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by ant5 16y ago
Memorizing Shakespeare, though, has nothing to do with this process. Of course one needs a working memory of the text to put it all in context, but rote memorization of a passage is orthogonal to understanding it. I can only say that memo
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by ant5 16y ago
For what purpose does memorizing Shakespeare serve? Shakespeare is clever, bawdy, and often amusing, and you have to be even more clever to understand it. A lot his wordplay is based on idioms no longer in active use. Take, for example, A
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by ant5 16y ago
If the number of people who would attempt to hack it is that vanishingly small. The number of people that will try to hack it is vanishingly small, but it only takes one. Once that one person gets their hack working, the number of peopl
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by ant5 16y ago
It sounds kind of ridiculous when stated explicitly, doesn't it? Only if we assume your initial premise. How about this one? The average consumer is never going to try to hack their phone unless someone more knowledgable than them provide
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by ant5 16y ago
That is an odd argument; the purpose of either technological measure is to keep you out , and most users are just going to download somebody else's "worthy" crack anyway.
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by ant5 16y ago
So you don't mind that they lock down the bootloader so you can't actually install anything else, but you do mind when they lock it just a little bit more to make sure you don't install anything else? That really doesn't make any sense.
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by ant5 16y ago
Motorola doesn't have to do that, they can hang up on Joe Average who did installs the mod ... Cars aren't phones. The cost of installing a new engine is very different than the cost of installing a phone hack, the set of people likely to
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by ant5 16y ago
I'm assuming your main point is the cost of customer contact/handling after they've done something dumb? As well as the intangible costs of what customers think and say after things go wrong. Look at how Mac application developers respond
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by ant5 16y ago
I don't really care, and I certainly wouldn't change my recommendation of a phone to a consumer based on this. But read to the end before you downvote :) As a vendor, dealing with hacks, jailbreaks, and other such things is remarkably expen
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by ant5 16y ago
For whatever reason they want to serve arbitrary sizes on the fly. The primary advantage here is that you don't have to coordinate generation of new images just because someone, somewhere requires a specific size in some client of your im
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by ant5 16y ago
I concur; nothing will put me off a booth more than the feeling that they've hired the conference equivalent of a stripper. What's your name? What do you do? Would you like a dance? What's your name? What do you do? Would you like to fin
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by ant5 16y ago
Hi Scott -- Thanks for replying. Congratulations on the investment, and I hope this works out for you and your company. However, in my experience, nobody gives you $60 million (or $6 million) dollars and doesn't expect to have their finger
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by ant5 16y ago
This reminds me of Jive Software. They were in a very similar position when they took money, in the same market, at a very similar level of maturity, and one of the prime competitors to Atlassian. I can't speak to the financial implications
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by ant5 16y ago
It's annoying for developers s/annoying/_expensive_/ but it's better for the language and the ecosystem to keep evolving. Of course it's good for things to evolve. But you're painting a false dichotomy here. Scala is taking the correct
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by ant5 16y ago
Would you rather Java? Is that a real question or were you just setting up your false dichotomy via some well-placed rhetoric? Where everything is shit because of backwards compatibility? Oh, so that's why Java is so bad? Because it has
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by ant5 16y ago
* I wouldn't wish the curse of Maven on anyone, let alone someone who hasn't been force-fed it by the Java community for a while, so I'd recommend trying to learn sbt and then port the solution posted in the above link to your own sbt proje
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by ant5 16y ago
Scala isn't perfect, but it's a great language to have on the JVM. However, the lack of API and ABI compatibility is a really big failure. I can't believe that they're shipping what is supposed to be stable software and we can't rely on our
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by ant5 16y ago
I went to an OpenSolaris users group last year. They were talking about new network features like being able to assign sub-interfaces to different zones. Stuff that VMware ESX had available for years. Zones and ESX are very different beas
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by ant5 16y ago
They're available in iOS4 natively, or can be used with earlier OSs with this project: http://code.google.com/p/plblocks/
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by ant5 16y ago
So you saw that talk at WWDC as well? Every engineer from Apple that I've spoken to and asked about this has gone "What?! Did he really say that? Ignore it. We don't recommend that. Not at all." Regardless of what they say, Apple is still
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by ant5 16y ago
Worth reviewing: http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/performance-comparisons-of-com...
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by ant5 16y ago
When I speak of verbosity, I'm more referring to the need to repeat yourself and turn simple tasks into heavyweight ones via required boilerplate. The long method names don't bother me.
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by ant5 16y ago
Just because I have the perspective to understand what's wrong with a language doesn't mean I can't or won't use it when it is the correct solution in a specific problem domain. If Apple developed a first-class alternative to ObjC I would s
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by ant5 16y ago
Standard constructor boilerplate is simpler: You just wrote exactly the same thing I did, but in a style that triggers GCC warnings regarding using assignment as a truth value. Huge advantage of this is that you can implement object pool
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by ant5 16y ago
As someone who does a ton of Objective-C, I challenge the notion that namespaces are even remotely necessary ... Apple is now suggesting that you use three-character class name prefixes, since they claim all the two character ones. I had
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by ant5 16y ago
Like any other vararg function: + (NSString) stringWithFormat: (NSString *) format, ... { NSString *string; va_list ap; /* Fetch the arguments */ va_start(ap, format); // Could iterate over the arguments
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by ant5 16y ago
I agree with all your points but this one: The memory management model for the iOS platform is not GC, and it's not manual management. Frankly I found manual management of memory simpler than retain/release. And the autorelease pool? That'
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by ant5 16y ago
As someone who has been, on and off, writing Objective-C for the past decade, I will unequivocally state that as application programming languages go, it's a terrible 1980s jalopy of bad language decisions cobbled on top of more bad languag
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by ant5 16y ago
I've never understood why programmers don't love SQL the language. Many programmers do love SQL. It's not a perfect solution, but it's better than most of the via alternatives. Anyone that "hates" SQL should be forced to read C.J. Date's
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by ant5 16y ago
Part of the attraction to ORMs is that you just define your classes and essentially freeze-dry and thaw objects with a couple of lines of code. The problem here is that you stop thinking about your data as an independent thing that must b

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