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by yock 16y ago
I can't believe people are willing to assign any credibility to an anonymous dump of hex to pastebin.
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by yock 16y ago
I would think that the desire for a dedicated spectrum for wireless microphones comes from how interference affects their performance. A crude example might be to compare a wireless microphone to a wireless computer network. Whereas a PC ma
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by yock 16y ago
Considering Oracle's two recent actions against open source projects, I'd suspect this is yet another move to minimize the amount of open source software under its control.
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by yock 16y ago
Adam is a seriously talented developer. I had the privilege of meeting him, as I'm sure many have over the last several years, at a Linux conference in Los Angeles a few years ago. His dtrace presentation still sticks out in my mind as a su
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by yock 16y ago
I'd suggest that their political views are largely irrelevant until someone makes them relevant, which you have done. Since this now apparently presents a bit of a dilemma for you, it would seem that it is self-inflicted. Political views ca
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by yock 16y ago
Just because most PHP projects waste a bunch of time writing complicated installers doesn't mean you couldn't do the same with a RoR app. Familiarity can be a dangerous thing anyway, and installers are something to be avoided. Instead we sh
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by yock 16y ago
I don't see the article either. I think it has to do with the corporate proxy I'm behind. Something is blocked that his theme can't handle. In my book, that's a broken theme.
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by yock 16y ago
You're struggling with adjusting to life in the real world, stuck in the pattern of defining your life with your life's work. Perhaps your very problem is that you don't really want what you think you want. I make no excuses for being a rel
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by yock 16y ago
Perhaps your interviewer asked the question to see if you could justify them, thus gauging your understanding of how the language is parsed at runtime. The fact that the conversation continued may indicate that he or she wasn't convinced by
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by yock 16y ago
OT: Seriously? They embedded a Google Map in a Flash app? How revolting...
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by yock 16y ago
Neat! I signed up. One question, why do you only ask for city and not city and state?
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by yock 16y ago
I think perhaps I wasn't clear. I don't disagree that checklists aren't a great tool in an environment less sensitive to time constraints, rather, I believe that the culture of the healthcare industry is one of constantly being prepared for
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by yock 16y ago
It isn't a matter of intelligence but rather of culture. Most of what occurs in a hospital is seen as an exercise in problem solving. Applying rote knowledge and experience to a patient's current situation and making decisions about his or
554.
by yock 16y ago
All too often this is the naive apologists cry: "It's their foo. They should be allowed to do with it whatever they want." It's a true enough statement, but it stumbles spectacularly wide of the point. Don't mistake the right to do somethin
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by yock 16y ago
Well, it's interesting accomplishment no doubt, but the CSS markup is littered with Webkit-specific commands. If the point of CSS is to achieve at least a modicum of platform-independence, isn't the purely academic?
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by yock 16y ago
The other terms in the license have the benefit of long-standing, generally accepted legal definitions. I don't think you're going to find definitions for "good" or "evil" in Black's.
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by yock 16y ago
No, not at all. Licenses change all the time, both for the better and for the worse. It isn't change that I'm challenging, but rather this particular change. I challenge anyone to defend the language that is the subject of this news item, u
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by yock 16y ago
The last thing free software needs is yet another dogmatic argument. Being cute in your licensing damages the perception of free software because you're essentially broadcasting the fact that you don't care how the rest of the world works.
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by yock 16y ago
> Open question to HN: how could PayPal do a better job of handling the situation? Be open and honest in their position on (non-established?) conferences. I think it's likely that the author is spot-on about PayPal's motivations, and th
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by yock 16y ago
I too like the idea of displaying completed tasks for a limited amount of time.
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by yock 16y ago
This is completely logical and sensical and I can see no reason to not adopt it. Which leaves only one very important question: What do we eat on Tao Day? May I suggest TAcOs?
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by yock 16y ago
True, it would limit page views, but don't forget that (for better or worse) there are laws about viewing pornography across most of the country and much of the world as well. At least some of that traffic is coming illegally, and it may be
563.
by yock 16y ago
What? We're linking to Wikipedia articles now and calling it news?
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by yock 16y ago
My friend and former colleague Steve Friedl has something to say on the subject of becoming a consultant. http://unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html
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by yock 16y ago
I'm immediately skeptical of people who think modularity, inheretance, and polymorphism are a bad thing. Linus never comes out and says as much, but by indicating that he doesn't want to jump around to learn how a bit of code works he's imp
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by yock 16y ago
From the Google Blog: Update June 10, 11:31AM: Last week, we launched the ability to set an image of users’ choosing as the background for the Google homepage. Today, we ran a special doodle that showcased this functionality by featuring a
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by yock 16y ago
No doubt it hurts when you can't deliver an application or feature for problems outside your sphere of influence, and it's even more frustrating when communication on the subject isn't occurring. Still, Apple never claimed that they don't m
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by yock 16y ago
An inadequately-tested update is going to carry some risk of causing its own harm. If this Flash update is indeed not-ready-for-prime-time (heck, they may even know of specific issues) then it becomes irresponsible to push it out to all use