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901.
by rcfox 15y ago
> Fact is, an idea is an abstract concept, not a physical good or a services. One cannot own an abstract concept - the very notion of that is completely nonsensical. If somebody has a an idea, and tells (gives) that idea to somebody els
902.
by rcfox 15y ago
Unix is(was?) a commercial product. Linux was born out of the desire for a free version of Unix. There are economic incentives. I agree that money isn't the best motivation for people. However, in general, things like robotics, medicine, si
903.
by rcfox 15y ago
> If it's a good idea, someone else -- perhaps the very next person who confronts the same problem -- will almost certainly reinvent it independently. It's not reasonable to assume that discovering the same solution to a particular prob
904.
by rcfox 15y ago
> The problem is, patents are not a repository for searching for solutions and solving problems. Tell that to the generic-brand pharmaceutical companies. ;) > Not only that, you then harm the person who discovers the same solution i
905.
by rcfox 15y ago
> There is no benefit for humanity to be gained through patents, they merely hinder our technological advancement. I disagree. There are three alternatives (that come to mind) to patents: 1) Make all information freely accessible to any
906.
by rcfox 15y ago
I'm sorry, but comments like this make you sound like one of the people this woman is hiding from. It's as if you're trying to discredit her story by attacking her personally. Such negativity isn't necessary.
907.
by rcfox 15y ago
I remember the situation with Kathy Sierra. It was a shame that she was forced to stop blogging. I really enjoyed her posts. Her blog is still accessible from here: http://headrush.typepad.com/
908.
by rcfox 15y ago
Is this different from caches? If so, the advice also applies to properly using the cache. I've read that cache misses are the biggest source of slow-downs on modern processors. (Sorry, no citation)
909.
by rcfox 15y ago
D'oh, I had a 20-hour day in my mind, for some reason.
910.
by rcfox 15y ago
That's why ludumdare isn't someone's full-time job. 40 hours could be 16 hours of work followed by 8 hours of sleep and then another 16 hours of work. (I don't know if that's what he actually did.) That's essentially what you do in the last
911.
by rcfox 15y ago
> This is not taking into account any scholarships or grants Not to mention the time-value of money. (Sorry for the nit-picking, but in an conversation where not going to university is accepted as a valid option, I feel it's important t
912.
by rcfox 15y ago
> Would you want your lawyer or doctor to have Star Wars toys and Nerf guns in their office? Well, that depends... Do I get to play too?
913.
by rcfox 15y ago
If you ask other people to do your homework for you, you'll never learn. Go back to math.stackexhange, and provide the solution up to the point where you're stuck, and specifically identify what's causing you trouble.
914.
by rcfox 15y ago
People should be paid according to the value they provide, not their need. (Correcting for basic necessities.)
915.
Why we ought to teach Java: Computing education and social practice(computinged.wordpress.com)
1 points by rcfox 15y ago|0 comments
916.
by rcfox 15y ago
I honestly don't understand.
917.
by rcfox 15y ago
My point was that the purpose of watching this kind of TV show isn't to gain specific knowledge; it's about the progression of events towards the goal. I just finished "Star Trek: Voyager", so I'll use that as my example. In the first episo
918.
by rcfox 15y ago
> I accidentally stumbled upon the winner of the show during my eight day wait for the episode to come to Hulu, and now I have no incentive to watch the final episodes and give Fox/Hulu whatever ad revenue they'd get from that. So why w
919.
by rcfox 15y ago
"Just the fact that he chose to shaft me is a strong enough indication that he will not succeed." Very well put!
920.
by rcfox 15y ago
Black is the absence of colour. White is composed of all other colours.
921.
Redhat 5.1 Redneck Internationalization(ninesys.com)
72 points by rcfox 15y ago|9 comments
922.
by rcfox 15y ago
My university required my resume to be in HTML for applying through their system, so I used to have everything in one HTML file with irrelevant sections just hidden with CSS. (I also exploited the ability to link external CSS to make a scri
923.
by rcfox 15y ago
Grandma does have another option: She could leave the city.
924.
by rcfox 15y ago
Perogies and peas. Not so much because it makes me creative, but because it's just about the fastest thing I can make which isn't terrible for me. I boil the perogies and the peas together for ~5 minutes, and they're done. Cleanup is as sim
925.
by rcfox 15y ago
Maybe a $5/$10 price tag North America could help keep the price around $1 in Africa.
926.
by rcfox 15y ago
> On a finite-memory machine, a computation fails to halt iff it eventually repeats a state This is too strong of a statement. Lots of software simply loops, repeating the same state over and over, until an external interrupt occurs.
927.
by rcfox 15y ago
I've notified those in charge of the site. Thanks for pointing that out!
928.
by rcfox 15y ago
Either way, you're going to have the incorrect number. When debugging, I'd rather have something that is very incorrect rather than having a mysterious off-by-one error. Edit: The C99 standard acknowledges that abs(INT_MIN) isn't representa
929.
by rcfox 15y ago
INTERCAL -> not funny enough -> LOLCode
930.
by rcfox 15y ago
I didn't mean to say that it is fraud or money laundering, just that it might look like it. Anyway, what's the difference between giving something away for free, and selling something and receiving $0?

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