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by ajg1977 17y ago
>> C stack management and function calling requires work that is not part of a CPU Well in C you tend not to manage the stack. As for function calls, what exactly do you think a CPU spends its time doing? >> malloc and free
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by ajg1977 17y ago
And depending on the estimate, somewhere between 90-97% of emails are spam. That doesn't reduce the value of email for those that are received by people though.
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by ajg1977 17y ago
I think that all comp sci students should begin by learning to become competent in C. Aside from having the widest support across platforms, and being syntactically similar to many other languages, it's the closest you can get to understand
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by ajg1977 17y ago
I'm confused. You say you support reforming healthcare by reducing the role of government, but what exactly do you mean by this? Reducing medicare? medicaid (although that is more of a state run program)? Perhaps you could enlighten me by s
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Since "Programming Praxis" is not a registered trademark then it would likely be a long and costly battle to legally force The Daily WTF to cease using it. (Common Law trademarks do have rights, but it's not nearly as clear cut). That said,
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by ajg1977 17y ago
To be honest I'm not really sure what the fuss is about. There is no personally identifying information (such as an ID, phone-number, account no etc) transmitted and it pales in comparison to what a phone company has access to, even before
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Given that the state of California's budget has been getting progressively worse annually, I can't wait to see what next year brings :(
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by ajg1977 17y ago
I would love to know why they think this has any chance of success without the support of the iTunes eco system.
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Music Labels to launch CMX, a new digital album format.(guardian.co.uk)
22 points by ajg1977 17y ago|16 comments
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by ajg1977 17y ago
To be honest I just don't understand why Mobiegame didn't just change the name and have done with it. With all sales they lost after the app had to be removed, and how widely reported any name change would likely to have been, it seems like
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Public statement on the Mobigame "Edge" trademark case(the--edge.com)
2 points by ajg1977 17y ago|3 comments
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Since those articles are throughout the year (March, January, & September respectively) then no, it's not seasonal :)
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Looking forward to this. For anyone interested, here's the people covered in the book. Personally I'm a little disappointed that somebody like Carmack, Abrash or Sweeney isn't covered, but it's still a fine list. Frances Allen: Pioneer in o
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by ajg1977 17y ago
In this case (and all the other cases) where an app can be used to gain access to general content on the internet I completely agree with Apple. People who point at Safari/Mail/etc are missing something - parents can restrict the default ap
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Once upon a time a Hungarian chap named Simonyi invented a system of prefixing variables with letters to describe their type. This was actually a very good idea since at the time computer programs were rapidly growing in size and complexity
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by ajg1977 17y ago
If there was a point to be gleamed I think it's more that planning should drive your goals, not planning just for the sake of having a plan. Guess what: "Dive in and feel the vibe" is still a plan.
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by ajg1977 17y ago
FogCreek still prefix their classes with 'C'? Oh Joel... :(
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Instead of an excess of planning it sounds more like the author approached his startup without any real plan whatsoever. After attributing failure to spending three months on mockups and market research before doing any actual development,
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by ajg1977 17y ago
I agree that it's unlikely to be legally enforceable, I'm also pretty sure some states are moving to make portions of contracts requiring consumers to waive certain rights invalid. (Your example of being required to shoot a neighbor is clea
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by ajg1977 17y ago
new account, yes :(
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Is it just me or has Hacker News started to become an echo chamber for debating internet meme's that are largely pointless and contain nothing of substance?
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Yes. Windows Mobile 6 sucks. iPhone rocks. We get it, move on.
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Some of these rebuttals are incredibly flimsy, where they actually even manage to form something resembling a rebut. For example - How on earth is being prevented from using a flash-capable web browser (or any non-Safari browser) a case for
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Rather than say that no one was interested for "token amounts" of money, I wish they would put the service up on eBay or accept closed envelope bids. I'm sure they would get something for it, I myself would be extremely if the price was rig
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by ajg1977 17y ago
I find it annoying that either through ignorance or a need to create an eye-catching headline the author interchangeably uses the words "thin" and "weight" to describe a metric used to measure some undefined-but-ideal body shape, There is a
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Awful article that doesn't even mention the webapp it's writing about isn't (as far as I know) actually available yet. Also I highly doubt that Apple is busy "scheming to try and stop them [google]" from moving GV online.
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by ajg1977 17y ago
The restaurant industry, particularly at the high end, is incredibly reliant on having a good percentage of diners that will order the higher priced dishes and/or high-margin items such as alcohol/desert/coffee. Unfortunately these are the
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Mini robot that can travel through the human body(kurzweilai.net)
1 points by ajg1977 17y ago|1 comments
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Two reasons; 1) You begin to get a combination explosion of all the scenarios Microsoft would have to test "upgrades" with. 2) Some people may appreciate this, but others would complain about program or feature X/Y/Z suddenly going missing
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Yes you're right, it's probably the revenue from future sales that have given them the boost.

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