splawn

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by splawn 13y ago
...only if you are a farmer knowingly planting unlicensed monsanto seed in your field with the hopes that the patent wouldn't hold up in court.
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by splawn 13y ago
I just did your "logic axioms encyclopedia" search, it supports what you say about google giving preference to wikipedia. However, if you compare wikipedia's page to britannica's i think it undermines your argument against wikipedia's infer
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by splawn 13y ago
This is an interesting take on it. What are some examples of experts that are being silenced? Usually when people criticize SEO, its over the methods used to get irrelevant links on pages, putting junk in your serps. Afaik wikipedia does we
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by splawn 13y ago
I disagree with your assessment that Wikipedia doesn't add value. It acts as an awesome aggregator and is usually a good place to start when learning about any topic. Im not going to play "name that fallacy", but your points against it seem
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by splawn 14y ago
I don't know anything about bitcoin mining, but doing this legitimately with permission seems like an interesting way for users to donate something back to a developer. I imagine a "donate cpu usage during downtime" button next to the "dona
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by splawn 14y ago
uhh,ok.. and tools can implement protocols. I think the gp's point was that many of these tools don't lend themselves to interop and portability, important things to factor in when evaluating a tool. EDIT: I don't know if his point really a
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by splawn 14y ago
I think its the same reason html isn't json. json wasn't as widely used when the spec was created.
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by splawn 14y ago
I concede you make a good point. Most of the features you listed I end up using via command line rather than it being integrated directly in my editor. Maybe part of what i see as complexity is just my cheese being moved. However, and corre
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by splawn 14y ago
Why do JAVA, C# (and the like) IDE's have such complex feature sets? Is it not a reflection of the complexity that those ecosystems require for maintaining your code?
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by splawn 14y ago
thats a great SCIENTIFIC question to ask....
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by splawn 14y ago
Here is a better link. That dailytech article says things such as "Monsanto won damages of $400000" which isn't true. It also didn't mention that the sued farmer knew what he was planting after it blew into his property, he claimed "propert
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by splawn 14y ago
I agree with you. I wasn't saying twitter is the exact same thing. Just vaguely related (as you said.. pubsub). Even without the character limit Twitter's functionality is a subset of what you can do with RSS.
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by splawn 14y ago
You can do authenticated feeds (RSS feeds are over http), but most readers don't support it for some reason....again its just not as convenient.
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by splawn 14y ago
When you boil it down Twitter, Facebook, and G+ do the exact same thing as RSS,but they are all just easier,less flexible, closed and more centralized. You publish something and your subscribers receive it....seems at least vaguely related
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by splawn 14y ago
"load SQL commands from gzipped file into database mkfifo --mode=0666 /tmp/namedPipe gzip --stdout -d file.gz > /tmp/namedPipe LOAD DATA INFILE '/tmp/namedPipe' INTO TABLE tableName;" When I do this I use something like: tar -xOzvf file
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by splawn 14y ago
Can algorithms be charged with libel? I did some googling, but couldn't find anything solid on the subject.
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by splawn 14y ago
Was the use of dict and list necessary? This is an actual question, not a rhetorical criticism. I have recently been trying to learn common lisp.
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by splawn 14y ago
What a bummer, this site has always been a great source for inspiration. I love browsing their awards pages. At least pouet.net looks like its still going strong. :)
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by splawn 14y ago
oooh, have you seen pi version? Its purpose is for teaching children programming (its scriptable with python). It doesn't look like its quite ready, but here is the link to watch: http://pi.minecraft.net/
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by splawn 14y ago
but isn't "xzvf" as easy to remember as "xkcd"? =P
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NRA blames video games for Sandy Hook slaughter(nydailynews.com)
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by splawn 14y ago
yeah (and i get your underlying point), but a "screwbuntu" protest screensaver would be a more fun and pro-active way to show disapproval of opt-out tracking, imo.
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by splawn 14y ago
I want a screensaver that turns this feature on, generates tons of fake queries then turns the feature back off so i don't accidentally send them anything real. :)
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by splawn 14y ago
"experiments that can be reproduced by others" is just one example of a theory making a prediction, imo. Effects of "macro evolution" (macro vs micro is usually a distinction only made by creationists) have made such predictions. Here is a
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by splawn 14y ago
Not disagreeing with your stated belief, but I believe most people in the linux community do associate proprietary software with maliciousness.
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by splawn 14y ago
Maybe something like a browser plugin that would work like selenium ,but instead of scripting it with test cases, it could be fed by a service providing it with urls with the intention of throwing off anything data-mining your traffic acros
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by splawn 14y ago
This might be a naive idea, but it seems like you could throw noise into their system by having a program send out random requests, making their data less valuable.
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by splawn 14y ago
could it be something like a movie using a 555 prefix on a telephone number?