singpolymaposted, “Disadvantage of *roff over (X)HTML/(La)TeX : *roff is very format based (change font and spacing) others are more structure based” @ 2009-040.565Z
singpolymaposted, “"GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions." –Doug Gwyn” @ 2009-040.136Z
On 2009-38
singpolymaposted, “Crap! OSAP wants me to start repaying. Need to get to Needle’s Hall and have them confirm I’m still a student.” @ 2009-039.976Z
singpolymaposted, “Apparently putting three URLs in a legitimate comment will get it blocked as SPAM. Remove the URLs and *poof*!” @ 2009-039.021Z
On 2009-37
singpolymaposted, “First epiphany-webkit now midori, both unstable. Based on the ways they are unstable, I suspect the webkit version or webkit-gtk” @ 2009-038.967Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya I may need sleep, but people who come to a 7pm-7am (all night) code party and then go home to bed are wimps 😉” @ 2009-038.680Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya I seemed to be observing things (like sleep) were overrated a lot. This happens at all-night code parties 😉” @ 2009-038.660Z
singpolymaposted, “You’re less likely to be called a troll if you give a real name and email address. Standard handles (like singpolyma) count as real names.” @ 2009-037.919Z
singpolymaposted, “@stephdau that’s how I get people to use Firefox. It’s the "new IE". They usually don’t know what IE is.” @ 2009-037.884Z
singpolymaposted, “@mdenny depends on the AP. Some corps are nice about licensing, some are downright impossible. Agree with when in doubt, ask.” @ 2009-037.824Z
singpolymaposted, “@tieguy I’m aware of that. I was having trouble making clear what I know is allowed and what I think should be. In this case it’s borderline” @ 2009-037.822Z
singpolymaposted, “@mdenny Not sure, because it’s relatively subjective. I guess that’s why courts decide, but they get it wrong too often.” @ 2009-037.814Z
singpolymaposted, “@mdenny @designmeme thinks that the artist has added value not present in the image it is clearly based on. I agree.” @ 2009-037.812Z
singpolymaposted, “Why must @ossguy go to New York just as an IP debate breaks out on local microblogging?” @ 2009-037.810Z
singpolymaposted, “@MillerMosaicLLC Marvel/DC "owned" the term, but does not imply copyright. Likely trademark.” @ 2009-037.808Z
singpolymaposted, “@designmeme You would be creating a derivative. The question is would your derivative be protected? Also, my avatar is licensed cc-by 😉” @ 2009-037.805Z
singpolymaposted, “@MillerMosaicLLC copyright is not something you "do" but something you "have". Also, words are not copyrightable.” @ 2009-037.805Z
singpolymaposted, “@designmeme Not sure what you’re meaning by "copyright". They have that, the question is does the derivitive infringe or not?” @ 2009-037.803Z
singpolymaposted, “@mdenny Indeed, clearly derivitive. I believe some derivitives should be protected, like this one. We’ll see what courts say.” @ 2009-037.801Z
singpolymaposted, “@mdenny I think it’s transformative enough. A judge may disagree.” @ 2009-037.799Z
singpolymaposted, “@designmeme Copyright deals with copies, derivitive works, and performance. Obama poster is the second. Should be fair, but may not be IANAL” @ 2009-037.797Z
singpolymaposted, “Is there any way to magically get access to the instance that invoked the method we’re inside without them passing self? #ruby” @ 2009-036.905Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya delicious does not have groups or multiline descriptions. Microformats+OpenID+OAuth are nice bonuses.” @ 2009-036.673Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya benefits of @magnolia include groups, microformats, multiword tags, much longer descriptions, ratings, and OAuth on the API” @ 2009-036.642Z
singpolymaposted, “@stephdau haven’t tried buddypress myself yet, but certainly it could benefit from many of the concept with work with re:diso.” @ 2009-036.119Z
singpolymaposted, “Maybe I’ll try to find food in my house…” @ 2009-036.094Z
On 2009-34
singpolymaposted, “I seem to have 94 bookmarks left from ma.gnolia missing their description/tag metadata. The rest I’ve recovered from google/actionstream” @ 2009-035.985Z
singpolymaposted, “@ossguy after a mor careful review I only have 3 pages of your bookmarks. 5 pages of mine. Google cache was not as good as it first appeared” @ 2009-035.958Z
singpolymaposted, “http://bmpress.org interesting use of WordPress to host your own pure-PHP social bookmarking utility.” @ 2009-035.927Z
singpolymaposted, “Considering resuming work on diso-group to fill void left by Ma.gnolia groups. FF rooms don’t cut it…” @ 2009-035.800Z
singpolymaposted, “@ossguy I have saved copies of your ma.gnolia bookmarks from the Google cache, if you’re interested 🙂” @ 2009-035.786Z
singpolymaposted, “Canadian gov’t equates FLOSS with "no charge". Not true : there can be a charge. It’s free as in freedom.” @ 2009-035.592Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya agreed. I just like how IMAP keeps it synched with Google and across computers 🙂” @ 2009-035.585Z
singpolymaposted, “wp-diso-actionstream exhibiting some occasional really odd behaviour. Just showed twitter favourite as a magnolia bookmark. where’s the bug?” @ 2009-035.584Z
singpolymaposted, “A sad thing about e-book: most tech is set up to assume that you read digital stuff in one sitting. E-books you do not (normally).” @ 2009-034.591Z
singpolymaposted, “Suprised that no one has built a CGI request proxy for OAuth ruby gem.” @ 2009-033.800Z
singpolymaposted, “sqlite3 support in PHP sucks” @ 2009-033.759Z
singpolymaposted, “Hmm… $50 for students before May 1, and since I’ll be in the valley anyway, I may be able to go to Google I/O this year! 🙂” @ 2009-033.607Z
On 2009-31
singpolymaposted, “Put your foot down and make people use technology right. It saves headaches later.” @ 2009-032.965Z
singpolymaposted, “octave has everything I need for my assignment except for getframe and movie… math assignments shouldn’t be asking me to do animations 😛” @ 2009-027.646Z
singpolymaposted, “Done my linalg assignment (except the matlab part :P). Also, CECS has tentatively accepted my valley job for this summer! hooray!” @ 2009-027.632Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya Ok, so some people are irresponsible. There are irresponsible atheists. Humans tend that way. Can’t really blame religion in general” @ 2009-027.580Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya surely as an atheist you don’t care what god(s) do, since you don’t think they do anything?” @ 2009-027.578Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya my duty is also to my family, but if I commit wrong out of love for them I am still wrong and they are apalled. Not their fault.” @ 2009-027.575Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya god(s) are never resposible for human actions, unless a religion strips humans of free will.” @ 2009-027.575Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya comprimise in a relationship with a higher being may be called lopsided sometimes. Hard to argue with omniscience.” @ 2009-027.573Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya which religion(s) are against responsibility? It’s a bit tough to generalize.” @ 2009-027.572Z
