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By Buying Motorola, Google Can Now Do Whatever The Heck They Want With Android(techcrunch.com)
20 points by Sandman 15y ago|8 comments
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by Sandman 15y ago
Don't you think the researchers would take their size and metabolism into account when determining the dosage?
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by Sandman 15y ago
PCs are definitely not going to disappear, but most of the people that don't have a professional need for them will no longer have them in the future. This is because the majority of the population (that is, everybody except geeks, develope
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Why This Crisis Isn't Like 2008(professional.wsj.com)
2 points by Sandman 15y ago|1 comments
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Where did my consciousness come from?(newscientist.com)
2 points by Sandman 15y ago|1 comments
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by Sandman 15y ago
Well, as far as my bank is concerned, nobody got laid off during the recent recession (I don't work in the US, mind you). There was just a hiring freeze and smaller bonuses at the end of the year. We really weren't hit that hard.
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by Sandman 15y ago
if you want a stable career, this is not the industry for you. Well, yes and no :). Depends on where you work. If you work at a tech company then yeah, that's probably not the most secure workplace, but I work at a bank, and the only way
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by Sandman 15y ago
This is insane. I just recently implemented this exact same functionality for one of my company's internal apps. I can't believe that such a simple little feature, something that I'd never think of as "invention" can be patented. I wonder w
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by Sandman 15y ago
Just a small remark: Factory pattern is anything but complex. Y combinator actually seems much more complex to me (though, I'm not proficient in functional programming, so that might be why I find it complicated).
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by Sandman 15y ago
Truth be told, I hoped for a bit more from this article. Ok, so now we know that the indexOf() approach works great on strings with the length of 1150000 characters or less. But at what point do other algorithms start outperforming indexOf(
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by Sandman 15y ago
Yes, you avoid NPE, but consider this piece of code: //fetch the name of bacteria from somewhere String bacteria = getBacteriaName(); if("botulinum".equals(bacteria)) { //do something } else { //do something else }
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by Sandman 15y ago
It was - http://blog.orderharmony.com/2011/07/libraries-vs-frameworks...
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by Sandman 15y ago
This is article is really not so much against bosses per se as it is against large companies. But it seems to me that even small startups, if they are successful, grow into large companies with strongly defined structure and teams, and team
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Adobe Releases Flash Player 11 – Finally Delivers 64-bit Flash Player For Linux(digitizor.com)
1 points by Sandman 15y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 15y ago
Hmm. I don't know, I started some of my own projects precisely because what I did at work was not intellectually satisfying. The boredom of working on mundane things made me want to do something new and innovative (well, at least new and in
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by Sandman 15y ago
I can see your point, but think of it this way: No amount of security can protect against human stupidity. If I accidentally download and run an unknown application, and it asks for root privileges and I grant them, then if anything bad hap
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by Sandman 15y ago
So the point of this article is that it's not stupid to plug in random USB sticks you find on the street? That's what USB sticks are for? What if you found a big slice of your favorite type of cake on a park bench, would you eat it? You wou
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by Sandman 15y ago
I don't have a repo on GitHub and while it may certainly be better than SF (and probably is, judging by the comments here), I have to take issue with the overall quality of this article. First of all, when I started reading the article, I
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by Sandman 15y ago
What I noticed in these 847 days I've been here is that HN's comments spoiled me. I now seek the same level of discussion on other sites and most of the time find myself disappointed.
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by Sandman 15y ago
So your point is that you should build something that you believe people will need even though this need/want doesn't yet exist. Ok, I can agree with that. But if you're going to run a company, you better build something people want now, or
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by Sandman 15y ago
And honestly, if what you want is to make money, be a dentist. And if all you want is to build something just for the fun of it, don't start a company. You'll lose money, time and nerves. There really are only to options when building som
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by Sandman 15y ago
People that have damaged nerve endings of the fingers probably are not good grippers, even if their fingers are wet I guess you actually meant "even if their fingers aren't wet"? But why do you think it would be extremely difficult to t
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by Sandman 15y ago
As they say on their front page: "The part of the various browsers we want to NOT be different, the rendering engine, would be shared among all of the browsers".
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by Sandman 15y ago
tl;dr: Based on a comment by Microsoft VP, Julie Larson-Green, that a certain weather application they recently made was done using a platform based on HTML 5 and JS, ars technica's Peter Bright somehow comes to a conclusion that this means
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by Sandman 15y ago
Facebook has been acquiring rather a lot of talented engineers. True, but staying relevant in the field is not an engineering problem, it is a managerial problem. Microsoft had (and still has) a lot of talented engineers, yet they missed
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by Sandman 15y ago
Why the snarky comment?
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by Sandman 15y ago
And somebody programming in some other language might need even less lines. What's your point?
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by Sandman 15y ago
Oh boy. I suggest you google a little bit before making accusations such as this one. DeviantART is a well known site, they definitely don't need to spam comment threads to get attention. And no, I'm not in any way affiliated with deviantAR
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by Sandman 15y ago
I read your comment a couple of times and I must admit that I just don't get what you're trying to say. As I said before, the developers don't have to worry about legal repercussions unless they intend to distribute the modified code under
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by Sandman 15y ago
If they can modify it without worrying about legal repercussions, they're not afraid to modify it Oh, they can modify it. They just can't redistribute the modified code as proprietary software (or under a non-compatible license). But ther

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