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by jmj42 14y ago
> And from what I can see most of the budget comes from and is devoted to college football. This couldn't be further from the truth. I'm unaware of any major universities in which sports money comes from or is applied to general budget
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by jmj42 14y ago
This is the basic premise of "Waiting for Superman." It's a fairly good documentary on the failings of American public education. The majority of the film focuses on the problem of stratification and the impact it has on both lower and up
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by jmj42 14y ago
Do mind elaborating? In fact, Opsware created products that (still) play an important role in large, private, datacenters. Hell, for what it's worth, their 3 main products were actually created to manage their own infrastructure. Which pa
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by jmj42 14y ago
> He has never really created anything of long-term value Except HP Server Automation[1], HP Operations Orchestration[2], HP Network Automation[3], and that's just Opsware products. That doesn't touch on the lasting transformational as
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by jmj42 14y ago
just like asking you to pay for the services you used is not a jerk move. Amazon did a nice thing, but the services were used. Asking to user to pay for those services (even if it was a mistake), would not have been a "jerk move"
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by jmj42 14y ago
Silent Circle https://silentcircle.com/
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Phil Zimmerman launches new encryption company(allthingsd.com)
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by jmj42 15y ago
Producer fails to inform consumer. Consumer fails to understand the crap they put in their bodies. Consumer is shocked that their processed food contains, um, processed food. Who is really to blame?
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by jmj42 15y ago
This was exactly my first thought. C fits in my brain. On Duff's device. My thought, the first time I saw it, was "brilliant!"
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by jmj42 15y ago
Then your (and their) expectation is uninformed. There is relatively little food that is "minimally processed" anywhere in the industrialized world, and expectation to the contrary is willful blindness or lack of information. Zikes is righ
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The Top 5 SCADA Security Threats for 2012(synergistscada.com)
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AMD buys SeaMicro for $334 million(zdnet.com)
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by jmj42 15y ago
I think the argument that Torvalds was making here is that that's exactly what C++ is. Messy and unnecessary. You can write C++, but if you do so without the mess, you're so close to C that there's no point in using C++. I, on the other h
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by jmj42 15y ago
"...rather than re-inventing the wheel with structs full of function pointers." I think you got that backwards. Structs full of function pointers predate c++. Going for the ad absurdum, why bother inventing C++, it's just a re-inventing o
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by jmj42 15y ago
who do you think the 13% are?
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by jmj42 15y ago
no they said their logo would be in place as usual. I remember reading that comment and thinking: hmm, that's vague enough to still allow for blacking out their logo.
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7,000 websites are planning to go dark(politico.com)
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by jmj42 15y ago
The story is actually about the european courts granting the U.S. authority to request information on their citizen. While I don't expect the U.S. courts will put up much of a roadblock (they rarely do), The DoJ will still have to go throu
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Twitter Ordered To Hand Over WikiLeaks Supporters’ Account Information(mashable.com)
37 points by jmj42 15y ago|18 comments
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by jmj42 15y ago
This is exactly the problem. No one thought the DMCA or COPA or CIPA or CDA would pass either. They all did. They didn't pass because they were good for the country, they passed because of the considerable lobby weight behind them. SOPA
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Adam Savage weighs in on SOPA(popularmechanics.com)
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by jmj42 15y ago
The problem with Caplan is that he fails to prove that signaling is socially detrimental. The signaling theory makes sense, and I accept that it could be at work, but I'm not convinced that signaling is inherently bad, nor that there isn't
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by jmj42 15y ago
That doesn't follow. Your fist statement "having a degree demonstrates to employers that you'll be a good employee" indicates that there is value in obtaining a degree. That is, you are more likely to get a well paying job if you have one.
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by jmj42 15y ago
The statistics seem to disagree. The most recent report from the census bureau ( http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/p20-550.pdf ) indicates the completion of a bachelors degree almost doubles the average earning. Of course these are stati
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by jmj42 15y ago
I agree that there are two different cultures at work here. One, that of PARC and Bell Labs, was foundational. The other, of MS and Apple, are transformative. It is with the foundational work of folks like dmr that the 80s era computing c
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Oil Cleanup X Chalenge: Winner triples previous record(iprizecleanoceans.org)
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Micro Cloud Foundry beta released(blog.cloudfoundry.com)
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What is a hipster(dailyillini.com)
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by jmj42 15y ago
My thoughts, exactly. Perhaps I'm a little overly pedantic, but it annoys me to extremes when I find c++ style comments littering up c