DrJokepu

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by DrJokepu 14y ago
I hope that Apple will realise that these games are hurting its brand and products and will kick them out of the App Store just like they did with fart apps. I don’t see what kind of business advantage allowing these games gives them. It’s
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
As far as I know, the HTTP standard doesn't require browsers to decode content with a decoding mechanism if and only if it has been specified in the Content-Encoding header. I don't think this is a bug.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
XP was also based on the NT kernel and it was a direct descendant of Windows 2000.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
> Free-to-play, social and mobile games have exploded in popularity. That happened fast. Surprisingly so. The change in consumer tastes requires us to reorganize our business and invest in new types of games on new platforms. I wonder i
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Craig's List comes to mind. They're doing fine.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Or have the ability to connect to the local corporate Oracle database and get the data from there directly?
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Meh. It's about trade-offs. Some languages are designed to be lightweight and require minimal assistance from the IDE. Some languages are optimised for very large codebases and expect a lot of "ceremony and plumbing" around them. And then t
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
This is about creating a web page for your app, not the launch image.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Most modern operating systems try write the contents of the physical memory to the page file at the first good opportunity (well before it's needed) in order to save time when the page is actually paged out, so it's perfectly normal to have
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
One of the things I've noticed is that the new Xcode 4.4 (released the same time as Mountain Lion) seems to be an awful lot snappier to me. My theory is that this is happening because they might have switched Xcode from being garbage collec
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
They don't "own" all the content. For example, they need to pay royalties for any music they use to the local collection societies (ASCAP, SESAC or BMI in the US).
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
LOCOG could provide the feed and it could be sponsored by IBM, Oracle, Accenture or any one of those big IT consulting companies.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
There isn't much to rip off, the whole thing is a few dozen lines long, trivial utility. The program name is probably a bona fide reference to the app. The source code of caffeinate(8) is available at http://opensource.apple.com/source/Pow
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Due to my job, I work a lot with these broadcasters, especially Channel 4. From what I can tell, even though they are commercially funded, the folks over there in Horseferry Road try to take their "publicly owned" status seriously and try t
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
In many countries (including the United Kingdom) the amount of commercials that can be broadcasted per hour on terrestrial broadcast is limited by law or other regulations. The UK is special in that the biggest broadcasters (BBC, ITV, Chann
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Safari for Windows was released more than a year before the first Google Chrome beta. Before that, Webkit wasn't available on Windows at all and it was impossible to test websites on Webkit without a Mac. Google Chrome is now an excellent a
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Fortunately, the government is doing its best to help UK businesses by shutting down the Tier 1 (post-study work) visa, making it almost impossible for young non-EU graduates to live, work and settle in the UK.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
The times are really changing. When Steve Jobs passed away, I've learned about it on HN and Twitter about half an hour before mainstream news picked up the story.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
They can stop the distribution in the United Stares. In addition, Swedish courts would probably honor the decision of the US court.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
When I screen, interview and hire people, I look for reasons to hire someone as opposed to trying to find reasons to disqualify people. This kind of negative approach (especially when dealing with people) is just not a good way to go about
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
I think it's generally a good idea to avoid declaring multiple variables in the same line (unless you have a very good reason). The space you "save" isn't worth the maintainability penalty. This is a habit I have from C where int* a, b
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
I'm not so sure whether jQuery can be considered a framework or not. If you're using jQuery properly ($(document.ready).ready() and so forth) jQuery behaves very much like a framework, with inversion of control and other patterns. JavaScrip
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Japan panel: Fukushima nuclear disaster 'man-made'(bbc.co.uk)
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
So what you're saying is that banks are more stable because only a small portion of their assets are kept as reserve? In that case, what's stopping bitcoin "depositories" such as this converting the bulk of their assets to something else as
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
While I'm not a big fan of BitCoin, I don't think this is a very good argument. You could use the same argument for banks and "get robbed". Why doesn't this happen to banks?
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
If you do this that would mean that you could have no shared locks safely on the SQLite database while you have a reserved lock, that is, if one process is planning to write to the database, other processes cannot even read it. Even then, y
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Yeah, I don't know about that. When I first discovered reflection, I was using it for everything. Initially it was awesome but then I've quickly realised that it's exactly the kind of thing that makes code a lot more complicated than it sho
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Meh. We have used it for a while. The format itself is not particularly bad (although it's a bit fat) but the browser support is rather mediocre. For example, neither Webkit nor Firefox will do vector transformations if you apply CSS transf
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
I agree with you in that content should never be able to crash software. I disagree with you TV example, however. If the same TV show repeatedly crashed one of the most popular TV models, consumers would blame the show.
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by DrJokepu 14y ago
Obviously this is a bug in IE that needs to be fixed and it's Microsoft's responsibility to ensure that their browser doesn't crash in invalid input, but end users don't actually care about the browser either (they don't even know what a br

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