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by jey 13y ago
That's extremely amusing, since the probability of a enforcement action conditional on an investigation being started is much higher than the prior probability of an enforcement action. And if an enforcement action occurs, the price is
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by jey 13y ago
What right does GEMA have to block this video? Does it contain some copyrighted music in the background or something?
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by jey 13y ago
Why must that require regulation? They're calling for a meme that informed actors probably wouldn't do business with exchanges that don't provide those "requirements".
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by jey 13y ago
This isn't a "rewrite the code from scratch", but instead is an incremental but aggressive refactoring. There's at least one wildly successful example of this successfully being done for GCC, which is a project even bigg
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by jey 13y ago
This raises an interesting question: should a country applying to YC use the regular application form or the nonprofit one?
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by jey 13y ago
Not true. IIRC, the way the Debian bug was found was by some parties noticing a bunch of collisions of SSH public keys. (For example, Github lets you push/pull via SSH as git@github.com, and they determine your identity by the SSH key
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by jey 13y ago
The basic blocks from just after the unconditional goto up to the "fail:" label are all unreachable, so a dead code warning could be issued. > However later code is used as a jump target for goto so it's quite hard for the
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by jey 13y ago
Oh god, that's horrifying. Get ready to check certificate validity, then report success before actually checking validity!
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by jey 13y ago
Sounds like you're confusing Semantic HTML with Semantic Web. "Semantic" HTML is a style of writing HTML where the document exposes the meaningful structure and data in the document instead of the visual layout . The idea
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by jey 13y ago
This sounds exactly like the complaints lodged against structured programming[1] by traditional GOTO-based programmers. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_programming
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by jey 13y ago
Supposedly they have a huge install base in many (non-US) markets. The idea is probably that network effects will make it so that they'll continue to be the dominant player for a long time.
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by jey 13y ago
Jeff Bezos had some thoughts on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwG_qR6XmDQ Personally, I think you should get out of there before your brain turns to mush and falls out. Other posters are telling you to instead perce
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by jey 13y ago
Despite all that, Mountain View is still a dreary wasteland. It's a great place if you want to buy a $1.5MM home and raise kids, but not if you want to enjoy your youth. Even if the big behemoths stay down there and employ the people w
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by jey 13y ago
This is unlikely to get resolved until one of these "terrorists" adopts the name of a Member of Congress as an alias. Until then, this ham-fisted policy is for your protection.
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by jey 13y ago
What was the "disturbance"?
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by jey 13y ago
> So you don't really need Bayesian logic to reason that you should test fewer people if you want a more significant result. That's misleading by the use of the word "significant" which apparently means something in f
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by jey 13y ago
Ouch, so any product that relies on StackMob will need to reimplement and deploy its entire backend by May 11th?
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by jey 13y ago
> another provider here in Switzerland has a special solution in place for youtube after talking with Google It's my understanding that this is actually pretty common: https://peering.google.com/about/ggc.html
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by jey 13y ago
What's the device that he describes as "funny-looking headgear that makes me look like an Irish Rabbi"? From http://richardlynch.blogspot.com/2014/01/end-game.html
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by jey 13y ago
> fundraising is about “searching for true believers, not convincing skeptics.” Interesting and well said. Makes sense, but I hadn't thought of it in those terms.
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by jey 13y ago
What do you mean by "iOS7 physics engine"? I can't imagine a game physics engine being included with the OS. Is this referring to a creative abuse of iOS UI widget animations?
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by jey 13y ago
Personally, I hated calculus. It turned me off of math for a long time -- there was too much emphasis on memorizing heuristics for solving problems, like integral tricks and trigonometric identities. Worse, calculus was used as the canonica
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by jey 13y ago
Isn't this a bit early? It's not even March yet.
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by jey 13y ago
This used to be extremely common as a naturally viral way to harvest email addresses, the prompt was "put in the email addresses of your crushes". What's your twist that sets it apart from the usual variants? (Sure, building
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by jey 13y ago
How so? It's the same as the old HTML, but with fewer round-trips.
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by jey 13y ago
What's the supposed rationale for the General Counsel reporting to the CFO in the first place? Isn't a General Counsel supposed to be "general" and not only concerned with financial issues?
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by jey 13y ago
People still use Perl?
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by jey 13y ago
I use a Lenovo W530, but it's quite hefty.
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by jey 13y ago
Or issue an actual runtime warning: http://docs.python.org/2/library/warnings.html
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by jey 13y ago
PG addresses this criticism here: http://paulgraham.com/cliffsnotes.html

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