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by tghw 16y ago
I've seen them all over public places in Colorado, including airports (Durango for sure, and I think Denver, too) and ski resorts. I'm guessing it's something about building/plumbing codes there. I've never seen (or smelled) and problem wit
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by tghw 16y ago
DejaVu Sans Mono ( http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page ) does a pretty good job.
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by tghw 16y ago
Fog Creek Software - NYC We are currently hiring: Software developer Web Designer/User Experience Guru System administrator Release manager Sales See http://www.fogcreek.com/Careers.html for details and to a
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by tghw 16y ago
I may be fundamentally misunderstanding something here, but doesn't turning off swap pretty much guarantee that things will start failing if you have a spike in memory usage? Assuming you have something like 256M of RAM (like many small VPS
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by tghw 16y ago
Don't those custom EULAs just supplement the Apple EULA? If so, that doesn't solve the problem.
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by tghw 16y ago
The source really isn't the problem. An app developer can put a link on the app page that has the source. I think the problems stem more from things like: 6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program),
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by tghw 16y ago
Not only do they distribute it, they profit from that distribution^. If they were just a "dumb pipe", like an ISP, then no, but they have an active hand in it. (^ Not that profiting from it is a conflict with the GPL, it just reinforces the
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by tghw 16y ago
That's not grandfathering ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfathering ), that's a grace period. Calling it grandfathering is one of the worst parts of this whole mess.
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by tghw 16y ago
I don't think there is anything wrong with raising your prices. The main problem here is how they handled their existing user base. "Grandfathering" is not a short-term, temporary thing, what they're doing is a grace period. The right way t
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by tghw 16y ago
What makes you think Git is the underdog?
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by tghw 16y ago
I know, I was just having some fun. :)
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by tghw 16y ago
Although true, this is seemingly biased as Android usage spans a plethora of phones whereas the iPhone is a Cingular phone on a Cingular carrier. FTFY
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by tghw 16y ago
Kindle 2 costs $260 new. The cheapest iPad is $500. Want 3G, like the Kindle has? $630, plus $15/month. It does one thing, and it does it well: reading books.
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by tghw 17y ago
Running map/reduce on an array or on a petabyte data set does not change the fundamental method at all. It very much changes the fundamental method. It takes something that was once impossible given all existing techniques and technologie
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Stack Overflow and DVCS(blog.stackoverflow.com)
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by tghw 17y ago
In the US, it depends entirely on the merchant. They tell the CC processor how secure they want it to be. A lot of them only need the CC number and any expiration date in the future.
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by tghw 17y ago
Yeah, it's not that simple. You're talking about one of the biggest scaling problems ever addressed. You have to figure out how to shard the data, how to deal with failures and inconsistencies, how to return results from terabytes of data,
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by tghw 17y ago
If someone builds a better mousetrap, it's patentable. And it's still a mousetrap. Combining a bunch of existing concepts in a new way is the basis for the patent system. It's the only way to progress: iteration. Putting that aside, what Go
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by tghw 17y ago
At the language level, yes. At the on-computers-all-over-the-world-on-petabyte-datasets level? No. That was Google.
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by tghw 17y ago
I think you missed the point. Once Apple lets the device out into the public, it gives up any claim to trade secrets. It doesn't meet the requirements, and so misappropriation of trade secrets is a non-starter because it wasn't a trade secr
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by tghw 17y ago
Your analogy breaks down a bit because you can't really lose a car the same way. Let's assume a different sequence of events, to help separate the issue of trade secrets and stolen property. Let's say that the phone was left behind at the b
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by tghw 17y ago
If this is really the case, he should be enraged at the mere existence of sites like Gizmodo and Engadget. But, clearly, he's not. For some reason Apple is held to a different standard. Are the employees of other companies not skilled enoug
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by tghw 17y ago
The trade secrets part is based on the Uniform Trade Secrets Act: The act defines a trade secret as information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process, that: i) derives inde
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by tghw 17y ago
Wow, guys picking up phones in bars led to the current patent system? There's a piece of history I never knew. There is no "industrial espionage" here. Industrial espionage would, at the very least, require Gizmodo to intend to steal the ph
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by tghw 17y ago
Other companies get products leaked all the time, and no one blinks an eye. I really think Apple will have a tough time calling the verification of existence of an upcoming product "trade secrets".
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by tghw 17y ago
In this particular case? $0. No one is going to care in 3 months when this is released. Apply fanbois will still be wetting their pants to be the first on line when it comes out. In the meantime, the media that are going to "lose money" are
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by tghw 17y ago
> How do you create a branch and not switch to it? hg branch new-feature hg update default But why would you not want to switch to a branch you just created? Why create the branch if you're not going to work on it?
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by tghw 17y ago
Clearly, you don't know your clown-cars. Mercurial uses hg backout to start a new commit that backs out a previous commit, hg rollback to undo the previous transaction (without a separate commit), and hg revert does undoes the uncommitted c
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by tghw 17y ago
hg branch new-feature If you want it to branch from a different changeset than the one you're on, then: hg update deadbeef hg branch new-feature No flags, no orgin/newfeature (what does that even mean?), just the commands d
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by tghw 17y ago
It's not a trade-off of power or flexibility as much as it is a difference in priorities. Git puts all of the powerful -- and potentially dangerous -- tools front and center (history editing, to name a big one), whereas Mercurial supports a

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