ultrasaurus

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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
I'm happy to see the word trolls embedded in a legal document. But the claims remind me why patents tend to be useless to actual innovation "The method of claim 63 where filing the claim with the patent office includes:filing the claim with
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
I think that's a good point. So many business decisions are made on gut feeling, and then we make a spreadsheet of wumpats sales to back up our gut. If all someone brings to the table is "I think this will work" that's essentially nothing.
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
It's a shame that there aren't more half-courses. Running both a course on filters and "a tiny course on the stuff about filters you need to you for other courses" (that could maybe be as little as a few optional classes + a test) shouldn'
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
Neither here nor there, but Vancouver is in Canada, and working somewhere that you are not a citizen is still a lot harder than it needs to be. Of course the grandparent could still consider Waterloo.
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
How much of this is an anti-piracy measure? If you have to connect to a central sever it gives them a chance to check your account (whether they take it or not). I assume pirates would rather download an anonymous map over HTTP than from B
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
Does anyone know of any studies that take into consideration labour-force dropout as well? It's a bit less enlightening if you compare the 95% of science grads who are employed doing science with the 60% of soft studies grads (both numbers
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
It might be a faulty assumption to compare legislation to code written for maintainability (or "as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live") I tend to think of it as code written fo
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
How can you possibly monetize this? 5 times the bandwidth/storage (rough guess) and all the extra information is wasted. It seems like a weird play. Unless the idea is that when people have 4k displays, YouTube will have a tiny expensive
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
That's still not a risk-free approach, you could trust John Romero and get Daikatana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
I only really use Priceline before going on a spur of the moment trip -- usually nearby -- and only if it's cheap enough. I wonder if they have to keep some amount of bad service to try to discriminate actual marginal bookings like me from
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
Agreed, I wish more people charged back in situations like these, then the black mark would clearly be on the bad companies rather than the small% of customers who actually do it. (Side note, I only skimmed the article, but a good piece of
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
I suspect this works best in an environment where your responsibilities are murky at best -- it's a bull market in educations, charge whatever you want and enrollment goes up.
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
I think that bias makes sense: if you have 0% competence it's hard to underestimate, and if you're at 100% competence it's hard to overestimate. So if we assume that they're truncated normal curves and translate them into a simple average,
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
On the other hand it kind of correctly fingers Kristin as "Who shot JR" (although it considers the JR of "Secretary of Balloon Doggies" fame to be the more relevant). Video is correctly tagged as killing the radio star, I'm mostly impressed
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
I've done it for a similar reason: it cuts down on support requests (ever so slightly). No matter what you tell them, users will store passwords in text files and email them around in spreadsheets, and spaces interfere with cutting and past
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
I once worked somewhere where to reset your network password you needed to provide the last 4. As in anyone could use anyone's account without even guessing the password. To make matters worse, I had my username wrong, and so they helpfull
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
I was a Canadian living in Seattle for a while, and I was asked to produce ID by a cop in my apartment complex. I politely asked if I was required to, he said no and asked politely again but that was the end of it. I find if you clearly &#
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by ultrasaurus 16y ago
Yes, the risk that you're transporting drugs alone might be enough to kill the service. A UPS driver has a plausible story if he's transporting drugs -- if you're pulled over with a package full of meth from this service your story is not
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by ultrasaurus 17y ago
I can't understand how "I spent $1500 to talk to you" does anything but pollute the message. Consciously or subconsciously, it must send the message that you're not well connected at the very least and less valuable at worst.
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by ultrasaurus 17y ago
My understanding was that a lot of the "benefit" of more concentrated laundry detergent was that people think it's 3x was valuable when they buy it, but they put far more than a third as much in each load -- so they buy & use more. (in
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by ultrasaurus 17y ago
"We never go back a year later and evaluate" I hope this isn't 100% true, I know we re-evaluate our interview impressions after we've hired someone. Finding out how well the guy you didn't hire is doing would be an awesome service. It's ha
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by ultrasaurus 17y ago
When I was interviewing, an applicant showed me some code that didn't hash passwords -- that's exactly what I expect in a co-op student. I think there's two problems: -it's too easy to take sample code off the web, and it's easier to take