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by acg 17y ago
I'm not sure I understand the revelation here. GCC is often used to target single boards with little resources. You can build gcc for the environment you want to target. Sounds like attempting to use a compiler flag in a way it wasn't int
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by acg 17y ago
The post appears to be highlighting that despite this announcement lisp is used to tweak the gameplay in recent games. It could be that the engine related functions like disk streaming are now C++. Naughtydog has now been part of Sony for
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by acg 17y ago
There's still an issue of trust, why should I trust Duck Duck Go any more than a company that has a reputation to lose? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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by acg 17y ago
Some accounts of history don't have Americans backing the war until 1942. It could indeed be that WWII changed the way we looked at war and little to do with popular support.
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by acg 17y ago
Would it be lawful to remove Olympic-related material under a warrant?
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by acg 17y ago
This is nonsense, what people choose to call themselves changes all the time. When hiring you ought to look at people's qualifications and experience, not what they choose to call the job they do. This is trying to put labels onto the comp
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by acg 17y ago
Some of these articles are alarmist. It remains to be seen how the police or the government will enact any of these powers. It's not clear what the criminal activity would be, the law is often made to allow the police to act quickly. Say
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by acg 17y ago
It seems that the regulations have not been properly set and will be set by the Secretary of State: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2006/ukpga_20060012_en_2#pb4... I'm hoping that this is just there in case the powers are needed to shut d
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by acg 17y ago
What amazes me is that there are services like paypal, google checkout and others that can handle all this for the vendor. If someone wanted to set up in an afternoon they could: just use a pre-developed card and protect yourself from frau
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by acg 17y ago
Perhaps there's a role for a site that names-and-shames poorly implemented ecommerce sites. I've recently been asked to enter my visa into a site without https. There shouldn't be any excuse for this sort of thing now.
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by acg 17y ago
Already posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1160552
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by acg 17y ago
You can justify [almost] any decision in hindsight.
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by acg 17y ago
And HTC appears to be saying "we have patents too". Apple seems to have convinced themselves that they invented the mobile phone. Seems like a slightly different portrayal of the case.
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by acg 17y ago
Have you read the article? It reads like a blog entry rather than an entry to an encyclopedia. Wikipedia has been criticized before for not being well researched and factual. The problem with the article is it may as well be someone's opin
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by acg 17y ago
I'm sure these policies are designed to keep up quality. Deletion is a great incentive for improving articles. Perhaps the best thing to do in this case is to fix the article at the moment there is little content. If you care, fix it :-).
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by acg 17y ago
It seems to part of a longer game, I think certain companies are not wanting "Google Voice" to revolutionise phone calls. There is a lot of companies making a lot of money for not a lot of bandwidth.
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by acg 17y ago
Reminds me of a speech by Bobby Kennedy: Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength o
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by acg 17y ago
I found pages on Bias more useful. They are in the See Also section. Particularly Cognitive Biases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases For me they are easier to use in everyday conversation.
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by acg 17y ago
Network effects are not the only reason that Microsoft has been successful. Companies have failed to compete with Microsoft for many reasons. Although the technology is often second rate management at Microsoft has been able to broker the
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by acg 17y ago
This is assuming the game is complete, what if the server is sending back parts of the game in response to state saving. For instance, perhaps some of the AI is running remotely. This could explain dropping out of the game: the game is una
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by acg 17y ago
You are right of course, but nobody said that GUIs weren't testable. Just that some bugs cannot be expressed as tests.
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by acg 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1133880 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1133831 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1133712
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by acg 17y ago
Different perspective alright: the original article is better balanced http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14383730 This you're-picking-on-me attitude is annoying.
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by acg 17y ago
I doubt it's been written by hand or is maintained by hand: it may also be styled to be rendered in a dialog.
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by acg 17y ago
In your example they give credit through the article. Bad example? Sure you can call them scare quotes but these quotes can be used for various reasons, I'm pretty sure as a news organisation the BBC intended use–mention distinction: http:
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by acg 17y ago
This has to be good news, anything that advances commonly used tools improves software development in general. Whether you like subversion or not.
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by acg 17y ago
Looks great. I heard in an interview once that Gates would like to win a Nobel prize. This looks like the vice president's route.
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by acg 17y ago
No doubt it's not the only show of the time to have an anti-thatcher bias. Many shows openly ribbed the government particularly in comedy like spitting image and Alexei Sayle. Why should anyone take notice of a show that tries to say it sub
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by acg 17y ago
HTML may represent new business for adobe. HTML5 has more to worry about from O/S vendors and browser makers in my view. An example of this is indecision about video codecs. A rich html spec makes life easier for adobe: their primary busine
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by acg 17y ago
Certainly recent comments by Adobe's CTO see a future with HTML5 http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/02/open_access_to_... Although Apple's policy is beginning to worry them, it reads more like a HTML5 is a complementary technology

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