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by Niten 16y ago
> The practical purpose of marriage is to give protections to the woman who bears a greater liability in childbearing. [citation needed] Accepting that for the sake of argument — suppose I'm sterile, then. Or I just don't plan on havin
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by Niten 16y ago
> Legal rights on the other hand are abstract meaning they can be equal if the law says they are. But the law does not say they're equal, as has already been pointed out to you. And yes, pointing to civil unions — which embody a subs
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by Niten 16y ago
But enough of us do to make it relevant.
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> If more virtualized hosting providers offered BSDs (FreeBSD in particular) I would choose them over Ubuntu for servers. In that case I might as well give a shout-out to my current VPS host, ARP Networks: http://www.arpnetworks.com/vp
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by Niten 16y ago
Why do people always feel the need to point out that Android is supported by multiple manufacturers whenever the issue of Android vs. iPhone market share is mentioned, as though they think they've just dropped a bomb on the conversation? I
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I think the main issues are that lazy evaluation makes it more difficult to reason about the performance of your code, both in terms of what actually gets computed in which thread / on which core, and in terms of space requirements (lazy ev
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by Niten 16y ago
Even to the extent that this is currently the norm, why is it OK ? Why should state officials ever be allowed to interrogate U.S. citizens' political opinions, regardless of whether those citizens happen to be standing in an airport? It ma
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by Niten 16y ago
> [...] when he was pulled aside by customs and border protection agents who told him he was randomly selected for a security search > [...] Receipts from his bag were photocopied and his laptop was inspected but it's not clear in
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by Niten 16y ago
pg puts forth a similar view in his essay on software patents: http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html But I don't think that logic applies here. Sure, if you're a small operation going head to head with some huge corporation, tha
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by Niten 16y ago
Thanks to everyone who put this together. This probably sounds silly, but Perl was the first programming language I ever did anything "real" with (it was my second language, after Microsoft QuickBASIC), and no matter how many other languag
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by Niten 16y ago
I'm not a remarkable programmer by Hacker News standards, but I have experience in what I think is a decent variety of languages. I've done C and assembly; I've done a stack-based language; I've done the popular dynamic imperative language
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by Niten 16y ago
I think Perl 6's Rules are a natural and important extension to the language. Perl has always been a tool of choice for text processing; but people tend to [ab]use regular expressions even where a real parser would be much more appropriate
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by Niten 16y ago
It may not be a hands-down winner yet, but in the long run it's the way to be headed. I'm more interested in using LLVM on FreeBSD or Linux than on OS X, but I'm happy to see Apple pushing its development.
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by Niten 16y ago
Let me rephrase that, since you appear to have entirely missed the point of my post. It doesn't matter that Android 2.2 isn't out yet, because Android 2.1 still compares favorably to iOS 4.
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Best in terms of what exactly? Baseline snarkiness? Most customers don't know, much less care about, the exact version number of their phone's operating system. They care about what the operating system can do for them. But I suppose if
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by Niten 16y ago
No, it's emphatically not a problem with the ecosystem. Android 2.2 phones are being designed as we speak, and Android 2.1 works perfectly fine for people in the meantime -- it's not like Google had to play catchup with Android 2.2 the way
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by Niten 16y ago
I haven't done any iPhone development, but can't the GPS sample rate be overridden in software? I know it can on Android -- My Tracks will let you tweak the sample rate if you want, for example.
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by Niten 16y ago
I'm not experiencing this issue with my own HTC Incredible, for what it's worth. Maybe there's some glitch with Google's wireless network database... As for the Incredible's GPS performance, I couldn't be happier. It's accurate enough tha
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by Niten 16y ago
I think it's even more disturbing that they'd use this power to take over a domain in a TLD sponsored by another country. I can't imagine the EU would be happy about this precedent...
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by Niten 16y ago
And then, occasionally, Objective-C.
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by Niten 16y ago
It's common knowledge that Apple's rubber bumpers are a workaround for the antenna problem. But you shouldn't have to buy a $30 case for your $200 phone just for the privilege of making calls reliably.
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by Niten 16y ago
Oh please. How good or bad Vista was is beside the point; the comparison is between how Vista and the iPhone 4 are perceived .
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by Niten 16y ago
I think that would be bad timing for a Verizon announcement. Wouldn't that just piss off anyone who signed with AT&T for the iPhone 4 just because they couldn't get it on Verizon? Besides, if they're going to announce a Verizon phone
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by Niten 16y ago
For my part I know that I don't strictly think in words, or pictures, or any other such representations. I'm sharply aware of this because I'm relatively slow putting thoughts into words; so when I have some thought, I can consciously hold
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by Niten 16y ago
Plus I'm not sold that the points system will be enough for people to take time to mark free spots when they're just trying to get on with their day. Unless they start saying "you can't keep using this program unless you have a certain num
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by Niten 16y ago
Did you try mapping caps lock as a control key, like on the Sun keyboards? Before I did this I had trouble with Emacs, but since then it's been perfect for me.
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by Niten 16y ago
> Windows 7 has been very well perceived, though it still lags behind Linux/OSX. Lags behind in what sense?
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by Niten 16y ago
Thanks for commenting on this, you clearly know a lot more about this topic than I do.
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The MacRuby team reckons it's "stable", in the sense that the API shouldn't change too much in the future and it probably won't crash. But there are good reasons Steve might not yet consider it mature enough for the iPhone. For one thing,
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MacRuby apparently performs quite well, at least in this stage of its development. What would be really interesting is if this translates into real-world Rails/Sinatra/whatever performance gains significant enough to create demand for OS X

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