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by huxley 15y ago
My 35 year old sister found out earlier this year that she has Stage IV breast cancer (spread to one of the lymph nodes and into both of her lungs). I can't express how fortunate we've been that she has responded extremely well to tamoxifen
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by huxley 15y ago
It's possible that some of the patents came from Fingerworks which Apple bought in 2005. Fingerworks had been doing touch based work since about 1998.
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by huxley 15y ago
Not disagreeing that it is an area where Apple should have behaved better, but read up about what Rambus did to the JEDEC standards body for an example of really nasty behaviour.
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by huxley 15y ago
That 20% you quote covers a wide range of programs which apply to a substantial percentage of all students not just the disabled. But why screw with the disabled and learning challenged when there is the other 79.5% of the funding you are i
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by huxley 15y ago
FYI, this article is about 2.5 years old. Zed Shaw has in the interim released some projects under a BSD license (like Mongrel2) while other projects like Lamson (I believe) are licensed under GPLv3.
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by huxley 15y ago
I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't sign up for any ethos and I don't like policing other people's "innocent coffee breaks" either. If we're now shunning people for not maximizing productivity, you can count me out.
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by huxley 15y ago
I've disliked that stereotype for a while. My mother (who is 68) started off programming with punchcards when she was working on her Masters in Economics, she eventually moved into executive work but still kept up her chops with Basic and F
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by huxley 15y ago
I was about to correct you, but, in looking over the FSF opinion on APSL 2.0, I noticed that while APSL 2.0 is considered a free software license, I had forgotten that the APSL 2.0 license is still incompatible with GPL. http://www.gnu.org
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by huxley 15y ago
Not longer than Java, both Ruby and Java came out in 1995. Python is about 4 years older.
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by huxley 15y ago
As opposed to --for illustrative purposes-- the vanishingly small number of people who know how to block IP addresses and manage to get their site to disappear from Google's listings? ::cough:: A few years ago, I did pretty much the same th
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by huxley 15y ago
Apple sold 16.8 million Macs just this year, so at $100 million for 400 laser system, Apple could pay them all off entirely in 2011 by adding $5.95 to the cost per Mac.
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by huxley 15y ago
Yeah, I basically agree except Brooks himself said in the Mythical Man-Month that Brooks' Law is "an outrageous oversimplification." Not every job is comparable to "nine women having one baby in one month." There can be sweet spots in staf
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by huxley 15y ago
Consider that a kindness from Apple. You can get two to three times as much RAM at the same price from an online reseller than you'd get buying the RAM directly from Apple.
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by huxley 15y ago
That's a pretty old article, when Lamson hit 1.0, Zed wrote: "Someone suggested that I post a blog post announcing the release of Lamson 1.0. You can go grab the latest using your favorite method, and then I also gave everyone a present by
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by huxley 15y ago
Just an FYI to those looking into Slicehost, it's now part of Rackspace Cloud Servers and doesn't sell their own VPS.
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by huxley 15y ago
They must admit their products are insufficient pretty often (just from recent OS releases): * Twitter integration * Yelp and Wolfram Alpha to provide responses for Siri * Gmail/Yahoo Mail/Exchange email & calendar integration in iOS
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by huxley 15y ago
> DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows XP, and Windows 7 Not that I disagree with you, but it would be fairer to include Microsoft's serious missteps like DOS 4, Windows 286, Windows ME, and Windows Vista.
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by huxley 15y ago
A bit disappointed that the ratings don't degrade gracefully to a form with a dropdown menu or radio buttons.
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by huxley 15y ago
The Samsung Galaxy S2 was competing against the 16 month old iPhone 4 so I'm not surprised that the judges gave it the nod.
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by huxley 15y ago
I'm pretty sure the OP is wrong, Nexus One is built to Google's spec and if the carrier added an undeleteable Facebook app it is because Google gave it the go-ahead. If not, what is the point of buying the Nexus phones? It's Google's flagsh
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by huxley 15y ago
Brad Cox, co-creator of Objective C, wrote a interesting response to "No Silver Bullet" in 1995: http://virtualschool.edu/cox/pub/NoSilverBulletRevisted/
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by huxley 15y ago
The closest he had to a business mentor was probably Mike Markkula who was Apple's angel investor (he also was CEO for a few years). Not strictly mentors, but two of his biggest influences were Paul Rand (who designed the logos for IBM and
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by huxley 15y ago
Apple Store Canada seems to be having trouble Apple account logins, but after trying a few times, it finally got to checkout.
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by huxley 15y ago
It has its flaws (a bit of laginess on 3G) but Panic's Prompt is my favourite of the several I've used. It has support for CTRL and arrow keys on Bluetooth keyboards, which a few of the other's didn't support the last time I tried them.
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by huxley 15y ago
One major factor to consider when talking about race isn't how YOU self-identify, but how other's identify you. So perhaps "self-identification" will correspond more closely to the markers than if I was to identify the racial category. As w
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by huxley 15y ago
So are you saying that if we did the same analysis across Africa, you'd find the same markers throughout the populations in "near-perfect correspondence" for people self-identifying racially as African? Or is this specific to the population
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by huxley 15y ago
Cognitive dissonance? Really? Some people like Macs for mostly rational reasons, others like them for irrational ones. Some people hate Macs for mostly rational reasons, others hate them for irrational ones. Many will be ambivalent. Get eno
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by huxley 15y ago
I know that the eco-group is trying to get publicity for a worthwhile cause and that it's easiest to do it by mentioning Apple, but it's misleading to think that if you don't buy Apple stuff, you're "clean." One of the suppliers named is Ka
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by huxley 15y ago
The story is a bit more complex. What we know as America Online was based on AppleLink Personal Edition which was a joint project of Apple and Quantum Computer Services (which was run by Steve Case). By the late 1980s, their relationship fo
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by huxley 15y ago
You might find James Bennett's book "Practical Django Projects" helpful: http://www.apress.com/open-source/python/9781430219385 https://bitbucket.org/ubernostrum/practical-django-projects/... It talks about Django's apps focus and tries

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