adharmad

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by adharmad 17y ago
I have been following this lawsuit for a number of years and can't understand where in the hell is SCO finding the money to fund this lawsuit and what end result they are trying to achieve.........
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by adharmad 17y ago
reinventing single sign-on. woot!
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by adharmad 17y ago
They also seem to make it appear as if they are doomed because of the close relationship between twitter and bit.ly. Is twitter the only way URL redirectors can grow? Aren't there any others who want to do a one-up on twitter and can potent
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by adharmad 17y ago
No arguments there. But the rate at which C# is changing, what is stopping Microsoft from adding yet new features and breaking compatibility with previous language/VMs?
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by adharmad 17y ago
A thing that I have wondered about: Although Java and C# are similar languages with very similar libraries and features, Java has migrated towards being used for server side and middleware programming. C# however has not gone in this direct
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by adharmad 17y ago
Java being more widely deployed has to worry about source and binary compatibilities between all the supported versions and thus for them, changing the bytecode would have been a painful decision. As opposed to that C# did not have to worry
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by adharmad 17y ago
You are right........but still a commendable achievement for a 16 year old!
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by adharmad 17y ago
Why not simply use http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs and not duplicate the same in the hackernews threads?
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by adharmad 17y ago
How is emacs bloated? Size of emacs 22.1 (windows): 36MB Size of eclipse galileo (windows) 189MB
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by adharmad 17y ago
And what about people who program in C, C++, perl, python, erlang? How is that useful to them?
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by adharmad 17y ago
One of the reasons why caving is an interesting sport is just that - no easy way to capture all the imagery.
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by adharmad 17y ago
Agreed - both interviewing and dating are trying to solve the same problem: "How to judge how people will be in the long term, after spending a small amount of time with them?" No amount of tests or 20 questions can give unequivocal answers
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by adharmad 17y ago
In this case, it is hard to think of it as a business model. They are blowing money on lawyers, getting bad press and suing someone who may not have 50K to pay back (if they win the case in courts). How do they justify spending so much mone
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by adharmad 17y ago
Cant think of any. Power corrupts and the only way to change it is via political action or (sometimes) via armed revolution.
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by adharmad 17y ago
Can you clarify which half was ceded without bloodshed?
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by adharmad 17y ago
The problem itself is not technological but political. The system that has evolved is pretty bad and the only reason it has evolved is because of the government. Unless there is some third party (free press, independent justice system) that
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by adharmad 17y ago
Not really. No one can force Apple to support something. It is like Microsoft being forced to support their applications on WINE.
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by adharmad 17y ago
Not supporting interoperability is one thing. Going out of your way to prevent it is another.
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by adharmad 17y ago
DRM is designed to favor middle men (RIAA, MPAA) as opposed to actual creators and artists.
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by adharmad 17y ago
Sure, but what about potential loss of sales of the kindle by more privacy conscious users? Remember the Sony rootkit debacle a few years ago? No end users were really affected by it, but it was a huge PR disaster for them. Not saying that
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by adharmad 17y ago
Regardless, Amazon should have done their homework and ensured that it was OK with the publishers before actually selling the commodity. Its too late after they have sold the commodity to go ahead and forcibly reverse the sale. And they hav
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by adharmad 17y ago
Sorry I am still not understanding the functionality you are expecting. If it has to be synchronous, it means that the caller is interested in the result. However, the caller can stop after a specified timeout and continue, which means that
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by adharmad 17y ago
"They're most definitely not equally important. There are far more examples of successful businesses built on the backs of mediocre ideas but with great execution than there are of ones built on the back of great ideas with mediocre executi
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by adharmad 17y ago
Its easy to preach when you are not the victim.
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by adharmad 17y ago
How do you distinguish between hackers and corporations. A small startup, can in a couple of years of time become a large company, which can be bought by a bigger corporation. Where do you draw the line? That's the reason I think that GPL/d
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by adharmad 17y ago
When it has to do with the government, the public has a right to expect transparency. With a private organization, its different.
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by adharmad 17y ago
They could not sell those products.
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by adharmad 17y ago
Why not use Threads and communicate via a flag or callback?
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by adharmad 17y ago
Then why do not BSD folks change their license to: free and open for all except that no one can GPL the code. This will resolve the issue once and for all. But it will make BSD folks sound like hypocrites to the world.
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by adharmad 17y ago
But Alice did release her code under BSD...........so she should not really care what Bob does with her. After all, she does not care what Apple, Google or other do with it. So in this a case of double standards by Alice?

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