metageek

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by metageek 16y ago
(a) So, what, those are optics they use to bounce the beam around, so they can get 10km of laser beam on a 5m bench? (b) I can't look at that picture without thinking of Agatha's dingbots from Girl Genius. http://www.girlgeniusonline.co
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by metageek 16y ago
> pretty much pushed conifers out of every niche in the world except mountain slopes Definitely not true; there are plenty of pine trees in Georgia (the one in the US), and not just in the (rather mild) mountains. I will admit that the
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by metageek 16y ago
> You can have a compiler that adds special syntax for doing this To be fair, C's base syntax is obtuse enough to make any extended C compiler gratuitously difficult. It wouldn't take a genius, but it would take an unreasonable amount
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by metageek 16y ago
I taught myself sometime around age 13, because I was playing second flute in a youth orchestra, which meant I had to count out long rests, sometimes over 100 measures. Just counting in my head, I kept getting distracted and losing track
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by metageek 16y ago
> pasting Western ideas. There's a difference between ideas and the expression of those ideas; that's why patent and copyright are separate. What's being complained about here goes beyond copying ideas, into copying expression.
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by metageek 16y ago
A state that incurs high welfare costs when a company fails has an interest in reducing the number of failing companies. One way to do that is to require new companies to have capital, hire qualified employees, etc. (No, I'm not taking a
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by metageek 16y ago
> I believe the way they enforce those conditions is to file a lawsuit Yes, that's what happened. > I suppose it's possible for the court to reject the settlement I know I've heard of it happening.
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by metageek 16y ago
Yes, but the "must match" rule is what I was talking about.
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by metageek 16y ago
It's exactly like Apple's rule for in-app purchases.
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by metageek 16y ago
No. Their policy is completely indefensible. They control what goes on the typosquatted page, but you're responsible for its content? Absurd.
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by metageek 16y ago
And, from the Macrothink paper, it looks like it's not so much "open an inbound connection through the firewall" as "trick the firewall into not scanning the payload". Not relevant for, say, home routers that don't do scanning in the first
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by metageek 16y ago
Like much of this article, it says "I can't form a coherent sentence.". Just change "all but one" to "only one".
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by metageek 16y ago
11) He gets lower salary because he negotiated higher benefits instead. More options, for example.
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by metageek 16y ago
I don't think that logic holds; I can comment on something, or provide a link to it, because I hate it.
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by metageek 16y ago
The product lasted 5 years (though with a name change).
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by metageek 16y ago
(a) The GP of my comment asserted that automatically installing Safari when you install iTunes was monopoly abuse. I think they at least have a point. (b) Apple has about 2/3 of the paid music download market and 3/4 of the MP3 player mark
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by metageek 16y ago
In fact, I'm certain the Mac would've had multiple fonts, because it was based on ( ) the Xerox Star, and the Star had fonts: http://toastytech.com/guis/star2.html ( ) "Based on" might be too strong...or too weak...but we all know the M
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by metageek 16y ago
I don't think "monopoly" requires 100% market share. Apple has over 75% market share, which may be enough to qualify.
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by metageek 16y ago
I groan every time I see someone advocating building data structures out of cons cells. I use Lisp at my day job, and I can tell you that some of the hardest code to maintain is the code that uses lists instead of defstruct. Once you need
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by metageek 16y ago
Seems like this wouldn't be needed for most software startups. Even with the 499 limit, you could raise, say, $100 each from 400 investors, and have $40,000 of runway to get you to the point of looking for angel or VC funding. More comple
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by metageek 16y ago
...just realized I left out the important part: it searches for something within a month after the date you gave it.
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by metageek 16y ago
> while the existing contract goes until 2013 I believe the consent decree was reported to say that ITA has to renew existing contracts until at least 2016. So that's 5 years before Kayak might, theoretically, lose access to QPX. Don
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by metageek 16y ago
http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ does that. You can ask for exact dates, but the default is that you give it a date and the number of nights to stay.
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by metageek 16y ago
I'm pretty sure ATPCO is the only way to get the raw data; people who subscribe to it are not allowed to redistribute it. As for getting processed data, that's called metasearch: scraping other sites' search engines. Kayak started out as p
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by metageek 16y ago
Larry Page, I think.
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by metageek 16y ago
The data is available (not cheaply) from an company called ATPCO, which is owned by the airlines. The airlines publish fares and rules through ATPCO, and ITA, SABRE, and many others fetch the data and run the computations. The computations
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by metageek 16y ago
From the article: > Women in India are sometimes permitted, even encouraged, to “marry up” into a higher income bracket or caste, so richer men find it easier to get a bride.
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by metageek 16y ago
> and two extremely profitable groups (one in the case of Google) Didn't Google announce last year that Android made a billion dollars of profit?
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by metageek 16y ago
> its people knew the competition so intimately that the best product managers could rattle off the birthdays of the CEO's kids. That's not competitive research, that's stalking.
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by metageek 16y ago
> won't go back until they stop coupling app store apps to the App Store app itself. How's that? You mean you can't run the downloaded apps if you uninstall the App Store app?

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