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by nkassis 11y ago
They are taking small steps one at a time. "dotNET's openness does not extend to the actually interesting parts (WPF, WinForms)." Well I disagree with this, there is a lot of good stuff in what they are opening. The new versi
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Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president in an unconventional way(washingtonpost.com)
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Why is that? What makes the web different in this case?
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Could use + in the first part of email such as: youremail+blahblah@example.com to create throwaways. most sites consider those to be different email address then youremail@example.com for account purposes but email service, who respect the
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by nkassis 11y ago
This is interesting, I was under the impression that insider trading covered even things accidentally leaked from companies. Is that not the case? If someone used information hacked or found by another person would that fall under insider t
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Falling parts could still be a huge danger even if they are small. So it doesn't have to be a danger to the helicopter to be a danger to someone.
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by nkassis 11y ago
Yeah the site is slowly migrating to a new design but it so huge and run by some many teams that it takes them time to get it all into shape and by then a new style is being brought out.
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by nkassis 11y ago
The issue is your employer has all the information on this. You are negotiating salaries at a disadvantage. I find the idea that sharing salaries will cause drama highly suspect. Causing some to go and ask for equivalent pay is probably a g
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by nkassis 11y ago
I'm not sure they care. They may be accepting these users because the programs are profitable for them in how they increase normal customers spending patterns. Tightening up the rules or banning these users might be bad PR for them the
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by nkassis 11y ago
Basically the person in the article uses various tricks to game the airline and accumulate as many frequent flyer miles and fly around as much as he can (accumulating even more points it seems). He also writes a blog about it.
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It would be great if it did. I heard somewhere that the TypeScript team were also looking at outputting closure annotation to help the closure compiler optimize TS output.
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My experience as well. The benefits I've seen have been easier refactoring, code completion and I find it faster to implement things with typescript highlighting issues in my editor so that I can correct them before seeing if it runs i
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Background on Wasabi: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-origin-of-wasabi/ Killing of wasabi: http://blog.fogcreek.com/kill
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I'm OK with that stance, I try to advocate the same myself but you have to be careful of the boiling frog issue of making small incremental refactoring that lead to dead ends. Stepping back and thinking about the long term is valuable.
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If I remember correctly Joel wasn't opposed to refactoring old code. That article seemed to be mainly against wholesale rewrites which I agree in a most cases. He is now paying the price for taking this rule to the extreme. I think so
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"There is nothing to be gained." Not completely true, you could argue that it would be more maintainable in the future but I don't think that outweigh the risk of making changes here while it's still fully functional and
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by nkassis 11y ago
Anyone know if Google Finance has said anything about their charts moving away from Flash?
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by nkassis 11y ago
What would a stop button in Word be like? It really depends on the type of webapp and experience you are trying to create.
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There is also the standard library, it does a lot of stuff that could hide a vulnerability.
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Definitely an issue but it shouldn't prevent you from using some tools. For example, I've mostly stayed away from compile to JS languages except for ClojureScript (for personal project) and TypeScript because I see real value in b
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Could it be that you've exhausted the easy things to learn? I feel that at some point it gets hard to keep the same learning velocity as the knowledge you are acquiring gets more complex and difficult to grasp. Also major breakthroughs
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I may be naive but I don't think there ends are that cloudy Their inability to understand that while they may have noble ends but that they won't be in control forever, they aren't capable of protecting this knowledge from n
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by nkassis 11y ago
I think he's implying something that would be remotely exploitable on a server running the JVM for a service with an open socket. Which is very common. Also the the File API could potentially be exploitable (if a vulnerability exist) r
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by nkassis 11y ago
1) 2) 3) Are I think research goals of robotics. None are simple but I don't personally think they require anything that isn't possible to accomplish with computer + physical objects beyond the computer itself.
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JS now is moving fast but for the longest time it was stuck in stasis with various incompatible implementations floating around. And almost any knowledge on it was probably invalid in one of those implementations.
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by nkassis 11y ago
Hehe, yeah I was just reading a magazine this morning talking about it's the next big material in cycling for everything from strengthening carbon fiber parts to conduct electricity to replace cables used for shifting/brakes to he
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by nkassis 11y ago
Reddit varies widely on quality. Some forums on reddit are the best source of info on their particular topic. I don't really care for reddit as a whole but I would miss it if some of the the subreddit communities I follow were to disap
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I asked my compliance officer where I work that question, the answer was the usual "It depends".
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I guess I had my conversion rate a bit wrong, 80,000 is about 124891.20 according to google. That seems about on par from my anecdotal evidence.
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Yeah I think in the case of code or any intellectual property they should only be able to sue if you made actual use of it and it can be shown to have directly impacted the business. And in that case it should be handle as a civil lawsuit o

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