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by spinlock 12y ago
I'll admit right away that I haven't looked at the API OP posted so this is a little off the cuff, but .... this is exactly the way you want to do it. If you have a well defined API, you don't care what's on the other si
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by spinlock 12y ago
First, I was trying to relate the ideas behind the patent system not to describe how it works in practice. So, while I always like to talk about how gnu and Linux took over the world, it's not relavent to the discussion of rents vis a
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by spinlock 12y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it worked, only that this was the idea behind the system. The practice of our patent system is pretty far off from this ideal.
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by spinlock 12y ago
The philosophy behind patents is that they encourage the sharing of research so that the total cost of rnd to society is minimized. Whithout ip protection, firms would rely on trade secrets. They would still charge more for their products b
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by spinlock 12y ago
Is entrepreneurship struggling. I would have assumed we were in an entrepreneurship bubble.
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by spinlock 12y ago
Absolutely. I imagine this hypothetical company would have fired both parties who ingaged in an affair that caused friction at the office. My point was that Pao seems a day late and a dollar short by pursuing an HR solution after, rather th
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by spinlock 12y ago
I feel like there's an analogy between medical states and first-world-problems here. I went to grad school in a red state and pot was really hard to find. I did have a guy who was great and always on the ball but you could tell his pro
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by spinlock 12y ago
Pot actually accounts for most of the income of Mexican drug cartels.
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by spinlock 12y ago
I believe that's Kurotetsuka's law.
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by spinlock 12y ago
Could you be more paternalistic? We're talking about a woman who was a partner at one of the best VC firms in the world. Pointing our her unprofessional behavior implies nothing more than that _she_ should have known better. If you rea
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by spinlock 12y ago
"married" was only one word in my comment. Replace it with "recently separated" or even "single" and it still equals incredibly inappropriate conduct. the reason you don't dip your pen in the company ink i
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by spinlock 12y ago
Yes. This is why professionals don't date coworkers (married or otherwise).
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by spinlock 12y ago
It's disappointing that this comment is getting downvoted. This case would be so much simpler if Pao had started talking about needing HR policies before she had an affair with a married co-worker.
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by spinlock 12y ago
It still sounds sketchy to me. Threatening to leave is giving your employer an ultimatum. Personally, I think the rational response to this is to placate you, find your replacement, then fire you. If you actually have issues with your work
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by spinlock 12y ago
Wow. I would never say I was going to jump ship until I had my plans set out. In the past I've given 6 weeks notice when it was asked for but I just wouldn't put myself in a situation where they might fire me before I fund my next
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by spinlock 12y ago
FYI - BusyBox is just a regular application that a kernel would run. It's not part of the kernel itself.
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by spinlock 12y ago
It used to be common to loan the employee the money to purchase the stock. This avoids both the tax and early termination problems.
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by spinlock 12y ago
Everyone who sells a stock is sending a clear signal that they think the money they are getting is worth more than the stock they are selling. So, I'm hard pressed to consider it a scam when someone acts in a completely transparent man
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by spinlock 12y ago
yeah, my grandparent used to put my dad on a 50 mile bus ride to stay with his grandparents during the week. we used to play outside -- probably 2 mile radius -- all the time.
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by spinlock 12y ago
I feel like the author is advocating for an easy API over a _simple_ API. Yes, the author's ideas make programming easy. There's less cruft and it's faster to develop. But, he's loosing simplicity. REST is a simple API b
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by spinlock 12y ago
I couldn't disagree more. All news sources editorialize. Knowing their slant and accounting for it is the only way to find truth in their writing.
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by spinlock 12y ago
This reminds me of a recent survey where more people claimed to use facebook than the internet. It also makes me think of an alternate reality where Hitler burned the card catalog and left the books alone.
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by spinlock 12y ago
> It's also darkly funny when a mod clearly doesn't understand the technology involved, and thus doesn't understand that it is, in fact, valid and properly worded. Oh man, I ran into this the other day when asking about Em
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by spinlock 12y ago
I disagree. The question does not ask to find a library but rather it asks about the internal workings of a service.
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by spinlock 12y ago
> somehow grasping the house rules seems to be easier for people here than on SO. When the house rules include not saying "Thank you" your going to see a race to the bottom in terms of human kindness.
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by spinlock 12y ago
Not only that but you'll get shorts interested in criminal companies because they can profit by exposing wrong-doing. And, on the other side, the market will discount a company's stock if it is criminal which kills the executives
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by spinlock 12y ago
I'm talking about people like [Schindler]( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Schindler ) who was a Nazi but obviously not following orders. In a corporation with tens of thousands of employees, not all of them will
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by spinlock 12y ago
I think you're right. That's the only consistent way to read this anyway.
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by spinlock 12y ago
This is a fantasic point. My highest rated most viewed question was one that I thought was stupid when I asked it. 5 years later it has tons of votes answers and backlinks.
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by spinlock 12y ago
These seem to be 2 separate points. The original post said that he was exonerated because the FBI didn't have probable cause to search him. The article you linked said he was exonerated because the statute didn't cover HFT systems

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