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by adgar 15y ago
They should support RFC 4226, as google does, but they still need to support SMS with the size and diversity of their userbase. Google offers SMS as well. How long before every facebook user has a device that can do RFC 4226? I hope soon,
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by adgar 15y ago
> When there are two very established solutions in the market, Sass and Less, you need to point out why these two come up short and why you are coming out with something new. Simply stating "we have a Google version of the tools you alr
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by adgar 15y ago
Or Go. Though unlike Erlang processes, Go doesn't make mutating shared memory in multiple threads impossible. Go just makes it really easy to never do it.
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by adgar 15y ago
The second guy actually has some pretty decent flow. notbad.gif.
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by adgar 15y ago
> I doubt ChromeOS, as an operating system designed for the now-defunct netbook Actually, ChromeOS isn't just for netbooks. It's for a world where everything you want to do on your computer is available via a web service. Netbooks happe
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by adgar 15y ago
The stated reason wasn't that the code was ugly, it's that it didn't translate to phones at all; Honeycomb was only ever really good for tablets. There was concern that manufacturers/homebrewers would put it on phones and that doing so woul
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by adgar 15y ago
> Is MPEG-LA really dominated by MS in any sense of the word? Just curious. I have no idea. > MS seems to be actually paying them more for licenses in the end than what they get for a few patents they have in the pool. Not sure abou
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by adgar 15y ago
Those ideas are also pure speculation by the author. The closest she comes to backing any of them up was when she said that the founders like space elevators.
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by adgar 15y ago
I'm skeptical about this too. Especially since your parent poster seems to imply he got Google on the phone with a $100 free adwords card, which everyone and their mother has gotten at one point or another. I just got one from my freaking d
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by adgar 15y ago
> Modest proposal: The U.S. needs a Manhattan Project for weed/coke/heroin poppy production. Legality of demand isn't required; production just needs to completely undercut the market value of weed/heroin currently imported to the U.S.
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by adgar 15y ago
Well, in the case of tumblr, most users are not technically proficient enough to know what's going on there. Plus, they certainly don't care about tumblr's costs, unless their pictures load noticeably slowly. And even then... well, let's ju
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by adgar 15y ago
Luckily, the set of people affected is actually the intersection of people running Ruby trunk and people using Ruby's libraries to generate keys.
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by adgar 15y ago
If the extension doesn't send the URL to Google anyway, then it can't know how many +1s the page already has (and from whom). That's why it triggers on every page load.
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by adgar 15y ago
I just checked this, and it's true. Googled "experts exchange fix mod_rewrite," tried a resulting question as referred and in an incognito window. Only the former had the results at the bottom. Notably, even if you're using secure google se
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by adgar 15y ago
Maintenance takes a lot more time than the initial implementation. By using a language nobody else knows, you increase the cost for 90% of the project's lifetime to decrease the cost of the initial 10%. It's selfish if the numbers are suc
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by adgar 15y ago
> No wonder it is used internally at Google. Well, I think that's more because it was written at Google.
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by adgar 15y ago
> Python has full dynamic scoping, which means that inside a function you can refer to any variables set in outer scopes. You are describing lexical scope, not dynamic scope.
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by adgar 15y ago
> You're being dishonest by quoting that one line, and ignoring the fact that I'm an electronics and software hacker. Your being an electronics and software hacker is irrelevant to any argument. > I guess, in your book, because Woz
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by adgar 15y ago
> Why do all of our heroes have to be hackers, anyway? They don't, and shouldn't be, if you're an entrepreneur. And I agree with you wholeheartedly that Jobs is an incredible hero for an entrepreneur.
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by adgar 15y ago
> someone who took LSD when he was young in order to hack his mind I predicated my post on the meaning of the word "hacker." My parents are hackers by your definition and I only made it halfway through your post. In which case I have no
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by adgar 15y ago
> I am a hacker and by boyhood hero was Steve. He was an artist whose medium was technology. It doesn't get more hacker-like than that to me. This is why I predicated my post on the definition of "hacker." If we're going with the 2011,
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by adgar 15y ago
Few hackers - by which I assume you mean engineers or developers - consider Steve Jobs a "hero." Most would agree he created wonderful products that changed the world, but he isn't much of a hero to a software or hardware hacker. Because as
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by adgar 15y ago
Considering how much more you'll pay to consistently use livery instead of cabs, they'd have to pay me to use that app.
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by adgar 15y ago
> If bitcoin became commonly used as a way of transacting, but not of storing value or denominating prices it could still be a good enough starting point. Even if the only markets in which it was "commonly used as a way of transacting"
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by adgar 15y ago
Your parent poster never said anything about intelligence in his post. In addition, Haskell does not have syntax for dictionaries/hashes, or really any "container type" other than lists (and list comprehensions).
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by adgar 15y ago
Very true, and awesome quote. It's worth noting though that once you're talking about dependently-typed type systems, it's accepted that you're going to be doing a lot of work with the type system. You're going to be using proof tactics to
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by adgar 15y ago
Considering it's a port/rewrite of Qi, which uses a Turing-complete interpretation of the sequent calculus, yes, it is more powerful than all those languages. You're right to be suspicious at extraordinary claims, but the tiniest bit of res
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by adgar 15y ago
My point was more abstract than that. The thread I was in was concerned with how when Apple makes big changes, they are called bold, while when Microsoft does it, they are called flailing. My point was that the comparison must take into acc
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by adgar 15y ago
In addition, it ignores Microsoft's long-standing dedication to backwards-compatibility and attention to legacy customers. Microsoft, and Windows in particular, has always been the safe haven of those unable or unwilling to change.
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by adgar 15y ago
How can explaining why you downvoted, when nobody else has, add more noise than signal, unless your opinion is not worth sharing in the first place? And if your opinion is not worth sharing, why is it worth a downvote? Let's be honest - we

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