rsanders

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by rsanders 12y ago
Syncing files is pretty much Dropbox's core business. Of all the things to worry about them getting right, that one wouldn't concern me.
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by rsanders 13y ago
The kernel does quite a lot of work to prevent user-space programs from doing stupid stuff to each other, or to at least ameliorate the impact of such stupidity. One of the Unix philosophies has always been to prevent a runaway program from
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by rsanders 13y ago
I may well misunderstand how Social Security works. However, the point of my comment is that it's hardly the only system to which one might contribute funds, incurring some future obligation of (re)payment on the part of that system, w
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by rsanders 13y ago
You never get your money back out of a bank; you get somebody else's money, if there ever even was physical money involved. And you never step in the same river twice. I think that's all splitting metaphysical hairs.
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by rsanders 13y ago
How is a signal generated by something owned by me, located inside my private residence, intended for use inside my house by my family and guests only, considered "publicly broadcast"? Are cordless phone transmissions publicly bro
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by rsanders 13y ago
What good is the experiment if nobody uses it as though it were "real"?
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by rsanders 13y ago
Why do you assume that any coins were in cold storage? That's just another unverifiable assertion.
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by rsanders 13y ago
Yes, it is a substantial generalization, or perhaps a sentence not carefully crafted to withstand nitpicking. In my job I do the very thing you describe. That said, I'm spending a lot more of my day preparing for the more likely risks,
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by rsanders 13y ago
I couldn't agree with this more. It's human nature not to prepare for a theoretical risk. But once it's happened to you, and to many others in the same industry, it's just foolishness not to invest in prevention. I imagi
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by rsanders 13y ago
In the US, capital losses can be applied to capital gains without any such limit. Perhaps you are thinking of the amount of carried forward cap loss that can be applied to offset ordinary income.
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by rsanders 13y ago
DEVONthink Pro Office doesn't have the beauty of Doo or a name that's even remotely decent from a marketing point of view, but it is a workhorse of a doc processing engine. And it even syncs between multiple computers and Dropbox
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by rsanders 13y ago
Who do you think is listening to your quiet signal? Who is supposed to care?
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by rsanders 13y ago
By "lists", you mean "linked lists as implemented with pairs"? What's the practical difference between lists and the seq abstraction (immutability aside)? It's true that Clojure provides a lot of data types, bu
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by rsanders 13y ago
That doesn't make any sense. They aren't changing the price on subscriptions you already paid for.
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by rsanders 13y ago
Giant rewrites don't have the best track record of success. Other than language aesthetics, what would be the justification for undertaking that enormous cost and risk? I despise PHP but I wouldn't make that call.
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by rsanders 13y ago
The mutual non-disparagement did not appear to be part of the original agreement, and was only mentioned as a possibility. Such agreements are usually asymmetric in who benefits and who bears the responsibilities, and the company dangles th
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by rsanders 13y ago
Emergency room care is not the same as free kidney transplants.
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by rsanders 13y ago
Indeed. Now name all the other Lisps and Schemes in wide use that are based on immutable data structures.
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by rsanders 13y ago
Racket is one other good example but he was responding to the "all other lisps" claim. Racket pretty unusual in many regards, so I think the Dwightian "False" was unnecessary here. Or anywhere, really.
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by rsanders 13y ago
I've been using Google Docs / Apps since long before Drive, and sharing within the org has NEVER worked in a sane fashion.
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by rsanders 13y ago
Chromecast comes with a short HDMI extender cable. Enjoy the dangly future. I suspect TV makers will adapt before long and sprinkle HDMI connectors a bit farther apart.
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by rsanders 13y ago
From what 355.96 MB/s source are you receiving that video? For some very common use cases, it's either HDTV channels or Blu-Ray, both of which give you compressed bitstreams of less than 50 Mbps. 802.11n can handle that with ease.
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by rsanders 13y ago
That's important. My older son had severe jaundice due in part to the hematoma caused by use of a vacuum extractor during a difficult birth.
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by rsanders 13y ago
I'm using the standard definition, of course. Seriously, the absence of a published standard from a credible and relevant standards body would be my primary objection to the phrase. Barring that, de facto standardization would be indic
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by rsanders 13y ago
I have no axe to grind against LLVM or PNaCl, but I think you may have a novel definition of "quite standardized".
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by rsanders 13y ago
For a while there were non-x86 Windows NT boxes. In fact, there are again with Windows RT. Wintel versus WinDEC or Wintanium or WinMIPS, for example, though there was never enough market shire for any of those to justify a neologism.
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by rsanders 13y ago
Does the Datomic Console app count against the 2 peer limit when running?
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by rsanders 13y ago
I have never been able to follow the logical step between "this is pretty obviously a bad thing" and "but it's okay and everybody should shut up about it because it was 'common knowledge' -- i.e. what we might
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by rsanders 13y ago
I've been an iPhone user since the first one shipped, and just changed to a Galaxy Note 3. It's neither cheap nor rubbish. But I do feel a bit uneasy about supporting them in light of their history of "extreme homage" in
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by rsanders 13y ago
The print ads rarely jump in front of the text, permanently obscuring it. It's baffling, but this is a real phenomenon on the mobile web.

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