krichman

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   by krichman 14y ago

   So it's also fine if they determined that having half as many women would increase their competitiveness?
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   by krichman 14y ago

   It's easier for them to use vi than emacs, because they don't have to use so many paws.
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   by krichman 14y ago

   I think (hope) some people are just so desperate for work they'll suffer indignities like that in order to have it.
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   by krichman 14y ago

   How is privacy a spacious argument?
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   by krichman 14y ago

   I opted-out last year while I was there. I've only ever seen myself choose that.
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   by krichman 14y ago

   Researchers and scientists could have asymmetric keys and peer review in that fashion. The authors could append cryptographic signatures to the article. Then we don't need centralized journals, just a list of academics whose scientific rigo
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   by krichman 14y ago

   It's just a total misfire to take Linux users, many of whom are in the Venn diagram intersection of "computer savvy" and "libre software advocate", and then try to force them to watch advertisements on their own desktop. Even people that do
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   by krichman 14y ago

   I share that view, but I fear we are in the minority. My family, for example, wouldn't have any idea what to do with a pocket UNIX.
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   by krichman 14y ago

   This isn't going to work, the majority of trolls are NPE's and can simply declare bankruptcy. How many defaults on payments are we going to have before lawyers simply refuse to act as defence? I think we should require half of the money spe
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    by krichman 14y ago

    I was very excited about Apple for about a decade now, but this walled garden is really getting to me. I doubt I'll be buying any new Apple hardware in the future, and I'll pivot to developing for the web instead of making apps as soon as I
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    by krichman 14y ago

    Why NC? It's overly restrictive and technically prohibits, say, distributing the papers on a website that has advertising revenue.
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    by krichman 14y ago

    I reject that definition and suggest that it should instead mean, "a pejorative term used for a person or company who enforces one or more patent(s) that do not fullfil the requirement of being non-obvious and inventive against one or more
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    by krichman 14y ago

    I think it's a good question if only for the quality of answer it gained for the rest of us. But it's certainly not what I would expect from a very experienced developer.
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    by krichman 14y ago

    It is the examples of prior art that make it patent trolling.
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    by krichman 14y ago

    I guess I got the wrong impression from your argument. It all depends on what you are trying to accomplish, as you say.
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    by krichman 14y ago

    NoScript also whitelists the websites of its author by default. I have a bittersweet relationship with that plugin.
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    by krichman 14y ago

    Any complaints about NoScript are completely unfounded, (unless they are addressing that stupid update page). Why on Earth would I want you to use full percentage points of my CPU time to shuffle divs around and report back to the server ev
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    by krichman 14y ago

    I get what you are saying, but I feel reducto ad absurdum is unfair here. I understood the parent's point as this; using Sinatra to give yourself the convenience of the {get,post,...} methods for working with HTTP vs. Rails, which forces up
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    by krichman 14y ago

    That's not how I deal with people in my life, that's how I deal with service providers.
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    by krichman 14y ago

    It's not like, "oops, I dropped an egg". It was censorship due to differing opinions -- not okay under any circumstances whatsoever and he really shouldn't be trusted ever again.
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    by krichman 14y ago

    Thanks for the tip, but I'm in no actual danger of clicking a Quora link :) After accidentally reading a few articles from TC, I have acquired the habit of checking the domain of everything before I click through. I'd really like somethin
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    by krichman 14y ago

    This is a step in the right direction, thanks :)
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    by krichman 14y ago

    I'd prefer a plugin to block all links to Quora. I will not support a website that uses tactics to get ranked in Google for content they aren't going to show human browsers.
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    by krichman 14y ago

    When I receive update mails from a company I've bought from, and there was no explicit opt-in checkbox, I usually just mark them as spam and send future mails from that entity to the trash. My box is full enough.
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    by krichman 14y ago

    Try a CAN SPAM lawsuit?
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    by krichman 14y ago

    If only compensation to Google for Oracle's frivolous litigation were substantial instead of negligible.
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    by krichman 14y ago

    We should all do our part by refusing to purchase any UEFI hardware. I also won't be purchasing any new Mac hardware due to their policies. I don't buy music from the major labels and I don't see many movies anymore. I've never paid a journ
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    by krichman 14y ago

    This would work just fine for, say, Louis CK, but how would unknown/new artists earn any money at all?
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    by krichman 14y ago

    It is much better than using browser tabs for an archive - I'd rather not let Google have all my base, though. I'm thinking I'll do a bookmarking solution one of these weekends that syncs to a webserver I own.
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    by krichman 14y ago

    I read this article last week, lost it, and was looking for it yesterday. You just saved me a long hour of guessing at terminology. This seems like a large step in the right direction for exception handling, but I think it still has the pro