nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
It's highly unlikely that the EU decision would alter the outcome of Oracle v. Google in any way regardless of timing. This is a US case involving completely different parties and a significantly different set of facts. Decisions of non-US
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by nknight 15y ago
So, everyone is as gullible as a few you have observed? Smells like confirmation bias.
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by nknight 15y ago
> I was, and the GP mentioned it. No, he didn't. He mentioned getting a roadmap, that doesn't imply years, it may not even imply a year. That said, I'm afraid your worldview is so cynical and alien to my own that I don't think we ca
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by nknight 15y ago
Really? Easiest for whom? I find switching jobs painful and stressful, and my largest percentage salary increases have come without switching employers. And how is that the point anyway? danssig didn't say anything like that, he just said
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by nknight 15y ago
Nobody is talking about years of work on vague promises, and nobody is talking about the environment you describe in which no one would want to work. Your weird worst-case scenario does not invalidate the point that there are tactics that c
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by nknight 15y ago
In the US, a year of family leave is, to say the least, unlikely, and legally required nowhere. But even if it were, most companies that last long enough to have somebody come back from a 1+ year leave most likely are, or have become, large
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by nknight 15y ago
Uh, while I realize the most common method for getting a raise in Silicon Valley is to switch jobs, the idea that it's the only mechanism or the most desirable one is very bizarre. It also seems to imply that wanting more money is somehow m
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by nknight 15y ago
Actually, even that isn't entirely accurate anymore. Apparently tethering is included in the new 4GB data plan (which is $45, to the 2GB plan's $25).
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by nknight 15y ago
You're being downvoted because you don't seem to be discussing anything remotely relevant to JWZ's or Arrington's posts. Your father's driving a taxi has absolutely nothing to do with VCs and the startup lottery, the economics aren't even r
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by nknight 15y ago
Sorry, I was wrong. The disconnect is that you're not having anything like the conversation I'm having. I'm not interpreting any particular research done by any particular person, I'm speaking with regard to a particular action and child ba
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by nknight 15y ago
I think the disconnect here is that you're starting from the premise that effort is the only thing that should be praised. To start with, that fails to account for things like moral and ethical choices that don't require significant effort,
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by nknight 15y ago
Look up "positive reinforcement", it's a critical piece of context for the discussion at hand. The point is to make sure it's actually reinforcing the desired behavior without undesirable side effects.
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by nknight 15y ago
Did you read the comment I replied to, or did you just decide that the guy not disparaging Android must be an idiot?
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by nknight 15y ago
Algebra is simple. It conforms to a small set of rules that are easily understood, often intuitive, and have few special cases. Problems are small, self-contained, and have clearly-defined parameters. They don't suddenly change on you halfw
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by nknight 15y ago
> We say, "nice work, you must have tried really hard!" and she replies, a little confused at us, "no". Yeah, in my case that was confusing up until it became insulting, probably somewhere around 7 or 8. Into the teens and adulthood,
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by nknight 15y ago
Unsurprisingly, some people don't fit well with our limited current understanding of sleep. On the other hand, don't completely discount the possibility that some of the people you know have access to amphetamine. Careful use can sustain pe
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by nknight 15y ago
People have been starting businesses with limited personal wealth since time immemorial. He may or may not have had the flexibility to do exactly what he did, but mortgages and business loans for things that aren't utterly ridiculous are no
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by nknight 15y ago
The day I got it, my Nexus One was noticeably faster than my original iPhone, and that was pre-JIT. It's not as polished and smooth as iOS, but claims that it's "unusable" are dishonest at best.
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by nknight 15y ago
Like all the iPhones, iPads, and unibody MacBook Pros?
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by nknight 15y ago
> What if the app doing the replacement uses one font with a certain font size, and the app itself uses another font with a certain font size There's no reason the platform can't allow passing of styling parameters to the second proce
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by nknight 15y ago
id Software is, to no small degree, in the business of making game engines, not just games. Their engines are quite deliberately decoupled from data so they can license them to other companies for their own games. You'd use a combination of
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by nknight 15y ago
No, most IT staff work for companies that are flagrantly violating employment law and have been for years. There have been lawsuits, they have been won (or settled favorably to the employees). http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.ph
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by nknight 15y ago
Discrimination is not illegal. Discrimination based on certain classifications, some Constitution- or court-defined, some legislature-defined, can be illegal, but isn't always. These are called suspect classifications[1], and whether any
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by nknight 15y ago
Which is utterly trivial (I've done it, seriously, it's not the big deal you seem to think it is, aside from the obvious difficulty of particularly large repos), and is not conceptually different from what's necessary for editing git's hist
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by nknight 15y ago
Yeah, that particular bit of FUD is quite popular with the anti-git crowd. It's nonsense. Any attempt to edit the history of a public repository will be noticed instantly by anybody who tries to sync up, no matter what. Stick in a post-comm
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by nknight 15y ago
Much of this is pretty unsurprising, especially for people like me who watched the attempted transition of OOo to Apache. The way the article puts it is that the ASF is trying to solve problems that don't exist anymore, which is true to an
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by nknight 15y ago
Even if they had the budget for a 1-ton lunar probe, landing on the Moon bears almost no resemblance to landing on Mars. The Moon's gravity is 0.16g to 0.38g on Mars, and the Moon has no atmosphere at all. This makes direct rocket landings
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by nknight 15y ago
Because Mars is a pain in the ass to land heavy gear on. There's too much gravity, too little atmosphere, and we haven't perfected AI. You can't rely entirely on parachutes, the air bags they used on the last few landings won't hold up to s
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by nknight 15y ago
You keep making statements about what "the real population" and "the majority" like or do, but the only study I've seen actually cited in this thread contradicts your assertions. Do you have any actual numbers to contribute, or just your pe
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by nknight 15y ago
Citation, please. I've never heard of compulsory licensing occurring in the US outside of government contracts and anti-trust settlements.

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