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by Hoff 16y ago
Software patents don't parallel hardware patents sufficiently closely. When you are granted a hardware patent, most everything a competent competitor needs to reproduce the invention is directly in the patent. With software (algorithm) pate
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by Hoff 16y ago
I can't tell if the programmer was using the VoIP mechanisms to allow the app to run continuously in the background, though it does look that the programmer was attempting that. Apple isn't going to allow continuous background. If your a
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by Hoff 16y ago
The VMS operating system has had dynamic linking for thirty years or so. A simple version identifier match scheme allows for the requirement of at least a specified version or newer of the library (not running against an older version), or
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by Hoff 16y ago
Most folks wandering around the planet have no clue about RF and near-field effects, but then most folks wandering around haven't had much experience with carrying around RF devices or with gear operating at picowatt sensitivities. But that
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by Hoff 16y ago
Enameled collectable pins are seldom included in a zen garden.
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by Hoff 16y ago
Pascal and C were the subject of protracted language wars, with all the usual accouterments involved with those. Pascal was very common back then; UCSD Pascal and pCode and Terak boxes were all over the place back in college. Apple was (the
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by Hoff 16y ago
I stopped visiting both Google News and BBC News because of their respective and recent UI degradations; the former because I can't find anything and the latter because I can't find what I used to. Both web sites have been replaced with the
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by Hoff 16y ago
See http://www.antennasys.com/antennasys-blog/2010/6/24/apple-ip... from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1459728
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by Hoff 16y ago
This is the standard performance-tuning discussion, in a different guise. Until you explain what factor(s) you're optimizing for, "It's faster because it's written in (whatever)" is a canard. You can take that discussion in most any directi
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by Hoff 16y ago
Many browsers have two text input boxes. In more than a few places, a Google search string (or the browser's search input box) is the already the preferred contact path; not the URL. What might replace URL-based navigation more widely, I do
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by Hoff 16y ago
Overloading the names? Classifications as functional groups? Um. Ok. That's, um, interesting. If you start with chemical names and hit the limits of the complexity that permits, are you going to move onward to molecules? Wait for Ununbi
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by Hoff 16y ago
Most students are probably not attending school because they really want to be. You're in school because you have to be. Because your parents told you to, or because you think a degree or certificate will improve your job or salary prospe
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by Hoff 16y ago
You use a compiler that accepts the assembly code, and produces output for the target architecture. This was how DEC VMS was ported from VAX to Alpha and later to Itanium, as a substantial part of that operating system is written in VAX Mac
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by Hoff 16y ago
Obligatory Sagan quote: “If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
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by Hoff 16y ago
Bill Heller's book A Good Day Has No Rain points to a cloud of radioactive fallout raining onto the Capital District region of New York. http://www.amazon.com/Good-Day-Has-No-Rain/dp/0878755462/ref... Wood ash from burning firewood can
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by Hoff 16y ago
It's the distinction between attempting an automatic recovery under application control, and the philosophy of the badness happened; get out NOW failure design. In complex systems, there's always the assumed potential for untoward behavio
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by Hoff 16y ago
Hillegass spent time and text comparing Cocoa constructs to other programming languages. On distractions. Steinberg's approach had better technical progression, tighter focus and superior editing.
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by Hoff 16y ago
Having looked at both in some detail, Daniel Steinberg's Cocoa Programming book http://pragprog.com/titles/dscpq/cocoa-programming might be preferable to Hillegass's book.
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by Hoff 16y ago
That doesn't look like a problem with replicated and rewritten code; that seems a symptom. If you don't have somebody "watching the kids" (and with the clear authority and technical abilities to "go all Moe on the other Stooges", when that'
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by Hoff 16y ago
Search the googlephant for wifi mesh setup or related terms.
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by Hoff 16y ago
Apple has a history of skating to where they think the puck will be. That's not likely viewed as servers and even as desktops. Likely mobile clients and clouds and ubiquitous communications. The section of the D8 interview that Cringley has
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by Hoff 16y ago
Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me: http://sundown.afro.illinois.edu/liesmyteachertoldme.php Worthy read.
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by Hoff 16y ago
Because the fake wood paneling and wood-grained contact paper was cheap, ubiquitous and (trust me on this) looked better than the equally prevalent pink-n-purple color scheme. To wit, the PDP-11/45: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jef/422559
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by Hoff 16y ago
Whether you agree with a market or a business, it's your money and your choice and your investments. Whether you believe the market is the next great thing or unsustainable, if it's trending up, that's money to be made. Whether you think a
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by Hoff 16y ago
That rock is a form of marital financial insurance policy, should she decide to bail on you for whatever reason. It's small, portable and relatively fungible. She definitely knows that, too. And yes, you could call it a reverse dowry. Or a
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Microsoft Windows Embedded Compact 7 Preview; ships Q4(arstechnica.com)
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by Hoff 16y ago
Amazon's sales portal and Apple's iAd adverts are aimed at Google's money. Amazon has its web hosting and storage services. What Apple is planning for their Maiden, North Carolina DC isn't yet clear.
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by Hoff 16y ago
There's nothing really all that interesting here until this mess gets hashed out in the courts; it's all academic (and legal) for now. Nobody (that matters) is going to aggressively move to VP8 prior to that; you'll get the usual lip servic
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by Hoff 16y ago
If you're interested in seeing (another) emulator implementation, the Computer History Simulation Project (simh) package < http://simh.trailing-edge.com/&#62 ; emulates various boxes.
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Pick some topic areas that are popular with some subset of the population. There are various groups that would welcome having certain search terms dropped from the indices and others that they favor weighted more highly, for instance. There

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