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by pflats 12y ago
Overcast's settings page encourages you to try Marco's competitors if you don't like his app, right above the export option. Ballsy and classy. ( http://i.imgur.com/xO09x8d.png ) It's a shame his two tentp
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by pflats 12y ago
You kinda have to put it together, but the other author comes across to me as disingenuous and dismissive. Look at the edit log and the talk page together. Wikipedian, 4/19: Deletes one new section of the article that he disagrees wi
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by pflats 12y ago
I agree. The article explains exactly that in the second sentence: "Gates […] has sold 20 million shares each quarter for most of the last dozen years under a pre-set trading plan." This isn't a former CEO getting out while t
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by pflats 12y ago
Furthermore, I imagine it could attract researchers' priority and attention to your product over a competitor who offers a lesser/no bounty.
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by pflats 13y ago
One of IV's related-but-unrelated companies, Lodsys, sued a ton of developers for using Apple's purchasing API, despite Apple themselves having paid for a license for that patent. I can't imagine Apple counsel was very happy
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by pflats 13y ago
In C and C-derived languages, the C preprocessor can do some work on its own before anything ever hits the compiler. You can put a block of code like: #ifdef DEBUG if (pw == "backdoor") return true; #endif A
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by pflats 13y ago
States set their own educational requirements. The federal government has no "hard" power there, but it has a big pile of money, lots of ideas, and likes to promote the latter with the former.
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by pflats 13y ago
There are more than you think, I assure you. Consider the people who write elementary curricula, who implement it in large cities, who teach middle school and high school mathematics but might prefer to teach just mathematics at an elemen
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by pflats 13y ago
Oh, I agree, that's the best part. Pick your rules: oh, you picked those seven? You've got a ring; here are your math rules! In that specific case, though, I figured I'd point out that the basic rules of math aren't usua
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by pflats 13y ago
I'm going to be rather dismissive in my reply, and for that, I apologize, because I'm not quite sure how else to respond. This is more or less a non-issue. Thanks to mathematicians building on Euclid for the last 2300 years, we ha
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by pflats 13y ago
The author claims to have done that to account for the relative age differences between the women (generally younger models) and the men (generally older "successful" men) featured in the magazine. If that is the case (and not jus
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by pflats 13y ago
I suggest looking closer at Andy Borowitz's other headlines. A few before the shirtless Putin article: GATES SPENDS ENTIRE FIRST DAY BACK IN OFFICE TRYING TO INSTALL WINDOWS 8.1 CHRISTIE ASKS FOR PUBLIC’S PATIENCE WHILE HE COMES UP WIT
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by pflats 13y ago
Actually, as a poster mentioned above, Sunrise was compromised 3 months ago, and recommended all iCloud users change their passwords. http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/3/5061136/sunrise-calendar-a...
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by pflats 13y ago
If by tons, you mean 9%, then yes, there are tons of male nurses. Many are nurse anesthetists, which isn't what most people think of when they think "nurse". (Anesthetists also earn an extra hundred grand a year, on average.)
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by pflats 13y ago
In the iOS App Store, Apple can issue refunds if a user complains about an app. If they do, they'll refund the entire purchase price, but keep their 30% commission. In other words, it costs developers money for Apple to issue a refund.
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by pflats 13y ago
Doesn't come up on page 1 at all for me for photo or portrait quilts. edit: An ad for portraitquilts.com shows up first in the ads sidebar, though.
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by pflats 13y ago
Since work's got me locked into IE/Bing, I might as well point out that Ms. Cringely's site is #2 on Bing (#6 if you count the 4 ads on what looks like a 15% blue-gray background that come before #1).
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by pflats 13y ago
Based on my reading, I couldn't agree more with your post. Hence my note about Bhaskara II's work being "rough"; I was trying to write for a lay audience. I too find myself wondering what the world would be like if there
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by pflats 13y ago
I had done exactly that. Oops! (I knew a major trigonometer came before Bramhagupta, but I forgot his name.)
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by pflats 13y ago
If you take a look at the math subsection ( https://sites.google.com/site/ancientbharat/math ) be aware that Brahmagupta was a beast of a mathematician. His sucessors, the two Bhaskaras, were ridiculously good as we
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by pflats 13y ago
The FDA is reacting to the marketing/advertising, not the product itself. If the fortune teller was promoting himself as "Bob the Medical Psychic" who can predict whether your cancer will be terminal, then that's a diffe
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by pflats 13y ago
You can grok most sorting methods remarkably well, though, by lining up a bunch of office junk on a big table and working through the sorting algorithm physically.
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by pflats 13y ago
At least in the trade unions by me, there were journeyman workers who were getting such little work that their unemployment lapsed. It's gotten a good amount better, but the jobs still aren't steady enough for everyone to be emplo
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by pflats 13y ago
"Meanwhile, companies in a range of sectors — manufacturing, construction, healthcare and other STEM fields — report severe skilled labor shortages." Construction and manufacturing have severe labor shortages? I'd love to see
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by pflats 13y ago
I agree. I'm totally on board that there was some serious negotiation by Amazon (Prime) to get the piece on Amazon Prime Air to air the eve of "Cyber Monday" so you'd see as much Amazon Prime as possible. I'd believ
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by pflats 13y ago
I didn't make the first argument and don't agree with it. To me (not a lawyer) creating a commercial parody should not disqualify a work from being fair use per se . Campbell clearly backs that up. The copyright act says the law
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by pflats 13y ago
But in that case, the commercial good is the parody song itself. 2 Live Crew didn't turn around and use that song in a commercial for women's depilatory products. I don't think I've heard anyone argue that the song isn&#
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by pflats 13y ago
The loophole in the first part, of course, is that once you've spied on them, it's often straightforward enough to backtrack out a legal vector to investigate the target, and "discover" the information you already knew.
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by pflats 13y ago
On the second half of your post: I feel like this happens when people find the basic idea of the article (JS is now a first-class language on iOS!) interesting enough to upvote, but the article itself isn't anything exciting beyond tha
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by pflats 13y ago
"Apple’s iOS7 support of JavaScript inline with your Objective-C code validates JavaScript as the leading (and only) non proprietary language that is supported within the iOS development environment by the device manufacturer." Si

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