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by aristidb 15y ago
Perhaps the lack of a good substitute is why the author is so frustrated. Also, given that he works for a XML document processing company, I don't think he wants to use XSLT as a general purpose language.
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by aristidb 15y ago
I have another hypothesis: Maybe they don't want to make it so blatantly obvious that only a small portion of their handsets, excluding even phones introduced in 2011(1), will actually get the Android 4.0 update. So they might want to downp
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by aristidb 15y ago
"Patents are fundamentally broken. They should all be thrown out!"
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by aristidb 15y ago
"miraculously everyone will rush to build great products with razor-thin margins" Not a very neutral reproduction of a hypothetical comment! I would even say that it is suggestive.
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by aristidb 15y ago
Infinite redirect chain on my mobile phone.
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by aristidb 15y ago
The old alternative in Germany was that you had a piece of paper with numbers on them. So it absolutely may be a step backward.
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by aristidb 15y ago
I somehow got the feeling that, working for Microsoft, SPJ couldn't say "Haskell is the language for everything", even if he wanted to, because that would undermine the official position of his employer. But then, maybe he could say it. I d
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by aristidb 15y ago
I think just creating the standard is not the problem. If W3C had a policy "We don't care about patents", nobody could sue THEM. However, if anybody wanted to actually use those standards, he/she would get sued.
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by aristidb 15y ago
That's a temporary promotion.
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by aristidb 15y ago
Is it just the way I read it, or does Bill Nguyen come across really badly, there? Wow.
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by aristidb 15y ago
So what you're asking for is not to use the emotionally cold language of marketing, and use the warmer language of traditional human interaction instead? Perhaps not a bad idea.
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by aristidb 15y ago
Made me smile... or would have, if I wasn't a German Very Serious Person. ;) I don't think "drill" is such a good translation though. Höhlen comes from "Höhle", meaning "cave". Maybe a better translation: Steady water hollows the stone. And
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by aristidb 15y ago
Unusually, the German version is much more concise: Stetes Wasser höhlt den Stein.
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by aristidb 15y ago
A number of things: 1. I'm pretty sure Google already makes money for Android, through advertising and such. 2. If the Motorola acquisition goes through, Apple may not be able to extract much in terms of royalties, given that it almost cert
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by aristidb 15y ago
Well, some have updated to IE 8.
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by aristidb 15y ago
Well, you could also install a Cookie filter at the browser level.
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by aristidb 15y ago
> Which means that the expression (a==a) might be, in some pathological cases, false. Most languages (including Perl) have at least one case where a==a is not true. (0.0/=0.0) == (0.0/0.0), or any NaN == NaN expression.
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by aristidb 15y ago
Relevant? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html ("Never rewrite.")
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by aristidb 15y ago
This seems to be pretty "complete": http://code.google.com/p/public-transport-enabler/ It's used by Öffi ( https://market.android.com/details?id=de.schildbach.oeffi&#3... ) AFAIK.
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by aristidb 15y ago
I think what he means is that its launch has been delayed in the USA, so it is available "only" now.
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by aristidb 15y ago
Very cool, but it eats memory like crazy. (Chrome 14, Linux.)
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by aristidb 15y ago
Warns? I think that's awesome, but maybe I just love robots too much. That, or people just fear things they don't understand, and robot traders are even harder to understand than human traders, I guess.
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by aristidb 15y ago
No operating sytem that I know of supports hard links across device boundaries. Symbolic links are really the right solution there, and that many apps don't work with them is a shame.
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by aristidb 15y ago
And Asciiportal: http://cymonsgames.com/asciiportal/
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by aristidb 15y ago
Perl, and for very simple tasks grep and sed.
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by aristidb 15y ago
Sigh, I should have simply copy&pasted the "Ask a Physicist" from the title. And I actually know the difference between physician and physicist (when I consciously think about it), but when not careful I do sometimes mix them up.
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by aristidb 15y ago
"Ask a Physician" has something to say about this: http://www.askamathematician.com/?p=6657
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by aristidb 15y ago
Oh, so it's an externality, not necessarily a tragedy of the commons (which is a very specific type of externality).
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by aristidb 15y ago
Excuse me? Could you please explain, as I fail to see how a tragedy of the commons arises. (Of course patents are problematic, but the reasons that I know of are not related to the tragedy of the commons in a way that I'm aware of.)
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It doesn’t matter where your kid goes to school(blogs.reuters.com)
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