rowyourboat

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by rowyourboat 12y ago
Of course pedantry is fun. Somehow, the way the title is worded grates me. It manages to imply that anybody who does not find killing patents "fun" is evil. That's the false dichotomy: Either you find killing patents fun, or
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by rowyourboat 12y ago
"Am I evil, or is killing patents just plain fun?" Neither. You just like false dichotomies.
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
"I failed to explain the benefits Ramen can provide." No, I think those came across quite clearly. He wants to know how it works, i.e. what is required of him, and what will the process of getting funded look like. That's a d
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
Web designers should be forced to use el cheapo LCD monitors. Dark grey text on black and light grey text on white are really hard to read if you do not have a very good monitor.
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
Apparently I'm living in your bizarro world, because Google's DNS servers consistently outperform my home ISP's by a factor 2 or 3, spiking to 10, in terms of measured response time. So yes, my ISP sucks.
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
The knobs are not silly. A well designed knobs-levers-and-buttons interface can be committed to muscle memory and operated without taking your eyes off the road.
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
The problem with the Tesla screen, in a non-Swiss-specific nutshell: A touch screen cannot be operated without looking at it. There are things that you would regularly expect to operate while driving that can only be operated by touch scree
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
Why would you need a PID controller? All you need to do is power the heating element until your sensor reads the desired temp, then shut it off. A PID ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller ) is way overkill. Also
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
Yeah... "This is how it looks" or "this is what it looks like" are logically consistent. "This is how it looks like"? It looks like how?
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
Funnily, I find digg/reddit/hn easy to skim, while NYT's front page layout is overwhelming to me (well, not easy to quickly skim for interesting content). So I guess it depends on what you're used to. As usual.
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
The article mentions sending SMS invitations and shows as an example the case where the user apparently did not mean to send the text message. Do text messages cost the user money in the US, too? In Europe, they do, and while it's not
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
I never understood why HSTs are supposed to be in competition with planes. For short trips (<500km), HSTs generally win against planes when comparing door-to-door times, but so do cars. For longer trips, planes win. Period. To me, the HS
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
Ah, ok. That makes a bit more sense. Although if it is truly impossible to know X, but everything works as if X holds, we might just take the easy way out and assume that X until proven otherwise. But that may be my personal philosophy.
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
This is the kind of philosophical argument I cannot understand. The question is essentially: "Given that it is impossible to know X, how could you know if X"? There is nothing to think about. The scenario answers its own question.
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
It's doing-the-right-things plus luck. You do need to be good at marketing. You do need to get product-market-fit quickly. You do need to have a good product, and so on. The better you are at these things, the less luck is required. B
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
The problem is that the article has its facts all mixed up and glosses over the central point, which is the difference between a law and a standard. Without getting that point across, this is just publicity for its own sake.
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
The morality of the situation is very clear: Those standards are de facto law because they are treated by common practices as if they were the law. Hence they need to be in the public domain. I agree that if those standards are indeed de
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
If your point is that these standards are in fact de-facto laws and should be treated accordingly (free access and all), then make that point directly. It is unclear to me how copyright violation helps here, apart from publicity.
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
I agree the situation is not ideal, and I applaud any effort to try to show that the way the law and the standard are intertwined make for a de facto incorporation of the standard into law (which would mean the standard would have to be acc
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
Example: The law says that the pacifier must be made in such a way that it cannot be swallowed. Your options are: 1. Develop your own way of ensuring that the pacifier cannot be swallowed and prove that it's effective 2. Buy the standa
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
The entire point of this post is that there's a difference between the law and the standard. The law is publicly published, of course. What Malamud did was publish the standard. And, this distinction is important: You have to follow th
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
That does not make it legal to publish a work without the copyright holder's consent.
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by rowyourboat 13y ago
Reuters has mucked this story up. Germany does not want a German Internet, that's just plain silly. Deutsche Telekom just wants to rearrange its peering with other German ISPs so that requests that originate and end in Germany never le