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by voyou 13y ago
"It’s time to bring your company into the 19th century." The 40-hour week isn't "a fossil" from the era of production lines; it exists because workers fought for it.
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by voyou 13y ago
Yes, if anything the fact that she brought the chemicals from home makes the case even less serious - chemicals brought from home aren't all that likely to be dangerous, whereas chemistry labs can have some unpleasant chemicals in them.
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by voyou 13y ago
I've heard stories of employers using Google, but seems to me any company that did that would be opening itself up to a bunch of lawsuits. There are plenty of things you're not allowed to ask about at interviews because they are potentially
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by voyou 13y ago
From the article: "When working on a project you usually synchronize your code by pulling it several times a day." Do you? Am I alone in thinking that seems like a really bizarre workflow?
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by voyou 13y ago
"This trick below can be used to toggle between two sets of code, with one symbol in the code with no additional short-keys to learn, and no tool dependencies!" So can #ifdef TEST / #ifndef TEST , which also has the advantage of not being h
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by voyou 13y ago
Instagram effectively already has that feature - if you post a picture on Instagram, any cursory web search is going to find it, linked to your Instagram account, so it won't count as orphaned. The article's claim that "most digital images
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by voyou 13y ago
The user of an orphaned work can't become the owner - the legislation specifically prohibits granting users of orphaned works exclusive rights. Because of this, sublicencing seems like a non-issue, because anyone who could sublicense an orp
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by voyou 13y ago
"What's the DRM-free business model that would allow them to produce the blockbuster movies" It's the same as the DRM-encumbered business model: make movies and charge people to watch them. DRM doesn't make that model any more or less effec
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by voyou 14y ago
This blog post from one of the people working on Duetto explains: http://allievi.sssup.it/techblog/?p=798 Basically, the idea seems to be to translate more C++ features directly into high-level JavaScript equivalents, rather than into cod
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by voyou 14y ago
"they exist to impart knowledge to attendees" Right, and if their CFP is systematically discouraging some people from applying, or their review process is systematically undervaluing proposals from some people, and those people would give g
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by voyou 14y ago
"RSS was just not that good of a technology" What was wrong with it? I mean there were problems with the twenty slightly different versions, or whatever, but they were solved by Atom. What do you want in open content syndication that wouldn
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by voyou 14y ago
This does suggest that they really did shut down Reader in order to push people to use Google+. This suggests that somebody at Google is a fucking idiot, because Google+ is in no way a substitute for Reader. Google+ (like Facebook or Twitte
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by voyou 14y ago
What's the use case for a URL shortener? I think the first time I heard about them, the pitch was to stop long URLs getting split over lines in Usenet messages; then they became popular because of Twitter's 140 character limit. But not very
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by voyou 14y ago
I'm just waiting for LayerVault to issue a DMCA takedown against the Art Institute of Chicago for hosting a work which despicably stole their colour scheme back in 1989: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/152758?search_n...
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by voyou 14y ago
The Twitter API lets you specify the callback URL as part of the request: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/post/oauth/request_token However, Twitter also requires users to authorize the application each time an application requests an O
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by voyou 14y ago
Well, presumably they just need to provide SurfaceFlinger backends to Qt and Gtk. AIUI, SurfaceFlinger basically gives the app a buffer and an OpenGL library, and the app handles the drawing itself; this is pretty much how Wayland works, an
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by voyou 14y ago
"I never understood how e.g. Spanish speakers think that a door is female or a clock is male. I mean, it's not like there are any body parts you can examine for a definitive answer..." But "gender," as a term in grammar, just means an arbit
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by voyou 14y ago
"And MOOCs, despite their advantages, really can't reclaim what has been lost." The contrary, in fact - MOOCs take this kind of situation (inaccessible, out-of-touch professors; overworked, underqualified TAs) and generalize it.
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by voyou 14y ago
"What the DMCA says is that you can't strip and redistribute the content, not that you can't strip and watch it." I don't think that's right. The DMCA forbids circumventing access controls, which would include decrypting a DVD; you have to
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by voyou 14y ago
Python lists are contiguous blocks of memory (i.e., arrays), not linked lists, so append will sometimes have to resize and copy. It's true that amortized worst case time is O(1), but that's still going to take longer than the one allocation
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by voyou 14y ago
I don't think this new system is any more automated, is it? The change is that the ISPs have agreed on various ways to penalize users who are accused of copyright infringement.
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by voyou 14y ago
Some people, when they find legislation hard to understand, think "I know, let's legislate to make legislation easier to understand." Now they have two problems.
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by voyou 14y ago
:The people selling content to the BBC Blaming "the people selling content to the BBC" ignores the fact that the BBC is itself a content producer which, through BBC Worldwide, makes money from that content. Media companies want to restrict
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by voyou 14y ago
But this doesn't convert HTML to Markdown (there's already pandoc for that), it displays it as if it were Markdown. It's a clever example of what you can do with CSS, as well as perhaps poking fun at the current popularity of systems like
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by voyou 14y ago
Yes, much like "passwords" and "file permissions." Good thing Ubuntu doesn't support either of those anti-freedom "features."
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by voyou 14y ago
"There is a common story that airline ticket prices rise significantly if you buy them less than two weeks before departure. And that any time before that will yield standard prices." Is that a "common story"? Because IME it's not true at a
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by voyou 14y ago
Yes, the TeX language is pretty horrible (indeed, the whole concept of TeX is a testament to the strength of cannabis available in the Bay Area in the 70s - it's not a typesetting system, it's two separate programming languages which typese
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by voyou 14y ago
And by "wrong meaning of web," he means "the actual meaning of web." Apparently what we should mean when we say "web" is "the internet." I'm not sure what the benefit of this change of terminology is supposed to be.
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by voyou 14y ago
"Given any proposition in arithmetic, the mind can decide its truth value." Really? I don't see what reason we have to believe that this is true.
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by voyou 14y ago
Yeah, there's no chance I'll want to listen to a song in ten years when the record label that owns the copyright has gone out of business and so can't license it to whatever streaming service is new and trendy. No chance of that at all.

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