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by metageek 16y ago
Right, but the employee is not on equal ground with the two CEOs.
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by metageek 16y ago
No, a court already called BS, and Obama gave up on arguing the point.
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by metageek 16y ago
The difference is that he's not failing to enforce federal law; he's failing to contest the judiciary's finding that DOMA is unconstitutional. If the court is right, then it's not a law, and he has no obligation to enforce it.
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by metageek 16y ago
Only if what you're breaking prevents copyright violations. Does jailbreaking an iPhone let you copy DRMed content on the phone?
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Obama admin will no longer defend anti-gay-marriage act in court(firstread.msnbc.msn.com)
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> In Washington, D.C., 15 to 20 percent of congestion downtown is the result of "people circling the block looking for a parking space," says DDT acting associate director Soumya Dey. Or, to put it another way, if you have to drive in
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by metageek 16y ago
> If amazon were to release books in a DRM free epub format Note that ibooks doesn't even give the author the option of publishing their ePub without DRM.
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That's a reasonable moral position, but in this case the outcome is immoral: preventing an employee from changing jobs because the CEO values his friendship with some other CEO.
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> I tend to value my friends and my own moral code much more than I value the moral code of lawmakers. We're talking about a law made to protect employees. I don't want to work for a CEO who values his friends over his employees' lega
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To me, that sounds like threatening the candidate to get him to waive his legal rights. I don't like the idea of working for a CEO who would do that.
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> It is important to note that just about all of these kinds of policies violate the Right to Work laws in California. So, what, it's OK to break the laws that protect employees if you're doing it to help a friend?
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by metageek 16y ago
Read it again. That's an exception for the "no secret recording rule"; it's not an extra requirement.
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In July of last year Google announced that Android had made them over a billion dollars in Q2.
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If you tell them you're doing it, it's not secret.
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> That's why many big tech companies have moved to a "level" system Although you have to do it right. Netscape had such a system, with levels ranging from T1 to T7. I started at T4. Two years later, I was doing work that, according
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by metageek 16y ago
Speculation: maybe the proxy server blocked it because the domain name includes the word "hire", and the company is trying to keep people from finding a new place to work.
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That's the law in Massachusetts, but the cops don't believe it.
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by metageek 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that, if UberTwitter is a violation, so is UberTwiter. The standard isn't "is spelled the same"; it's "is likely to confuse the customer".
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236746
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by metageek 16y ago
I bet they print them on cheap paper, and try to upsell you to better quality stuff. Still a good deed, though.
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by metageek 16y ago
Yeah, but then Spotify users wouldn't find Spatify in the app store.
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by metageek 16y ago
> How is that even remotely a good analogy? Because the GPL binds you to preserve the freedom of your users, too; BSD says "do what thou wilt". Both ways have their advantages.
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This is none of our damn business.
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by metageek 16y ago
I would bet that an extraordinary doctor can indeed touch millions. The best doctors reform the practices at their hospitals, improve the standard of care, and get brought in to do the same at other hospitals.
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by metageek 16y ago
GPL and BSD are both mechanisms to promote freedom. One is the freedom of a bill of rights, the other is the freedom of anarchy.
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by metageek 16y ago
> I was in charge of one application on the official Nokia 770 firmware. Ooh, which one? I had a 770 (sold it and bought an N810, which I still use). > Its browsers on different phones really do not work as I wished, they crash qui
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by metageek 16y ago
The original article pointed out that the mobile app doesn't represent all the value the customer gets from the service, then hypothesized that it represents about 30% of it; so 30% of the subscription revenue represents 100% of all the mo
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by metageek 16y ago
>> In April, the Obama administration moved to dismiss Jewel, claiming that litigation over the wiretapping program would require the government to disclose privileged "state secrets,” and that they were immune from suit. Hardly s
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by metageek 16y ago
Where are you? In the Boston area, I've never had the kind of trouble with AT&T people talk about in NYC and SF.
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I have the impression that translating the Python is easy (it was for the one project I did), but the C bindings are more of a pain.

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