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by thomasz 16y ago
I don't have that book at hand right now. I wonder if language plays a role here. Judging from my own experience, a 200 line stored procedure is quite manageable, but 200 lines written in a c-like language are a tough nut to crack.
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by thomasz 16y ago
In this case it might be possible that he just doesn't want /b/ to turn it into a giant ocean of puke right from the beginning.
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by thomasz 16y ago
This is -- pardon my french -- either the most dishonest or the most uninformed argument that has been made on this topic so far.
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by thomasz 16y ago
ever thought about a Ltd?
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by thomasz 16y ago
> What "law" would this be breaking? What about copyright legislation? As a rule of thumb you should assume that you are forbidden to do anything with other peoples content that isn't explicitly allowed.
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by thomasz 16y ago
W T F!? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller
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by thomasz 16y ago
> This. Look who are major patent holders at MPEG-LA: Microsoft and Apple. Do you have a source for that? I've read quite a few times that at least Microsoft pays more for licenses than they get back.
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by thomasz 16y ago
You can call your food store "Food Store", your bar "Bar" and your burger restaurant "Burger", but you can't claim exclusivity.
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by thomasz 16y ago
> There don't seem to be any long-term health risks. As long as you don't count psychosis as health risk...
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by thomasz 16y ago
The worst thing is that now people who scored high on this test because they learned their asses off -- maybe because their grades have been rather meh so far -- could feel that confessing is the rational thing to do.
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by thomasz 16y ago
Is that true?
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by thomasz 16y ago
Shouting helps.
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by thomasz 16y ago
Are those international numbers? I'm just wondering, because if I would buy the cheapest nano, I'd have to pay 159€, which would be ~ 219$. That's not really competitive. The cheapest Air costs ~1,377, a 15'' Macbook Pro ~2,410.
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by thomasz 16y ago
In revenue or in units shipped?
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by thomasz 16y ago
As soon as a printout of postmarkapp.com reaches the desk of someone at DHL's legal department, they will sued into oblivion for trademark infringement.
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by thomasz 16y ago
From what I've read on their blog they seem to get along fine with a moderately expensive SQL server and some chap application servers hosted in a data center. No fancy NOSQL stuff or cloud instances involved.
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by thomasz 16y ago
I agree with you on the assumption that most likely all parts of the income distribution are better of today compared to the 50's -- on absolute terms. But _relative_ wealth becomes an important metric as soon as basic needs -- food, shelte
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by thomasz 16y ago
> Second, what "productivity benefits"? I guess that mathematical notation is often easier to read and comprehend. I'd rather see something like this http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/9/6/9/9695855b7c5869aad99fa... than something like
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by thomasz 16y ago
GDP / capita is a pretty meaningless metric if you consider that wealth is a lot more concentrated these days.
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by thomasz 16y ago
You mean Apple is fine with distributing GPL licensed Software, they just don't want to comply with the licensing terms?
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by thomasz 16y ago
holy shit, they get one buck for one vote?
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by thomasz 16y ago
I was under the impression that it's nearly impossible to compete with adobe in this market because they've patented all important algorithms.
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by thomasz 16y ago
> Do you even remember the election? Obama clearly said that he wants to 'spread the wealth around Do you have any idea what Marxism means?
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by thomasz 16y ago
which is written in Ragel and compiled to a C state machine, if I remember correctly
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by thomasz 16y ago
> I understand it's a bit of a joke in the humanities Huh? Do you have any first hand insight?
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by thomasz 16y ago
In the very near future, every website in the EU will need something like this or face legal consequences. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Privacy_and_Electr...
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by thomasz 16y ago
Master Of Orion 3 goes in that direction.
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by thomasz 16y ago
> The truth is, family courts are highly biased against men Does anyone know about a study supporting this claim? Not that I'd be surprised, but confirmation bias can be a bitch...
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by thomasz 16y ago
So what? This guy probably won 500 bucks in the lottery.
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by thomasz 16y ago
Drug test

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