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901.
by wnoise 15y ago
Technically, overflow of signed integers invokes undefined behavior (or possibly implementation defined. In my copy of a draft standard overflow is given as an example of undefined behavior, but 6.3.1.3 say implementation defined). In pra
902.
by wnoise 15y ago
I'm not entirely convinced by the arguments here. I think I'm more inclined to think this is a good idea because it does remind me of companies that partition their websites into shards for "personal", "small business", and "large business
903.
by wnoise 15y ago
> No agency guarantees licensing if you meet simple criteria. Simple is not a requirement. Objective is. > For example, they can reject or revoke your driver's license for many obscure and subjective reasons. And that's also a prob
904.
by wnoise 15y ago
There are no specific requirements to be considered fair use. There are four factors that are weighed: the purpose and character of the new work, the amount copied from the old work, the impact on the market for the original work, and the
905.
by wnoise 15y ago
Yes, it's clearly a derivative work. That doesn't necessarily make it a copyright violation. My reading of the fair use exceptions make this clearly not a copyright violation. The problem is that you can't know for certain until a judge
906.
by wnoise 15y ago
Not the majority of his listeners but some hard to measure fraction of those who read his slides online without the context of the talk that he gave. Yeah, it's definitely not a good set of slides unconnected to the talk. He even admits th
907.
by wnoise 15y ago
The first comment has it spot-on for the first example: the html version is an alternate version -- it's not the same content. The example of content distribution networks (and other mirrors) is much better.
908.
by wnoise 15y ago
"This time it's different."
909.
by wnoise 15y ago
I wasn't trying to slag Jobs. I was responding to someone saying that this specific instance was an example of "true leadership". I disagreed. The hundreds of other instances where Jobs did indeed make the right decision are irrelevant a
910.
by wnoise 15y ago
s/startup//
911.
by wnoise 15y ago
A tautology means it's always true. That a curious criterion to use as a criticism. All statements are either tautologies, or sometimes false (or are not meant to have truth values, of course). It is what should be an obvious tautology.
912.
by wnoise 15y ago
Generally, yes. There are a lot of hard decisions out there, where even if there is a right choice, it is only obvious in retrospect. This isn't one of those cases. The engineers involved knew it was a bad idea. They were so convinced i
913.
by wnoise 15y ago
I never claimed it was. But all other things being equal, it's better to be wrong less often, to make fewer mistakes. And when you do make mistakes, it's better to gracefully correct. But in any given case, it really is better to not mak
914.
by wnoise 15y ago
You know what would have been better leadership? Not making the wrong decision in the first place. Yeah, obviously, backing down gracefully when proved wrong is quite important, but so is not betting the product on being able to make a ne
915.
by wnoise 15y ago
Less than. The troll would prefer to not litigate, but that you just hand over the money.
916.
by wnoise 15y ago
Under that definition, "equality" is a useless concept. If it helps, read all these uses of "equality" as "equity" or "equitably" instead.
917.
by wnoise 15y ago
True equality is not when a female Einstein is recognized as such, but when an average female schlub has the same opportunities as an average male schlub. People beside the top 1% are still people, and the impact on their life does matter.
918.
by wnoise 15y ago
From other computer nerds, they often do.
919.
by wnoise 15y ago
That's definitely required before bringing the resources of the state to bear in punishing the person. If you're not doing that, then no, it needn't be.
920.
by wnoise 15y ago
I'd like to know how they verified it was a Google employee, and not a brazen phisher.
921.
by wnoise 15y ago
God is widely regarded as perfect. Genesis 1:27: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. That certainly sounds like we should be perfect in body. Unless you want to argue th
922.
by wnoise 15y ago
Primaries matter. They often have more than two who could conceivably win, so your vote has more than one bit of information.
923.
by wnoise 15y ago
You should know that your account appears to be [dead].
924.
by wnoise 15y ago
> The only advantage I see is allowing traditional tools (unix utilities, conventional file managers, even 'open file' popups) to take advantage of the system without any extra effort on their side. That's a pretty big advantage.
925.
by wnoise 15y ago
Ugh. His insistence that Everettians need to describe a sharp splitting of worlds is like a creationist saying that evolutionists need to describe speciation as sharp splittings.
926.
by wnoise 15y ago
Domes have non-zero curvature. Cones have zero curvature. You can't do anything as simple as a cut to get a dome starting from flat material.
927.
by wnoise 15y ago
And this is essentially how Google IPOed, using a "Dutch" auction.
928.
by wnoise 15y ago
> I have been occupied with reverse-engineering the bitstream format of a major brand of FPGA (no naming names) in order to dispense with the proprietary x86 toolchain (and eventually with the abomination called Verilog.) I sincerely ho
929.
by wnoise 15y ago
I will have to take a look at these. I loved the flexibility they allowed when I first used them, but these days they often feel to me like going down a level in that more needs to be expressed. Yeah, if your tools can't efficiently handle
930.
by wnoise 15y ago
sedachv actually got my point. The standard need for macros rather than functions is to handle staged computations, distinguishing between names and objects. Lazy evaluation really does strike right at the heart of this, unlike somethin

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