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by seabee 14y ago
Not since 6 months ago: http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/features/2012/squatting-new-c...
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by seabee 14y ago
Now every TV broadcast is digital, BBC3/4 are less 'ghetto' and more 'dumping grounds'
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by seabee 14y ago
Is the BBC big enough to fend off ITV, C5 or Sky who don't have to worry about such issues? Remember Occam's Razor before jumping to conclusions about corruption...
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by seabee 14y ago
s/UK/London
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by seabee 14y ago
The point I infer from your post is only valid if all second-generation+ immigrants are fully assimilated into the country's majority culture. The existence of various racial and geographical cultures would go against this theory.
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by seabee 14y ago
Infix operators can be emulated thanks to a built-in reader macro. Example: (i . <= . (length lst)) Which moves the stuff between . to the head of the sexpr.
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by seabee 14y ago
If you're doing it right you aren't doing it at home.
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by seabee 14y ago
Conservatism isn't synonymous with libertarianism.
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by seabee 14y ago
Because releasing it into the public domain would benefit people more than it hurts Disney? That's not the right question to ask anyway. Copyright only exists insomuch as government grants it - thus they can take it away if they please, or
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by seabee 14y ago
They aren't as profitable as a lot of analysts/shareholders would like them to be. If you consider that these people could have invested in Samsung instead, you might understand why people see this as a failure rather than just 'less succes
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by seabee 14y ago
Asking for DRM-free movies only makes sense in the context of purchasing. Rental is the oldest form of DRM. That's basically how it works.
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by seabee 14y ago
The corollary (and parent's point) is that securing excess votes will worsen your bill with no benefit to you, so you avoid this.
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by seabee 14y ago
Anyone with kids is well aware of this fact - though they rarely intend to stand on them!
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by seabee 14y ago
How long is the spec for CL? It surely is a tenth of the C++ spec.
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by seabee 14y ago
IIRC this is still a problem if your carrier doesn't fully support LTE, i.e. you still need your 3G radio switched on to receive calls.
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by seabee 14y ago
Just off the top of my head, the cotton industry and banana industry are notable counterexamples to your argument.
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by seabee 14y ago
Funnily enough that's precisely why another government legislated what crypto their citizens should use.
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by seabee 14y ago
To expand on the point, the purpose of income taxes is to force the broadest shoulders to bear the largest burden. Whether you feel it's ethical to do so, for the purpose of the discussion we say it's OK - after all we can point to many cas
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by seabee 14y ago
If you notice carefully the new iPhone is not a resolution change but a size change; they can letterbox old apps because the dimensions and resolution is identical to old iPhones that way. There is no comparable solution if you simply incre
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by seabee 14y ago
Ideally this would be solved in a similar way as when you statically link to libraries in C - the parts of your dependency are pulled in and users don't have to worry about it. (There are other issues with this of course, but they are well
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by seabee 14y ago
The point is that you can get away with inefficient code on desktop Windows, which is invariably caused by your favourite application framework rather than glib developers (not) inserting sleep calls everywhere.
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by seabee 14y ago
I don't understand what you are getting at. Typically MP3s use mid/side encoding, where the diffence between the channels is computed before the compression step.
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by seabee 14y ago
The question actually has nothing to do with JavaScript specifically, it's not much more than 'do you know what memoization is' if I understood it correctly.
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by seabee 14y ago
And sold out in many places, too, so demand can't be measured by sales.
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by seabee 14y ago
I can side load apps on my Android device. I can install things like Cyanogenmod. How is this not more open?
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by seabee 14y ago
My favourite example of prior art, from a Donald Duck comic: http://www.iusmentis.com/patents/priorart/donaldduck/
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by seabee 14y ago
Consoles have been walled gardens since the 80s video game crash. It would be notable if Valve broke from this model.
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by seabee 14y ago
That's the eventual result of globalisation, yes.
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by seabee 14y ago
Again to nit-pick: it's not wrong, it's just not exhaustive :)
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by seabee 14y ago
Programmers ought to have a lot less hubris about their subject. The difference in difficulty between imperative languages is not as large as you think - and changes depending on the problem domain. Networking enables the Internet in much t

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