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by icky 19y ago
> And I'm not convinced there's much middle ground between these two models. Amazon wishlist? (Granted, it does require the participation of the recipients, but that's the price of privacy.) Edit: There could easily be an automated
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by icky 19y ago
Fortunately, Congress has given copyright-holders a chainsaw to dismember such petty thieves (see? I'm using a real-world property analogy!): DMCA takedown notices... >:-D (If it were mere verbatim piracy, I wouldn't care, but mangling
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by icky 19y ago
Fighting Evil is more fun if you get to run around wearing pajamas and a cape!
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by icky 19y ago
Absolute one!
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by icky 19y ago
Hey, that's how the Funding Awards work, too! ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
The problem here is that evolution optimizes for the conditions in which the organism evolved.
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by icky 19y ago
> In the experimental condition, the researchers prompted thoughts of God using a well-established "priming" technique: participants, who again included both theists and atheists, first had to unscramble sentences containing words such
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by icky 19y ago
They have blogging horses now? :-O (I feel so 2007 all of a sudden....)
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by icky 19y ago
> Sounds like this guy just doesn't want to waste time. :) > You have to be reasonable if you expect good relations with someone. The developer should provide a higher estimate that provides a buffer for the uncertainty involved. Ge
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by icky 19y ago
If the client's playing games, don't give them an inch. It will never end well if you do.
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by icky 19y ago
Fixed bid should mean fixed scope (fixed in STONE), with all change requests in writing and done on an hourly basis.
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by icky 19y ago
Interesting, but much more complicated than it has to be. In Chaosium's BRP ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Role-Playing ) system, each skill is represented on a percentile scale. Whenever a player does (tries?) something with a given
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by icky 19y ago
Sounds like a soul-sucking corporate cesspool masquerading as a startup. If you want to do us all a favor, name them here explicitly so that we may all avoid those assholes.
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by icky 19y ago
Idea! $_$
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by icky 19y ago
Or in any country that's signed the Berne Convention.
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by icky 19y ago
"Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle. Hobbes was fond of his dram, And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart. 'I drink, therefore I am.'"
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by icky 19y ago
> Now what about wrapping an arbitrary language (ie, is there a "swig" equivalent for wrapping python, or any generic language X?) Sockets! ;-D
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by icky 19y ago
Heh, I might have misparsed "'No PG' is a big drawback" as "No, PG is a big drawback"... :P Disregard my previous post.
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by icky 19y ago
The Mechanical Turk strikes again!
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by icky 19y ago
If you both know php, use php. If you want someone else to cut the Gordian knot for you, I hereby command you to use python! ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
> No PG is a big drawback, Evidence?
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by icky 19y ago
Least meaningful 404, since the actual response header returns "200 OK" :-/
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by icky 19y ago
Dibs on the .mars TLD!
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by icky 19y ago
API in C, wrappers by SWIG Edit: Also, if you're going to scale, don't expect any two components to stay local (on the same box).
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by icky 19y ago
> site breaks the back button The Web equivalent of, "Get off my lawn!" ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
from datetime import TimeMachine
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by icky 19y ago
Lesson learned: never have the word FAILURE as part of your business name!
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by icky 19y ago
No, it needs the jPhone. ;-)
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by icky 19y ago
Talk to a lawyer first! IANAL, but IIRC, once you have more than a certain number of investors, you are effectively a public company (and will be forever the bitch of the demon-prince SarbOx!) Make sure your competent legal representation g
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by icky 19y ago
Chief Acolyte henning, please permit me to fetch the sacred tongue-tongs!

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