Tamerlin

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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"A platform vendor is responsible for articulating exactly what developers will and will not be permitted to do, before they invest time and money." Apple has a history of being very capricious about that.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
The author also conveniently ignored the fact that a lot of those applications exploded on the PC market partly because the PC's were so much more advanced. Apple didn't lose all those developers because of freedom, those developers were af
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Agreed.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
That depends on whether you're buying or selling DB2 licenses. If you're buying, POWER. If you're selling, Sparc.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Google probably didn't want Sun's hardware. They have the dubious honor of having some of the largest processor design teams out there, and yet some of the slowest processors in every generation. I read an article about how much the DB2 fol
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I know... I was making fun of government contracting. I worked for various government contractors for around six years, so I feel like I'm morally obligated to make fun of the whole thing whenever I can.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"hugely expensive government programs" That phrase is redundant. Edit: grammar
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I'm surprised that it hasn't gotten more attention, but the thought of a 120 MPH wind whipping all of those miles-long plumes of toxic glop into a froth and splattering all over the Gulf coast definitely concerns me -- especially with the b
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
No, quite the opposite. It's actually tamed for public consumption. As bad and as short sighted as it is, over fishing is actually not the worst thing that we've done to the fish populations of the world. For example, it ignores the fact th
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Drilling is not, by any stretch of the imagination, an improvement. It is rather a continuation of the lousy policies that we're already destroying the world with. The answer is not more drilling, the answer is better ways to produce energy
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Only an idiot would even suggest that. It's one of the few remaining wildlife refuges in the world that's still truly wild, and if we destroy it, we might as well just give up and admit that our grandchildren will be living in acrylic domes
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
What makes me most pessimistic about it is that even in the face of empirical, observational evidence of global warming, there are still people out there who deny it. The real gravity of this situation in the Gulf is being drastically under
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"Having visited New Orleans after Katrina, you could not escape the feeling that neglect, and dereliction of duty of our elected officials displayed before, during, and after the event. Strong words came to mind at the time, something akin
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Agreed. Worse still is the fact that since the oil companies run america, this will get swept under the rug. The ecological and economical damage will last for more than half a century. And there are hundreds of these things scattered along
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
In my experience, that's much more common. Everyone at amazon complained about how bad the tools and systems were, and yet continually repeated the mistakes that were to me blindingly obvious. But they topped it off with extra special level
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
You're probably right. So far in my experience, that's pretty prevalent -- and the industry really does go out of its way to reward failure by rewarding heroics. I read a bank security audit report once... it made me very concerned about ba
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Sure, it's ubiquitous... but it's also nearly as cruft-laden as Java, and the Flash tools definitely don't reflect the years of "effort" that have gone into them. Seriously, you have to be a complete fool to CHOOSE to build an IDE on top of
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"Agreed - in fact I'd say out of the best programmers I've worked with almost all had CS degree's." It goes to show that there's no correlation between programming skill and degree. Most of the worst programmers I've ever worked with had CS
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
That's excellent advice. Being weak in algorithms means that the author wouldn't be able to get in the door at amazon (which loves its juniors), but IMO that's a good thing, because I'd never want to work with someone who learned how to dev
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Jupiter is far enough from the sun that it already emits significantly more heat than it receives. So the sun becoming more active won't have any measurable effect on Jupiter, or any other of our gas giants, or Pluto or Charon. If any plane
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"I have several Apple products, MBP, iPhone, and Airport Base Station and I have never touted that they are superior or better than other offerings out there." So you're the one!
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
You missed the point -- a power supply spike isn't a hard drive failure, even if it kills a couple of drives, it's a power supply failure. I was explaining a common misconception about statistics, and using hard drives and DIMMs as examples
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
It would be nice if the "best phone in the world" reliably made phone calls.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Probably not... MS' dominance on the desktop isn't in any immediate danger, and MS is the puny upstart in the mobile market. (There's also the arrogance thing over there.) It sounds a lot like the UNIX vs UNIX (et all) vs NT thing, too. Bac
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
That's actually also true. The only thing that physicists have identified so far as being linked to time's directionality is entropy. Pretty much every other aspect of physics works with time's arrow pointed in either direction. So from a p
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
What's more relevant is that the odds of either drive failing are identical. The likelihood that the first drive will fail doesn't change because the second one failed -- which is the classic statistical blunder. ("I got 42 heads in a row,
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
No, he hasn't. Jobs has outdone Steve Balrog, which isn't much of an accomplishment, and is certainly nothing to be proud of. Gates' efforts have been dedicated to philanthropy, Jobs is becoming ever more of a control freak. My vote goes to
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
In a manner of speaking, they COULD walk across water... by cheating: they used lily pads. Big ones. It was like wearing rafts. After that, it was just a matter of learning to choose the right lily pads, being careful, and keeping your bala
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"Which has plenty of capacity for transit, especially the mass, rapid sort that cities on the east side are so busy trying to prevent from being built." As it turns out, the east-siders aren't in general opposing transit. The major impedime
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Agreed. Unfortunately, that seems to be the one thing that colleges and universities are phasing out of their cirricula in favor of Java, consulting, and how to pull all-nighters.

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