throwawaykf03

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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Well, I find it to be no worse than the "why aren't we in utopia" whine ;-)
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Supernodes could not always listen. The actual traffic was always direct P2P unless a direct connection could not be established due to e.g. NATs or firewalls, in which case supernodes would be used as relays. Research into NAT traversa
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Well, people were going to that site to get the content, and now they are not (all) going there. Clearly the site has lost something, especially something that ties directly into their revenue. If one considers the content as a proxy for th
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Also, universities. Relevant paper: "Are Universities Patent Trolls?", Mark Lemley, 2007 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=980776 From the abstract: >Finally, I think we can learn somethi
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Funny that the first I heard of Goths, Ostrogoths and Visigoths was in an Asterix comic. I now wonder how much of the Asterix universe is historically accurate.
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Actually Google did implement something like this: you could "personalize" your search by moving results up and down the page. They discontinued it some time (just a few months?) later... I'm guessing because it created mor
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Who needs a browser to track users when you have the whole Internet telling you what users do on their sites? The means may be different, but the ends are the same: users are tracked all across the Internet.
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
> Because Google usually doesn't use its patents aggressively. And that's probably because Google is incredibly weak when it comes to patents. This is kind of well-known in IP licensing circles, but it's also evident in
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
You don't need convincing proof, just reasonable suspicion to file a lawsuit. (There's something called Rule 11 to discourage frivolous lawsuits, but it's a pretty low bar.) You can then determine actual infringement during d
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
The 2nd and 3rd results on Bing the same as the 1st one on Google.
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Another way to look at it is: If X is a really good website in its category, and Google consistently puts X above other websites in search results for that category, the user experience on Google is better with X than without X. This will l
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
> Google has amassed the most enormous, capable data system on the planet. They have more knowledge about the world, places, people and information than anyone. They have continually demonstrated a computer engineering excellence that i
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Not in my experience. I use IntelliJ IDEA (and previously used Eclipse) on OS X and Linux on a daily basis. Anytime they start indexing or re-indexing a huge code base in a "background" thread, they end up locking the machine to v
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Just tried it on Bing: http://www.bing.com/search?q=Netherlands+qnx+a+quick+buck Worked for me. Edit: Different query from yours, my bad. I mixed both your links up.
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Completely understand. But as chubot suggests, the topic of "Distributed Systems" is really broad and something narrower in the title, such as "Distributed Data Systems" may be more apt.
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
It goes even beyond that. A lot of other very important, fundamental topics belong under the umbrella of distributed systems, starting with routing. The Internet is, after all, a giant distributed routing system. Another topic that's h
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
The Network Applications page from which TFA claims to have gotten its numbers is titled "desktop operating system market share", so I'm guessing Android is not covered (though Chromebooks might be).
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Hmm, they really should update their wiki, I cannot find a mention of ARC on http://wiki.gnustep.org .
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Yep, just seems funny today.
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
I messed around with GNUstep on Ubuntu around 2011-ish when I tried to port an OS X service to Linux. (I did not touch Etoile, though, as I didn't need a GUI.) I didn't come away with a good impression at all. It was not very easy
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
The Dock patent is specifically on the dynamic resizing and repositioning of icons when moused over. A plain collection of icons won't infringe this patent. The second patent is a design patent, which means you'd have to have a me
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
I don't see what this has to do with the "irony" context, but: 1) Ayn Rand's writings have had their fair share of criticism, with good reason. However, I'm not sure what the circular logic is in that snippet. Could
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
> Your anecdote is as good as mine. Agreed, but as long as anecdotes like mine abound (see also: other comments in this thread, or on any Linux thread anywhere in general), I think Linux on the PC will go nowhere. As others have mentio
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
> The Linux desktop has no more difficulties than the MS desktop (which is also endless "poor UX, drivers, audio services, file system snafus, [...] upgrades gone wrong, bad advice on forums compounding problems.") Not in my
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Irony? Rand was a very strong proponent of IP rights. From a quick search: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/patents_and_copyrights.htm... http://hallingblog.com/ayn-rand-on-intellectual-property/c
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
For patents, you do have to pay maintenance fees to renew a patent at the 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 year marks after issuance to keep it active, else it goes abandoned. A vast number of patents go un-renewed and lapse that (1) few patents turn ou
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Analogously, pg's essays being very popular with a number of people in no way translates to other standards of quality :-) They may resonate with people, but without solid grounding in reality, they may be no better than "pop phil
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
> Linux has been a very viable desktop for over a decade. I've been using Linux regularly for the past half decade and daily for the past year as a PC (as opposed to as a development and deployment target for 12 years). No, it&#x2
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
Also, check out what the Amazon best-sellers are under the tablet category :-) I've long wondered if Amazon uses some specific criteria to rank their "best-sellers", or if their customers are simply very different (More tech
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by throwawaykf03 13y ago
> pg spent weeks on each of his early essays. He spent a solid month writing What You Can't Say. He spent at least a couple days writing this one. Stephenie Meyer spent years writing the Twilight books. Time spent on a work is in

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