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by tspiteri 17y ago
Are you comparing spending money in R&D to flushing money down a toilet? Not letting R&D money be flushed money would be a good reason to support patents.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
He made millions, but he didn't generate any wealth, he just worked the system. I won't say Bravo.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
That's because to non-geeks, this and "techie" are the same.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
No it wouldn't. The first word makes the point clear right from the start.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Dismissing the tripling of Microsoft's net income just because PC sales almost tripled as well seems a bit, for want of a better word, simplistic.
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Russia Reveals Manned Space Plans(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by tspiteri 17y ago
I think the author just doesn't like iTunes. So he picked four other products which he believes everyone dislikes, and which did not have so much market success, and says that iTunes should be disliked by everyone too. But as far as I know,
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by tspiteri 17y ago
The number of stars is not arbitrary, it is equal to the number of states. In fact the US flag has been changed whenever states joined the union. Before Hawaii's statehood in 1960, the flag had 49 stars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usa_fl
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by tspiteri 17y ago
The story of 'hacker' is not quite the same as the story of 'pirate'. I think that 'hacker' first meant someone who can hack things up, then some people did some hacks to crack systems; to crack a system you had to be resourceful, you had t
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Q doesn't look like 0 at all in this font; Q is large and has a line across it and 0 is small and has no line across it.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
In that case, the comment does add value to the conversation, whether it is correct or not, so I agree with you that in that case downvoting is wrong.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
I did it in C, my code was a bit longer. (And it has the advantage that you do not need an initial estimate for the problem to be solved in a very short time.) #include <math.h> #include <stdio.h> double p
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Does something which is factually wrong improve the quality of the conversation? I think that downvotes should be used to push down comments that reduce the quality of the conversation even if they are not vulgar, rude, or off-topic.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Well, git is written for speed.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
The BSD license allows someone to take the code, improve it, and not share the improvements, which may sometimes lead to fragmentation. This happened in the Wine project, where some companies used the free Wine code and added closed improve
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by tspiteri 17y ago
I was not trying to speculate what people would do if they found a wallet full of money, I was just trying to interpret why they sent back a wallet with a baby picture but did not send back a wallet with nothing of value inside.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
I think that since there was nothing valuable inside, finders might have thought it was not worth the trouble sending the wallets back, while a baby picture is valuable to its owner, so it was worth sending back. If I had found such a walle
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by tspiteri 17y ago
There's a reason why the puzzle-writer used those 5 digits in the final question, so that you can spot the pattern and find a shortcut. Spotting the pattern is not brute force. To check your formula you have to do some calculations, but tha
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by tspiteri 17y ago
From 1 1 1 1 1 = 5 1 1 1 1 2 = 1 1 1 1 1 3 = 6 1 1 1 1 4 = 2 ... you can see that an increase of 1 in the last digit will increase the answer by 5 or decrease it by 4, so it is an increase of 5 mod 9. Similarly, fro
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Explaining phenomena is only one step. What I think is more important for a theory to have legs, is the ability to make predictions using the theory.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Because it would be too heavy to take off.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
The second bomb is more difficult to justify than the first, true, but I do find the morality of the first bomb ambiguous. The article itself indicates that to the Japanese military leaders, surrender was not an option; with civilians con
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by tspiteri 17y ago
He does say that he has long liked Lisp, and that he generally liked Scheme, so he already had his feet wet. And although the documentation is, well, scarce, he did read through the source code file arc.arc.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
If you say click on the 'Fox wrapped around a planet', your grandma will not find the icon. How about saying 'Firefox'? It looks like a fox, and its tail looks like fire, so your grandma should find it.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
The expression "jumped the shark" has jumped the shark.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
With an indentation of 1 space only (as in the screenshot), the indentation level is not so easy to see. That's why the indentation should not be too small. Having a large indentation and functions that are not too long will make it easy to
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by tspiteri 18y ago
They may not be paying half the price of the car, but if they are investing in the company, well, they are putting in money, so they can expect something in return. Also, targetted ads that are not obtrusive are not so irritating and can be
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by tspiteri 18y ago
Google translation of article: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vsr...
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by tspiteri 18y ago
But when people are at work at noon, and their children are at school, it is easier to have the family meal in the evening.
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by tspiteri 18y ago
They are careful with words; they are only saying that they would not publish a negative review. They are not directly promising a positive review. But it would cost them $50 not to publish a positive review, so they are very likely to publ

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