selven

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by selven 17y ago
If you use robots.txt and shut out Google, your news source will fade into obscurity. This is obvious. The conclusion, however, is that by indexing their news sites Google is providing the news sites a service, so if anyone should be paying
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by selven 17y ago
Very interesting, although we are (sadly) past the point where squeezing every byte you can get out of your program matters.
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by selven 17y ago
Indeed. You're taking the effort of making it once, but the collective readers are taking the effort of reading it tens, hundreds or thousands of times.
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by selven 17y ago
Sorry, formatting screwed up. The link is http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowToEditPythonCode , it says that using tabs is a bad idea in Python.
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by selven 17y ago
I think that is <a href=" http://wiki.python.org/moin/HowToEditPythonCode>intentio... ;
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by selven 17y ago
The blackberry argument is exactly the place where open source is the answer. I have a python script that I fully understand (and wrote much of it myself) grabbing email data off the internet, and only it knows my password - I wouldn't dare
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by selven 17y ago
From equating downloading to stealing to praising Lord Mandelson and his guilty-before-proven-innocent approach to copyright to the anti-technology sentiment, this seems like an article written by the RIAA (or local equivalent).
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by selven 17y ago
We could always make a compromise where people who choose to moderate can't see scores. It would be trivial to circumvent but it will deter 90% of people, and here that's 90% as good as deterring 100%.
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by selven 17y ago
I read the student worksheet. The RIAA stated that the cost of sharing a song online is 99 cents. That basically kills their arguments against Thomas/Tenenbaum.