BruceIV

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by BruceIV 14y ago
Fair - but if you can get Google to pay for a bunch of engineers to build the standard library for you, I bet it would work better ;-)
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by BruceIV 14y ago
And he didn't even mention the hassle of getting everyone to "Reply All" rather than just "Reply" to CCs.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
That said, this is also a problem of his own creation - I keep a fairly lean Facebook friends list (which I'll purge of local contacts I'm not close to after I move next week), and fairly often unfriend people who I'm not close to and consi
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by BruceIV 14y ago
I can definitely see his point about new social networks - probably the biggest win Google+ has given me was the ability to start my social network fresh, with only interesting people (also, mainly nerds, so I now post geeky stuff to Google
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by BruceIV 14y ago
The London 2012 logo is better than the one they used, I think.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
I'm not bashing Go here, just to clarify - I'm just saying that given Rob Pike's deep knowledge of the language and its libraries, and his heavy design input to it, it doesn't mean much that he's productive in it (well, besides the implied
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Good advice - after I noticed that I solved most of my tough debugging problems on the walk home from work, I started going outside to take a walk around the building whenever I got stuck. Removing yourself from immediate access to the code
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Agreed - we'd probably all be most productive working in a language we'd designed ourselves, irrespective of the merits or demerits of that language for other programmers.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Any idea when this is going to hit Dreamspark Premium (used to be MSDN Academic Alliance)?
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Maybe this is really juvenile, but does the logo look like a bladder to anyone else?
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by BruceIV 14y ago
If we're giving anecdotes, anyone I've known who's owned an Acer laptop (n=4) has replaced it with something else within a year or two, because it broke. (Personally, I've had good experiences with Asus; it's a pity the names sound so much
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Exactly. Most of these examples seem to be "we've had Dropbox support for a while, and we added Google Drive and more people are setting it up"; my interpretation is "Dropbox users have already configured their accounts".
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by BruceIV 14y ago
I've had a couple Asus laptops (not a Zenbook), and the multi-touch is pretty decent (well, once you dig into the settings and turn off pinch-zoom and all the fancy three-finger gestures). Still, Apple's multi-touch implementations are much
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by BruceIV 14y ago
On another note, there's a very real possibility the Canadian government would be nationalistic enough to refuse Microsoft permission to buy them out, even if they offered. http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/06/29/andrew-coyne-...
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by BruceIV 14y ago
I may be in danger of being labelled a Microsoft fanboy here, but I think Windows Phone is (or has potential to be) a good software platform, and Microsoft has got the money (and I think the will) to stick with it for a while - RIM would mo
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by BruceIV 14y ago
A pity RIM rejected this - still, once their stock tanks further, Microsoft may just buy them out. Combined with a Nokia acquisition, they might be able to put together a strong mobile presence in both the consumer and enterprise sectors.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
It accords with my (disappointing) impression from my undergrad AI class, that while these systems are certainly "artificial", the "intelligence" tends to lie completely with their designers.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
I wonder if Apple is ever going to run into legal trouble for this - it can't be much different than Microsoft's troubles with bundling IE, WMP, etc. on the desktop.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
I tend to agree about the lack of generics - the type of people who design and write standard libraries (e.g. Rob Pike and co.) may find it easy to put these things together, but they aren't representative of the general class of programmer
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by BruceIV 14y ago
I'm curious why, for instance, the Palm Pre's charger isn't prior art for this.
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by BruceIV 14y ago
Does anyone else think that the DOJ would go after Microsoft for anti-competitive behaviour if it sunk $10B into selling hardware below cost to move into a new market?
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by BruceIV 14y ago
I've got to say, for me, Facebook has largely replaced personal email (you never do know which of someone's three email addresses they actually use), but hiding your personal email in favour of their own system? That's just sleazy.