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by mcherm 9y ago
I completely disagree with the title. The fact that "telephony" can be an app on the phone is a WONDERFUL thing. It means that the author of this article has a choice, as opposed to NOT having a choice.
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by mcherm 9y ago
Ah. Thanks.
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by mcherm 9y ago
> underscore character is reserved. A variable can no longer be named only '_' Huh.... I wonder why that is?
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by mcherm 9y ago
> Many national American banks are toxically opposed to actual modernization, for a variety of reasons. That is true of many, but not of all. I work for a US bank of national scope that IS working hard to achieve actual modernization.
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by mcherm 9y ago
Because the fund manager's downside is capped at 0. Bankruptcy heals many ills. Also because of the survivor effect: if 3 hedge funds do poorly and one does incredibly well, guess which fund manager gets interviewed on the news. And do
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by mcherm 9y ago
Don't bet on that.
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by mcherm 9y ago
I disagree. It won't really harm the prosecutors and police. They'll still be able to bring the full force of the law against anyone who violates an actual subpoena. In fact, it allows them to successfully prosecute a few more peo
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by mcherm 9y ago
The case has gotten substantial national attention. Which, it turns out, is enough to get the prosecutors to change their practice, but not enough to get them to apologise, and CERTAINLY not enough to burst the veil of prosecutorial imm
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by mcherm 9y ago
Perhaps it has to do with the parts of life OUTSIDE of work. Family connections "back" where you used to live. Other friends and connections "back" in your hometown.
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by mcherm 10y ago
One of my big concerns is whether the algorithms are institutionalizing racism, with legal decisions that make it impossible to challenge these. After all, the algorithm has been trained on information about recidivism that was collected in
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by mcherm 10y ago
But you are overlooking the fundamental underlying problem. You didn't mention whether the "easy to file" tax system would be an advantage to Democrats or Republicans. Without knowing that, it is impossible to assess any piec
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by mcherm 10y ago
> Set of non-kings is not ill-defined, not in the same way as set of numbers non-describable by any formal system is. Um... roughly the same. Is Robert Mugabe a king? Since we didn't give a clear and precise definition of "king
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by mcherm 10y ago
Consider the set of all real numbers which you can actually specify IN ANY FASHION AT ALL, so that the person writing a paper about it and the person reading the paper are talking about the same number. This includes easy ones like "3&
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by mcherm 10y ago
> a trick that I learned is to answer that it's in your employee confidentiality agreement not to discuss the terms of your employment. Except that this is a lie. In the US, it is ILLEGAL to have an employee agreement that states th
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by mcherm 10y ago
And yet we do that! How fast is that CPU? You'll hear people quoting clock speed. You'll hear people quoting FPOS (floating point operations per second -- at least we USED to quote that). Both of which are single tasks. It's
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by mcherm 10y ago
Simplifying the tax code is a great idea. But it is DIFFERENT than allowing the IRS to pre-fill tax forms for people. Many people (although, due to our current complex tax code, not everyone) would be able to use these pre-filled forms and
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by mcherm 10y ago
Remember to consider both sides in your analysis. It is absolutely true that longer patents would help some small businesses. But it is ALSO true that longer patents would HARM some small businesses. After all, large businesses own most of
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by mcherm 10y ago
> When you have an incident, especially something that hurts your customers Beyond just a service outage, you come clean, fast, and as completely transparent as possible. Isn't that precisely what they are doing here? This looks to
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by mcherm 10y ago
> But one thing I am convinced of is that whatever newbies may find inscrutable is entirely irrelevant unless you plan to cut costs by having interns write all your code for free before replacing them. I completely agree. My standard in
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by mcherm 10y ago
> Perhaps Mozilla could [...] stop rendering US government websites or perhaps a random list of websites related to Trump or his supporters. The STRONG commitment on the part of Mozilla to NEVER engage in such tactics is one of the reaso
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by mcherm 10y ago
The ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) requires that businesses take appropriate steps to make services available to those with disabilities. They can be sued by private citizens who attempt to utilize their services but are unable. So y
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by mcherm 10y ago
If you're looking for a single, extremely practical thing, I read the book "Design Patterns" by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides. The patterns in the book were somewhat helpful, but starting to think in terms of patterns r
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by mcherm 10y ago
Notice that the attack I described does not require actually merging in the patch, it only requires that news stories be written about how there might be such a vulnerability.
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by mcherm 10y ago
I am NOT implying that it might not be hypothetical. I have absolutely no reason to believe that anything like this has been attempted. I'm just trying to point out that for many out there, $100K is chump change.
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by mcherm 10y ago
Fascinating! Do you know of any source that documents the claim that Robert Allen made this statement?
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by mcherm 10y ago
The difference between an acquisition cost per customer but making money on each transaction and losing money on each transaction is that the first can be a viable business if you can retain customers long enough while the second will alway
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by mcherm 10y ago
Would you be willing to pay that amount for an open source project without the official backing of Mozilla? Because I was under the impression that the source code to Thunderbird was, in fact, available under an open source license.
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by mcherm 10y ago
> Why would anybody invest 110K into a collision? What is the practical use of it? Suppose you are on the verge of completing a major sale to some large, nervous purchaser -- perhaps a major world military. This is a decent-sized but not
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by mcherm 10y ago
Wow, that "article" was terrible.
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by mcherm 10y ago
It is unlikely that there are many people out there who are desperately seeking another email client, particularly one that is "very shit". If you start offering email services to the general public you will VERY quickly find your

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