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by nathanstitt 14y ago
I agree it's not a legal issue. The law is pretty firmly on his side, as it should be. I believe that things of this nature are too fuzzy to be encoded in law, it's more of a "I know it when I see it" type of thing that reasonable people
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
Because he's not using it primarily for his computer company any longer. Instead he's running ads for insurance and talking about the lawsuit. I'm not saying he's a bad guy. Instead, I believe that the domain would serve a better purpose
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
I disagree & believe it does. Where is he advertising the business on that web site? I see it mentioned in the header but that's not even a link. Instead he's running adds for insurance on it. In my mind it comes down to what visitors
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
Not always, and not quickly. See http://nissan.com/ for an example that's been dragging on for around 10 years or so. He's not squatting on nissan.com per se, but in my opinion is fairly close to it. It's a David vs. Goliath situation
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
Oh that takes me back! I remember peeking & poking for hours to various memory locations on my old 64 just to see what would happen. Later I wrote a good bit of assembly for demo programs (which frankly sucked). I particularly loved t
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
As much as I'd love to see this happen, there's no way it's going to. Linux has what, maybe a 1-2% desktop market share? Can you even begin to image the support costs Microsoft would have to endure to make this happen? Assuming the article
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
You now, I'm really not sure where I picked that up. It's always been my understanding that it was acceptable to change the short flags on a utility as part of a new major version. Not that you should change 'em capriciously, but that it
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
Yes, I'm not looking forward to the wiring/soldering job that's for sure. An affordable switching driver is what I was missing, but have just found one. Thought I'd better circle back here and drop a link in case anyone else has a simula
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
A secondary benefit not mentioned in the article is immutability. Long flags on a command line utility should never change. Short flags may be modified between major versions of a utility, which would break scripts. Of course this is jus
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
I didn't get that from the article. What I heard was the guy was amazed that someone took the time to attempt to better his code and (in his opinion) made it much better. I agree with that a large extent - that's something that always amaz
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
I agree. Lets say that somehow FB overcomes the hurdles you've outlined. What do they gain? What additional capabilities would having a platform they own give them over what they can achieve on ios and adroid? Not to mention that the I'
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that the Buck Puck is just a single series driver that provides a fixed current. I want to be able to wire up around 100 leds to a board and then connect the board to serial and/or USB and
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
I image it's similar to the technology they use for those annoying huge LED billboards. I've investigated the driver boards used on those, but they are several thousand dollars.
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
Yes, I'm aware of the strips and have played with the ones from sparkfun. Those are really cool but I want to individually wire and control tiny led's onto a device. Picture a christmas tree that you could do effects on using the lights.
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
Does any hardware hackers out there have a source for the large scale switching boards that are at least semi-affordable? I'd like to tinker with switching on/off few hundred leds at a time but haven't found a source for a board yet. Bonus
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
A huge thank you to Alan for all his work over the years. Like quite a few others who ran linux back in the old 2.2/2.4 days, the -ac kernels where the place to be. I'm reminded of the Derek Silvers article ( http://sivers.org/ff ) on th
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
Additionally, I'll bet that none of them have experienced the special horror of maintaining a traditional merchant account and dealing with that kind of inflexibility. That's not even bringing PCI compliance issues into it. Believe me the
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
Hey, I like that thought. I can see where that would be an evolutionary benefit as it would provide a ready made "There's always someone bigger" scapegoat. Your idea could also partially explain why quite a few religions have a huge probl
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
This is something that I've struggled with my entire life - how to be honest with myself about what my shortcomings are and how to overcome them. For me at least, it's been incredibly difficult and at times impossible. I've come to believ
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
Yes, bytes. I suppose most everyone wants to use dates more than 256 seconds past Jan 1, 1970. cue embarrassment
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
Sometimes I think Mysql has corrupted everyone's brain. Postgresql and every other database that I'm aware of stores dates internally as a 4 or 8 bit number anyway, so you aren't saving anything by using an (hopefully) bigint instead of a d
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
Do you have a source for how it can "lead to broken data?" It's my understanding that autocommit simply makes postgresql commit a statement automatically after it's submitted, unless it's wrapped in a transaction.
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
As I understand it, techcrunch was designing a tablet in partnership with a design firm. The firm ripped off the design and created a competing tablet. It was called the joojoo but they didn't get it out until ariund when the iPad was rele
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
Exactly. Every time I've seen someone attempt to 'steal' an idea, they aren't up to the challenge of executing on it. I believe the reason for this is that there a very strong correlation between the type of personality that would conside
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
Yup, that's my list as well. Android users will tell you that battery life is not an issue anymore but that hasn't been my experience at all. I think that it's a case of you can get good battery life as long as you don't take full advant
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by nathanstitt 14y ago
These type of articles annoy me. Not the article necessarily, but the thinking that goes into it. The solution presented is technically sound and would absolutely solve the problem of crazy gerrymandered districts. The possibility of some
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by nathanstitt 15y ago
Perhaps my app Remindly, but am waiting to see how easy they made it to schedule a reminder, as Remindly is intended to make creating an reminder simple enough that you can perform it in only a few seconds while multitasking, driving, on p
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by nathanstitt 15y ago
I'm using smartTextBox for a project: http://wayofspark.com/projects/smarttextbox/ I can't see any immediate differences between the two, how does Tagedit differ?
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by nathanstitt 16y ago
Funny you should ask. Our IT guys just screwed up both UPS & Fedex's systems here at work just last week. I'm a programmer at a distribution company, and had a front row seat to the mess. We had a power surge that fried two of our ship