Rule of thumb: IP law is so complicated that it's safe to assume that (1) TFA got it wrong, (2) the Slashdot summary and title got it wrong, (3) all slashdot posters (including me) got it wrong [...]
In other words, IP law is so complicated, only judges and lawyers are capable of understanding it. Errr, somehow this sentence feels wrong.
Because, you know, physical keyboards are such an advancing field.... I can't imagine how awful keyboards would be with out BlackBerry's patented technology.
I hate to be a Devil's advocate here, but if physical keyboard technology is so straightforward, then why don't you buy yourself a keyboard of a different brand?
I just watched the movie "The Core", and if it reflects the current state of science, it seems our understanding of what is inside the Earth is flawed on a more basic level...
In general, the best you can do in terms of simplicity is to write code that computes the result (e.g., the "current" observable state of an interactive program) from scratch at every instant. However, this would make the code needlessly slow. You are then forced to cache stuff, etc., and things become ugly...
It is one thing to invade the privacy of your citizens. It is quite another thing to do this without them knowing that this is happening at this scale (!)
Snowden deserves to be exempt from further prosecution.
In fact, I believe NSA officers should be trialed for not announcing the nature of their actions.
The placebo effect is well known in medicine. By using common sense, Jimmy Wales is taking away placebos that were actually effective! Hence, his actions are detrimental to medicine.
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But it can be legislated for people sitting in a classroom...
But are we still allowed to shoot movies of police officers?
What I find sad is that the economy is in a collapsed state, and we're talking about some wrist watch. Yeah, that might save the economy.
Ah, I see. Then the "thief" must have the monopoly.
Rule of thumb: IP law is so complicated that it's safe to assume that (1) TFA got it wrong, (2) the Slashdot summary and title got it wrong, (3) all slashdot posters (including me) got it wrong [...]
In other words, IP law is so complicated, only judges and lawyers are capable of understanding it.
Errr, somehow this sentence feels wrong.
Because, you know, physical keyboards are such an advancing field.... I can't imagine how awful keyboards would be with out BlackBerry's patented technology.
I hate to be a Devil's advocate here, but if physical keyboard technology is so straightforward, then why don't you buy yourself a keyboard of a different brand?
What if 10 other people also decide to mine 10% of all bitcoins?
I just watched the movie "The Core", and if it reflects the current state of science, it seems our understanding of what is inside the Earth is flawed on a more basic level...
As long as they don't push changes just for the sake of pushing them...
To me, elegance at code level means succinct and readable code. Optimizing for performance usually comes at a lower level of readability.
Therefore, first write the code in the most elegant way.
Then, write an optimizer that optimizes that code. Of course, the optimizer itself should be elegant, but it need not be efficient.
In general, the best you can do in terms of simplicity is to write code that computes the result (e.g., the "current" observable state of an interactive program) from scratch at every instant. However, this would make the code needlessly slow. You are then forced to cache stuff, etc., and things become ugly...
He probably means code that runs in O(1).
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Yes, but try to explain that to a manager, or to a user!
It is one thing to invade the privacy of your citizens.
It is quite another thing to do this without them knowing that this is happening at this scale (!)
Snowden deserves to be exempt from further prosecution.
In fact, I believe NSA officers should be trialed for not announcing the nature of their actions.
If you have physical access, why not grab the money directly?
The placebo effect is well known in medicine.
By using common sense, Jimmy Wales is taking away placebos that were actually effective!
Hence, his actions are detrimental to medicine.
Seems to me that unless you can print gold, you will not make much money here.
We need a cloud-based version of vim. Where multiple users can edit simultaneously.
Time for a new kickstarter project: "Burn that Glasshole"
It's basically a glass with a laser fitted in the frame.
It directs at any Google Glass (tm) camera in sight.
Since it is filled with helium, I'd suggest "The Chipmunk".
Sigh. We need people to become more eager to _buy_ stuff, not to learn faster!
Finally, the year of Linux on the... oh wait... ATM.
aren't we part of nature?
Yes. And so are flies.
Flies are made out of atoms.
So are we.
Atoms don't touch eachother.
There's no single sharp separating surface you can draw between the atoms of a fly and the atoms of a person.
Therefore, we ARE the flies.
And WE are doing the calculus.
We had plenty of qualified workers back in, say, 1997 when the internet first boomed.
The economy was strong as ever.
Can't we just pretend it is 1997 again?