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by polemic 14y ago
I don't know if the article has been edited since Gruber first read it, but there appear to be sufficient statistics to back up Gupta's assertions: > "Samsung had 30.3 percent of the smartphone market in 2012, up from 19 percent a year
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by polemic 14y ago
> "...it seems very likely the people running the company were operating in good faith" I don't think that matters. They're not in good faith selling ownership, because they're not selling ownership.
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by polemic 14y ago
Firstly, I didn't say his ideas are dumb. I said you have a right to hold dumb ideas. Secondly, some ideas are dumb, some ideas are quackery. It's a good thing to recognise that fact. If you don't like the terminology, well, I'm jus
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by polemic 14y ago
Two axioms you seem to put forward: 1) You have a right to have unusual, heretical, controversial or just plain dumb opinions. 2) The scientific community is required to respect, and seriously debate your conclusions, regardless of their fo
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by polemic 14y ago
There is a feature requests link at the bottom of the page...
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Evernote defends MD5 password hash storage (2011)(blog.evernote.com)
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by polemic 14y ago
That's good to hear, but it raises the question: why doesn't the City use GitHub to host code and tools to extract data from MetroPulse? Now you've got a situation where there are two versions of the data.. which is the most up to date or
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by polemic 14y ago
That isn't true. As another commenter noted, I work for Koordinates. Our top data users, by far, are Engineering and planning consultancies, architects and universities. The first step to releasing data is releasing the data. 3rd party appl
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by polemic 14y ago
Apologies, I should. Note that it's also in my HN profile :). I'm not expecting to drum up business via this thread, but we do know a bit about the challenges of open data delivery.
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by polemic 14y ago
Merging user contributions comes with a number of problems. It'll be interesting to know how they'll manage it. Or, they won't, and this is entirely token. For example, if the city tenders for engineering works, they will likely be required
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by polemic 14y ago
Yeah, I wish people would stop doing this, especially since almost every example posted here is also tightly coupled to jQuery. It's a cool widget though. It would be interesting if you could use `calc` and `attr` to do this purely with CSS
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by polemic 14y ago
That doesn't appear to be the focus. Facebook and Twitter timeline ads will remain, obviously (does anyone actually click on the floating ads on the right of the FB UI), Daring Fireball retains it's very subtle image ad (but, who are we kid
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by polemic 14y ago
Norway is a basically the country that won the lottery, wisely invested the winnings and now gets to enjoy early retirement in perpetuity. The UAE is similar: very few UAE citizens actually work in the private sector, and when they do, it's
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by polemic 14y ago
In the context of the recent attempted Trademarking of "Python" in Europe: http://pyfound.blogspot.ca/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-... Their twitter account (@PythonCloud) has also been deactivated.
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Python Cloud has disappeared?(python.co.uk)
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by polemic 14y ago
Probably hard to judge the exact relationship between 'the oncologist' (was it just one of many? the first? they said he 'couldn't survive it', not 'treatment A is palliative only'...) and Federico, but I guess the point is that your doctor
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by polemic 14y ago
+1 there's lot's of great stuff happening all over the world, don't limit yourself =D
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by polemic 14y ago
Hang on. You're saying they are tech savvy, but not internet savvy. If you are right (and I disagree that they're 'not internet savvy') then you've identified an opportunity , not a blocker.
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by polemic 14y ago
> Most farmers are not that tech savvy. This is just not true, or, at least, it's only true where inefficient farming practises are propped up by subsidies and protectionism. A modern farm is a hot-bed of innovation and my initial tho
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by polemic 14y ago
From a triage point of view, Ruby/RoR is excellent. I'm not trying to hate on Ruby people - the community is amazing and the inherent openness and transparency is to be lauded. That's not my issue though. The project's reputation is fiercel
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by polemic 14y ago
Can anyone explain why boosterism gets upvoted so much on these RoR vuln posts? RoR maintainers should be commended for their ongoing prompt responses to defects, but the likelihood ...that there will be a lot of these things [still to be]
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by polemic 14y ago
Modern farms are high tech operations run by highly knowledgeable experts. In fact, the line in the article "...while farming might seem like an odd place for tech investment.." is laughable. Many farmers in New Zealand, for example, have a
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by polemic 14y ago
> "As such they can also match well-formed HTML and pretty much all other programming languages." While you could match well-formed HTML, the inevitable follow-up will be "how do I match parsable , but not well-formed HTML"? There is
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by polemic 14y ago
Stopped reading at: > "The ISP is just a dumb pipe to connect the user to a server, nothing more." What OP means is: > "Ideally, I would like the ISP to act as a dumb pipe..." The reality is that ISP's can do whatever the heck t
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by polemic 14y ago
> "Well this is a cynical take..." Passing off SoC advertorials as content was pretty cynical too. Most of your responses just re-state the original nothing-speak. Tellingly, the memo is gone and the words "sorry" or "apology" don't a
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by polemic 14y ago
When I first visited it, it was a plain white text box at the end of the article.
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by polemic 14y ago
> "We ran a “native advertising” campaign for a new advertiser..." We ran ads that look like genuine content... > "...that, while properly labeled as Sponsor Content, was in my opinion inconsistent with the strategy and philosoph
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by polemic 14y ago
This. While Ortiz will be the convenient (and rightful, I suppose) scapegoat in this instance, she's a symptom of the problem and not the cause. There are far more fundamental problems with the DoJ, and until they're addressed (time and cos
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by polemic 14y ago
And yet it had already cost him 2 years of his life and millions of dollars. I should amend the comment to read "justice system", but judges are ultimately responsible for the fair and equitable operation of their courts. That is clearly
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by polemic 14y ago
> But the breadth and vagueness of the existing law... My point is this: of necessity, most laws are broad and vague, and it relies on judges to build the necessary case law to interpret it. The current law absolutely needs to be addres

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