BigZaphod

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by BigZaphod 16y ago
This is probably OT and maybe even rude... but that lead-in with the Kanye lyrics is just strange. My reading of the lyrics snippet (and I'm certainly no expert in these things) suggests that the character is telling a girl to run away from
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
I think the deal is that it's returning an IP from the lookup based on the IP of the DNS server that's making the request. This is so it returns a server that's closer to your network. If your DNS request is going through Google, it's going
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Telling everyone to just sit back and be amazed at their luck for living at this time and place in history is, IMO, sad. We can do better and we will do better. Progress is our purpose.
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
I've always understood it to be that prototypes are a superset of classes.
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Just to play devil's advocate: Isn't the end result basically the same, though? The commercial entities in the US ultimately took the content down. They may or may not have had to, technically/legally, but the fact remains that they did. Th
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
I code like this. It wasn't always the case, but at some point I had the realization that everything I do can be undone, reset, restarted, or otherwise restored and no longer have any fear about digging in and utterly gutting a piece of cod
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
When the first 32-bit troubles occurred, they should have just switched to a string-based ID, IMO.
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
I believe the reason this has got so confused is that the earlier betas had a driver/OSX thingy you could install which enabled your printers to show up in AirPrint. However they decided (with no explanation that I know of) to pull this fea
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
While running the betas, I had that experience as well. Oddly, I got used to the new method after awhile and don't really think about it anymore. But I suppose that's not going to be true for everyone and I may not have used the switch as o
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
I've been running the betas on my iPad for awhile now and it is really pretty great having the multitasking support. Like the iPhone, it's mostly not "real" multitasking, so when it comes to interruptions and the like you shouldn't have to
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Unfortunately no, there's no other way at the moment. Apple is aware of the issues this causes a lot of people, but so far I've not heard of any upcoming solutions to this the situation. (Filing more radars complaining about this can't hurt
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
It's not exactly banned, but just removed from their curriculum. It will still be found in the school's library.
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
This is easy: Most people don't and will never directly feel the consequences of that stuff. Millions of people fly every day and directly experience the TSA nonsense.
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
This might be the best thing they could have done to further the cause of their own demise.
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
I'm biased as I'm the creator of Whirl, but one my favorite 99-bottles implementations might just be this one: http://bigzaphod.org/whirl/kang-99.html And of course, there's the one I did for another of my silly languages, Taxi: http://b
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
I think that eventually some programming tasks will become highly specialized, yes, and use custom and very specific languages depending on the field and the problem at hand and may end up with their own degree programs, etc. There's alread
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
I agree. I don't mind actual public recognition. In fact, I sorta desire it sometimes - but only when it's actually earned and the people being told of the achievement recognize why it was an achievement in the first place. There has to be
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Fear of change.
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Dot syntax isn't so evil. Even the example of setting a property on a view's frame seems slightly contrived in that the compiler will give an error. It doesn't silently fail or do undefined things. The primary confusion there is, when you
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
In theory, they could. I suspect that, practically, that's not going to be possible. I don't know all the details, but I imagine it'd mean going to every contributor and getting some kind of statement that they are allowing their code to be
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Apple does not agree to abide by your terms. Instead, by clicking "I Agree" when you submit a new app, you (app submitter) is agreeing to abide by Apple's terms. That's an important distinction in this case. It's irrelevant if you'd l
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
I know it's not the same individual that submitted as is making the current complaint. Whomever agreed to Apple's terms told Apple, by way of agreeing to the contract, that they had full rights and authority to grant Apple the right to dist
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
So who lied, then, when they agreed to Apple's explicitly stated terms and gave Apple permission to distribute VLC in this form in the App Store? If VLC gets removed, it's because this developer is essentially demanding that Apple remove it
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
It's ironic to me that "openness" is cited as a reason to prevent certain software from being used and enjoyed on a specific platform.
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
This isn't much of a stand, IMO. Apple will just pull it unceremoniously. Those who loved having it on their devices lose. VLC loses "customers." The GPL loses by looking worse than Apple's own rules. Apple loses by looking as if their appr
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
I've always imagined myself quite good at this sort of thing but this is the first time I've ever tested it. I got 18/20 and the 2 I missed were 1st and 3rd, so it was before I really got into it, I think. By the 4th or 5th one my brain had
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
I think the MacBook Air line will drop the "Air" name in the near future (maybe in a year or so) and become just the regular MacBook line. It seems more like it was meant to be a test/bridge machine in Apple's quest to eliminate legacy port
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
I just tried typing "Rear light" on my iPad with one finger of my right hand while holding the pad itself with my left hand. It took about 2 seconds. On my iPhone, with only my left hand holding it and using my left thumb to type leaving my
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
It's just so weird! It's like they are advertising to an alternate universe where the iPad, iPhone, iPod touch don't exist. I can't believe how slow and laggy it looks in their own video . How can they not see this?
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Here's one of their promo videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xX-B2wG1e4&feature=playe...

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