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by tjr 11y ago
Maybe it was a gift, with the recipient's name inscribed to discourage resale.
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by tjr 11y ago
Sure, you can be a "sole proprietor", and just report your business income as personal income. I'm not aware of any limits on how much you can make and do this, though most people probably switch over to some sort of LLC or c
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by tjr 11y ago
How then do you evaluate the validity of writings by an author whose political views you do not know?
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by tjr 11y ago
The first book I read about Java was his. I remember enjoying his essay at the end [this particular link being an unedited version]: http://blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/javaorigin.html
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by tjr 11y ago
Further, I suspect the main reason there's any concern at all about recommending ESR's writings due to his politics is because he bothers to write a lot about his political views in the first place, presenting something to potenti
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The many-headed monster of international trade agreements(fsf.org)
5 points by tjr 11y ago|0 comments
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by tjr 11y ago
I'm observing my own personally biased sample set. :-) - I played in a jazz band in college: across all of the department jazz bands, probably 95% male participants. - Attending the local symphony: approximately half and half, and I do
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Apple Music: Good reminder not to listen to computer scientists(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
8 points by tjr 11y ago|2 comments
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by tjr 11y ago
I've not researched statistics on this, but anecdotally, I've observed more men than women playing musical instruments in general.
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Amazon to pay self-published authors based on pages read(reuters.com)
2 points by tjr 11y ago|0 comments
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Pandora Is Out of Tune with Songwriters(techcrunch.com)
6 points by tjr 11y ago|2 comments
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by tjr 11y ago
Labels put up all the capital For Taylor Swift, sure. But there is an increasing number of musicians owning their own recording equipment and producing pro-level recordings out of their home (just like starting a software business out of
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by tjr 11y ago
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by tjr 11y ago
Knowing a bit about Philip's methodology, that statement was not necessarily referring to editing text on the live web server, but more likely just referring to SSH'ing into a Unix system to do development work.
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Advice to software development interns(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
21 points by tjr 11y ago|14 comments
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by tjr 11y ago
Trying talking to people. That's what is being done right here, right now. I find that pretty much every woman in the tech industry who I've spoken to has at least one example of how they feel they've been discriminated ag
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by tjr 11y ago
I don't have the exact quote/source right here handy, but I believe that was Guy Steele's intention with Scheme.
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by tjr 11y ago
I think it's a pretty big difference, going from labor-intensive manual inspection of data to fully automated inspection of data, opening up everyone within few of the camera to being automatically tracked. It's not the same thing
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by tjr 11y ago
The difference to me is that when your presence was merely recorded on video, it required the manual labor of humans to search for your face in the recording. This isn't something that is likely to happen unless authorities are looking
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by tjr 11y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if every company that wants to is able to produce "data" which "proves" that their use isn't harmful...
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Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85(nytimes.com)
8 points by tjr 11y ago|2 comments
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by tjr 11y ago
I've been doing volunteer work for the GNU Project since the 1990s. My GitHub profile might not be jam-packed with dots, but I think one would be hard-pressed to seriously insinuate that my few GitHub dots align with the fleeting open
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by tjr 11y ago
Anyone who has a bunch of green dots in the last couple of weeks and a bunch of green dots months ago makes me just discard the github profile as a useful positive signal. Ooh, you just more or less described me. What makes working on pub
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by tjr 11y ago
I, personally, would be willing to put in 20+ hours a week on a project for equity alone (no salary, ever), as long as I knew somebody from the business side was invested mentally and monetarily in it, and I imagine there are a lot of othe
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by tjr 11y ago
As a software developer, writer, and musician / music producer, I personally still find value in copyright, but it has been taken to absurd heights. I would like to see it drastically reduced, preferably to a term of ~7 years. Maybe ~1
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by tjr 11y ago
There are other good Lisp dialects too, of course, but Scheme tends to be especially well-suited for learning the concepts of Lisp (or of computer science more generally), and has numerous good books towards that end. Also, oops on a typo t
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by tjr 11y ago
Lisp. Specifically, try Scheme. More specifically, try working through The Little Scheme and Essentials of Programming Languages , both from MIT Press.
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by tjr 11y ago
If it was DO-178B/C Level A, then yeah, they'd have to inspect the machine code. Regardless of trusting the compiler. And the compiler would have to be inspected too.
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by tjr 11y ago
C was the first programming language I learned well. I've co-written two books on C programming. I've built software ranging from text adventure games to flight management networking software in C. I personally now avoid C as much
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by tjr 11y ago
I inherited some Python scripts that pulled data from various sources and assembled web pages to present a coherent view of all of the data. These scripts were very brittle, and slightly malformed data could cause them to fail entirely. Aft

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