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When he says "object serialization" is broken, does he mean Java's built-in object serialization (JOS), or the concept of serialization, independent of any specific implementation? He later says "default serialization", which is what JOS's
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As a comparison, here's how google did on the first one (in .39 seconds): http://www.google.com/search?q=Toured+the+Burj+in+this+U.A.E... The first two results are from this article itself, but the next one's snippet begins “Downtown Duba
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I thought the blonde would say, "That's uncool. We're not friends anymore." But the tech is cool. I wonder if it could handle a skateboard park in some way?
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Nice point. I guess learning means experimenting, in which failure is information. I have not failed 1000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 1000 ways do not work. The buzz comes from the transition from not knowing to knowi
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It did seem very MS vs Apple, but it's true that Apple's walled garden prevents those later explosions on one of the 10% peaks. The iPhone has been around for several years, but it seems there have been no such growth in it. Each app is sel
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by 10ren 16y ago
snake is vi hero Apparently, it was designed to teach the hjkl keys. It's likely a few other vim games already exist (vim has every feature you can imagine, and then some). After I've played some video games, Vim actually feels like a vid
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Some people can see infrared, due to their cornea being replaced by an artificial plastic one which does not block infrared as the natural one does. However, this isn't an entirely new colour, but just a more red red.
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The 'label' would have likely atrophied. Kittens raised in an environment without vertical lines don't develop the ability to perceive vertical lines. These sensing cells would have developed in the retina, but it seems reasonable for the s
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The Pragmatic Programmer, Attachment and the Law of Diminishing Returns(nayna.org)
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I listened to the first song. The arrangement really lets it down (guess it's a demo), and I think the verse backing is identical to part of the James Bond theme. But the singing is amazing (which was the point), and I couldn't help but dan
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thanks!
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Whoa, thanks, I should thought of that! They sent one on the day of the access (10 June). There are 17 other potential ones, but I had moved them to my spam folder, so I can't tell where they came from originally. Looking closer, the first
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For the last week or so, I've had a bunch of "Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:" emails, for email that was apparently sent from my gmail account - I assumed that someone started using my return address for their spam.
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More power to Redhat and the value in open source. No need to oversell: Today, the Redmond giant has seen its market share erode; Red Hat has become the world's open-source leader. Microsoft profit: $14,569 million http://www.google.com
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Most documentation fails in giving too little overview. The trees are described, the bark and leaves are commented, but there is no map of the forest. - p.165 The Mythical Man-Month (ch 15, Anniversary Ed.) Some is dated, but like the r
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I would think that ARM chips would use less power than Atom; but compatibility with existing software is a big selling point (as always). But this would provide a pressure towards ARM servers, and therefore ARM-compatible software. OTOH, I
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I very often enjoy theatantic, but it has a script somewhere that locks up my browser. I've been trying to track it down, but no luck yet as it downloads a lot of stuff from all over the place. Anybody found it already? oblig: I've noticed
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Warren Buffett's son described him thus: He likes to be right. It's just that when he's right, he makes a lot of money . In support of the article, a community is better off if people have (or develop) different motivations, in accordance
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Hey, nice point. You still need something to compare it to though, to know the actual percentage. But it would show anomalous changes,
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ARM dominates, yes. BTW: the other company mentioned is also a fabless core designer: Imagination Technologies . They are a bit lower-end than ARM, but disruption tends to come from below... They have some cool ideas for customized many-co
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I wish google finance had a setting to 0 the y-axis, so you can appreciate the percentage increase by eye. (or is there a setting for that somewhere?) But you're right: 17% up in 2.5 hours means there must be some news about... (why don't y
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Oddly enough, this BBC production seems to put the people who were behind the BBC micro in a far better light than Sinclair - who is presented as a caricature of an evil scientist. I can't imagine he was really like that. Very funny though
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Forth claimed to be 5 times faster than BASIC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace Everyone went to assembly if they wanted speed. I think Forth requires more thinking than BASIC (at least, of a mathematically flexible kind).
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Thanks! Unfortunately, I have no idea where it is (and it would be on tape... transferring that would be another issue). I have fond memories of it - but of the writing, not the playing. :-)
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I started with a ZX81, and wrote and sold (one copy!) of a... Xevious clone, called "ZXevious". Perfect name, heh? All assembly, cross-compiled from another machine, many simultaneous objects on screen, and I even emulated (or tried to) the
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DataMapper is a Object Relational Mapper written in Ruby. http://datamapper.org/
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So I guess the issue isn't that people on HN sometimes make emptily argumentative comment - but that people on HN vote them up.
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There are famous programmers, but Zed's right that they don't become famous because of their coding ability. I'd say they become famous because of impact. And I'm thinking of the really famous (to us) coders here: Thompson, Richie, Fred B
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thanks
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Do android phones have multi-touch, or do apple patents prevent this? I'm working on UI trees that can be rearranged with the mouse. It works OK, though a little awkward. I think with a touch screen, it would be incredibly intutive - like r

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