DougBTX

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by DougBTX 16y ago
I remember reading parts of that thread at the time, and being impressed at Linus standing up for end users. The background is important to understand his point of view: glibc was changed to in theory improve performance, but it broke flash
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by DougBTX 16y ago
By sheer bulk, his point is that quotations from people who were there are more interesting than an "IIRC".
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by DougBTX 16y ago
Git also stores diffs from time to time: http://book.git-scm.com/7_how_git_stores_objects.html
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by DougBTX 16y ago
You could look at it the other way around: they were getting good press for the iPad2, why dilute it with news about a port update?
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by DougBTX 16y ago
Both are bad, but I prefer Linus's up-front aggression to the passive aggressive tone of the person he is replying to.
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by DougBTX 16y ago
I think it is worth making the distinction between refactoring and rewriting. I tend to take the strict view that refactoring should not change behaviour, so for example if a unit test fails, and you refactor some code, the unit test should
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by DougBTX 16y ago
That's a good way to get "thinner" out the door in a hurry. Take out the battery?
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by DougBTX 16y ago
So, what you are actually saying, is that this is the cheapest major upgrade to XCode that's ever been released?
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by DougBTX 16y ago
Also, the download via http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/developer-tools-324/ includes a built version of gcc, i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1.
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by DougBTX 16y ago
Tip: use replaceState for the animation so that the back button still works.
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by DougBTX 16y ago
Imagine the disagreements that would happen if there was a discussion of something remotely complicated or controversial!
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by DougBTX 16y ago
I think that the casing of the first letter of the title is forced by HN.
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by DougBTX 16y ago
I was about to write this response, but I see that it is more clearly written in the wikipedia article already: Another potential security vulnerability in using asymmetric keys is the possibility of a man-in-the-middle attack, in which co
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by DougBTX 16y ago
As does pointing out that you could do this without an iPhone. Clearly these are the sort of thoughts which can only be described using a qwerty keyboard, right?
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by DougBTX 16y ago
It would make perfect sense for Sophos to develop software like this. As long as they don't get caught.
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by DougBTX 16y ago
This is quite similar to my experience. I installed Adobe Builder 4.5 beta trial too, which after a bit of fiddling around (and confusion on my part about the differences between 4.0 and 4.5 while following the tutorials) does eventually ge
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by DougBTX 16y ago
A colleague has a Vaio with that resolution running Win7. It doesn't seem to respect DPI settings system wide, he is continually adjusting font sizes. I don't know why he puts up with it, it seems much more hassle than it is worth.
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by DougBTX 16y ago
Isn't this also the operating principle behind social security? Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I thought that the reason his age was brought up was to justify giving him a lower premium. The principle behind social security (or at least the
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by DougBTX 16y ago
In my opinion, the old AppStore 30% cut for apps and in-app purchase was fair, but the new subscription cut is unfair. Here's my reasoning: AppStore provides distribution and one-click payment processing. Selling access to a web app is pain
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by DougBTX 16y ago
How many decades you expect him to be a twenty-something?
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by DougBTX 16y ago
You've picked a bad article to make this point - if someone tried to re-brand OpenOffice as "MS Office" you can be sure that Microsoft would defend its trademarks, and you'd never see it on HN. But when Apple does the same, it is front page
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by DougBTX 16y ago
I'm not sure where managers come into the discussion, but the second example is good, but even better like this: arr.sum()
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by DougBTX 16y ago
For me type inference changes the picture, since it reduces the duplication you see throughout Java-style statically typed code, but doesn't give up all the benefits.
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by DougBTX 16y ago
I was going to tell him off for missing Enumerable.Aggregate, but then I noticed that he posted 6 months before that was included in the standard libraries, so I'm going to have to let him off.
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by DougBTX 16y ago
Amusingly, MSN Explorer is still available for download, and comes with IE 5.5: http://explorer.msn.com/install.htm Pentium 90MHz processor or faster!
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by DougBTX 16y ago
He's referring to these: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=... They are time-limited virtual PC images which expire after three of four months.
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by DougBTX 16y ago
I don't think that's the point. The idea of patents is to make trade secrets public for the common good. If the patents were useful, the VP8 guys would be able to produce a list of helpful patents. Since this is a call for unknown patents,
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by DougBTX 16y ago
> they published it for everyone to benefit from in exchange. Although I've upvoted you, I think that this is the fundamental disagreement. I've never felt that I could look up a patent and learn from it. In fact, it seems like a game t
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by DougBTX 16y ago
The twist is that he is charging his users for API access - normally it would be a convoluted process where the third party developers pay to use the API, then they try to monetise the users via subscription or ads. This is a smart way to
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by DougBTX 16y ago
The keychain is encrypted with the user's login password on OSX, you need the login password to decrypt the passwords stored in the keychain. The point being made in the article is that changing your iPhone pin/password does not re-encrypt

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