samplonius

> For example, most of PostgreSQL's SQL functions have a single line in a table to describe them

Reference?

It means you need a $300/hr consultant :)

I don't believe all of the drivers were actually merged upstream. According to reports that I've read, if you don't create a recovery disc, and try to install stock Ubuntu 12, you are in for a nasty surprise as half the hardware doesn't work. Installing drivers without a working network interface, sucks.

And where was the "terrible science"? Requiring "humbleness" in posts seems to only apply to other people's posts, apparently.

> 2. For much of this, we can thank the loosening standards imposed over the past two decades by a specialized patent appeals court that has given overblown...

No, this is just a common misconception. If you look at the history of rulings from east Texas, you will see they invalidate a higher percentage of patents than other courts in the US. East Texas just implemented rules on length of filings and length of arguments to cut out most of the crap out of patent cases, making the process cheaper and faster for both sides.

So, if you have an iffy patent, and you want to have the best odds of winning, don't file in east Texas. But expect to pay a lot more.

I guess the east Texas model is bad for lawyers who file thousands of pages of "supporting material", and then get paid $200/hr to read it. But how much of this supporting material was actually relevant? Not much, which is why the judge in east Texas was able to enforce page limits.

The east Texas model is the right way to rule on patent cases. But the patent system needs to be supported by better laws.

It is pragmatic. NetBSD will grab keys bits from FreeBSD, and will want to periodically merge changes. If they don't commit their changes "upstream"... but really more "sidestream", they will have to re-merge their local changes each time too.

They were probably hipsters... was it is a fixed gear bike? And Aqua iMacs are pretty culkin.

How many "western countries" (whatever that means these days) actually have black lists? Because Canada and the US do not, as the Internet is all provided by non-gov't telco's. Chinatel is the only telco in China allowed to have international trunks, and Chinatel is 51% owned by the gov't. No one even knows how many international trunks Canada and the US even have, as they aren't regulated. At least mostly. In Canada, long distance phone carriers must register. But data over fibre is totally unregulated.

It is not up to countries to enforce Pandora's contract though.

I think people actually use PHP though

He is retiring. I guess several months turned into one month. Or, you don't want a lame duck VP on your leadership page. Probably a bit of both.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/06/28Bob-Mansfield-Appl...

Does anyone know what it is? Apparently the production is like the brain of a jellyfish, which is cool I guess. Maybe it is a food item? There was that UN announcement that we should eat more insects. Maybe their take is jellyfish brains in a can.

Chet and Erik's download Go 1.1:

Chet: "Get out the drool cup!" Erik: "In use, my friend! Drooool!" Chet: "Then break out the scraper, because someone's gonna have to scrape my jaw off the floor!" Erik: "That's also in use, to scrape my spooge off the monitor! Spoooge!" Chet: "Ouch! Fetch me my eye medicine, because I have an eyeache from watching a whole mixed bag of eye candy!" Erik: "All of the eye medicine's already in my eye! I'm done with the scraper, though."

Google has turned GWT over to an external team and is no longer using it for new apps.

Google has been using AngularJS for some new sites.

But no matter how you do it, single page apps usually result in a heavily minified representation.