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by kvb 13y ago
To me the presence or absence of court orders is absolutely a substantive distinction, as is the question of whether information is requested for only a limited subset of customers or for all (or a significant fraction of) customers.
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by kvb 13y ago
That's not my reading - the previous two sentences discuss their compulsory responses to legally binding orders and subpoenas, and claim that such responses only ever relate to specific accounts.
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by kvb 13y ago
So you'd be more likely to believe them if they were verbose? Most of them are fairly direct denials. That's not to say that they're necessarily true, but they don't seem like especially weasely statements.
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by kvb 13y ago
Are they required to deny it, or just not to divulge it?
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by kvb 13y ago
And this one http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jun13/06-06st... ?
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by kvb 13y ago
The payments are of a fixed amount ($1K, spread over 1-2 years), so recipients know that they won't continue to receive money indefinitely. It probably also helps that a significant fraction of the money appears to be spent on durable home
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by kvb 13y ago
We should, of course, incentivize people to work hard, and I'm certainly not against enjoying life! I'm also not suggesting that people take vows of poverty, or try to move society towards a Harrison Bergeron-esque dystopia. Like I said,
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by kvb 13y ago
Please read up on this particular charity. Because of the way they target the aid, they seem to be largely free of the ill effects you imagine.
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by kvb 13y ago
Why ought moral credit go to those who make the most, regardless of the opportunities that they're given? Americans and Western Europeans, on average, start from an advantageous position compared to those in poor regions. As a side note, i
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by kvb 13y ago
It's great to see GiveDirectly getting more attention. From my limited interactions with Paul Niehaus, he seemed quite competent and rightly focused on ensuring that the system remains free from corruption.
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by kvb 13y ago
Did you read the paper? They cited a case where crimping occurred in printers even though IBM and HP were competing. Also, ARM and AMD are producing chips, even if they don't target the same subset of the market. Regardless, the point is
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by kvb 13y ago
This is known in the economics literature as product crimping. Perhaps surprisingly, this can make everyone better off (not only Intel but also the purchasers of both the crimped and uncrimped goods). See "Damaged Goods", by Deneckere and
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by kvb 13y ago
Note that the blog author is part of the Team Foundation Server organization, so it's natural that he's talking about those features and not the programming language and runtime features.
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by kvb 13y ago
The word "operator" need not imply "a built-in construct"; instead it's often used to describe a name made up of symbols, which is how it appears to be used here. In F#, for instance, where |> is used frequently because it improves typ
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by kvb 13y ago
I don't think Apple or Google is doing anything nearly as complex as Windows 8, once you factor in the number of hardware partners and the constraints on backwards compatibility.
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by kvb 13y ago
But are there software companies that consistently deliver projects of the scale and complexity of Windows without hiccups?
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by kvb 13y ago
I don't see how you make the jump from "Is there even a decent IDE for Go?" to "If you want a language which requires an IDE ...". For many people IDEs make the experience of programming more pleasant, even if the language is perfectly u
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by kvb 13y ago
But desktops really are disappearing, and this will only accelerate if BYOD initiatives succeed. Microsoft is in a tough spot - they could have made less drastic changes to Windows 8 to placate existing desktop users, but that's the path t
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by kvb 13y ago
Refactoring is not reformatting, nor are text replacement systems comparable. Refactoring allows you to keep program behavior the same while safely making structural changes to your code. Renaming is one simple example of this (where true
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by kvb 13y ago
Well, it seems like Microsoft is betting that touch is an inevitable feature of most computing devices in the near future (which seems like a good bet to me, even if it might be a year or so early). The desktop market is disappearing in fa
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by kvb 13y ago
Whatever you may think of their patents or their strategy, is it fair to call Nokia a troll? Are they not actually manufacturing products which implement the patents?
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by kvb 13y ago
I'd argue that music and other forms of entertainment clearly improve the human condition. And if computers have surpassed humans in the production of music, can you point me to some of the great computer-generated compositions? I'm not a
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by kvb 13y ago
Are defense attorneys dumb for taking on the cases of guilty defendants? Having a specific mission is often helpful, and doesn't preclude having other systems to provide an appropriate balance.
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by kvb 13y ago
Well, presumably they're more interested in efficiently implementing their algorithms than in using other MSR technologies for their own sake, but you've got a point. See http://fsharp.org/testimonials/ for lots of other companies using
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by kvb 13y ago
Please feel free to counter Aaronson's assertions.
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by kvb 13y ago
Even on the PS4 indies need to be invited to publish, though, right?
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by kvb 13y ago
No, in Dart it's not like that at all - almost the opposite. Type annotations have absolutely no effect at runtime. As the Dart documentation[1] says, "Adding types will not prevent your program from compiling and running—even if your ann
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by kvb 13y ago
As long as you're adding a type system (optional or not) it does seem a bit odd to opt for an unsound one...
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by kvb 13y ago
It's almost worth it just to get rid of Verizon's guide...
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by kvb 13y ago
Or maybe the client forwards the URL to a Microsoft service which accesses it.

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