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Actually, it's already illegal in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudne...

> The question is are they obligated to give the best advice? I didn't get this from the article. I understood the issue to be: 1. It is undisputed that the lottery is required to …

Back when I worked in law, it was the case that the EU had very strict laws regarding where (physically) you store data, and who can access the data. That meant that EU based firms…

My ebook purchases also skyrocketed after I got a Kindle. But it didn't rise because the kindle made it easy to buy ebooks, or even because I prefer ebooks (for technical stuff, I …

Can you give an example of where you find Clojure to be implicit? I don't find the Clojure that I write to be implicit.

You aren't wrong. David Auerbach at Slate has written a small piece on it: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/09/gam...

Cynically, I would say that it depends on whether or not you can get your case to the Supreme Court. Normally, though, algorithms are not copyrightable. Though Books about algorith…

State lawyers are well versed in state law. As this is a state case, involving state law, a Texas lawyer would be required to make knowledgable statements on the case. A lawyer of …

Premium SMS is already gone: http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/12/premium-sms-billing/

Without being too specific, you should assume that Large stores already do this. Any store claiming to have "in store wifi" is almost guaranteed to be tracking you through your mac…

Likely not, because that would implicitly expose the other 6.

Fortunately, not all high schools are like this. Mine had 1 classroom devoted to computer classes. These computers were Windows NT workstations. Students logged in with normal acco…

Windows makes this a little easier than bash does. batch scripts in windows behave like scripts on unix do when you source them. That means that you can write a batch script called…

I occasionally do interviews for my company, and I use Github in the manner that fecak describes. Before the interview, I will check out your stuff and make sure I have compilers/i…

I have two macs that both run emacs. I have a private git repository for my .emacs.d folder (an old mirror can be found here: https://github.com/elarkin/.emacs.d ). I have taken sp…

Have you used transients in Clojure? http://clojure.org/transients They allow mutation as long as it's localized.

I've taken to using Chrome for Flash. It includes Pepper, a Google maintained version of Flash. You will never be presented with an Adobe Reader prompt again.

Well, you probably would not get this chromebook if you were only going to use SSH. You'd buy the $250 one.

BrainTree does payments. They have concerns about security that most apps do not. Who really cares if bugged timeout/retry logic makes your app post twice to facebook? Probably no …

On my mac my keyboard has an eject button right next to f12(volume up). If I press that then the primary disk drive ejects its disk. If I had two disk drives, I'm not sure which it…

They took down the one he sent me. Here's the hackernews page about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3270841

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A co-worker of mine (US) lost his kindle library about a year ago. Amazon closed his account and refused to tell him why. It took several tech blogs and newspapers phoning up Amazo…

I have yet to see a typical user use keyboard shortcuts. My mother, for example, will still use the mouse to click File then Quit/Exit when she wants to close a program. Your testi…

Isn't Microsoft pushing Metro as the primary environment and the desktop as a legacy environment?