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by objclxt 14y ago
Aside from the various services to test on, if you're using Chrome you'll see a "Other people have reported this site is unavailable" message in addition to the standard errors.
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by objclxt 14y ago
Whilst there's a lot of Hollywood Accounting going on in the music business, I don't think this is the case here. Firstly, publishing rights aren't always owned by the band themselves. The most famous example of this is probably The Beatles
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by objclxt 14y ago
> I worked for Lucozade (UK Gatorade) for a while. Our total cost, delivered to retailer, of a bottle was 12p. We sold it to them for min 50p and they sold it for at least £1. FMCG goods have typically awful margins on them for reta
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by objclxt 14y ago
If, as a public corporation, you were to do that you'd end up being sued anyway. Sarbanes-Oxley not only requires e-mail retention, but the SEC can impose significant fines if e-mails end up 'disappearing'. To put it another way: if you tur
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by objclxt 14y ago
> Perhaps other iOS developers can weigh in on this, but I feel like it's fair to say that the most qualified developers do everything programmatically. It's really variable. XIBs have issues with source control, but they can be very
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by objclxt 14y ago
Well, sort of. I wouldn't really call it running "ruby code on the Objective-C runtime". Your Ruby code is effectively being converted to Cocoa API calls during the compilation process. RubyMotion has a number of Objective-C subclasses that
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by objclxt 14y ago
Firstly, civil rights protesters were charged with numerous crimes - not just related to the Jim Crow laws, but as part of an active campaign to silence them (Martin Luther King, for example, was charged with tax fraud by Alabama, which h
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by objclxt 14y ago
It is an interesting acquisition - clearly, Twitter has a lot of use for the product internally, and they were probably one of, if not the biggest, client (in terms of raw data collected). There is something to be said for mitigating the
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by objclxt 14y ago
The British government has no authority to negotiate. It is not up to them to talk to Assange. The UK has legally binding treaty obligations to enforce the European Arrest Warrant that Sweden issued. It is up to Sweden, not the UK, to decid
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by objclxt 14y ago
For the US Embassy yes, but there can't be more than a dozen people working at the Ecuadorian embassy (I believe it's physically located inside a block of flats). Diplomatic missions for poorer, or smaller, countries tend to be relatively m
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by objclxt 14y ago
...because when you have Argentina grandstanding over the Falkland Islands the best thing to do is piss off everyone else in South America. The UK needs all the goodwill it can get in the region.
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by objclxt 14y ago
iPhoto is an interesting one: the layout is done programatically, but the xibs are used to load the images. For example, the brush panel is all animated and arranged in code, but xibs are used to hold the brush PNG images since it reduces
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Snapchat vulnerability opens up users' cellphone numbers(cleveryou.net)
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by objclxt 14y ago
>"he was threatened with spending a life in jail and being bankrupted, without the option to get off without pleading guilty." ...I don't quite understand this. Surely he did have an option to "get off without pleading guilty" - to be
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by objclxt 14y ago
It is worth perhaps pointing out that suicide is, unfortunately, something that MIT and its' peers have to deal on a regular basis. It is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that MIT has appointed a faculty member to independently
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by objclxt 14y ago
I don't see how. Hal Abelson is on the boards of Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation (and as such is hardly a standard bearer for restrictive copyright), and he's being asked to independently review how MIT handled the entire
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by objclxt 14y ago
Laws are meant to be beneficial to society as a whole. In the US, laws must be passed by a democratically elected body. The judicial system is one of the few areas where "just doing your job", no matter how 'evil' it may seem, is morally ri
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by objclxt 14y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. It's understandable that after a tragic, upsetting event like this people look for someone to blame. If you are looking for someone to blame, blame the law. Prosecutors take cases they think they can win. No prosecut
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Hope it goes well for you! Even if, like me, you don't end up with an offer I think they're fantastic experience.
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by objclxt 14y ago
Ketamine may be effective, but is it useful for 'immediate' prevention? I suppose this depends on what you mean by 'immediate'. Someone already posted a link here suggesting a significant number of suicides are impulsive, and many people ha
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by objclxt 14y ago
Well, not all new homes - homes in neighbourhoods where fibre is already available. The article says that China is aiming for 40 million households to have fibre connections by 2015, which is just under 10% of the total households (if you
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by objclxt 14y ago
I am pretty sure (and given this is HN I'm sure a googler will be along soon to confirm/deny this) that Google have a policy of no longer asking those kind of brain-teasers for their software engineering roles. They may still do so for PMs,
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by objclxt 14y ago
The problem with market share stats is that they don't always correspond with usage. People with 3D TVs don't simply seem to be very interested in watching 3D content on them. Case in point: in the UK 27 million people watched the Olympic G
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by objclxt 14y ago
Somebody covered this further up, but in more detail: It is not the rotation itself that is the problem, but saving the resultant file. If you're working directly with the pixel buffer you only do a lossless JPG rotation if the image heig
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by objclxt 14y ago
It is worth noting that when the extension was first proposed the European Commission paid for a report that recommended the law remain as it was, since none of the arguments for a copyright extension were convincing. Thanks to some rather
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by objclxt 14y ago
Because Tide is universally popular in the US, amazingly so. You could go into a CVS or Walgreens in the US and 70%+ of the detergent on sale will be Tide branded. Since people are always going to wash clothes, retailers can guarantee the
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by objclxt 14y ago
> There's loads of licencing and control issues though ("apps are only $1, just buy a new licence for every new pupil") There is a volume licensing program for the App Store, where schools retain ownership and can buy in bulk at a disc
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...it's a terribly misleading story (which doesn't come as a surprise to me, it's the Daily Mail after all), because it conveniently omits breakage rates of one-to-one laptop deployments. It may not come as a surprise to many people to lear
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There is something to be said for service continuity. After-market support from Android manufacturers can be variable, whereas it's something of a known quantity with Apple. There's also the software issue: there is simply a better and more
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by objclxt 14y ago
I think you misunderstand the purpose of the two courses. The overwhelming majority of students taking CS50 on campus will never take another CS course. Harvard undergraduates are required to take a quantitative reasoning course regardles

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