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by nzmsv 17y ago
So does pretty much every closed-source license. But the liability always seems to be limited "where permitted by law". What is this law, and which jurisdictions allow this? I wonder if there is someone here who knows more on the subject.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
> Someone really needs to make a crowdsourced website where you can post all your symptoms and test results, and then offer up a bounty to anyone who can figure out the correct diagnosis. Just like that episode of House :) Except in t
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by nzmsv 17y ago
"Correlation does not equal causation" Also, I really should learn to type better. This though got me googling. I found some discussion on the topic: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=952745 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=510087
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by nzmsv 17y ago
And beneath that CISC instruction set is a RISC core and a translation layer. The fact that the instruction set is CISC has more to do with backwards compatibility (hello, Windows) than an actual advantage of CISC.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Not so much typing ability as actual typing output. And this was supposed to be only half-serious :) What I meant was that it's better to spend some time solving the problem in your head, rather than bang out line after line of bad code. So
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by nzmsv 17y ago
On most keyboards it is very hard to touch-type while programming. Seriously, I just can't enter a curly brace while keeping my hands on the home row. It hurts :) And once you move that hand, repositioning it takes time. The other reason I
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Google is starting to look at microformat data. All that needs to happen in order for more semantic tech to take off is the search engines paying attention. As soon as a technology translates into an edge on the web, it'll get implemented.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
AJAX originated as an obscure hack put in IE by a Microsoft employee. The only reason it made such a splash later is that other people tried it, found they could use it to do cool things, and then spread the word. HTML5 could make just as b
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by nzmsv 17y ago
You are right about the tools being difficult to master. I've been doing some work with FPGAs lately, and I see one big problem. The hardware is really cool. But the software is horrible. I'm working with Altera tools. To do any work, I nee
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by nzmsv 17y ago
CISC won over RISC? I think you meant that in reverse :)
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by nzmsv 17y ago
"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans" :) Even though I'm not religious, I think this is true, especially with respect to startups.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Xakep is a magazine mostly about the other kind of hacking (the meaning journalists use). Which means there are lots of black hat and script kiddie materials in there, along with the white hat kind of hacks. Btw, 'xakep' is 'hacker' in Russ
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by nzmsv 17y ago
OK, outsourcing does not equal slavery. That said, we all do stereotype all the time. For example, you probably thought from reading my comment that I'm a fat, lazy American teenager with a sense of entitlement :) I lived in Russia in the 9
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Very nice. Someone who outsources all his work to poorer parts of the world boasting about judging people by the country they come from. Sounds just a little bit like picking your new "employees" at a slave market.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
What's interesting is all the comments on that blog, saying how someone who can download an automatic deface script "can make money with websites". I thought the general public had a better understanding of the Internet these days :)
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by nzmsv 17y ago
One step closer to MCSE and CCNA, I suppose. Just another sign Google is a giant company now.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
An idea for a quick fix: use my.address+really_long_random_string@famousprovider.com as your Gravatar e-mail. Will work if famousprovider==gmail at least.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I suppose an ISP's customer could opt-in to receive spam. I'm sure there will be many takers :)
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by nzmsv 17y ago
This is the second recent problem MS had with a contractor stealing source code (the other was the Windows 7 image tool violating the GPL). I'm sure Microsoft handles lots of outsourced projects, and they can't review every last bit of code
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Is there an implementation people can use? What about a formal spec of the SQL extensions you are introducing? What's the licensing like?
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by nzmsv 17y ago
And what's significantly different? We are still stuck with the x86 architecture. All operating systems are just new versions of the same products. Sure, the web got rounded corners, dial-up is completely gone, and the dot-com bubble burst,
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by nzmsv 17y ago
That looks very nice and easy to hack on. As long as all the drivers are open-source. The lack of open drivers for the eInk displays used to be a serious problem. Not sure what the current status is.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Happy New Year (- approx. 1551600 seconds)!
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by nzmsv 17y ago
I'm a student, graduating this spring. Here are my thoughts: For one, I might not have heard of your company. It's not a personal bias against small companies (and you haven't heard of me either :) But how do you make sure students are awar
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Wow! After reading these, and the replies, I definitely agree with John Resig about that newsgroup: don't read. Or risk losing your hope for humanity.
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Probably because the alternative, cheerfully waving everyone through, is unacceptable from a national security standpoint. Security theater does not equal actual security. If someone actually wanted to drive a bomb across the border, I'm
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Inventing DropBox isn't exactly new. Lots of software products can synchronize files. Remember XDrive? What about that Briefcase thing in Windows 95 that almost no one knew how to use? And all these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_synch
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by nzmsv 17y ago
The whole bashing MINIX theme is vaguely reminiscent of the ancient Tanenbaum vs. Torvalds flame war. Of course, Linus himself recently admitted that the monolithic kernel has grown too large and hard to manage. Not trying to restart that o
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by nzmsv 17y ago
Here's a demotivational post :) No one says it's not possible to learn programming this way. In fact, I'm sure almost everyone here has a similar story (mine even includes the paper programming). What I wish I found out earlier than I did i
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by nzmsv 17y ago
TekSavvy is amazing. Set-up is fast, they deal with Bell's screwups when they happen (this is a when, not an if), and when you call them, a person answers, with no music-on-hold. They will also set up a workaround for Bell's throttling if y

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