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by Lewisham 15y ago
This is the important thing. Would it be useful if they read some Wikipedia entries before they started writing legislation (or, perhaps more accurately, accepting legislation written for them by the MPAA)? Yes. Do they have to? No. They ju
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by Lewisham 15y ago
You're not the first person to posit that adding a new VM "almost guarantees breakage". So what? Keep the old VM, transition to the new one by specifying that's what you're targeting, then deprecate the old VM and eventually lose it altoget
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I think this ignores the reality of the situation we've been in for a long time: different browsers do different things. We've all been quagmired in CSS because one browser renders one way, and one renders another. And we can't seem to get
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Yes, this is exactly right. We didn't have time in the period of an internship to hook into the IDE (along with all the other tasks, like user studies, algorithm design etc etc), so just went with the warning in source control. Given more t
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Hi, I'm Chris, author of the blog/work. While I love me some type systems, I worry you're thinking a bit too code-centric. For example, let's say I describe to you a really hard problem, and you come up with a solution (that type checks!),
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by Lewisham 15y ago
This is so awesome, thanks igrigorik :)
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I'm Chris, author of the post/work. Cheating the algorithm is indeed a possibility and is actually very easy: 1. Just don't file bug tickets. 2. If you do, don't attach the tickets to changes. 3. If you attach the tickets to changes, don't
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Hi, I'm Chris, author of the blog post/work. You're on the right lines, and I spent some time thinking about this. There is a couple of things that led me not to concern myself with file length. Before I start, I would note that a file just
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Hi. I'm Chris, the author of the blog post/work. You're not wrong, although bug prediction is a very nebulous term in the academic literature which encompasses a pretty broad range of techniques. The term is used to properly ground the work
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Yeah, neutrality is only possible if Wikipedia, and the Wikipedia Foundation, hosts itself in a nation which isn't going to be controlled by legislation that will affect it. Even if it did, the domain seizures by the US means that Wikipedia
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Well, it's your fault, so I hardly blame them. Why on earth would you tell people to use Google Apps as a personal email service? It's a mallet to a crack a nut. Google Apps is for businesses, it's probably even a little much for SOHO. If p
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by Lewisham 15y ago
You'll also notice I never said I reinstalled because of the error I was having (I eventually found a FixIt to do it), but the reinstalls were for other things. The corrupted registry is just indicative of a problem which really should n
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I can certainly blame Microsoft for Microsoft libraries that don't install on its own operating system cleanly, and requires a Microsoft-issued fix.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I was trying to install Star Wars: The Old Republic, and the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable flat-out refused to install die to "Error 1365" (if I remember my error codes right). Required a Microsoft FixIt to fix the registry keys. And I ha
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Having had a "I really am starting to dislike Mac OS X, but Windows 8 looks pretty good!" revelation, I started to use Windows 7. I came back after about a week and told Mac OS X I'd never leave it again. I reinstalled Windows 7 about 2 or
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Exactly. The adage of offending people with style when you can offend them with substance springs to mind. Swearing isn't edgy. Content is edgy.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
As a Brit (although I live in America), I don't understand your comment at all. British society, as a whole, is absolutely infatuated with your persona (I am guessing as an extension of class). I would never, ever, ever swear in a present
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by Lewisham 15y ago
As an ex-pat, my impression is streaky bacon == American bacon, but America has no analogous product to English back bacon. It drives me nuts . I haven't had a decent bacon sandwich in years :(
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Any chance of pinging out an invite code for HN users?
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Aha! Multifactor authentication is an integral part of the service. That's a USP. You should put it right in that FAQ. A number of Internet banks used to say "hey, you could mail us checks, or you know, just keep a brick-and-mortar account
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Did anyone else see this in the FAQ? Who can use Simple? To be eligible, you must: - Be a resident of the United States and over the age of 18; - Have a Social Security number; and - Own a smartphone (iPhone or Android). Do I really need t
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by Lewisham 15y ago
IIRC, people got upset with Google Profiles that your Gmail address was exposed from the URL (eg. profiles.google.com/dave would lead to dave@gmail.com). The URLs are thus anonymized to stop that leakage. They could/should have a system up
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Maybe I'm just weird, but all of this drama around a database does not make much sense to me. Because it's the most painful point of tech. If you need to change programming languages to meet a latency requirement, that sucks. If you find
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by Lewisham 15y ago
This is true, but I think everyone would be aware that fighting a court case as a recent grad will be far too expensive, and doing that from outside the country adds even more on top.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
As a recent grad trying to convince US employers to H1B you and bring you over is hard. No doubt. I feel very, very bad for the OP, but I am a little surprised at this: I refused opportunities with Google, Bing, and two startups. I told
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by Lewisham 15y ago
H1-B becomes invalid if the company fires you. It would have been worse if he'd already got here, but knowing how much effort goes into moving countries (particularly to the US), that is a very small consolation.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
This basically looks like Kotlin, except it explicitly compiles down to Java. I'm not sure how I feel about this. Pre-Kotlin, I would have thought "hey, neat", but now it seems like we're on the verge of a number of half-supported half-hear
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by Lewisham 15y ago
This is certainly the case in the US, where you're most likely to have driven somewhere, so you're going to have your wallet/purse as you need your driver's license. That said, there is still some friction when it comes to using a card...
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I'll echo other comments here that this looks like it needs a bit more work. * Notification error on startup: ridiculous * Laggy scrolling (how?) * No support for Send As, which is actually what is really missing from the iPhone Mail app. I
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I guess you haven't used the Android one then.

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