angusgr

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by angusgr 16y ago
I have an innate fascinated horror of the C preprocessor already, but this really drives home exactly how horrible it can be! (While being quite funny, mind you!)
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by angusgr 16y ago
Is open source music a particularly big phenomenon?
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by angusgr 16y ago
Is this true? Because the Archos 5 Internet Tablet source seems to be on their site (I originally didn't find it because the naming is kind of weird, but it's there!)
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by angusgr 16y ago
Pretty much. GPL 3(c) - I think - says that provided you got a binary version with an attached notice telling you where to go to get the source code, you can redistribute the same binary unmodified with the same notice.
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by angusgr 16y ago
" Followup to response: If my comments reflect a misconception, can you please provide an alternate hypothesis for why Google chose the Apache license for Android " Of course - you're entirely right that's why Google chose the Apache licens
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by angusgr 16y ago
This idea scares me a bit. Mostly for the rare awful occasions when people either rely on buggy behaviour, or patch around it on the caller side in some unexpected way. I can see it making perfect sense for security updates, but if you have
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by angusgr 16y ago
This is a common misconception about GPL, but it is false. To oversimplify Section 3 of the GPLv2: if you release a GPL licensed program then you have to comply by making source code available or showing where source is available, regardles
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by angusgr 16y ago
It's certainly plausible against the companies that aren't based in China, or resellers of those products located outside of China. Although only certain OSS rightsholders have been keen to pursue that avenue in the past. Happily, at least
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by angusgr 16y ago
I think near all of the time Linux sales are chalked up as "Windows sales" anyhow. In my current job, and in my previous job as well, all the tech staff PCs are corporate order Dells/Acers/whatever. They all come with Windows, and the first
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The Sad State of Open Source in Android Tablets(projectgus.com)
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by angusgr 16y ago
I think the larger device shown in those photos is an iRobot Apad (aka many other things): http://www.androidpads.com/2010/05/04/the-moonse-e7001-aka-i... Not sure about the smaller one, although it looks kinda familiar. The "Minimum Func
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by angusgr 16y ago
You can buy single quantities of ARM-based netbooks & tablets from China for under $90 a unit, including international shipping.(^) So your estimates line up with that experience. I'd guess that if the Indian government really wanted to
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by angusgr 16y ago
Meniscus lenses are simple enough to manufacture, which means that they can probably be made to vignette on a full-frame or crop sensor. The problem I see is that you still need a -better- meniscus lens in order to get the same quality ph
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by angusgr 16y ago
I have two questions. Which qualities of C++ would one want to maintain in a replacement, and what is one using the replacement for? For the second question, the article's answer is: kernels, drivers, highly performance-sensitive code like
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by angusgr 16y ago
Unfortunately the terms "cheap" and "digital back" don't seem to go together. :( You could mod a 10 year old old Hasselblad/Mamiya/? 6x6 back onto a Holga but even those backs are still worth plenty of $ I think. Enough that you'd want a Ha
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by angusgr 16y ago
If you use a full frame sensor, you get the full effect of vignetting from the plastic lens. ... Essentially, the lens is right-sized for 35MM or a crop sensor while it's generally used with 6cm medium format negatives. I'm not sure I fo
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by angusgr 16y ago
I feel that this concept misses most of the true charm of a Holga. The linked article says "there are some change in functionalities in order to make it useful." Which seems practical, but also kind of misses the point. I still think it's
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by angusgr 16y ago
Have you tried any of the more recent BoC albums? The 'Beautiful Place out in the Country' EP is unabrasive, and I find 'Campfire Headphase' less angular than Geogaddi as well.
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by angusgr 16y ago
I like The Flashbulb as well, but it depends on which album as to what mix of ambient/breakcore/weirdness you get. :)
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by angusgr 16y ago
'Another possible nicety would be the ability to mark a repo as the "canonical" repo for a project' "When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor." (1) I think something like this is t
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by angusgr 16y ago
I found a short thread discussing this change on the IronPython mailing list: http://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.ironpython.com/msg11... It seems like a public image choice more than anything, even though "Microsoft Public License" w
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by angusgr 16y ago
I'd be interested to see some proof that this is why this is happening. The best reasons I've read for why Apple is so hard on jailbreaking is (a) carrier agreements not liking unlocks and (b) pirating of apps. I find these reasons a bit mo
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by angusgr 16y ago
C++ also makes it perfectly possible to build this kind of mess. I know because I've worked on the exact same situation you describe, except in that case the TreeMaps of pointers were hand-rolled, "tested in production", and yet another pro
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by angusgr 16y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. :) I will make time to check out 'On Writing', I've always avoided it basically out of snobbery. Still, I bet Stephen King can actually throw a sentence together reasonably well, despite turgid prose and bad
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by angusgr 16y ago
Fair call, no need to apologise really. I'm glad I didn't have to learn English as a second language, explaining English idioms to non-native speakers is one of the hardest things I've ever tried to do. :).
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by angusgr 16y ago
You're entirely right. Which is why I really did hate myself a bit for posting it. I normally notice bad grammar (especially small errors like this), move on, and don't think again about it. Sometimes, though, the urge is too strong. I do a
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by angusgr 16y ago
I hate myself for being such a grammar nazi, I really do. "Google employees on Reddit answer questions" collapses in a heap
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by angusgr 16y ago
Being able to quietly reflect on your own thoughts in the line at the grocery store is a kind of inner tranquility. If you can't do that, what hope do you have of meditating? I'm worried that I'm no good at it any more, either. checks em
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by angusgr 16y ago
"illegal" seems like a stretch. I'm on Ubuntu Karmic w/ Chrome and it plays fine through the totem plugin, with no quicktime-specific packages installed.
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by angusgr 16y ago
Have Apple ever revealed those specifics publicly, for any revision of the iPhone? I'm not sure if they even revealed the previous iPhones were ARM-based in their marketing materials.

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