nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
The "keys" in this case are his own property, and any banners he might want to put up are being put up on his own property, so your supposed point makes no sense.
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by nknight 15y ago
I can find no evidence of anyone registering "Scala" as a trademark for a programming language. www.scala-lang.org never indicates there is a trademark or uses any usual trademark symbol. I expect I'll be receiving an apology for your conde
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by nknight 15y ago
> the domain is a .org That has no particular significance. The Big Three TLDs haven't had any special requirements or policies in many years. > its name is not his but that of the language The language's name is "Scala", not "s
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by nknight 15y ago
You have to understand that in context. That $17/day ends up being up to ~$5300/year. The official "absolute poverty" line in China is $90/year. That's not a typo -- $90/year. When the cost of your meals can be measured in US cents, what co
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by nknight 15y ago
The advantage is partly from having less focus on the good of an individual vs the good of the whole. It looks like there's an inherent cultural aspect to this that exceeds what we've ever seen in "western" cultures, but some of it will alm
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by nknight 15y ago
Why do you feel corporations should have the same rights as human beings?
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by nknight 15y ago
The response to these incidents is depressingly predictable. "Yes he has the right to shut it down, but..." -- no, there is no "but". Consider this: An employee quits his job. Do you say "Yes, he has the right to quit, but..."? No. There is
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by nknight 15y ago
> So all those folks who always say "memory is cheap" and who make fun of others who write small conservative programs might not be so smart after all. Your first hint that an opinion comes from a neophyte is that they make fun of oth
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by nknight 15y ago
Division, brand, subsidiary, however you want to spin it. Common ownership, common responsibility. An entity cannot be "at odds" with a parent entity, such an assertion would be laughed out of court. Internal politics don't matter to the
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by nknight 15y ago
Please cite some evidence for this. I can't find any. The policies are still in place, and the last statement I can find from Google dates to October and says they'd be supporting pseudonyms in some vague form in a "future update".
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by nknight 15y ago
The RIAA and major labels are one and the same. It is disingenuous at best to try and distinguish one from the other, when the board of directors consists entirely of label representatives. Meanwhile, precious few artists whine about piracy
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by nknight 15y ago
The correct word for "identity theft" is "fraud", which is what it was called for centuries. Person A pretending to be person B isn't new, and has always been nothing more than a class of fraud, but at some point somebody decided an ancient
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by nknight 15y ago
> looking up or memorising the syntax for every single method call you make As programmers have done for generations? I've never seen an autocomplete functionality that was substantively faster than either actually knowing the platfor
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by nknight 15y ago
> That never happens in a static language. It does in dynamic. Er, says you? > Or perhaps he just doesn't use IDEs and that's the actual revelation? I'm guessing you're either relatively new to the industry, or have lived in the
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by nknight 15y ago
> It's not possible to mandate the usage of keyword attributes in Python 2 That's not completely true, but it's inconvenient. If you're prepared to go the kwargs route, calling with positional arguments raises a TypeError: &#6
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by nknight 15y ago
I've never heard anyone use "median" and "average" interchangeably who wasn't confused about what "median" and "mean" mean, and every math class I've ever taken involved a reminder that "median" and "average" are different. Dig up arcane us
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by nknight 15y ago
> Google's management has a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders to maximize profits. You need to stop using that word, you don't know what it means. "Fiduciary" has nothing to do with "maximizing profits", corporate executive
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by nknight 15y ago
"Median" and "average" are being used inconsistently in this article, making it more difficult to meaningfully interpret the dataset.
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by nknight 15y ago
No, it's not part of standard search. And since you seem to know everything that goes on between Twitter and Google, perhaps you could share with us the documents showing Google has the permission it needs to include Twitter results in this
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by nknight 15y ago
Considering it's dead-stupid obvious to anyone with half a brain, what exactly makes you think Google isn't going to do everything you mention?
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by nknight 15y ago
They could at least disable logins for it and block any further emails from going out.
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by nknight 15y ago
So what? That's not part of the standard search. Since when is Google not allowed to advertise its own services alongside standard search results? What's next, do you whine that Bing has links to MSN and Hotmail? Twitter actually contaminat
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by nknight 15y ago
> That has nothing to do with why Google excludes content on twitter.com itself. Um, they don't. That's not what this is about. You need to research the actual feature that's causing controversy, because it's not "Twitter doesn't show
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by nknight 15y ago
In cases where performance actually matters, just avoid bit-twiddle in high-level languages. It sucks too much. You'll probably waste less time on optimizations by offloading the biggest bottlenecks to C/C++ with the native/extension interf
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by nknight 15y ago
Funny, I could have sworn I saw "in US" in the title. Perhaps I need new glasses?
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by nknight 15y ago
But what's their profit share? It was well over 30% a few years ago, I bet it's even higher now. And for anything over $1000, it's almost all going to Apple. And what about installed base? People don't toss Macs nearly as fast as they do PC
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by nknight 15y ago
I think they can and should, but I think the IPv6 Day comparison is a bad one. It was a pretty small portion of users with broken IPv6 configurations/networks who were expected to be significantly inconvenienced, not the entire userbase.
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by nknight 15y ago
Trying to write code on a whiteboard is not the same as communicating with peers via a whiteboard. I've never written or seen written anything more code-like than function prototypes on a whiteboard outside an interview session. Design and
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by nknight 15y ago
> your definition of a "beta" is not really the traditional meaning. In a beta, core functionality should mostly be there, but it's expected to be buggy. I expect bugs, yes, but the "traditional" meaning of beta is that core functiona
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by nknight 15y ago
MG Siegler is the one that brought up net neutrality in comparing Google to Apple. If you have a problem with the comparison, talk to the guy whose article these comments are referencing.

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