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by joshes 15y ago
This is similar to how organizations tend to use phrases such as "we regret..." as opposed to one's such as "we're sorry...". This way they have their PR move without actually admitting to any wrongdoing on their part. Sort of a semanticall
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by joshes 15y ago
I would agree. I do think that corporations should not be treated in precisely the same way that individual persons are treated. Corporations have (arguably) far too much power as is. But I think that the level of privacy that allows one to
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by joshes 15y ago
> Let's face it, if they were doing something legal they wouldn't care if they were getting videotaped. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt once said, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it
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by joshes 15y ago
I think that the semantics behind the question implied end goal, as in is the ultimate goal of writing a bash script simply to write a bash script or is it something more, something beyond that? One would almost certainly reason that the
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by joshes 15y ago
Recent rumors peg Sony's and Microsoft's next efforts at 2014, with announcements around mid-2012.
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Amazon's approach to product development and product management(quora.com)
3 points by joshes 15y ago|0 comments
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by joshes 15y ago
This is definitely a good read for beginners in the area and it does a good job of balancing both application of and theory behind the algorithms. Highly recommended. Another good read which covers some of the same ground (also by a profess
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by joshes 15y ago
I wasn't aware that we had really left the Bad Old Days" altogether. IE, its atrocious fragmentation and its massive market share have been right here all along. Things may have gotten better, but we never escaped the "Bad Old Days" entirel
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by joshes 16y ago
Fragmentation is my primary concern with Android development, and is something that I faced head on with much frustration with my own apps. But what exactly can Android do about this? It seems that Android's staggering success is at least p
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by joshes 16y ago
Are the articles meant to be sorted by their respective companies (like the financial info)? Because I see some stories that are meant for one but under the column of another. Maybe I am misunderstanding how this is organized? Any any event
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by joshes 16y ago
He could lose half of his share, I believe.
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by joshes 16y ago
I like the idea but I do have one immediate question: We give you a unique link for each item you want to sell. You then can tweet, post, or share your link however you want. And as soon as your sales reach $10, we'll send over your earnin
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by joshes 16y ago
Honest question: does the RCMP require background checks for employees of civilian telephony providers?
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by joshes 16y ago
The first prong mandates the disclosure of Internet provider customer information without court oversight. Under current privacy laws, providers may voluntarily disclose customer information but are not required to do so. The new system
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Mark Cuban: The Role of Media for Sports Teams(blogmaverick.com)
3 points by joshes 16y ago|0 comments
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by joshes 16y ago
It's okay if the Justice Department has the back of your entire industry.
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by joshes 16y ago
To me, what is a bit disheartening about all of this is that if you want to advertise to Facebook's massive user base, you have to play by Facebook's inconsistent rules and enforcement; there's not much of a way around it. And the system is
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by joshes 16y ago
The submitter messed up the title, yes. But the actual article cites the vb.ly case as the first to fall (just clarifying in case you were making a point toward the author, not the submitter).
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by joshes 16y ago
Python was my first language and the white space rules simply "made sense" for me at the time. In fact, using Python for a while at such an early stage started to ingrain a oneness with Python's unique syntactic idiosyncrasies. It seems som
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by joshes 16y ago
This is a very solid point. Having an internally developed language like Go (which is, according to Rob Pike, being used "for real stuff" inside of Google), the creator of Python (one of the most widely used languages in recent years) and t
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by joshes 16y ago
Indeed. From the university behind arXiv, this is less of a surprise. Having said that, however, it is obviously a big step and should be applauded by the scientific community at large.
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by joshes 16y ago
I'm not sure if it's just me, but I was clicking through the arrows to scroll through screenshots on the front page of glowapp.com and found that two captions seemed to be mixed up: "Use Glow to share your feelings with friends on Twitter a
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by joshes 16y ago
I find it interesting, if a tad unrelated, that when you see the summary of the article on the front page of Techcrunch, this line reads, "Apparently, the post was not fawning enough for Summit..." whereas when you click through to the arti
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by joshes 16y ago
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me fall into a haze for about 45 minutes. That was remarkably ingenious. Rolling around on a huge page like the Wikipedia article for World War II ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war_
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by joshes 16y ago
Student and engineer, here: OS X on both my desktop and notebook.
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by joshes 16y ago
It would seem that having everyone on the team making technical contributions is a potentially big boost for overall team cohesion.
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by joshes 16y ago
"Federal prosecutors acknowledged that in the ten weeks since the guilty verdict, Mr. Aleynikov had not violated his bail conditions, which included home detention with electronic monitoring." Preposterous bullying. They are just trying to
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by joshes 16y ago
I imagine it takes some mighty wherewithal to so cleverly hide such important historical items under that level of pressure, what with the Nazi regime breathing down your neck and all.
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by joshes 16y ago
Well that was a quick turnaround.
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by joshes 16y ago
I've been getting into Scala in the past couple of weeks, as well, and this part was certainly agreeable: "Scala’s type checking saved me from doing stupid things several times and I really appreciate the effort put in to the compiler." The

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