richardfontana

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by richardfontana 4y ago
Incidentally, in the US, the transformation during the early to mid 20th century of the basic law degree (originally typically LLB [Bachelor of Laws]) into a postgraduate JD (Juris Doctor) with a 4-year undergraduate degree prerequisite, an
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by richardfontana 4y ago
Actual URL of article (under the title "Mosaic Netscape: One Small Step for the Web..."): https://web.archive.org/web/19961102091029/http://desires.co...
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by richardfontana 4y ago
> Years ago somebody decided—I don’t know how this conclusion was reached—that the most beautiful phrase in the English language was cellar door. That was Tolkien: http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Cellar_door
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Japanese Toponyms Englished(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
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Counterpart (TV Series)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by richardfontana 5y ago
The author, Lars Eighner, was a frequent and eloquent contributor to a Usenet newsgroup I participated in ~20 years ago. Sorry to learn of his passing.
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by richardfontana 5y ago
From what I observed back when I was working at IP-specialty firms, it's pretty common and a credential that would be sought after. I think in the life sciences area, if you wanted to get into patent agent work and didn't have a
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by richardfontana 5y ago
Agreed. For those who don't know, the term "patent prosecution" is US legal industry jargon referring to the process of applying for and obtaining a patent. The term is used as a shorthand to refer to a common specialty area
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by richardfontana 5y ago
FWIW: IAAL and I also have a CS educational background but never really worked as an engineer outside of academia. I spent a few years in the middle of my legal career working primarily on patent prosecution, which is the work also done by
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Richard von Weizsäcker's speech on the 40th anniversary of the end of WW2 (1985)(bundespraesident.de)
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by richardfontana 5y ago
Indeed, I would go as far as to say that not glottalizing the /t/ in such words (preceding unstressed syllabic /n/) could sound somewhat odd or affected in American English. "Important" is an interesting word
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by richardfontana 5y ago
"Ask" is the first male human in Norse mythology, and Embla the first female human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask_and_Embla
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Cause of Cambrian Explosion – Terrestrial or Cosmic? (2018)(sciencedirect.com)
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Alien Aqueducts: The Maps of Martian Canals(publicdomainreview.org)
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Software Heritage(softwareheritage.org)
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by richardfontana 5y ago
I've had an Awair Element for about 16 months. The only time I've experienced what you may mean by "stuck" measurements was about a month ago, when PM2.5 was puzzlingly and worryingly at a consistently higher than usual
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by richardfontana 6y ago
In spoken language, the people at Conservancy generally call the organization "Conservancy" (no "the") but I believe prefer "the Software Freedom Conservancy" as the full name. It's true that "the&quo
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by richardfontana 6y ago
Something apparently similar has been present in American English for many years now. See: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005523.h...
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by richardfontana 6y ago
Though I'm not too familiar with all his work, two of his albums had quite an impact on me when I was growing up: the pre-ambient _Before and After Science_ (1977) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLiAX3NjBY and the cl
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Making compliance scalable in a container world(opensource.com)
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Japanese Topynyms Englished(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
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by richardfontana 6y ago
Also related to the etymology of Massachusetts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts#Etymology
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American English "broil"; see https://www.lexico.com/definition/grill#grill__12 .
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by richardfontana 7y ago
Would you consider working with visual artists other than painters (I have a good friend who is a textile/fabric artist)?
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Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome(nytimes.com)
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by richardfontana 7y ago
Specifically for "out of an abundance of caution", in Google Books there begin to be usages around 1911, based on a very quick search. As noted by someone else it's a pretty common phrase among American lawyers.
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by richardfontana 7y ago
Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_breach
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by richardfontana 7y ago
Indeed that Qt-KDE "treaty" was an inspiration for the feature of copyleft-next that bkuhn lauds in this article.
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The quoted language is from the long-extinct AGPLv1, which was published in the early 2000s and adopted by only a handful of projects.
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This is not entirely accurate. (Well, there's a possibility that the FSF had early private drafts of GPLv3 that adapted the terms of AGPLv1 in some sort of straightforward sense.) (Source: I was more or less at the center of these deve

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