mbateman

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by mbateman 14y ago
If you bought one of the updated models from June 2012, don't forget you can get the upgrade for free: http://www.apple.com/osx/uptodate/
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by mbateman 14y ago
Yeah, I was. Since I'm getting quite a few down votes I'll just add that I felt the sarcasm was warranted because I don't understand why this question even needs to be asked. What would ever make someone think that they had some sort of eth
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by mbateman 14y ago
Of course it is unethical. Regardless of anything your contract might state and regardless of your other options, if your employer needs you, you are bound by duty to stay. You have an ethical obligation to make things as easy as possible f
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by mbateman 14y ago
Is this really that big a deal? Not all administrative details should be a matter of public debate. I hope this thread gets killed too.
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The Web Is a Customer Service Medium(ftrain.com)
2 points by mbateman 14y ago|0 comments
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Franklin & Marshall: An Enlightened Approach to Trademark(espn.go.com)
1 points by mbateman 14y ago|0 comments
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by mbateman 14y ago
I do remember MS of the mid 90s and it's aura of invincibility, but in retrospect it sure looks like that aura was illusory (or highly temporary, which is really the same thing). Even apart from the antitrust suits it seems clear in hindsig
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by mbateman 15y ago
A more positive way to see this is that Apple has become so profitable that they can continue funneling huge amounts of cash into everything that they want, and still have lots left over. But I agree with your sentiment. It's a bit sad that
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by mbateman 15y ago
Are those really commonplaces? Because they are both false. Having good ideas is equally important for speaking and writing well. And you can be snowed in multiple media. Your #1, at least, applies to both speaking and writing. In fact I'd
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by mbateman 15y ago
> There is no criticism of Posterous or anybody else intended by the post, and I apologise if it comes across that way. > I did, however, try to make a point that I would never move my business onto a free or pre-revenue site. That
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by mbateman 15y ago
I'm not sure about that. PG leans a lot on whether or not the new law "warps society", which could comport with a natural law view, but is more naturally interpreted as something more empiricist or pragmatic. --- EDIT (in response to parent
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by mbateman 15y ago
I also looked this up, and found the original paper that coined the term, which starts: > The "Wolf Fence" method of debugging time-sharing programs in higher languages evolved from the "Lions in South Africa" method that I have taught
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by mbateman 15y ago
Dell's supply chain is very impressive, but so is Apple's. And user experience is "nothing a couple of expensive consultants can't fix"? Really?
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by mbateman 15y ago
Or situations in which the data wouldn't incriminate the owner of the data but rather someone else, etc.
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by mbateman 15y ago
Okay, counter-anecdote. I grew up in Chattanooga. Those neighborhoods range between fine and quite nice. Most people in Chattanooga live in the burbs, so I feel like there may be skewed perspectives as to what counts as a nice place to live
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by mbateman 15y ago
We definitely do not live in a fascist police state. However, there are elements of the cultural and political scene that can be accurately described as fascist. To put it another way, it's certainly true that it is still possible to live a
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by mbateman 15y ago
Doesn't everyone use XQuartz anyway?
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by mbateman 15y ago
I think you may be missing tptacek's point. Things like code signing make it harder for bad things to run without the user's permission.
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by mbateman 15y ago
Is Gmail for Business any different privacy-wise than free Gmail? (The free part is less important to me.)
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by mbateman 15y ago
original story: http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/web/2012/02/Battery-Desalinat... actual paper if you have access: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl203889e
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by mbateman 15y ago
People are just holding Google to their own standards and terms. If the standards and terms are strange or otherwise inapt, that's on Google.
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The "I" in Union(dissentmagazine.org)
1 points by mbateman 15y ago|0 comments
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by mbateman 15y ago
1) I registered most of my domain names 5 or 6 ago and haven't bothered switching. I never had a problem with them personally and so I continued to use them. (I use them as a registrar, not as a host.) 2) I am not the most avid follower of
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by mbateman 15y ago
I got my domains on GoDaddy because it's cheap, easy, and didn't seem important enough to invest time into. I'll be moving them off GoDaddy now. Even if small boycotts didn't accomplish anything (which I don't believe), I would move my doma
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by mbateman 15y ago
"we need" does not imply "I personally have an obligation to provide with my own career decisions"
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by mbateman 15y ago
Well, they are contraries as you present it, and they aren't mutually exclusive only insofar as someone is being inconsistent. "Pragmatic" usually means someone who doesn't act on principle, who is willing to be inconsistent to satisfy his
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by mbateman 15y ago
Steve Jobs was definitely not a pragmatist. He believed there is a moral dimension to his work and products.
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Is Innovation Valuable?(asymco.com)
2 points by mbateman 15y ago|0 comments
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by mbateman 15y ago
A novel proof involves making novel connections, rigorously showing how different parts of mathematics can be made to work together in ways that haven't been thought of. When you look at it that way it's not hard to imagine the value in sol
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by mbateman 15y ago
Their marketing is definitely hyperbolic. Even in terms of Apple's own services. The supposed data syncing in iWork actually doesn't work on the Mac versions. It only works between iOS devices. So if I edit a paper on my Mac, and I want to

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