jmaygarden

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   by jmaygarden 16y ago

   > Democracy is too important to be limited to just citizens. The founding fathers and US Constitution beg to differ on that point. In fact, franchise was initially limited to a subset of the citizenry. We have a representative republic,
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   by jmaygarden 16y ago

   Perhaps they would be charged with disturbing the peace or disorderly conduct. Most localities have catch-all ordinances that police can use in these situations.
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   by jmaygarden 16y ago

   Who stole anything in this case? That's not a valid analogy as one act is legal and the other is not.
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   by jmaygarden 16y ago

   I believe Spolsky covered this topic in depth a while back... and here it is: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html
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   by jmaygarden 16y ago

   That wikipedia page states that Liu's lawyers informed him today that he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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   by jmaygarden 16y ago

   Anonymous functions in Python are what immediately popped into my mind. I do embedded work and mostly use C, but a lot of the problems with C actually make since when you have less than 1 kB of RAM. I'd prefer to use Lua for building test a
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   by jmaygarden 16y ago

   They failed miserably as I recall. It was a glorified screen saver.
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   by jmaygarden 16y ago

   That's exactly what I was thinking. It's map-reduce, not map-group-reduce.
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   by jmaygarden 16y ago

   Can they exempt themselves from the tax by putting all earnings towards cost and donating any profits to charity (i.e. become a non-profit)?
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    by jmaygarden 16y ago

    Me too, but I'm getting a "E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version" message when trying the new :lua* commands with the Windows version from the self-installing executable. EDIT: Ah, the binary distribution is compiled wit
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    by jmaygarden 16y ago

    I copied the text here: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=jD9SJNwX
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    by jmaygarden 16y ago

    Well, I am too at the moment. He must have taken it down. I still have it open in my RSS reader. It was in response to this: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2433
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    by jmaygarden 16y ago

    I sometimes want to scream when the DVD player won't let me skip all the crap at the beginning and go straight to the menu. A VHS player just does what it's told! (That said, my VHS player is in the attic.)
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    by jmaygarden 16y ago

    I was already sold by this quote from the CEO: "When neither pillaging nor developing, Alex enjoys watching Alabama football games..." Installing the plug-in now. Roll Tide!
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    by jmaygarden 16y ago

    Can anyone vouch for this company? The plug-in looks useful, but I'm paranoid about giving out access to my email account.
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    by jmaygarden 16y ago

    If a patent is filed by someone other than the inventor then it is void. They would have to put the taptaptap people on the patent.
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    by jmaygarden 17y ago

    Case in point: Blockbuster versus Netflix http://www.onlykent.com/20100318/blockbuster-bankruptcy-2010...
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    by jmaygarden 17y ago

    What does this have to do with global warming? The new iceberg was dislodged by a collision. Nothing in the article indicates temperature as a factor.
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    by jmaygarden 17y ago

    Question: Where does an 860 billion ton iceberg go? Answer: Wherever it wants!
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    by jmaygarden 17y ago

    I've heard of a copper thief successfully suing a power company for his injuries while cracking into a hot transformer.
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    by jmaygarden 17y ago

    It's not first because Google places recent news stories before the general web search results.
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    by jmaygarden 17y ago

    The title should be that Bill Gate's blog uses a Linux CDN provided by Akamai with its ISS web-server. At least that is somewhat worthy of discussion.
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    by jmaygarden 17y ago

    I use python all the time, but I'm an embedded developer. So, the python code is just for internal tools and rarely ships. Therefore, a posting for my job would require C and assembly not python. However, it would definitely be useful.
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    by jmaygarden 17y ago

    This is much ado about nothing. Here is a quote from the referenced TechCrunch article: "The results also say that web server is Microsoft-IIS/7.0. That doesn’t sound right, so what gives? Well, it turns out that because Gates is using Akam
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    by jmaygarden 17y ago

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=comparison+between+erlang+and+haskell
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    by jmaygarden 17y ago

    No, the UK cannot enforce such a law without violating membership in the EU.
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    by jmaygarden 17y ago

    I fail to see what Google has done wrong. Why wouldn't they place their European headquarters in a EU country with the lowest corporate taxes rates? Also, how does the UK have any more right to complain than France or Cyprus? This is just p
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    by jmaygarden 17y ago

    You should try to get a refund for the Windows license (see http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/59381 ).