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by luser001 14y ago
You keep repeating the same thing (politicians are the the causing entities, corps. are the reacting entities) even in response to a challenge to rethink that assumption. That doesn't mean it's true. One can reasonably disagree with your si
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by luser001 14y ago
What you generically call "government meddling", I call (more precisely, imho) "corporation-funded, lobbyist-enabled legislative corruption".
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by luser001 14y ago
Also car manufacturers can't sell directly to consumers.
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by luser001 14y ago
Agreed about high dropbox pricing. But it isn't too bad imho. There are three inter-related concepts: backup (mirror of your hdd), archiving (extension of your hdd), sync (subset of files on multiple devices) and sharing. But if you're ok w
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by luser001 14y ago
This works for me whenever I'm blocked: http://euri.ca/2011/03/get-around-new-york-times-20-article-...
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by luser001 14y ago
care to elaborate? i have a core 2 quad, which i find more that enough even for some of my "serious" programming work.
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by luser001 14y ago
Hmm, it isn't clear if you're not-so-subtly putting him down. I find such clear writing to be refreshing. Not a whole lot of people saying these things. I, for one, found the line about "no enemies at all" to ring too true.
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by luser001 15y ago
Making a Wine version instead of the real thing was also lame. I would have guessed that at least a few Googlers would be using Linux on their primary computers.
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by luser001 15y ago
Maybe people notice that techcrunch articles get upvoted. Hence they submit TC articles (to get karma. humans love to have more than their fellow of anything: green beans, salt rocks, pieces of paper etc). This can be addressed in two ways:
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by luser001 15y ago
Interesting project. As an aside, Tcl has had the ability to create sandboxed sub-interpreters whose calls can be intercepted for a long time now. http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/interp.htm Note that this is different from Python's Pr
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by luser001 15y ago
Unless I'm mistaken 'do_something_else()' won't get executed if toggleClass() returns a value that evaluates to true. Because of short-circuit boolean evaluation.
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by luser001 15y ago
Yes, SVN can handle renames. And maintain history across renames. Btw, SVN supports partial checkouts (git doesn't). Which I use regularly on a gigabyte repo. I use git regularly for all my hobby projects (mainly because 'git init' seems wa
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by luser001 15y ago
Linkbait title. TLDR: Wikipedia needs more images, videos etc. In a bid to rile up emotion he compares wikipedia unfavourably to an ancient version of encarta. AFAIK: there are no technical restrictions on adding videos and images to the pa
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by luser001 15y ago
Hmm, while what you say may be technically true, it makes it appear as if Comcast would have incurred an expense which they wanted to recoup. IIRC, Level 3 wanted to simply push more traffic through their existing peering ports. Would that
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by luser001 15y ago
> and Level 3 demand $1 from Comcast What? The closest I've heard is that Level 3 wants Comcast to charge $0 under their pre-existing peering agreement. Comcast claimed Netflix's traffic isn't covered by the agreement and asked for extr
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by luser001 15y ago
If you didn't know about it, you might want to look at asciidoc: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ (search for slidy)
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by luser001 15y ago
Apple's action, if true, are a huge step backward, imho. Pissing in the village pond and all that. The article says Comcast will be first ISP to provide IPv6 to residential customers. But my AT&T DSL modem gets an IPv6 address from AT&#
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by luser001 15y ago
> Isn't "post-factum civil litigation" an even better mechanism for enforcement? No. The future shareholders of the offending company are the ones who pay. Thanks to corporate liability shields, the offending officers will get away. A
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by luser001 15y ago
Seems like the university is deciding to focus on Electrical and Computer Engineering and deemphasize Computer Science. Core competence and all that. It even has an odd name like CISE (Computer and Information Science and Engineering). htt
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by luser001 15y ago
All languages have their idiosyncrasies. You can pick out some obscure aspect of any language and say $LANG sucks. Btw, PHP's behavior doesn't totally make sense to me either. But I'm willing to assume that its users and designers have thou
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by luser001 15y ago
Good points. I read upthread that it's class project. Let's see what happens. It will be fascinating. I, for one, expect good things from this. (I signed up).
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by luser001 15y ago
You can do this using Facebook's Lists. Can you not? People seem to be using it. I'm seeing more and more posts from my friends shared with "custom" lists. I myself use that feature (esp. the built-in "Close Friends" list) often. That doesn
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by luser001 15y ago
Acutally, a sysadmin can do exactly what you say he cannot. 1. Wait for a server hdd to crash, and tell people that they suffered no interruptions because he had the foresight to do disk mirroring on the servers. 2. Wait for somebody to do
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by luser001 15y ago
I would run a 32-bit OS (even if the hardware supported 64-bit) if I wanted to squeeze every last bit of usable memory out of a VPS.
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by luser001 15y ago
False analogy. "weather forecasting" involves fine-resolution (in both space and time) predictions. This is known to be difficult to do reliably ("butterfly effect"). This is more akin to climate analysis: low-resolution in space (continent
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by luser001 15y ago
I call bs. Everything I've seen about the link structure of the Internet indicates that this is false.
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by luser001 15y ago
Interesting language. Doesn't require JVM to run. I consider that a plus. But others might not.
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by luser001 15y ago
First world problems. :) PS: This is only as off-topic as your reply.
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by luser001 15y ago
Maybe I read the article wrong, but my spidey sense went off when reading the article. They're comparing the maximum_complaints_per_month quantity before and after switch. i.e., the peak value of complaints_per_month. Not average or annual.
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by luser001 15y ago
> I recently researched the thorny issue of what consititutes art, and the leading idea in that field is a cluster theory: a set of ten ideas which commonly associated with things accepted as art. Fascinating. Can you post some links ab

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