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by austinz 13y ago
This really isn't true. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_c#Objective-C_2.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_c#Automatic_Reference... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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I come from an EE background, so I learned C and studied various aspects of computer hardware and computer architecture to some relative level of detail before doing any sort of algorithms or software design. Sometimes I wonder what sort of
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Rather than make the argument that human spaceflight is worthless because robots can do science better, I'd like to see someone make the (implied, underlying) argument that space programs should be primarily about basic scientific rese
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Gordon Chang is a professional China skeptic with a rather unimpressive track record. As he's a blogger on Forbes, you can check out his article history for a variety of predictions he's made in the past that haven't panned o
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World's oldest-known living cancer '11,000 years old'(bbc.co.uk)
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I expect this to go the same way as the Green Dam web filtering software that was introduced/'mandated' a few years back: people make a fuss about it for a short while and then promptly forget about it; it's never mentio
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The advertising industry gets implicit carte blanche to do things to thousands or millions of complete strangers that, if I were to do to my friend, would be considered mortifyingly offensive or rude. I really don't understand it.
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Thanks, all articles you posted were interesting reads. I wonder what economists and historians 500 years from now will think of our current models...
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If the alternative to tyranny turns out to be illiberal democracy (where many of the same things that people hate about tyrannical systems take place- unrestricted government spying, torture, government corruption, breakdown of rule of law,
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And here's another set of 'analysts' from 2011 addressing the same problem from the opposite angle: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/06/sovereig... Point being, you can fin
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In 2005 the bogeyman was local government borrowing. In the late 1990s it was bad loans to SOEs that were going to collapse the Chinese banking system. You need to realize that the articles you are citing aren't based upon any sort of
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These same tired arguments were being made back in 2005, and given the utter lack of any sort of critical analysis backing them I predict they'll be just as wrong now as they were back then.
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I always saw it as a very long-term solution. Once we have the lunar colonies, orbital space stations, asteroid mining, and the economic infrastructure to make interplanetary travel routine, we could begin building out SSP as a practically
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I'm partial to sparkfun.com, makershed.com is also good (less of a focus on embedded electronics than the former).
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Security is a judicial procedure, which is why we try and convict spies of espionage using evidence gathered by investigations rather than disappearing and executing people suspected of being traitors. > Did we need to have a formal cour
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> I am on record here on HN as having participated in the Take Back the Fourth protest in Minneapolis about overreaching NSA surveillance. Let your argument stand on its merits, not on what the argument-maker has or hasn't done in t
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Ugly trying-to-be-slick graphics and pictures, page upon page of content-free typo-ridden copy full to the brim with marketing bullshit, and meaningless tech specs (ooh, an embedded microcontroller with a low power mode...never seen those b
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by austinz 13y ago
Assuming this project is satire (which I hope it is), it's amazing because it: - does something rather novel - does something that, to the sufficiently desperate or inept developer, might seem like a half-decent idea or a cunning short
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> "the test suite actually found a bug holy crap" I'm sad to say I say this every time this happens to me as well.
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> "Moon Express engineers have combined the latest exponential technologies in micro-avionics with advanced propulsion and materials to create an innovative approach to spacecraft design and fabrication, empowered by leading edge Au
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This is cool, and I hope it catches on. Despite its flaws and quirks I think HN has something nice going on in terms of the overall submission and discussion quality, and I don't think it should be restricted to just 'hackers&#x27
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Our school used Pintos, a derivative of Nachos. Taking the OS course there was an eye-opener for a student as technically immature and inexperienced as I was at that time, but it was also a tremendous learning experience. I've always w
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I find it hard to believe she'd be the only person to do these sorts of things. How many other people across the US in similar positions are surreptitiously tampering with the legal system right now? And how can we find them?
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Here's his revert message, copied from below, in the full: "@isaacs may have his commit bit but that does not mean he is at liberty to land patches at will. All patches have to be signed off by either me or Bert. Isaac, consider y
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by austinz 13y ago
Ben: "If this is what I have to deal with, then I'd just as rather do something else." After this all-smoke-no-flame shitstorm, one big company carrying out a character assassination and publicly wishing they could fire him a
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by austinz 13y ago
You're in luck - Chang'e 3 launches tomorrow ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_3 ), and assuming it doesn't blow up en route to orbit you'll probably hear more about it (especially as it's
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by austinz 13y ago
Ben was called a bigot and his rejection of the pull request was ascribed to the "principle that pronouns should in fact be gendered" (from the Joyent blog). The problem is, all of this is being extrapolated from his statement &qu
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There was an article on BusinessWeek a while ago (I think it was posted here, not sure though) that discussed Upworthy's techniques and methodology: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-01/upworthy-goe
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It's a quixotic dream, but one I think is quite beautiful. In terms of 'revived' languages used today in everyday life, the most successful one that comes to mind is Hebrew (and there was a strong desire for national cohesion
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> This fixation on the moon in a country with stark poverty for most of its rural majority is a sign of China's tyrannical government. India's political system is far from that of China's, but they've been in the news

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