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by jlujan 14y ago
This is the same as saying gun manufactures have liability in any murder committed with their product which many argue, they have not done enough to prevent the wrong people from getting firearms. But it is the wrong analogy. In sites like
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by jlujan 15y ago
First, you miss attributed this. It was Philip Sheridan; a Union General assigned to occupy Texas and oversee reconstruction after the Civil War. He was less than popular and removed from his post by president Andrew Johnson for his harsh a
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by jlujan 15y ago
Again, Google won this on appeal. It was very narrow victory and isn't a good case for precedent. See http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2007/05/summary_of_perf... EDIT: Note the last part "affirmed the district court's finding that Per
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by jlujan 15y ago
Apperently Sari Koshetz doesn't deny anything http://www.popehat.com/2012/03/08/in-which-i-strongly-cautio...
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by jlujan 15y ago
Writing and grammar aside, I think the buddy-buddy way in which the TSA blog is written is condescending. There is a difference between trying to put a friendly face on the TSA and addressing the public in a tone of familiar conversation wi
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by jlujan 15y ago
"As far as I know there is no industry group for still-image photographers anything like the MPAA or RIAA." The American Society of Media Photographers, Graphic Artists Guild, the Picture Archive Council of America, the North American Natur
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by jlujan 15y ago
Been a reader of your blog for a while now, and enjoy your insight. I do feel that chimeracoder's criticism is valid, regardless of your argument of establishing objectivity through participation. As a reader, the inclusion of Facebook Conn
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by jlujan 16y ago
In this example you also have to look at events during each administration. The fear after 9/11 cause many to reconsider what was reasonable encroachment on civil liberties. Everyone has an opinion on this. Mine is that it was seriously mis
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by jlujan 16y ago
Same goes to illegal immigrants. You do not need proof of citizenship to acquire a Tax ID or file a return. Those that are picked up and tried for illegal immigration are much more likely to not be deported/jailed if they have all of their
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by jlujan 16y ago
Just another example of how private business and hackers are more effective at creating open and accessible government data.
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by jlujan 16y ago
Refer to Sec 215 of bill.
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In June the U.S. House passed bill to ban full-body scanners as primary method(opencongress.org)
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by jlujan 16y ago
I just passed through the airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The back-scatter scanner is right next to the metal detector and the procedure was that they would "offer" you the choice to walk through the new scanner and said if you turned it
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by jlujan 16y ago
I cannot help to notice the "Likes" at the bottom of the post and the immediate loss of credibility.
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by jlujan 16y ago
I think the expediency by which it arrived at the top might possibly be indicative of how many people have exactly the same sentiment. Possibly we were all just waiting for some one to say it first. Put our disdain for the phrase in text.
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by jlujan 17y ago
It is an interesting concept but a dangerous one. It cuts at the heart of the conflict between the USPTO, the FDA, NIHS and "big pharma". Drug companies sink mil/billions into developing drugs with the incentive of revenue guarantees from d
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by jlujan 18y ago
I wonder if the original intent of posting was to be helpful or for mockery. My second language to learn was PHP, perl being the first, and I have since moved on. I probably asked,( myself/google not others,) similar questions the article c
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by jlujan 18y ago
Ever try debugging javascript in a dynamic site with invalid HTML... enough said. No, the user shouldn't care but so little of the code we write is actually for the user.
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by jlujan 18y ago
This is interesting. I have been using django for a while and work on a custom framework that barrows ideas, not code, from it's URL dispatch. I haven't really liked specifying and carrying around a list of regular expressions some place. T
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by jlujan 18y ago
With the e-mail functionality so well done, mms seems a little redundant. I would call it ahead of its time for dropping mms. However... I will say the way it handles it is annoying... You have to log in to some site to view it? Why not jus
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by jlujan 18y ago
I get down voted because their php site leaks memory? Nice.
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by jlujan 18y ago
Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 8126464) (tried to allocate 311296 bytes) in /home/ryan/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/falbum/wordpress-falbum-plugin.php on line 433 Maybe an article about python should use it to present it on the web?
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by jlujan 18y ago
Even though I typically read HN on my 12" PowerBook. I am typing this on my brand new (today) 15" MBP. I haven't done much on my 12" PowerBook for some time and use it very much as a "Netbook". If I am not reading the latest threads on it,
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by jlujan 18y ago
In
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by jlujan 18y ago
Transparency is all well and good. I am sure that is happily accepted oversight/regulation. So I wouldn't expect any arguments that hedge funds need way more oversight/regulation. On the issue of transparency, why not require hedge funds to
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by jlujan 18y ago
How did this make it on to HN... The author of the article is clearly confused of the issue. More, who the hell cares... it is Twitter. If your are worried about some one ruining your good name by hacking your twitter account, you most cert
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by jlujan 18y ago
It is still shooting yourself in the foot. There are a lot of questionable design decisions that will take a while to unlearn when PHP is your first language. The OO model is still a little screwed up, and uglier than C++ even, because of l
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by jlujan 18y ago
This article is a poorly done "look how smart I am". First, the title makes little sense. If you were going to compare and contrast Python to Java, this first thing to come to mind would be static typing, not a compile step. Second, I was g
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by jlujan 18y ago
"JSON stacks not only do that, but they do it better because the set of available data structures in JSON is constrained to a sensible subset" To my knowledge, there is no "built-in" way to specify if a number should be parsed as an int or
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by jlujan 18y ago
Have you looked at wsdl2java? http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/user-guide.html#WSDL2JavaBuil...

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