kevinpet

95 ms·

901.
by kevinpet 17y ago
That's assuming people need to keep things running at all times, whatever the cost. This is for those people who want to do their calculations only when CPU is cheap.
902.
by kevinpet 17y ago
Microsoft could have quite legitimately just yanked the app until they could rewrite it without the GPL code. The contractor would be toast (probably had an indemnification clause), MS wouldn't have been on the hook for that much even if th
903.
by kevinpet 17y ago
This doesn't appear fraudulent in any legal sense. DMCA: recipient pretty much must act under the assumption it's legitimate, legal action can be taken against someone who files one fraudulently. This case: Apple is free to apply common sen
904.
by kevinpet 17y ago
If I said that recovering from cancer does not act according to classical physics, or even according to conventional quantum mechanics, you would consider me a delusional wacko with nothing useful to contribute to the conversation. Given th
905.
by kevinpet 17y ago
The title is correct, the article confused and somewhat pointless. NoSQL is about the systems, not the query language, but it's not about RDBMS minus atomicity and consistency, it's about saying "this not SQL, don't compare it to RDBMS th
906.
by kevinpet 17y ago
We're using Zuora, but I can't say much about it as accounts and billing isn't my area. As I understand it, it's well suited to people who expect to be doing complicated things, and also people who want to ensure that they keep up a profess
907.
by kevinpet 17y ago
Failure to extract is remedied by the chrome plated chamber in the A2 and later variants (i.e. everything but the early vietnam war variants). I have seen it once on the range (not my rifle, nor the Marine I was coaching), but I've never se
908.
by kevinpet 17y ago
A restaurant who takes reservations is entering into an agreement: you promise that you will eat a meal there at a certain time, and they promise that they will have a table ready for you at that time. If the restaurant is all booked up, th
909.
by kevinpet 17y ago
If the providers advertised this fact more, they could pocket a little bit more profit by selling the phone with a payment plan. This would reduce the service part of the monthly bill and so reduce the utility taxes for those who live in a
910.
by kevinpet 17y ago
Exactly what I came in here to say. If I said I got free housing, you'd be quite disappointed to learn that by "free" I meant that I owned a home and hence don't pay rent.
911.
by kevinpet 17y ago
Those are excuses good programmers make, or at least decent programmers. Bad programmers make excuses like: - Copy and paste got it working. - I'll worry about error handling after I get it working.
912.
by kevinpet 17y ago
I can't help but think that providing and advertising a specific service targeting only a handful of cities is going to give a good handle to all those state revenue boards trying to say they have a nexus within their jurisdiction for purpo
913.
by kevinpet 17y ago
You say that you approve of RSA because if someone is using it, its inevitable that they learned of it from RSA. I don't think you'd have to go that far to say what's worth patenting. I think that's the purpose of patents -- to make people
914.
by kevinpet 17y ago
I think it's interesting that everyone is assuming it's a bad software patent. Here's the chain of reasoning I see again and again, and I don't buy it: 1. Some software patents are vague, overbroad, or not novel. 2. This is a software paten
915.
by kevinpet 17y ago
What we need is a "keep for 30 days" button, rather than "archive". Sometimes I mean keep forever, but more often my reaction to mail is that I don't expect to need it, and if I don't need it in the next month, I definitely don't need it, b
916.
by kevinpet 17y ago
I also have a D630 for work. When I am working at home and open up the downstairs HP to refer to something on a separate screen, I'm always struck by the massive difference in build quality. The HP Pavillion dv6100 feels like it's going to
917.
by kevinpet 17y ago
It seems to me that if there were one data source I would expect to not be consistent with Benford's law it would be polling data. Benford's law is usually seen in numbers that follow some skewed distribution. Polling data groups around m
918.
by kevinpet 17y ago
Someone out there needs to create a recruiter rating site. Whether I'm looking for a job or hiring, I need to know whether this jerk is actually providing good matches, or if he's just shopping around the resumes of the most desperate. My p
919.
by kevinpet 17y ago
I suspect a lot of this is due to California's employee-friendly laws that prevent non-compete agreements and prevent "we own every thought you have" intellectual property assignments. As a libertarian I naturally lean towards freedom of co
920.
by kevinpet 17y ago
The modern form of indentured servitude seems to be mostly involving illegal immigrants or guest worker type programs that tie a worker to a specific employer. I could be wrong, I'd appreciate any references for a legal immigration system a
921.
by kevinpet 17y ago
Better option would simply be the "write us a big fat check" visa. Presumably, the only people who would be willing to pay, say, $50,000 over the course of five years would be those who can make enough to make it worthwhile. It would also g
922.
by kevinpet 17y ago
Java the language will soon be replacing COBOL as the boring legacy language of choice. Java the virtual machine is alive and well and I suspect will have a long life.
923.
by kevinpet 17y ago
That would turn out just like internet polls showing Ron Paul winning in a landslide and security blog polls showing most people memorize a unique 14 character alpha-numeric password for every site they visit. This is the right way to anony
924.
by kevinpet 17y ago
The fact that qualia are an inherently internal experience means that there can be no way to communicate them to anyone else. We are willing to accept that the other minds problem isn't a problem because we believe they are similar to us. T
925.
by kevinpet 17y ago
If we assume that humans are conscious, then yes, it is possible for a machine to be conscious. The only arguments categorically differentiating humans from electronic machines are religious in nature. I define consciousness as having an in
926.
by kevinpet 17y ago
College costs rise, "even" in a recession? I recommend taking a look at this chart over a one year period: http://www.google.com/finance?catid=us-63372821 Education fell less than the market as a whole starting in August, then shot upward
927.
by kevinpet 17y ago
There's no need to ban them. Because of what the goals are and how every sport works out, the relevant categories are "female" and "not female". The point of the article is that the sporting bodies need to come up with clear well defined ru
928.
by kevinpet 17y ago
Precisely -- his opinion about netflix is based off misusing it. If he provided reasonable ratings, only ordered the types of movies he wants to watch, and then said "it isn't working because my moods change", then I'd pay a little more att
929.
by kevinpet 17y ago
The motorcycle throttle is more comfortable for extended periods. Jet skis and snowmobiles are generally recreational vehicles, so not held at a constant speed for a long time.
930.
by kevinpet 17y ago
It's accurate that what we have is not insurance. Real health insurance would look more like life insurance, with fixed premiums that can't increase if your health degrades over time. My car insurance doesn't cover an oil change. Nor would

More ›