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by acg 17y ago
The more that I read the more I feel that perhaps Microsoft might have faired better--- and we'd all have better technology--- if they were indeed broken up after the antitrust investigations. Doesn't the best technology come from well fund
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by acg 17y ago
Came across as excuses as why the subversion design was so inflexible and how it's going to change. Painting a picture that distributed version control systems learnt from subversion is rubbish. These technologies were developed over the s
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by acg 17y ago
Isn't this what the Genomics X Prize is about? Complete Genomics does not appear to be a team: http://genomics.xprize.org/
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by acg 17y ago
It could also be paid work, being paid for having a particular opinion is great work if you can get it.
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by acg 17y ago
Sorry, I was trying to be concise. I'll aim to be useful. I think the guide as it is, is not only old but incomplete and mostly points to man pages. It's saving grace is the examples, which could easily be taken from a code search. The Ste
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by acg 17y ago
Out of date lecture notes with what looks like a bias for HP-UX. There are better sources of information.
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by acg 17y ago
If you start along that road who do you trust. Many organisations now collect data on their customers: loyalty cards are a good example. That is before you get to public organisations. You'd have to be a hermit for data not to be collect
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by acg 17y ago
Some comments get clouded in politics and suspicion. If this move has a commercial reason then perhaps it's easily explained as to compete with OpenDNS. Complaining that a search engine collects information seems crazy: surely that is a si
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by acg 17y ago
Hacker news becomes digg?
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by acg 17y ago
Original link is http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6671... The blog post just repeats the story.
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by acg 17y ago
I think this view is overly cynical. The reason why google is doing what it's doing also to protect it's buisness. One attack is that browser manufacturers and operating system manufactures will route traffic away from their site. Advertis
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by acg 17y ago
Nothing? That's pretty bold. Google has begun to charge for services in the cloud: this though is a competitive environment. I see ChromeOS as a move to build a user-base for they cloud-based software services. Some of those services wi
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by acg 17y ago
Chrome OS isn't built for developers. It's built for Google. And online advertisers. ChromeOS is built for users. The comparison in this article is ridiculous. Somehow because Google does not provide a developer prerelease they are ant
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by acg 17y ago
Don't laws normally get tested in court? Ultimately if someone gets disconnected can't they challenge the legality in court, law or not?
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by acg 17y ago
This may be a publicity opportunity taken by Microsoft: a great opportunity to credit bing with having better results. Here is the interview about pulling down links from google: http://mumbrella.com.au/murdoch-well-probably-remove-our-sit
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by acg 17y ago
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=950338
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by acg 17y ago
I understood that there is no Nobel prize for Mathematics, which computing is considered an extension of. Nobel deliberately committed Mathematics. Would it be wrong to add a Nobel award against Nobel's wishes? http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by acg 17y ago
I doubt this would be unilateral action, perhaps this is the UK's part of ACTA? http://www.eff.org/issues/acta
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by acg 17y ago
32/100 is a little underwhelming. If it's a focus on standards then it's still dreadful. Am I missing something?
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by acg 17y ago
I don't think they can be compared, he appears to be stating a preference (not dismissing go).
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by acg 17y ago
I doubt you can speak for your forefathers any more than I can, but it does seem that you would like to rewrite history by today's standards. Perhaps your stereotype of the west is just as perverted.
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by acg 17y ago
Come on now, you don't have to buy one and these sort of posts are only going to make your OS of choice more competitive. Bring it on: the more choice there is the better things will be. Doesn't the article mention Dell's monitor? Scientis
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by acg 17y ago
Perhaps the way that C++ started (CFront): write a front-end to the language that maps your additional language constructs to C. Another lesson from C++ (there are probably many) is to be careful with C compatibility, it's not always as eas
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by acg 17y ago
Although many of the people who have been attracted to this movement, mainly because they are passionate about programming, I can't help feeling that this metaphor like many others does not describe software development either. I'm not sur
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by acg 17y ago
It always surprises me that some will seek to defend C++ when even its author seems to admit that it is flawed. Many famous programmers have pointed to the language's limitations. People use it because of pragmatism: it has what they need
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by acg 17y ago
Isn't Window 7 a "service pack" for Vista? Companies will charge more if they can, and Microsoft can. It is also worth noting why MS Service Packs have been free: it has been the case in the past that the released OS is not ready. Hence the
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by acg 17y ago
Every time you simplify something, you get rid of something. This might explain some of Microsoft's APIs too.
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by acg 17y ago
What I find astonishing is if this were an enemy of the US then where would they be? Either they have neglected to secure their hosts or this guy is good. If I were to leave the door of my house open, and came home to find a nut-case in my
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by acg 17y ago
At first glance this appears to be a shameful betrayal. But included in yahoo's terms are agreements that users will not use their services to violate local laws. Dissident Iranians are much better off following advice from Reporters withou
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by acg 17y ago
Love this: it's about remembering why people come to the page. Grandparent-proof.

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