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3511.
by rosser 17y ago
As a skinny fellow, I tend to agree -- or, rather, my metabolism agrees for me. Counter-point, though: consider the "obesity paradox". Statistically, obesity correlates massively more positively with survival in the face of catastrophic ill
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by rosser 17y ago
Actually, PostgreSQL's MVCC architecture makes lock contention radically less likely than with most other DBMSes. For SELECTs, you're only ever taking "Access Share" locks on the table ("Hey, I'm using this table; you can't DROP it right no
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by rosser 17y ago
Whether your notional smart person ultimately chooses a given product or not, based on the results of their research, advertising may still be the thing that makes them aware of the product in the first place.
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by rosser 17y ago
First, I never suggested giving every dummy off the street a pass if they blow the technical portion of the interview. You're right: mistakes are acceptable. Given that, you have to base your decision on whether the person is a match for yo
3515.
by rosser 17y ago
You've never once, under pressure and time constraints, made a stupid, simple, oh-god-i'm-an-idiot mistake? You're a better man/woman than I.
3516.
by rosser 17y ago
I don't think they had much choice. I do think they got off cheap, though. At that point Apple was the only thing in the consumer OS space they could point at and call "competitor" with a straight face. It also sold a lot of copies of Offic
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by rosser 17y ago
But for the purposes of that article, that's not how an open source developer is defined. Maybe in his last point, but we'll get to that. For the most part, it seems like he's just talking about the benefits you get from hiring, or even con
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by rosser 17y ago
True as all that may be, Nokia has had time to understand and adapt to Linux, resulting in Maemo. If they're only smart enough to realize it, they may be able to make up much of the ground they'll have missed by leveraging what's going on
3519.
by rosser 17y ago
Being able to notice little details like that is completely orthogonal to an individual's relative initiative and creativity vs. automaton-hood. It's probably often enough that those very details you were "too rushed to notice" are the ones
3520.
by rosser 17y ago
I have the ThinkPad tablet. (x61; I have two of 'em, actually.) Love it. Favorite machine ever, warts and all.
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by rosser 17y ago
Crude simulations may or may not invalidate theories, but they're notoriously bad at weeding out ultimately inviable lines of investigation. The raw, real world is messy and unpredictable in a way a simulation can never be, and until someth
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by rosser 17y ago
I'd honestly love for this to be a fabrication of some sort. The implications of its being true are a little disquieting.
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by rosser 17y ago
It's particularly galling because the fake ATM was put right outside the security entrance . I'd almost be willing to bet that any account number/PIN tuples gained from this (if they were collected before the unit was discovered) won't be
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by rosser 17y ago
Politics?
3525.
by rosser 17y ago
There's a heap of fail in the hotel's security not noticing an unaccounted for ATM right next to their entrance. In Vegas, of all places?
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Evoloution's Third Replicator(newscientist.com)
11 points by rosser 17y ago|3 comments
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by rosser 17y ago
I mean, gosh. There weren't even any aliens ! I didn't find it anything like the ride his previous two were, but I'm not sure it was meant to be. That's not to defend the book; I definitely think character took a bit of a back seat to the
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by rosser 17y ago
My favorite part is the bit where the respondents will have to specifically justify each bit they want kept confidential. To wit: Accordingly, “blanket” requests for confidentiality of a large set of documents are unacceptable. We may act
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by rosser 17y ago
Apple is manufacturing and selling telecommunications devices. That being the case, the FCC's purview extends well beyond simply clearing the devices for interference. That's the standard a device is held to if it may emit EM radiation,
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by rosser 17y ago
Am I squatting because I've registered a few tens of domains (and paid for them, faithfully, every year ), but haven't yet gotten 'round to the projects I registered them for? Are you going to take my domains away because my paying work ta
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by rosser 17y ago
I had a similar complaint when I first learned about the DNS. My favorite ax to grind was movies. There's something on the order of thirty squillion domains out there of the form latesthollywoodturdmovie.com. (Often because latesthollywoodt
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by rosser 17y ago
The world needs more Bill Hicks types. He was -- still is -- my favorite comic, bar none.
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by rosser 17y ago
Only if you're absolutely insistent on playing chicken with the ground. You will, of course, lose -- probably badly. People have walked away from their parachutes not opening, though. Most don't, and it's not an experience you should seek o
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by rosser 17y ago
The IP assignments I've signed when joining a company (and always gotten modified in my favor to varying degrees) have never said anything about whether or not they have their shit together enough to pay me. In my experience, they tend to b
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by rosser 17y ago
This is a common misunderstanding -- probably committed more often by Americans than non-, though, so don't feel too badly. The fact of the matter is that private corporations (and that includes publicly traded such; ahh, the vagaries of En