yobbobandana

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by yobbobandana 14y ago
Until everyone stops using Ubuntu because for some mysterious reason they suddenly hate it.
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by yobbobandana 14y ago
Under a section labelled "Not understanding the differences", too.
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by yobbobandana 14y ago
And a worse link.
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by yobbobandana 14y ago
Here's the submission that linked to the actual blog post, not to the whole damn blog: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4326619
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by yobbobandana 14y ago
Economic incentives? China is a major trading partner for NZ at least. China overtook the United States at the end of 2008 to become New Zealand's second largest trading partner, with bilateral trade amounting to $9.4 billion
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by yobbobandana 14y ago
Gmail and Google+ came up under the communications menu, and last.fm was integrated with the sound menu. App menus and features seem to be available from the HUD. Seems pretty well integrated to me.
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by yobbobandana 14y ago
A range of difficulties have emerged for TPP seeking to strengthen IP standards beyond those agreed to in TRIPS. Analysis of the costs and benefits of IP protection shows that there is a tendency towards overprotection of IP in all our soc
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by yobbobandana 14y ago
Free time at home is much more valuable than free time on the bus.
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by yobbobandana 14y ago
Is there any written statement by the UN about this?
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by yobbobandana 14y ago
One thing I hope this promotes is a good interface for accessing device hardware via HTML. In particular i had a hard time trying to access a webcam feed to embed in a webpage when i tried it a while ago. The ability to simply capture image
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by yobbobandana 14y ago
Telefonica press release for those who missed it: http://saladeprensa.telefonica.com/jsp/base.jsp?contenido=/j...
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by yobbobandana 15y ago
I imagine this article was intended as PR for the Pirate Party. "This is the kind of stuff we do not like, vote for us if you also do not like it." I think it targets their core demographic quite well. Whether it is mock outrage or not is a
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by yobbobandana 15y ago
The author does address the subjectivity of the integrity dollar value: ""The $I cost is the most subjective of the four and depends on how much stock a player puts in "doing the right thing," (so to speak) or whether they even see any mora
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by yobbobandana 15y ago
Please do not conflate stealing with copying. When something is stolen, the original owner no longer has posession of the stolen object. If the story were about money or physical property, "stealing" would be appropriate. It is not. The wor
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by yobbobandana 15y ago
Aren't the prizes on offer extraordinarily low for the accomplishments desired? For example to "Develop new models to accurately predict the market response to large trades." is valued at $10,000.
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by yobbobandana 15y ago
Could a bookstore not offer an Amazon purchasing option? If customers want to browse books in the store and purchase off Amazon, why not explicitly enable this? The tradeoff is obvious to the consumer: either get the book now for a heighten
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by yobbobandana 15y ago
As a former student of physics, this does appear quite interesting. The article feels concise and well-structured, and the math seems very elegant. For physics and math students I recommend starting at page 9. The 8 pages of rationale seem
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by yobbobandana 15y ago
I've tried to learn Haskell a couple times, and I keep running into the basic problem of not being able to search for info on terms like ">>=". If you don't know what it means, how do you find out? I certainly never knew until readi
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by yobbobandana 15y ago
In a [1991] memo to his senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, “If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.”
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by yobbobandana 15y ago
Microsoft has previously been accused of "misusing patents to further an anticompetitive scheme against Android". Here's a link to the relevant article on groklaw: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110427052238659 Disregarding yo
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by yobbobandana 15y ago
My biggest stumbling block when trying to learn Haskell, was that I could not find out what operators did, and every example program i tried to learn from had its own obscure set. Even simple things like trying to find out what "$" does, ar
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by yobbobandana 15y ago
personally, i'd answer "half tau". half tau r^2 is a fine equation for an area.