WildUtah

96 ms·

961.
by WildUtah 13y ago
The jankiest thing about Android (well, aside from crappy manufacturer skins and undeletable carrier spamware) is the pauses and delays in user response. Those all come from the disastrous choice to use Java as a programming language. User
962.
by WildUtah 13y ago
What about * Libraries for reading arbitrary size integers * and for computing with arbitrary size integers * Efficiently handling files larger than RAM * Error handling when the file is not as promised? Should a
963.
by WildUtah 13y ago
"EU law makes it easy for a company to do business anywhere in EU and only pay taxes in its headquarters, on the assumption that it doesn't matter a lot where the company pays its taxes as long as it's inside the EU." US
964.
Ill-Conceived, Even If Competently Administered: Software Patents(econjwatch.org)
8 points by WildUtah 13y ago|0 comments
965.
by WildUtah 13y ago
"A dull knife is pretty safe for most people." While your point is true, I want to object to your metaphor. I object for safety purposes. In fact, a dull knife is more dangerous than a sharp knife for most anyone who needs to cut
966.
by WildUtah 13y ago
Cadillac Desert is one of the great American books of the twentieth century. I wish I could make everyone in my region read it. And Ed Abbey wrote some great books, too. Desert Solitaire is always worth rereading. Last time I was camping at
967.
by WildUtah 13y ago
The income stream is tiny or nonexistent. Microsoft recently challenged Moto's demands and ended up paying a royalty for every XBox. The royalty is so small that Google will end up having lost money on the litigation. And reasonable re
968.
by WildUtah 13y ago
Coin is infringing tens of thousands of US patents (you are, too) and quite a few companies are likely to soon have patents that attack Coin's core product in the next few years. Big companies with plenty of cash don't usually die
969.
by WildUtah 13y ago
"long bus trip ... Salt Lake City ... used bookstore ... on a shelf in the basement" Probably Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore [0]. Three blocks from the bus station for the second half of the twentieth century, it occupied two st
970.
by WildUtah 13y ago
That is in every quality typical of the patents granted and enforced in court every day in the USA. Pointing out that the claims were anticipated and are incoherent doesn't help much in front of a jury of laypeople.
971.
by WildUtah 13y ago
"You do realize that ideology is not cleanly divided between two political parties, and that neither party has a consistent ideology over time or at any given time?" Yes, I do. "neither is right or wrong about anything."
972.
by WildUtah 13y ago
Thanks for your comment about partisan appointments. Even though there were seven Republican appointees at the time and two Democratic, the court was widely seen as having five Republicans and four Democrats. Mostly this was based on long e
973.
by WildUtah 13y ago
The four Democratic justices in Raich are part of a block that has supported total federal jurisdiction over every aspect of American life since Wickard v. Filburn in 1942 [0]. The essential theory is that state governments are a barbarous
974.
by WildUtah 13y ago
Yes. By the time the F-35 works, it'll be obsolete for most of its missions because cruise missiles and drones will have utterly surpassed its capabilities.
975.
by WildUtah 13y ago
Looks like the cheap flights were on WN (Southwest) and the expensive flights were on DL (Delta). I just did an example flight search to fly later this week (Jan 24-30 round trip) from SLC to OAK, a route that both DL and WN fly direct. Kay
976.
by WildUtah 13y ago
I've lived in Mexico City a couple years and visited regularly since 1997. Things have changed drastically in the last seventeen years. Statistics show that they changed even faster between 1985 and 1997, but I didn't see that. Th
977.
by WildUtah 13y ago
The suit in question (11-908 in Delaware federal district court [0]) was filed in October of 2011. It is coming to trial in 2014 and the participants have probably spent well over a million dollars each getting to this point. That alone tel
978.
by WildUtah 13y ago
After switching to OS X after spending years using Windows and then Linux, I found it patently the case that the keyboard shortcuts in OS X are much better than Windows and much worse than Linux in both ease of use and consistency across ap
979.
by WildUtah 13y ago
The Nazis never won over a third of the vote in an open multi party election in Germany. The insider establishment parties chose to hand power over to the Nazis rather than allow reformers or Communists to threaten entrenched wealth and mon
980.
by WildUtah 13y ago
"Surely you're joking mr Feynman" is where most of us read about it.
981.
by WildUtah 13y ago
Actually Mike Huffington ran against her in 1994 and came within 1% of replacing her with a moderate Republican. I'm glad I voted for him even though I'm a Democrat.
982.
by WildUtah 13y ago
Well, it's simple. -Greedy elites in England monopolized land and subjected working people to indenture, peonage, servitude, and low wages. The elites got richer and richer as living standards stagnated. -Urbanization and the early sta
983.
by WildUtah 13y ago
Or we could double the density of San Francisco by making it look like these hideous dystopias: http://www.newworldeconomics.com/archives/2011/021311.html That would be ten times the density of the peninsula citie
984.
by WildUtah 13y ago
Yeah, my comment from the thread on this series that disappeared: Whenever I see these articles, I think about what makes the Bay Area expensive. The key factor is housing prices. There's a limited amount of land available near the cen
985.
by WildUtah 13y ago
Mexico is an OECD country, a member of the 'first world club.' It has a high level of literacy and education and economic output and public infrastructure. Comparing Mexico to the USA is an A-league to A-league comparison. Sure, i
986.
by WildUtah 13y ago
I've seen dense pleasant and unpleasant and rural pleasant and unpleasant and most possibilities in between. I don't mean to equate the one axis with the other. It is very challenging to build mid-density pleasant surroundings wit
987.
by WildUtah 13y ago
Furthermore, move out of the bay area, man! That's one of the most expensive places to live in the country! Whenever I see these articles, I think about what makes the Bay Area expensive. The key factor is housing prices. There'
988.
by WildUtah 13y ago
According to the Pew Hispanic Center, more people have moved from the USA to Mexico than from Mexico to the USA in each of the past six years. The reverse flow was strong in the 1990's. That's one clue that maybe low pay in Tijuan
989.
Senator Schumer Explains It All On Covered Business Method [Patent] Review(patentprogress.org)
1 points by WildUtah 13y ago|0 comments
990.
by WildUtah 13y ago
"You've basically described C#" Unfortunately the CLR doesn't run on any useful platforms.

More ›