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   by parfe 15y ago

   Those reasons led me to put my kindle in a drawer and forget about it. Buying a used book from amazon is cheaper and grants me full rights to the item. Paying 2-2.5x the price for a restricted digital version with no gift or resale value i
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   by parfe 15y ago

   >Or is there anything i am missing here? You should probably consider why you felt defensive about HN.
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   by parfe 15y ago

   >Why do we need more girl scientists and geeks? You are only considering a symptom of the problem. It isn't just a question of more women as geeks or scientists. It's how women are treated in society. Things like getting catcalled wh
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   by parfe 15y ago

   It's exactly who I think. People who want to censor content they disagree with don't think optional .xxx goes far enough. People who worry their content will be censored don't want a "voluntary" ghetto built they can be forced into. Approva
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   by parfe 15y ago

   No, he built a hydrogen powered torch. Water did not provide a power source. Hydrogen merely stored the resulting energy from the externally powered hydrolysis process which separated water.
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   by parfe 15y ago

   Wouldn't mounting the printer outward from the center axis of a rotating drum solve this issue?
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   by parfe 15y ago

   I read two so far and have only managed to write this comment.
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   by parfe 15y ago

   I spent a couple years on a Java Swing project and hated every minute. Karsten Lentzsch provided the only saving grace with the JGoodies libraries and seesaw supports the JGoodies Forms. I just started writing some Clojure in my free time
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   by parfe 15y ago

   1) Learn and understand the critical framework you will be applying to a work 2) Read the work with the framework in mind 3) Write a critique based on that framework If you hand in a paper on a completely made up framework that is poorly d
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    by parfe 15y ago

    Yeah, my bad for not being clear. You are right and I am right and I am wrong. So everyone wins!
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    by parfe 15y ago

    You are completely correct. I meant commercial as interpreted in relation to the GPL and I know that I came across as incredibly unclear. I read those terms as giving both individual and corporate customers the same license to use the soft
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    by parfe 15y ago

    Not taking issue here with commercial vs personal, but with being restricted from redistributing items you've purchased through the store.
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    by parfe 15y ago

    You sound like you missed the entire point of a college level literature class. You must have made your TA's life a pleasure arguing that your homegrown, self reinforcing, critiquing system was just as valid as those being taught in class.
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    by parfe 15y ago

    (i) You shall be authorized to use iTunes Products only for personal, noncommercial use. Is the first restriction listed at http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html I'm no hyperchicken, so don't put much stock in what I have to s
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    by parfe 15y ago

    http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html (i) If you are an individual acting in your personal capacity, you may download and sync an App Store Product for personal, noncommercial use on any iOS Device you own or control. and it
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    by parfe 15y ago

    Well, you certainly managed to bend your mind to make Apple the good guy. GPL: You have the right to modify and redistribute the application. Apple: No you don't. rbanffy: The GPL forbids redistribution. Apple restricts you to 5 devices, t
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    by parfe 15y ago

    I think that makes it more likely it had a soft landing. Loses propulsion systems and the computer continues to keep the craft level and in control as long as possible which means gliding right up to the point the collision detection pulls
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    by parfe 15y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law The author writes about a Little's Law
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    by parfe 15y ago

    Someone must have forgot to send out the weekly bribes. India - Only the 87th least corrupt nation!
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    by parfe 15y ago

    Yeah, all those dumb people watching, am I right?
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    by parfe 15y ago

    My ISP can see which IP addresses I connect to and can perform a reverse lookup. I don't think the privacy angle has any value. I suppose a shared host could serve multiple sites, but then simple packet snooping would reveal which hostnam
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    by parfe 15y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider also a favorite.
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    by parfe 15y ago

    Total devices in the field. At Apple's iPhone 4S launch event on October 4th, CEO Tim Cook said that the company had sold 250 million iOS devices to date--including iPhones, iPod Touches, iPads, and (I assume) current-generation Apple TVs.
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    by parfe 15y ago

    >What if she is wrong? And what if she is? Debating the correctness of her interpretation only distracts from her point that If you act in the way described towards an engineer you could make her feel like the author. >I dislike
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    by parfe 15y ago

    Ah sexism. I love it when I sees it. This thread just oozes it! In fact, most of the posters here write with the exact sexist bent the writer warns about. * Explain she overreacted; tell her she is wrong. * Claim her feelings have no mer
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    by parfe 15y ago

    >Spoken like someone who doesnt use one. Obviously I don't use one. No one uses one.
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    by parfe 15y ago

    Did anyone who owns an IPhone or Android smart phone decide to buy a Playbook? I still can't believe RIM insists on stick to their own OS rather than building their features onto android, joining that ecosystem, and putting out quality har
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    by parfe 15y ago

    I currently rate 1756 karma and I contribute nothing of value to news.yc. Getting karma here happens with little effort. I have trouble losing karma! It generally only happens when a comment really strikes a nerve[1] like in the suicide t
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    by parfe 15y ago

    Evangelists sold a bills of goods to non-technical managers. Can't be letting something silly like facts or criticism get in the way of putting a pet language choice into production.
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    by parfe 15y ago

    https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/general/#django-ap... Django styles itself as MTV: Model Template View. The concept of "Controller" within Django I would say gets implemented across a few layers (Urls, middleware, decorators an