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by sabat 17y ago
Journalist shield laws are about journalists being able to protect sources who may have committed crimes. They’re not a license for journalists to commit crimes themselves. But the Apple employee, Gray Powell, admits to having lost the
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Gruber: Journalist Shield Law Won't Help in Gizmodo Case(daringfireball.net)
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* If 1 million plays don't earn you any money, what's the incentive for less well-known artists?* Very similar to CD sales -- the record companies take the profits and pay the artists very little. Exactly the opposite of what it should be.
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Yes. But the important difference here is in the actual murders -- the act of going beyond threats. I have a hard time taking that as a minor distinction.
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Piss Christ didn't inspire any murders that we know about, but he's got a good point about the ongoing abortion clinic killings.
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DuckDuckGo! I have to check that out. Keep hearing about it.
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The hope I can give you: Google employs a pretty smart guy, Matt Cutts, who heads a team of other smart people dedicated to breaking the problem you're complaining about. It's in Google's best interest, because if search results return crap
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This is the tragedy of the modern education system in that it rewards participation not winning. Winning is entirely beside the point. Sure, merely showing up should not be enough (never mind what Woody Allen said). But education should b
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Pride? No. Self-respect? Yes. Ally's dissing us for no good reason, and I'm pointing out that if anyone is to be shrugged off into a corner, it's not us. I'm also being a little hyperbolic for (intended) light comedy.
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The blogger notes that Market Street seemed wider than it does today. I disagree; it really looks about the same. Keep in mind that the sidewalk is much larger now than it appears to be in 1906.
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I like Curry and Dvorak, but -- as the other replier says -- Curry is quite ignorant and Dvorak isn't far behind. Neither seem to understand the concept of fair-minded evaluation. Everything is a conspiracy by some evil faction, usually t
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by sabat 17y ago
That was a fun movie. I was a teenager, a hacker, and was blown away to see my secret society hit the big screen. A friend of mine actually had an Imsai 8080 (David Lightman's computer), so I recognized it immediately. One thing that bother
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by sabat 17y ago
I touched an iPad for the first time today, in the Burlingame Apple Store. I wanted one more than I had expected. And: I really do see what Apple is going after with it. This is what the computer will evolve into -- an appliance that facili
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by sabat 17y ago
Maybe in the social space, except that there are social companies with serious profits (Zynga). But overall? VCs are still not investing at a significant rate. It's better than it was a year ago, but their funds are still much lower than pr
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by sabat 17y ago
Two things: 1- as someone who is more or less in the job/contract market in SV, I can confirm that the past two months have seen a dramatic rise in hiring. The past two weeks have especially intense compared to the past months. 2- startups
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by sabat 17y ago
almost impossible to get included in these days Not true! I've been included within the past year or so. It took a year before I was actually included, sure. But it's not impossible. I have no reason to believe I was merely lucky.
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by sabat 17y ago
Seven words: Federal Pound-Me-in-the-Ass Prison. OK, yeah, I know, they're only civil charges. But a boy can dream.
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Ning seems to be looking for ways to piss off its customer base.
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It's a psychological depressant as well.
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I'm not sure which is more depressing: the experience of reading this article, or the fact that it's dead-on correct. I, for one, can't wait until the shoe's back on the other foot where it belongs. (You know, like when developers have to p
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One more reason I wish PG would implement a vote-down function.
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In real life (i.e. not photos), Dan doesn't wear his glasses much, and looks way less business-y. He's also not pudgy like John Hodgeman.
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Makes me want to go to one of the SV/SF Hackers and Founders meetups. On drinking with co-workers: point taken, but if you are actually having mood problems, watch the alcohol intake. It's a depressant.
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To some degree, it's voodoo. When you deal with machines of a particular OS every day, you get a feel for what the numbers mean. you can't determine why as (no processes are using high CPU) Roughly, the load avg is the length of the run q
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* it's fairly established that women tend to have bigger vocabularies than men; they do better on the verbal portions of the SATs and GREs, for instance.* The only true generalization is that there are no true generalizations. Example: I'm
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You're being very hard on someone who merely asked an honest question. Lighten up, particularly if you don't actually have an answer for the guy.
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My wife likes to say: the problem with making something idiot-proof is that they will always invent a bigger idiot.
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I would rather buy a locked-down iPad -- well-executed -- than poorly executed attempts at science fiction (Doctorow's). Seriously, the world is not black-and-white, and Doctorow needs to learn that.
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Right, so if you want to connect over the network? What happens? Oh, yeah -- it doesn't work. And then you have google and google with no real idea of what keywords to use other than 'postgres connection problem' until you find the arcane c
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I really wanted this to be true. Just for a second.

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