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by kevinpet 14y ago
This a good point. It seems somewhat unavoidable, since no one will ever be in a position to evaluate the effectiveness of both those who did well on their metric and those who did poorly (since they will only hire those who do well). Perha
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by kevinpet 15y ago
"The F.C.C. report also had Engineer Doe spelling out his intentions quite clearly in his initial proposal. Managers of the Street View project said they never read it." I think the authors intended this to be read as 'wink wink yeah sure',
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by kevinpet 15y ago
That's an excellent idea, since: 1) the other party doesn't need to sign anything. 2) it's only binding if it's actually a patentable idea.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Agreed. The article would be better if the examples were less distracting. It's like talking about layout and styling and using a political rant as your example text.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Yes, I read the article. The bank is telling them "you are stupidly overpaying, our risk is based on the resale value of the collateral, and we think the collateral is only worth $X, so we are not going to loan you more than 80% of $X." Put
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by kevinpet 15y ago
"Cost more to build than they are worth" means "we built something in hopes of turning a profit, and in fact, we can't sell it for as much as we planned, so we won't turn a profit." This isn't a mysterious conspiracy on the part of appraise
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Entire books have been published that consist of annotated source code, the least famous probably being Lions' Commentary on Unix and Knuth's "TeX: The Program", since they are pretty much the only widely distributed books consisting primar
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by kevinpet 15y ago
"I'd like to update code and see the unit tests update automatically" I think you have that a bit backwards there. I want to write the tests and have my code automatically update to make them pass.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I've never heard of a JVM that uses this kind of GC. As far as I know, every Sun JVM has used explicit "this is a pointer" to identify things for GC.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I think this is about disorganization masquerading as agile. I'm a big believer in Scrum. Scrum, with bi-weekly sprints and daily standups is less overhead of talking to coworkers than I've experienced at places that are not as formally agi
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by kevinpet 15y ago
If you want to call something a "regressive tax", please make sure that doesn't mean the exact opposite of what you're describing. A flat licensing fee would be regressive. A huge upfront cost would be prohibitive for small developers, but
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Are your engineers going to be writing the content? We run a WordPress instance just as a CMS that then gets pulled into memcache to be served up within our site. It's clunky, but there's no reason to reinvent an editing interface.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Just because something doesn't have a name and isn't written down anywhere doesn't mean it doesn't exist. If you don't like agile, it doesn't mean you have no process. It just means you are following another process. Assuming you have a pro
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Providing the files needed is a little bit more in terms of actively participating than just saying "wouldn't it be nice."
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by kevinpet 15y ago
These arguments are persuasive, but there are two items that aren't well addressed: 1. Principle-agent problem. If I have my own house, I'm more inclined to maintain it well. If I am a renter, I'm not inclined to, for example, change the fu
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Good question. Maybe in the long run they'll be able to bundle this with kid-targeted hardware that's locked down.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
It's all about how old the kids are. To me, this is clearly not appropriate for teenagers, but entirely okay for younger kids. I don't think it's targeted at teenagers either -- restricting the numbers called is something they wouldn't go f
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Honestly, I'm more interested in the "affordable brain recording kits". But +1 internets to the marketing department. This is genius.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I was hoping this would address the core issue whether it's worthwhile to build a good parking lot as opposed to a parking lot being a good thing to do with urban land until a better opportunity arises.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
No, it's time to start saying "hey, that looks like a great service, but I'm absolutely not using it until you offer it on legal terms that I find acceptable".
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Better is to change your security token and expire all sessions. Removing sensitive data should be seen as just a suggestion. Google never forgets.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
You are missing the point. Identifying an expert and asking them to write the article is exactly what traditional encyclopedia's do, while wikipedia actively discourages this.
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by kevinpet 15y ago
Okay, thanks for giving me the connection to the first amendment, but it still means nothing, because Path is not the government. The legal "protection" is about whether the government can force a reporter to divulge his sources. It is not
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I was with him right up until this: "Lawyers I spoke with said that my address book — which contains my reporting sources at companies and in government — is protected under the First Amendment." What does this even mean? Does he mean the f
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by kevinpet 15y ago
It's ridiculous to assume that such a screening will reliably exclude drug users. It's also quite plausible that the screening will increase the number of heavy drug users you hire. Consider: 1. Some people haven't ever used drugs. These pe
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by kevinpet 15y ago
If someone leaves his browser open to furry porn (anthropomorphic animals), but only does this once, does your opinion of him go back to normal once he closes the page?
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I don't buy that. I find it hard to believe that a court could find that a slightly ambiguous clause means something so different from what the people publishing their code under it understand it to mean. If AGPL didn't exist, and if everyo
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I read this as "new pocket protector" which would be a really awesome case. I'm disappointed.
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Visualize Facebook's IPO prospectus(eng.wealthfront.com)
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by kevinpet 15y ago
I don't see anything wrong with the following scenario: - Hey, what should we do for this page? - What do you think of this 37signals page? - Yeah, that'd be great, throw up something like that, we'll polish it later. However , that's not

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