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by rectang 12y ago
Lots of non-technological projects are funded on Kickstarter. Before Kickstarter existed, I once donated a substantial sum (for me) to a local musician who I was a big fan of and whose albums I had listened to countless times. Fast-forward
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by rectang 12y ago
Probably for the same reason I don't as an open source developer: the donation model doesn't yield a lot of income. It's more worthwhile to put your resources towards developing other revenue streams. Maybe donation links wo
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by rectang 12y ago
I agree that the royalties are too low, but there is a world of difference between zero-cost and non-zero-cost. If the environment allows competition between distribution channels and artists are able to negotiate, artist compensation has t
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by rectang 12y ago
+1. As someone who makes my living off writing open source software, I am highly aware of the challenges in finding tenable business models when distribution is free. The particular model which works for me was to become an employee of a c
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by rectang 12y ago
In US radio, unlike radio elsewhere in the world, performers don't receive royalties -- only composers do. This was set early on in the history of radio and became very hard to change. I'm glad that we seem to have made it throug
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by rectang 12y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/nyregion/remote-controlled... A remote-controlled copter killed this poor fellow.
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by rectang 12y ago
The user pays a cost every time a UI changes -- but the user also pays a cost if a UI is frozen forever and not permitted to evolve. What are some techniques for evolving UIs at minimal cost to the user?
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by rectang 12y ago
You can drag-and-drop items between keychains -- you just need to enter the passwords for both keychains when doing so. This makes it possible to keep valuable items in one or more auxiliary keychains set to always prompt (lock after 0 minu
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by rectang 12y ago
That's an unfortunate name for a Hadoop-related project. https://crunch.apache.org/
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by rectang 12y ago
Other examples: If you ever take a landlord to court or make an insurance claim, you'll be marked as a bad risk -- even if your grievances were 100% legit.
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by rectang 12y ago
There's "Learn C The Hard Way" -- http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ . It teaches you the essential, modern practice of developing with Valgrind right away. I'd also suggest going though the ex
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by rectang 12y ago
I'd speculate that if you're unlucky about link order, two hot cache lines may get mapped to the same slot in an N-way associative cache -- whereas if you're lucky, they end up going to different slots and don't continuo
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by rectang 12y ago
The GNOME folks considered that in their solicitation. From < http://gnome.org/groupon/> : If we are able to defend the mark without spending this amount, we will use the remaining funds to bolster a
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by rectang 12y ago
What's the license? I don't see anything in any of the source files, nor the README, nor any files such as LICENSE/COPYING/etc at the top of the repo.
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by rectang 12y ago
Donated. I hope that Groupon finds its ability to attract and retain engineering talent substantially degraded.
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by rectang 12y ago
A rule I learned from my father: Multiply any software estimate by pi.
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by rectang 12y ago
> Is there a reason for the lack of IPv6 support? Yeah -- the failure to design IPv6 as a compatible extension of IPv4 in order to ease migration. See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
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by rectang 12y ago
Maybe the general public can gofundme Tom Wheeler 40 or 50 million dollars to compensate him for for the bribe we're asking him to sacrifice.
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by rectang 12y ago
From a Gawker commenter (< http://valleywag.gawker.com/i-became-ceo-by-patiently-waitin... >): "I became CEO by patiently waiting and having faith in the system." Said no CEO ever. I hope that
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by rectang 12y ago
The article exhorts the tech industry to tackle the problem of diversity immediately rather than wait for relief from the pipeline. So what are some things we can do as individuals, right now? One thing that has worked for me over the year