WildUtah

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1501.
by WildUtah 17y ago
Single 'scare quotes' in English can provide the needed signal to the reader that you are using a paraphrase or exaggerated characterization of a position.
1502.
by WildUtah 17y ago
How does that work? Scheme vectors are all about mutable state and a lot of the list functions are, too. Did you get a better Scheme collections library than the rest of us?
1503.
by WildUtah 17y ago
I've gone to Dell custom screens and MacBooks to fight this trend. I feel some distress that all the reasonable priced retail laptops seem impossible to use for real work anymore.
1504.
by WildUtah 17y ago
/the ban on interpreters is very much aimed at options that allow an end user to download and run scripts/ That's why 3.3.2 used to prohibit only apps that download and run scripts. Now it prohibits apps that download or run scripts.
1505.
by WildUtah 17y ago
/animosity between google and apple enough to stifle development?/ Worse, will it keep us all under Microsoft's thumb?
1506.
by WildUtah 17y ago
/Flash did not obtain its dominance by coming installed with IE./ That's exactly how Flash won its dominance. It was installed by the PC manufacturers (HP, Apple, Dell, &c) into IE5 and IE6 until it had overwhelming market presence. Ad
1507.
by WildUtah 17y ago
/learning languages quickly and being a really smart engineer are nearly the same thing/ Only if we're thinking of formally specified computing languages. Since it's a world travel business that demands just a few lines later that you trav
1508.
by WildUtah 17y ago
/First, there's a shortage of computer scientists/ That doesn't sound like the experience of anyone who works in the field. Remember that CS is one of the few professions where workers really do have to compete with Chinese, Russian, and I
1509.
by WildUtah 17y ago
>>bringing flash >>I hope not Me, too. Mobile Webkit is the key to rationalizing the web. All that information-free flash app garbage is finally starting to clear up as clients realize they're missing the most lucrative co
1510.
by WildUtah 17y ago
anyone who would be worth taking on as an unpaid intern, is worth paying minimum wage It's not the money you save by not paying the intern that is valuable to the explosion of companies that want unpaid interns. The real value comes in re
1511.
by WildUtah 17y ago
The Patent and Trademark Office prohibits holders of business degrees and software engineering degrees from joining the patent bar or being patent examiners. Those practitioners are required to have other kinds of engineering degrees only
1512.
by WildUtah 17y ago
<i>441,541</i> parking stalls private and public in the 49 square miles and how many registered vehicles? About 500,000 isn't it? Buy a Fast Pass or learn to juggle.
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by WildUtah 17y ago
Don't forget Bjarne Stroustrup's http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:JyMHnEtpuZgJ:t... Generalizing Overloading for C++2000. We'd all be a lot better off if we'd just listened back then.
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by WildUtah 17y ago
For the same reasons, if you want to understand why relationships are hard and what is really going on between people, The Mystery Method by Mystery - About half is a real down-to-the bits theory of love and attraction. The other half is a
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by WildUtah 17y ago
"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced" -the contrapositive
1516.
by WildUtah 17y ago
Wow. Now I need this in the GIMP.
1517.
by WildUtah 17y ago
Unfortunately Microsoft still benefits from software patents. In fact, Microsoft benefits from losing a few hundred million dollars each year in software patent cases. Microsoft is a big monopoly that has a lot to fear from startups. Star
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by WildUtah 17y ago
<i>Firefox has a public API for video codecs</i> They really don't and they really should. Building a plugin architecture where users could decide based on their local laws which technology to use when some may be patent en
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by WildUtah 17y ago
Microsoft must love these cases. Sure, they lose some money each time. Much more important is that ambitious small competitors will be discouraged from entering the software industry at all. What could be better for the monopolist? Aren'