archangel_one

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by archangel_one 13y ago
Yes, but you'd have to install Windows onto that, and it's not.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Also a -w parameter, to match whole words only, which is generally better than adding spaces :)
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by archangel_one 13y ago
No. It allows you to run Windows-in-Linux, but you're still relying on non-Free software.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
I always assumed that was to placate business customers who might have (justifiably) worried that Windows 2000 was related to Windows 98, rather than descending from NT 4.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
But the problem is that if it reached the goal of $1M but didn't get far past it, they'd be expected to then supply the phones those people had pledged for without actually having enough money to produce them.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
There are significant fixed costs, you can't just divide the required goal by 32 to produce 1/32 of the number of phones. I'd guess that $1M wouldn't be enough to even produce one of those phones.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
No, I'm replying to someone who simultaneously called Google a one-trick pony and suggested that they're attacking Microsoft on many fronts, which seemed like an odd kind of thing for a one-trick pony to be able to do. Don't
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Attacking someone in many areas is a pretty neat trick for a one-trick pony to learn.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
> Google's brainteasers did not lead to quality candidates This is why we at Google don't (or shouldn't, at least - it's widely discouraged) ask brainteaser questions in interviews. I disagree on whiteboard coding tho
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by archangel_one 13y ago
IMO finance is not a good idea for this sort of thing - it would only encourage people to buy something they can't really afford. This is a luxury even in the modern era of smartphones being commonplace, nobody needs to have it.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Legally speaking, I believe it is not cloudy; it is still illegal because you have bought a copy of the movie, but you do not have the copyright of it so don't have the right to copy it (as the name suggests!). Morally, I think most pe
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by archangel_one 13y ago
> the tedious manual memory management in C/C++. The two aren't remotely the same - I find it fairly tedious (but explicit, which is sometimes nice) in C, but reasonably painless in C++ with unique_ptr and similar things. As ha
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Ridiculous. Of course it's not holding the two companies together - they both use it, but it doesn't determine any kind of strategic direction common to the two.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
A lot of code doesn't have exceptions; it might, for example, be written in C, or C++ in a place where exceptions aren't used. fprintf() and friends don't raise exceptions on failure.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
But wouldn't you expect these particles that we're moving through to be being spun by that black hole as well?
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by archangel_one 13y ago
I don't think they care about that. The reason they're shifting is that they don't want to sell you Word once, then fail to persuade you to upgrade to the next version; they want to sell it over and over which brings a more s
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by archangel_one 13y ago
No, they don't save the non-tech savvy users. They click "yes, I want to see the dancing bunnies" every time they see a UAC popup. They do make it reasonably pleasant to run Windows as a non-admin user though, and not the imp
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by archangel_one 13y ago
collections isn't an external library. It's part of the Python standard library.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Collision detection is a bit ropey, I guess. Some of them don't escape but start bouncing back and forth. Also, the whole lot should reach equilibrium before long, but it doesn't seem to. It all seems a bit overly bouncy - kind
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Quite hard, because all the backgrounds are bitmaps. It's an unfortunate era for that - Final Fantasy X looks fantastic on a modern system, because it can be rerendered at higher resolution.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
It certainly was one of them on some phones. I have had a "Facebook for LG" in the past that wasn't removable via the factory phone image.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
There are things in economics called Veblen goods ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good ) which become more desirable as they become more expensive. They seem related, but not exactly the same phenomenon you describ
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Not hard. But how hard would it be to make large existing codebases which have always been built by VC++ compile against them? Very. Let alone the institutional aversion to admitting their competitors have done something better than them...
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by archangel_one 13y ago
No, but libel and slander laws do exist to keep people from saying untrue negative things about you, so it still pays to be careful if that's what you intend to do.
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by archangel_one 13y ago
This is true of Germanic languages more generally, where they have special cases for teens too but also read higher numbers as "five-and-twenty" etc. And then French has their vigesimal thing - 92 is quatre-vingt-douze, ie. "four twentys an
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Yep, I understand that those clauses are common in many agreements. Doesn't change that I just don't care for any of them, though :) I think having them laid out that might make me more likely to react to them than if they were buried in a
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by archangel_one 13y ago
I don't especially care for license agreements, but it does seem better that they be simple like this than fifty pages of legalese. On the other hand, I don't especially like that this keeps some of the most typical objectionable clauses of
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by archangel_one 13y ago
They can say whatever they want, but it's still not necessarily true or enforceable. The Wikipedia page linked above describes rulings by the European court which suggest that they consider that software is sold rather than licensed, in w
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Mass storage doesn't work on a device like the Galaxy Nexus that emulates the "SD card" on its internal storage, because it requires making the blocks of the underlying device available to the host OS. IMO it's worth it to avoid that awful
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by archangel_one 13y ago
Strictly, I don't think he did; Dropbox is a big thing but it is not a "killer application" as I'd define it, ie. an application that people would buy a particular platform just to get. In the way that, say, Office is for Windows, or Halo m

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