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by lusr 14y ago
I don't follow this logic. "I'm certainly disappointed in the pervert's use of the open curtains here, but we need to fix open curtains as a whole." Apple are still responsible for the ethics of their actions, regardless of the legality o
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by lusr 14y ago
I've had my .NET clients talk successfully to .NET back-ends, Java back-ends, and Cobol wrappers with no problems, with security extensions, etc. all enabled. But the key to that was having an active architecture group responsible for ensu
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by lusr 14y ago
I'd like to know too. There are a lot of people here rubbishing SOAP without explaining why. I've consumed, simultaneously with hundreds of other developers from disparate teams, 100s of SOAP services across a number of financial institut
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by lusr 14y ago
In my experience there isn't an issue. It all comes down to how well you design your application. Here's the interface to a service in a fun side project I'm currently working on (comments removed): public interface IAnalysisService
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by lusr 14y ago
I'm a big fan of relational databases. The problem with them is the high upfront cost of developing a new product: maintaining your schemas, updating data types, getting bogged down in data mapping code and worrying about what the most ef
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by lusr 14y ago
DB Level Locking ( https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-4328 ) is a dependency of Collection Level Locking ( https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-1240 ). For a critical, tricky core piece of functionality like this it makes sense to ta
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by lusr 14y ago
It sounds like the patent owner took the case personally, made every other juror there fantasize about owning patents and being screwed over, and greed won their opinions at the end of the day.
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by lusr 14y ago
This seemed like an interesting story so I dug into it a bit more because the notion of a for-profit charity organization was unfamiliar to me. But detailed information seems very scarce. The article states Avon were sued for breach of con
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by lusr 14y ago
Could one then attack their standing as a lawyer, i.e. pursue seeing them disbarred?
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by lusr 14y ago
Some children are quite smart - possibly smarter than some adults will ever be. Most are not as smart as the average adult, however, and some will never be. None of this is really surprising? Whether one is dealing with an adult or chil
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by lusr 14y ago
Are you saying you can't imagine yourself with those fears? That's fair enough. To claim, however, that no 16 year old male could behave that way seems absurd. I myself provide a counterexample; perhaps I am not real to you :) (My soci
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by lusr 14y ago
Completely believable to me and a very astute set of observations. I've been there. I know exactly the difference you describe between justifiable fear (the unknown physical consequences of diving off a board for the first time) vs. the fa
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by lusr 14y ago
1. Seems a bit strange asking that question AFTER you spend the money. Surely you should ask it before you spend the money. 2. Worst case, at the very least you sell your excess capacity as cloud computing resources so your servers aren'
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by lusr 14y ago
Interesting. While I really enjoyed the post, something that stuck out for me was: what if they don't apply your philosophy as you expect? Isn't this how great companies fall down, when the founder's philosophy is lost and replaced by in
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by lusr 14y ago
If you think he meant well, yet you think his comment could be misinterpreted, you could highlight where you think his comment could be misinterpreted and offer a more suitably qualified statement that all parties could agree upon. Both mek
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by lusr 14y ago
I don't know him, but reading this story it doesn't sound like he learned anything. Sounds like this sort of behaviour is him. I'm jealous - it took me years just to get to the point where I realised I'd been taking "no" as an (unnece
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by lusr 14y ago
You know you actually did have a very good point and I even agree entirely with it. But the anger and aggression in your writing is such a huge turn-off that it was difficult to fairly consider what you said, and that was the gist of my fa
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by lusr 14y ago
My profile links to my Flickr account, which has my real name. I don't currently maintain a blog or anything more meaningful to link to. I use this nickname throughout the net. You can email me at <pick anything>@lusr.org. I'm no
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by lusr 14y ago
Your post is endemic of something I see a lot of on the Internet. You hide behind an account you just made, aggressively, lengthily and rudely responding to somebody who actually desired to contribute to the discussion without contributing
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by lusr 14y ago
Incredibly deceptive title. It's a UX review. What did you expect Samsung to do, sit around and wait for customers to complain or be proactive in ensuring a high quality UX? What exactly is wrong with using the market leader to establish
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by lusr 14y ago
What did you expect them to do? Go home and go to sleep and come back in the morning to check the logs? Come on. They'd hardly close their eyes for a second with all the excitement. They're all there monitoring the various systems becaus
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by lusr 14y ago
Well that's disappointing, CloudFront: ERROR The request could not be satisfied. Generated Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:59:11 GMT by cloudfront (CloudFront)
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by lusr 14y ago
Their mobile iOS application is absolutely the worst application I have ever used on iOS. It just doesn't work far too often (it took 2 months for notifications to randomly start working on my new iPhone 4S, but activating them can't load t
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by lusr 14y ago
My ex-girlfriend used a second Facebook profile to earn rewards in the *ville games (or something, I have no idea how those games work). Truly fake secondary accounts like that are probably quite common given the popularity of those games.
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by lusr 14y ago
I have some utility for image processing algorithms but I am no expert in the field, nor do I have any desire to become one - I just have some ideas I want to implement. The idea that I can write my algorithms in this language and target th
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by lusr 14y ago
I left my first employer after 2.5 years because I didn't like their direction and I didn't like what they were paying me. Everybody there knew I speak my mind - loudly. And I spoke my mind at my exit interview - in a constructive way, sure
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by lusr 14y ago
I have no problem with the word "we". I have concerns with where people draw the line between "we" and "them". I find nothing weasel-like with stating "Soviet engineers created the F-1 nuclear reactor in...". It's perfectly accurate. Say
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by lusr 14y ago
Polygraphs measure your ability to clench your rectum (www.youtube.com/watch?v=bScv6kfxRyE).
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You may want to read Oliver Sacks' "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" and "The Minds' Eye".
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It just feels odd - to me - to use the word "we". And psychologically, I'm sure it has an impact. I've noticed people will say "we won!" (when they mean the team they supported won), yet it is "they lost!" (when they mean the team they su

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