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by wycats 15y ago
It's worth noting that Obama, upon signing, issued a signing statement that said that he was against the indefinite detention provision, and importantly, that he would not indefinitely hold Americans without trial: "Moreover, I want to clar
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by wycats 15y ago
Ruby did us a big favor and made it possible to implement something like Rails in a way that switched between Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 at runtime. There are no changes to the 1.9 parser that cause it to puke on 1.8 syntax. My understanding is that
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by wycats 15y ago
It looks like a patch for Django was just finished relatively recently. For what it's worth, based on my experience with Ruby 1.8/1.9 in Rails, which is a smaller language change that Py2=>Py3, it will take years and a lot of community
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by wycats 15y ago
I accept this argument, but please don't claim that it has anything to do with a misunderstanding of economic theory. Thank you.
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by wycats 15y ago
You know, I've just about had enough of libertarians and conservatives claiming such moral superiority of their economic world view that they perceive any disagreement with it as obviously wrong. I was replying to a parent comment that clai
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by wycats 15y ago
Your argument here takes my claim that there are cases where government infrastructure bootstrapping (interstate highways, Internet) is useful and concludes that I would be in favor of a command-and-control economy. This is a classic reduct
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by wycats 15y ago
See my other response on this thread. My comment here was based entirely on what actually happened, not some theoretical view of how economies work in the abstract.
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by wycats 15y ago
The usual response by Open Source and free users (myself included, to be honest) is "I'm paying with my attention". Unfortunately, with the exception of open source contributors, that attention is non-transferable, so while the instinct is
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by wycats 15y ago
First class mail generates 51% of the USPS revenue today, and is projected to hold onto 35% by 2020. Not quite a "nominal fee", I'd think.
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by wycats 15y ago
The examples you listed arrived after ARPA. CompuServe, which arrived pretty early in the greater scheme, was founded in 1969 as a time sharing computer service. It wasn't until quite a bit later that it became a packet-switched computer ne
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by wycats 15y ago
I think Ron Paul would consider ARPA to be military pork, and he is in favor of a drastically smaller military, so things like ARPA would likely end up on the cutting room floor as "pet projects" etc.
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by wycats 15y ago
It's not surprising that Ron Paul would be against SOPA. That said, libertarians like Paul would have been against funding the projects that led to the Internet, and are today against funding similar government projects that might lead to f
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by wycats 15y ago
As someone who was involved in that, I'm genuinely interested in what you mean.
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Ember.js Live Collections(awardwinningfjords.com)
75 points by wycats 15y ago|21 comments
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by wycats 15y ago
It's worth noting that $300 for a day of manual work is considered a good salary in many parts of the country (and even in San Francisco).
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by wycats 15y ago
Unless the idea is that house.gov would be hosting bittorrent trackers, this doesn't really have anything to do with this story.
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by wycats 15y ago
I don't have data, but I suspect that Walmart consistently does better than Nordstrom I'm not sure what you mean by "consistently", but that doesn't actually seem true. Over the past year (Nordstom did better most of the year): http://ww
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by wycats 15y ago
Meh, I doubt it. My opinions will change if the approach I am taking now result in significant failures to hire attract desired talent. My current hypothesis is that potential hires will consider good compensation, regular profit-sharing wi
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by wycats 15y ago
My preferred solution is consistent market salaries (a la Joel), annual profit sharing (pro rata based on salaries, applies to management too in lieu of bonuses), and a 10% employee bonus pool a la 37 Signals in the case of liquidation. Thi
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by wycats 15y ago
Further, they tested executive only and worker only, but not executive+worker. It's certainly possible that worker stock options result in higher stock prices than executive alone, even if worker-only does not increase stock prices.
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by wycats 15y ago
That's exactly what's happening here. No new laws are being proposed; a lawsuit will be adjudicated on the basis of exactly the existing precedent you are referencing.
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by wycats 15y ago
What's missing from this discussion is the impact of reduced book availability on the poor or middle class. I grew up without much money, and spent much of my time reading books borrowed from libraries. If library books were not available,
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by wycats 15y ago
And the BSA backed off months ago.
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by wycats 15y ago
What makes you think Apple and Microsoft are pro-SOPA? They were part of an industry group that was pro-SOPA until an uproar a few months ago for the group to pull out.
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by wycats 15y ago
I don't think so.
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by wycats 15y ago
"It's all about money" is a one-dimensional caricature that really doesn't reflect the way most congresspeople actually think. Money matters, of course, but it's not the only thing that matters.
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Are Visa and Mastercard actually pro-SOPA? (TechDirt: no)(techdirt.com)
5 points by wycats 15y ago|0 comments
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by wycats 15y ago
Politicians don't like distractions. If support for some legislation will end up causing distractions, especially during campaign season, they will take notice. The best distractions come from primary challenges directly attributable to the
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by wycats 15y ago
The Handlebars grammar is more complex than Mustache's grammar. It supports helpers (normal and block), paths, strings, numbers and booleans. My initial implementation of Handlebars did not include a proper compilation flow, but optimizing
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by wycats 15y ago
There are two kinds of callables. Functions, which can contain multiple expressions, and lambdas, which can contain only one.

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