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by ant512 13y ago
I'd suggest that, if a variable with an undefined value is a valid state for the program, the declaration is in the wrong place. How about this alternative? int dec(int a, int condition) { if (condition) { int t
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by ant512 13y ago
It's a contrived analogy, mainly because - as Simon points out in the article: > Their eyes glaze...It's too much. Too much to contemplate the idea that the whole country might be actually connected. It seems to me that people
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by ant512 13y ago
> Few people are saying saying "let's not do this" for some value of "this", they're saying "let's not force everyone to do this". There are four guys in a crippled spaceship. They have 7 hou
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by ant512 13y ago
You trust the NSA with your private communications, though. Or is there another explanation for the apathetic response by the American public to widespread government surveillance?
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by ant512 13y ago
> Consumers have no acess to bid on the incremental value of features. They could have kept buying Nokia 3310s instead of iPhones if they thought that a replaceable battery was more important than everything else they got with the Appl
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by ant512 13y ago
I've got a couple of pairs of fingerless gloves...
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by ant512 13y ago
There's that whole pesky touch screen, too!
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by ant512 13y ago
Whenever anyone says this, I wish I could draw. I have this cartoon in my head in which one caveman is stood at a stall selling round wheels, surrounded by eager punters desperate to buy them for their stone age carts, whilst a bunch of oth
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by ant512 13y ago
"As for Bing - it's still losing billions of dollars a year last I checked." Allowing the successful divisions to survive and the leeches to die seems like a win for MS. Why is throwing away billions on products that produce
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by ant512 13y ago
I think that's one of Microsoft's main failings. "Google are making baked beans? Why aren't we in the baked bean market? Let's make beans!" "What? Now Facebook are making Facebook Soda? We need to make
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by ant512 13y ago
Just the engineers? Did you ever work on a project where you said to your boss, "We need to do X or this won't work," and your boss said, "X is too [expensive | time consuming | difficult], we won't do that." O
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by ant512 13y ago
Think I've got access to everything but the bug tracker, which I reported to Apple.
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by ant512 13y ago
Check out https://bitbucket.org/ant512/gobble It's a lot like the blogging engine described in the article, but it includes comments/Aksimet/reCAPTCHA and tagging.
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by ant512 13y ago
It's interesting that the response to a lunatic with a semiautomatic is to mount massive internet surveillance rather than, for example, outlaw semiautomatics or provide free mental healthcare.
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by ant512 13y ago
That's only true until Apple produce an official spec [1] for iOS controllers. [1] http://kotaku.com/also-touched-on-during-todays-wwdc-keynote...
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by ant512 13y ago
I found his full-length novel on the same topic, "The Windup Girl"[1], to be particularly insightful and disturbing. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl
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by ant512 13y ago
Monopoly was first published in 1935 and the prices haven't increased since. That makes the cost of a stay at the most expensive hotel $34,000 in today's money, which is far more than I'd ever pay to stay at a real hotel...
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by ant512 13y ago
I mentioned abortion, etc, simply because they are currently contentious in US society. For a history lesson, consider how unfortunate it would have been to have had this technology back when England kept switching its official religion fro
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by ant512 13y ago
It spins the story around in such a way that Americans can relate to the dangers of a surveillance state. You're suggesting that the NSA is just looking for bad guys and that they should be able to capture evil muslim extremists. But
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by ant512 13y ago
Over the years I've learned in the region of 40 programming languages and am fluent in about a dozen. I spent 9 years as a web developer and switched to iOS using ObjC a couple of years ago. Objective-C is by far my favorite language. I can
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by ant512 13y ago
I've got a production app I switched from nibs to storyboards. It's got a storyboard for the iPhone and a separate storyboard for the iPad. 58 views on each. I'm using segues for pretty much all navigation. It's working amazingly well f
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by ant512 14y ago
"some kind of scene abstraction": http://simianzombie.com/files/javascript/canvasui4.html