too ashamed to let others see.
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by glimcat 14y ago
Here's some snake oil for $270,000: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1047510073/remee-the-rem... Kickstarter isn't particularly thorough about vetting technical projects.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Generously: Nothing at all, they just wanted to grab hits. Less so: They figured that any products which primarily target women must be fundamentally similar.
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by glimcat 15y ago
You left off the difficulty multiplier, namely: "which can be operated and maintained by a typical consumer."
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by glimcat 15y ago
Headline actually understates it. It sounds like the real deal was less microtargeted than the headline implies: according to the article, they banned "requiring or requesting employees or job applicants to disclose electronic passwords, su
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by glimcat 15y ago
The value of brand awareness is also inversely proportionate to how much brand awareness you already have. When you're Facebook, more brand awareness may not be the primary motivator.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Larger projects: for each, does the code available or the language features make it a substantially smaller project than it would be otherwise? Also, what gives the lowest difficulty to maintain?
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by glimcat 15y ago
Google Street Map cars, then. You want to pick nits over Google being able to ship?
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by glimcat 15y ago
Usability is problematic from a user's perspective. It does nothing new, but it increases the complication of completing the transaction. Also, since Google has customer service approaching nonexistent, who are you going to call if somethin
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by glimcat 15y ago
Spend some time working through this if you want to learn Rails. http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book?ve... Also, bugger recruiters, what do they know? Talking to a recruiter usually means there are at least two peopl
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by glimcat 15y ago
Python 2.x is the one that most people use. Python 3 is a fork with broken compatibility and poor adoption.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I'd be happy just seeing prominent and clear icons for major threat types, e.g. access to personal data, elevated device access, and so forth. Make them large and suitably threatening. It wouldn't completely solve the problem, but it could
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by glimcat 15y ago
It's not not just Chrome. A better behavior would be selective approval. Extension asks for permissions for X, Y, and Z. You allow X and Z but deny Y. Any features affected fall back to an alternate state or are disabled. User is given clea
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by glimcat 15y ago
In the sense that evolution drives speciation, yes. Which is to say, a random walk based strictly on local optimization conditions, which produces absurd dead-end results at least as often as it produces something of lasting value.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Yes. The problem is, that's below the care threshold for wide swaths of the audience they're hoping to attract. You're hiring developers? So what, everyone's hiring developers these days. As a startup, it's also unlikely that you can win a
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by glimcat 15y ago
Think about what's needed to bring your product to market. Does your team adequately cover the bases? If you have to hire to fill the gaps, can you find and manage competent people without excessive hand-holding? Teams come in all shapes an
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by glimcat 15y ago
Isn't that exactly the problem which VC funding claims to address?
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Residents tend to be reasonably well clustered in terms of socioeconomic factors, and we know that at least one resident exists for whom this is a reasonable purchase. If we assume the 3x10^6 sales are all US (false, but good to some order)
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by glimcat 15y ago
The article really doesn't say anything more than the headline already did (then gets into "high-entropy random character strings are hard to remember" --> solution: "read xkcd, use passphrases"). Also, the DARPA program is more involve
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by glimcat 15y ago
Roughly, keymaster.js is focused on being small, while shortcut.js has been through a few iterations and is focused on being feature-rich. But they are both fairly small and they have many of the same features.
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by glimcat 15y ago
Links don't work in posts, someone has to reply with it. By etiquette, usually someone other than the submitter. It's a bit non-intuitive. I think it's intended to cut down on linkback spam.
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by glimcat 15y ago
I've been using shortcut.js for keyboard shortcuts. Works great. http://www.openjs.com/scripts/events/keyboard_shortcuts/
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Problematically, with many lawyer and accountant hours, and generally while buffering outgoing payments until the incoming payment is fully secured. Paypal and ACH seem to be common transfer protocols.
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Guns have recoil. Grenades don't. Also the targeting issues are vastly simplified and they're very effective in swarms.
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Vision affords high input bandwidth and loose constraints. The key constraint being, you have to look at the interface. Other senses afford low input bandwidth and have many constraints. They tend to trump vision only where needing to look

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