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Maybe you and many others would be better off by paying attention to actions vs words, and notice which company was the first to push back on the government to provide transparency…

Yup, and it's used by everyone, especially execs, and acts as a swiss army knife. Yet the team is mostly leaving in droves because although it's quite useful, it isn't correctly me…

That is great if your project impact can be measured, but sometimes metrics aren't available for accurate assessment. If sales uses your tool, bringing in millions, that's not so e…

The problem with that is, the unsexy non-customer facing projects that allow for saving/making millions are not recognized, or at least a monetary value cannot be established for t…

http://ipcommission.org/report/IP_Commission_Report_052213.p... > The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property > With U.S. companies suffering losses and American …

Do you have an example of a good software patent? Someone mentioned that having one syscall that sends multiple udp messages is patented. That is ridiculous IMO. It meets the guide…

I just tried fish, way too slow. I held down the backspace key, and instead of deleting 10 characters, the entire line was gone. zsh is also too slow. bash may not have the bells a…

Shakespeare is entertaining and metaphors are fun. Do you disagree with a poem and bring up logical fallacies? Of course not, we read them for entertainment value and anything we l…

OMG, it's like we can't focus on multiple things at once. How about this revelation: people in cyprus can't use ATMs because they can't manage their money, and Chinese government-s…

You really shouldn't try to use metaphors when making an argument. Someone says A is like B, another person disagrees that A is like C. But no, says another, A is like D. Finally, …

None of those things you brought up are illegal. Oracle is a scourge and just a step above SCO, but that's a pretty low bar. Making it so you designate something arbitrarily as a "…

In that respect, I would say we are separating into different species.

Not only that, but it takes Krugman should really do some research on what monopolists do, starting off with Standard Oil. The internet is a highly competitive environment.

stopthecyborgs? Looks like more microsoft astroturfing. The backlash is growing in microsoft's dreams only.

wow, worse than the irc python channel.

How do you handle distributed joins with group by's? Are there certain SQL syntaxes which aren't handled well by queries? What are the 90th percentile response times?

Here's what a bunch of smart people think: http://www.c-span.org/Events/Law-and-Economics-Experts-Discu... synposis: the antitrust case is at this point ridiculous. As a formerly p…

Except the articles selected where in the pro-coffee camp, the articles against coffee were not selected. This is called selection bias. I'd take what this guy has to say with a gr…

You'll notice in that second link: > However, because the antitrust laws are ultimately intended to benefit consumers, and discounting results in at least short-term net benefit to…

Unfortunately for you, anti-trust doesn't work like that. You have to prove concrete harm to customers. And that's how it should be, before Google, your only option for a smartphon…

Hopefully that teaches him to rely on windows.

This is what we've all been waiting for: CPM ads based on age and gender. This is the holy grail advertisers have wanted. But it remains to be seen if this information actually tra…

There are other ways to limit the onslaught of spam: user-defined filters. Facebook could have gone that way, but then, giving users control isn't lucrative.

Some people use browser fingerprinting for anti-spam techniques, would they need to get the spammer's acceptance before enabling this? As you can see, these European laws border on…

Maybe they expect air force vets to fly them?