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Snoptic

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    Comment #6694935

    The author is being coy.

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    Comment #6654802

    Did you forget the 90s happened, when MS earned the name Evil Empire?

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    Comment #6624039

    Define 'merits'. There's the rub.

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    Comment #6623771

    The abstract rules of a game are not copyrightable. This is long established. The character names are more protectable though.

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    Comment #6620270

    Please don't upvote viral spam here.

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    Comment #6610072

    Https sites keep the referer header

  7. comment
    Comment #6610062

    And hope the DNA of your potato strain isn't GMO.

  8. comment
    Comment #6526264

    Yes, if you tend to be wrong a lot, it is in your interest to say less.

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    Comment #6526247

    That FUD is oft repeated, but frivolous lawsuits can coke regardless of what you say.

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    Comment #6250551

    Not really. MailRank was a toy project that got him acquihired at FB because bos is a genius regardless.

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    Comment #6246836

    $250K total comp is not going to scare off any hiring manager looking for a median seniority engineer at Google. Competitive, yes, but not doorslamming.

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    Comment #6246793

    Do recall that Mark Zuckerberg founded his company from an illegal website scraping operation and violating his own TOS.

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    Comment #5846106

    What are those _G, unbound gensyms?

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    Comment #5846105

    What are those _G, unbound gensyms?

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    Comment #5844985

    So they are crowdsourcing their business's core competency? Their raison d'etre is that no one knows how to right real world Haskell.

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    Comment #5844970

    You know what the NSA loves best? Burying the real news in conspiracy theories so they can write off ALL the complaints. Feeding the trolls undermines the serious fight for govt tr…

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    Comment #5629432

    Tineye is a simple prevention. If the photo is indexed online, the owner is findable.

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    Comment #5629405

    Right. This is how Aqua migrated to Brushed Metal

  19. comment
    Comment #5629393

    Jobs was very good at ignoring existing work and claiming Apple's version was a revolutionary new invention.

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    Comment #5620253

    In this case, it would be an in equality movement

  21. comment
    Comment #5620252

    In this case, it would be an in equality movement

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    Comment #5620251

    In this case, it would be an in equality movement

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    Comment #5620250

    In this case, it would be an in equality movement

  24. comment
    Comment #5589296

    Mad Men stole it from Jerry Maquire. "It's not a manifesto. It's a mission statement."

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    Comment #5589285

    The TV show does have meaningless porn dumped on top to keep the audience interested. That is HBO's trademark.