nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
I take it you're not willing to pay the $0.30/track to upgrade to the 256kbps un-DRM'd music that's been available for years?
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by nknight 15y ago
40.32% to 40.78%? That's such a small change as to be noise on its own, I wouldn't ascribe any meaning to it at all. Browser share measurements are inherently volatile. Holidays or lack thereof, software updates with bugs, temporary marketi
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by nknight 15y ago
It's not FUD. If you donate bone marrow, the likelihood is 100%. The likelihood of donating may be < 100%, but that's not what is being discussed.
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by nknight 15y ago
Depends on your OS. ¬ is a quick alt+l on any Mac. However, it's the symbol for logical negation[1], and thus probably not a great substitute for +. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%AC
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by nknight 15y ago
There are mail forwarding services out there already, but they cost money and exist at the whim of private enterprises that could disappear at any time.
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by nknight 15y ago
I seriously doubt the post office had much to do with tracking him down. My repeated experience with the USPS is that they pay absolutely no attention to mail forwarding requests, ever. It's far more likely that someone at the matching netw
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by nknight 15y ago
Ouch. To the extent it's still relevant in the modern world, our postal system really needs to work a little more like the phone system. I can be pretty much anywhere in the US (or really, the world, if I want to pay international roaming f
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by nknight 15y ago
Not a lawyer (though at some point I should just say screw it and go to law school), but there's really no mapping as far as I know. One of the things to remember about civil lawsuits are that the parties are generally treated as if they ar
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by nknight 15y ago
If I'm understanding correctly, the request may be in the context of blog-like usage, but the function is of much more general applicability. I think he's just asking for the ability to create a new file from scratch in github's web interfa
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by nknight 15y ago
You may not realize it, but 6sigma just did the equivalent of walking into a programming discussion and shouting "goto is evil!". It displays a disturbing and dangerous disconnect from reality. As a rule, I don't try to sugar-coat my respon
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by nknight 15y ago
Earnings are strictly past performance. They are a fixed quantity that has no meaning other than "for X time period, the company had Y profit". Price is based on a combination of assets (not all of which have fixed values), future outlook (
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by nknight 15y ago
Hint: Watching CNBC doesn't make you a good investor, and throwing around the letters "PE" just makes you look like the worst kind of shallow, ignorant investor. No experienced investor bases stock purchasing decisions off P/E ratio alone o
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by nknight 15y ago
The point isn't the "arrest" part (which doesn't mean what you think, actually -- they can, in fact, be arrested and charged for serious crimes while serving, and have been), it's the totality of the clause and its history, which acts to pr
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by nknight 15y ago
Article 1 of the US Constitution: "[Senators and Representatives] shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going
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by nknight 15y ago
It's not a complete pullout from mobile, AIR is still alive for the time being.
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by nknight 15y ago
No, his responsibility is the operation of the service. The operation of the hardware it runs on is not the primary duty, it is a... side effect? Not sure how to put that. It's like saying a building manager should be a carpenter or a plumb
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by nknight 15y ago
Notice how you say "maximum freedom for everyone involved", and then "no company is compelled to hire anyone". The cultural disconnect lies right there. Corporate personhood is a funny artifact of English Common Law, and its present state i
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by nknight 15y ago
Add in salary and benefits for dedicated operations staff, cost of geographic redundancy (duplicate hardware, duplicate colo, travel costs and/or local staff), periodic hardware upgrades, network infrastructure, logistical problems, shippin
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by nknight 15y ago
No point. Apple has been contributing to the death of the big labels for years, both through iTunes, which artists big and small can use, and by putting high-quality hardware and software suitable for production into the hands of the little
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by nknight 15y ago
"regarding the relationship contemplated by this Agreement". It's pretty plain that it means talking about your relationship with Google, not about the nature or technical details of App Engine. Words in legal documents, be they contracts o
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by nknight 15y ago
But therein lies the conflict: They don't want to fire these people. They want them to keep working for Zynga, but not vest their options. This isn't Zynga saying "I'm sorry, you're not pulling your weight, I'm going to have to let you go."
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by nknight 15y ago
Why, exactly, is it more "entitled" to expect fights to be taken out of public than for those fighting to expect the people they're disturbing to grant them the privacy they have obviously chosen not to care about?
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by nknight 15y ago
> Have you ever actually gotten into a serious fight with someone in public? Being capable of self-restraint (a trait the author laughably tries to attack Boyle with rather than the childish twits fighting in a restaurant), the answer
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by nknight 15y ago
You're constructing a strawman. No one is trying to pin a medal on anybody here. Some people are trying to publicly crucify Boyle (the irony is delicious, by the way) for exposing to ridicule those who deserve nothing else. You don't need t
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by nknight 15y ago
Having lived in various areas from the rural to the suburban to the urban (albeit not downtown SF or NY-style urban) on the west coast, I've never come across a culture in which fighting about your marriage in a restaurant was acceptable be
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by nknight 15y ago
If you're having a loud fight in public that's disturbing other people, I have no sympathy for you whatsoever. This is as bad if not worse than parents that won't take their screaming kid outside. These two idiots at least could have preven
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by nknight 15y ago
It's only a moral dilemma if you believe pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars is a moral imperative. If not, you have exactly two choices. One is moral, one is not. The dilemma is between your greed and your morality, not between seemi
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm not sure how easy this would be legally, but they might be able to set it up to drop most of the $50k into the employee's 401k. The employer + employee contribution limits are currently $49k/year, so even if the employee is contributing
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by nknight 15y ago
Just pulling a 2U system with 2 HDDs out of an ordinary rack is strenuous if you're not it decent shape, yanking a loaded 4U box out in the manner that video shows is a quick path to pain. I think they need to build a simple pulley or hydra
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by nknight 15y ago
Which may be important, or may be utterly worthless. It's like "total cost of ownership" FUD, numbers are useless outside their original context, and everybody has a different context.

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