DrJokepu

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by DrJokepu 15y ago
It seems to me that RBS was very clear about the issue, they simply don't want to deal with gambling. It's a valid debate whether this is a reasonable or acceptable thing to do but it's massively misleading to conclude that this has anythin
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
As long as you have a EU (Schengen) passport, another EU (Schengen) member state can only deny your entry if its authorities can prove that you pose a "genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat". The burden of proof is on them. It's
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
This is the characteristic style of Raymond Chen. He is, in fact, a super clever genius and these things are actually completely obvious for him. I think his blog is a good reflection of the internal culture at Microsoft, and I mean a bunch
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
It is true that they are owned by the same groups (e.g. the Bertelsmann Group) and that's somewhat relevant but I wouldn't think that has too much importance. These companies exchange owners very often. I'm repeating myself but the woes of
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
There is no such thing as "copyright industry". The motion picture industry, the phonographic industry, the book publishing industry, the software industry, the video game industry all closely related to copyright yet they are all very diff
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Money, success and photos with attractive women will not stop you from hating yourself. Arrogance is not a sign of being secure about yourself.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Obesity can lead to diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, heart disease and shortened life expectancy. Not to mention psychological problems such as low self-esteem.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Specialisation is nothing new but I think what both the article and the grandparent really mean is that you have to be above average in your field of specialisation, e.g. being an average professional singer, professional mathematician or p
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Apart from the obvious data protection issues, perhaps an even more interesting and frightening aspect of the issue is that that phone number is probably there for a reason. It's entirely possible that some O2 or O2 partner sites use that h
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I am a little concerned that such a democratic creative process will lead to the redditification of motion picture; only kumbaya-style movies that make you warm inside, approved by the hive mind will ever be made, while controversial pieces
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Indeed the copyright status of derivative works is somewhat controversial. Perhaps one of the most famous examples of the issue is The Grey Album by Danger Mouse (2004) which heavily sampled both The Beatles and Jay-Z. EMI was very keen on
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but I'm not sure if I understand you question. How would you write even a simple parser without being able to access the contents of the string randomly by the character index?
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
It's really not that simple. If you do a lot of string manipulations, you're better off with either UTF-32 or dumbified (16-bit fixed) UTF-16, otherwise you will have to count characters from the beginning of the string every time you need
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
It appears to me that this is a made-up argument about terminology and semantics that in no way advances the human race forward; all it's good for is starting angry and meaningless debates about nothing.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
An argument could be made that intellectual property is in fact a civil liberty itself; the right to own private property is a common and well-established civil liberty. Proponents of intellectual property argue that while obviously intell
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I had the opportunity to talk to two ladies from the review team in person at a recent Apple event and my impression was that they really know what they're doing.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Not to mention the insane hours they work. I had apps approved well after midnight, California time.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Thanks a lot, I simple can't figure out how to get to Google Cache on touch screen devices as it looks like that their instant preview thingie is triggered by the mouse hover event.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I think an argument could be made (and I don't necessarily agree with it) that since a very large portion of BT's revenues originate from the UK and BT has a very large presence on the UK telecommunications market, it will be ultimately Bri
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
It's difficult to tell if there's prior art (or infringement for that matter) without reading the full contents of the patents in question. Being based on similar principles is not enough, it has to implement the patent exactly as described
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
An HTML developer. An HTML editor. An HTML file. An HTML standard. You get the idea.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I don't get it, both on my iPad 2 (iOS 5.0.1) and my MacBook (Firefox 8.0.1) == is several times faster than === which is completely the opposite of what I would be expecting. Perhaps someone who's familiar with the internals of JavaScript
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I am by no means an expert in French Law but after reading through the text of the law on Legifrance I did not find an provisions that would limit the law to private or home users only. Perhaps someone from France could confirm this?
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
While it probably wasn't the president himself, that makes no difference at all in the context of the French "three strikes" law that allows disconnecting file sharers for up to 12 months without the possibility of judicial appeal. I don't
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Regardless whether the author is right or wrong, "I don't care" is not a valid way to dismiss a counterargument. It's an effective way to resolve cognitive dissonance however.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I actually like it. Threads for new version releases like that are good for discussing new features, there's often someone who is very familiar with the product and the problem domain who explains the relevant issues for the rest of us, som
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I have no complaints about the static analyzer and Instruments; they're both excellent tools. The debugger is stuck in the 80's, it's essentially GDB with a very light GUI rigged on the top of it. It doesn't allow for things like easy explo
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I'm truly curious, as someone who has never been to San Francisco, if rents are so high, how come smalltime criminals and other lower parts of the society can afford it? Or they simply don't have to pay rent?
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
As someone who also used to really dislike Objective-C and also likes C#, I would urge you to reconsider your opinion about Objective-C. It's really not a bad language. It makes different trade-offs than C#, but I think once you understand
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
While you're right that intelligent autocompletion is not a feature of a programming language, clearly it's much easier to create one for some languages than for others. It's not a coincidence that there's still aren't any really usable int

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