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by sfk 17y ago
"I don't know why this comment is being modded down, this is a good idea (IMO)." Because some people do not think about everything in monetary terms.
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by sfk 17y ago
The Oxford Dictionary lists "raises the question" as a valid interpretation of the phrase.
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by sfk 17y ago
Did anyone find the the sources for the benchmarks?
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by sfk 17y ago
I suspect they couldn't do much with 0000000, where the first digit that is chopped off is my secret digit. I was under the impression that this trick usually involves the difference of two numbers with the same digits.
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by sfk 17y ago
I'm young and guess what: I've seen web shops where the checkout process is broken. When that happens, I go to the competition rather than taking time to report the error.
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Taxes, Warren Buffett, and Paying My Fair Share(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
34 points by sfk 17y ago|29 comments
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by sfk 17y ago
I'm afraid I don't agree with your use of the term "innovative". Regarding Gmail, I'd rather say they managed to clone mutt+procmail for the web in a reasonable manner. Regarding Maps, the fundamental operations had been in place since at l
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by sfk 17y ago
Do you have evidence that Google is cracking down on those? Because I frequently get both Wikipedia clones and various Usenet "archives" ranking very high in my search results. Since they are always the same sites, they should be be easy to
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by sfk 17y ago
I already replied, but I think this warrants a second reply: I would already be much happier if the voting policies were _known_, and I'll tell you why: For example, I've frequently seen the idea that voting power should be based on some ki
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by sfk 17y ago
I agree that ideally I should provide alternatives. However, I honestly thing that the kind of tweaking that is currently happening has no visible benefits but a lot of drawbacks. I simply do not /see/ any alternatives. Also, I'm of the opi
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by sfk 17y ago
Well, on blogs Haskell, F# and clojure are popular, but in the words of past decades: Show us the code.
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by sfk 17y ago
The Java stuff is still here: http://java.sun.com/new2java/
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by sfk 17y ago
They provide other people with the information that not everyone here wants to discuss the hype of the day. For me, this was valuable, since (coincidentally?) yesterday was the first day that I couldn't find any submission that I was even
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by sfk 17y ago
The (A)GPL is still very relevant. The whole point of free software (in the GNU sense) is that you should have complete access to the sources of a software system. In the case of a web application, this includes server side software. No mat
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by sfk 17y ago
Enthusiasm, yes, but where is the output? Usually, when I read about a Lisp success story, there's a paragraph: ... and we could not have done this without A, B, C ... by Edi Weitz. Lisp needs more people like him who actually release softw
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by sfk 17y ago
And this is the job of the U.S.: http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/
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by sfk 17y ago
The poster has said: "if there's some channel I can use that doesn't clutter his inbox" Since this is standard netiquette, actually his mailbox would be an extremely unusual place for questions like this.
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by sfk 17y ago
For the record, I am experiencing the same and I find it highly annoying. If the true voting policy is not known, this site's credibility suffers.
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by sfk 17y ago
Markdown is not John Gruber's baby, it is an open source project. Stop anthropomorphizing everything in order to make a cheap point.
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A. Stepanov on the STL(antiquark.com)
40 points by sfk 17y ago|20 comments
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by sfk 17y ago
Interesting information. This was the time when the bubble was expanding rapidly. Anything got sold for $80 million in those days. I'm sure that Frankel is an excellent programmer, but this in no way an example that excellent programmers
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by sfk 17y ago
And it's equally idiotic on your blog as it is on hundreds of other blogs. What is the point of having the same "content" posted over and over again in a multitude of venues?
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by sfk 17y ago
Four legs good, two legs bad. Or the other way round.
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by sfk 17y ago
I questioned your 2 hour old account elsewhere in this thread, but this settles it: flagged for trolling or possibly even astroturfing.
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by sfk 17y ago
Your stories are most appreciated. If I extrapolate from myself, the problem is simply that the people who enjoy submissions like these are often reluctant to go through the new submissions.
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by sfk 17y ago
Did you create your account specifically to make this factually incorrect comment?
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by sfk 17y ago
I think this is common sense. If X ships a device with exploding batteries manufactured by Y, X is sued by the end customer, not Y.
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by sfk 17y ago
I do hope that Plurk goes to court with this. The situation was handled gracefully by Microsoft but a crucial question remains: Can you outsource to the lowest bidder and expect to get back untainted code? I don't think so. Producing good o
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by sfk 17y ago
This is a straw man. I primarily objected to the use of the word "progress" as a euphemism for "copyright infringement". It is fundamentally wrong to support one kind of infringement while condemning another. The damages awarded in the U.S.
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by sfk 17y ago
Is copyright infringement progress? I'm sure the plurk.com folks would not agree. Long live double standards.

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