meepmorp

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by meepmorp 15y ago
Did this really warrant downvotes? It's a perfectly reasonable point of view, calmly stated.
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by meepmorp 15y ago
Yeah, this used to cause trouble for me at work. The way my office was lit, moving my hands too far over the (right?) speaker would suddenly change the kb lights and screen brightness. Turned the auto brightness after a couple hours and nev
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by meepmorp 15y ago
That's bullshit. Rejecting submissions from SOPA supporters on a private website just isn't the same as manipulating the machinery of government the way bill supporters have done.
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by meepmorp 15y ago
What about in comparison to a distance we'd be likely to reach before we annihilate ourselves?
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by meepmorp 15y ago
> I'm amazed that offering up a potential general solution that already exists, or suggesting someone measures their response before jumping at headlines, would result in downvotes here. I think it's tone and missing the point. Starting
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by meepmorp 15y ago
> Protip: hovering over the link will display the full URL in the status bar. You should really spend more than a few milliseconds before deciding to get excited about something. You're assuming he's using a device with a mouse. And why
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by meepmorp 15y ago
So, I'll leave off debating the validity of anything you said and remark that that's entirely beside the point. Feel free to argue that our economic system isn't capitalist; it's largely an academic discussion. It's called capitalist, wrong
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by meepmorp 15y ago
Seems like he's lost faith in the unrestrained capitalism preached by the right in America. Seems like he'd welcome a government entity handling the consequences of fracking with an eye towards the environmental and community damage, and so
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by meepmorp 15y ago
Do you need to stop taking money from your folks, or is it a pride issue? That is, can they afford it or not? Honestly, if it's not something where you need to do it to help with the family's well being, I'd strongly consider just continuin
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by meepmorp 15y ago
I read the claims. That's still not an invention.
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by meepmorp 15y ago
Jesus. They really got a patent on abstractly using computers and data to route pedestrians places in scenarios beyond time and distance based routes. This isn't an invention. This is a conversation you have over drinks after work that mayb
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by meepmorp 15y ago
Or they could act as Amazon's showroom, as they are now, and get nothing. What are they gonna do, throw out customers for price shopping? What's Amazon's incentive for this?
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by meepmorp 15y ago
It's been a few years since I've been a regular (Free)BSD user, but I think github has a very different use case. The ports tree is for handling distribution of compilable/installable software for the platform, and you synch it from a serve
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by meepmorp 15y ago
This isn't forcing Santorum to censor his opinions, nor is it even an attempt to do so. It's counter free speech. He's free to say what he pleases, and a lot of people are free to call him a frothy anal sex byproduct. This is exactly how th
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by meepmorp 15y ago
I was thinking of a hypothetical patent on "a method for editing text on a computer in a screen oriented manner." Which is absurd and obviously something that shouldn't be patentable, but in my view, so is 1-click shopping on a website.
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by meepmorp 15y ago
Right, my point was more along the lines of a hypothetical patent on the idea of "an method for editing text on a computer in a text oriented way," and that admitting that you'd seen and borrowed from another program would be a huge mistake
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by meepmorp 15y ago
I think it's fair to point out that a part of computing history might never of happened today, owing to the current legal situation w.r.t. software patents. And owning up to stealing is unthinkable, despite the fact that we all do it. That
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by meepmorp 15y ago
What I find sad about that anecdote is that he fully and freely admits stealing software features from other places to make a more serviceable piece of software, and that doing so now and owning up to it would get you an automatic loss in a
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by meepmorp 15y ago
Thanks for that link. That's chock full of good tips for working in R, and definitely addressed at least a couple things I spent a while debugging.
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by meepmorp 15y ago
Yeah, dunno. I've seen the reviews and so on, but having played with metro on some devices, admittedly just in a store for maybe 10 minutes a few times, I just don't like it. The large text that just kind of runs off the side of the screen,
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by meepmorp 15y ago
Jesus Christ on a crutch, just set up your goddamn editor to replace tabs with spaces and get on with life. People who find this problematic need to find another language or stop focusing on trivia.