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by bartl 15y ago
You can't decompile a program if you don't have a copy of said program. However, when the decompiled sources are uploaded to a public server, nobody needs the original program, to use it.
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by bartl 15y ago
The reason why app developers will only reluctantly leave apps behind in favor of web apps, is because of the money. It's very easy to moneytize apps, it comes with the territory; but for web apps? People are used to "free" for web apps, an
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by bartl 15y ago
>213.8. . israelis isp's!! dont try those ranges!! I really wonder why Israel got this special status.
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by bartl 15y ago
I think is less surprising than the fact that Jupiter, and in fact all 4 big planets in our solar system, are actually just gas bubbles, and not actually not the rocky balls us ordinary people imagine as planets. That's right: they have no
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by bartl 15y ago
Perhaps you didn't read all of it? Anyway, the person mentioned in this subthread did reply in a comment on the original post. ( http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=196#comment-721 )
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by bartl 15y ago
Sheesh, I drink coffee for the taste, not for the caffeine. So caffeine pills is something I would never consider using in my life.
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by bartl 15y ago
I have been unemployed. And I can tell you: lack of time is not the problem, for most projects. What is lacking is the will to actually do it . I find it often easier to actually do something, when you already have a (nearly) full schedule
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by bartl 16y ago
I don't like the wooden background. I think it's tacky, and it's precisely not the minimal approach you are promoting. Otherwise: good work. The selection of music it gets me when selecting an artist is rather impressive. I can see me us
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by bartl 16y ago
You're right. Ideally, people should be rewarded for the actual results they get, not for the amount of work they appear to have put in it. A guy who would on the surface do very little yet gets excellent results, should be appreciated more
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by bartl 16y ago
Well, according to this post, everyone who was technically knowledgeable about Bing has left. That implies that there will no longer be any relevant technical progress, any more.
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by bartl 16y ago
So they dropped some rarely used functionality from PHP,... like serialization. Excuse me, "rarely used"?? Drupal strongly depends on serialization, to store data structures in the database (or, as they call it, "the cache"). You cannot eff
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by bartl 16y ago
Non C/C++ user here... A lot of the problems are due to the assumption an integer is big enough to store a pointer. Just wondering: is there a way to make the compiler barf if such an assignment is done? Or for generating a runtime error if
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by bartl 16y ago
Yes I do. For example, I have a little script to install Drupal modules, which is nothing more than downloading the tarball from the Drupal website, and untarring it in the proper directory. Likewise, I've got scripts to extract strings to
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by bartl 16y ago
>Tell him to do it for the iphone and ipad in Flash?? Can't be done, you know that.
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by bartl 16y ago
"Quickly"?? People have been asking for this for years .
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by bartl 16y ago
Yes, in my personal opinion, this is exactly what's going on: the next step in Nokia's new love affair with Windows Phone, and Qt the rejected mistress.
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by bartl 16y ago
Yes you can... Sort of. I use php-form-builder-class ( http://code.google.com/p/php-form-builder-class/ ) which is a beautiful library to build and validate web forms; and a port of the Perl module SQL::Abstract ( http://search.cpan.org/per
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by bartl 16y ago
Uh, that complaint was a quote from a music label executive. "Good for labels"?
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by bartl 16y ago
I think so. "Digital music sales" generally means the sale of music files, while CDs are counted as physical objects, not files.
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by bartl 16y ago
Explain "web server" to your grandma. Oopsie.
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by bartl 16y ago
>Where is the non-Google page of links? There are no non-Google page of links. The only association between these terms and the page exists on Google. FTA: >To be clear, the synthetic query had no relationship with the inserted re
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by bartl 16y ago
My favorite quote: > Its grasping attempts to get its hooks into every single thing I do feels like being groped by an overly obnoxious salesman.
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by bartl 16y ago
Why the repeat submission? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110042
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by bartl 16y ago
Jeff Atwood discusses this in his most recent Coding Horror blog post ( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/01/trouble-in-the-hous... ), in which he states that he doesn't really mind people copying StackOverflow questions (and answers),
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by bartl 16y ago
Probably the only use case I can think of, is for "does it match?" tests. Spam detection, like SpamAssassin, might benefit from it.
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by bartl 16y ago
I agree with you. I use NoScript, I don't use Javascript on a site I've never visited before. And MapQuest just showed... nothing. As if it was a horrible server error (some PHP sites show a blank page when the PHP goes tits up). If I wasn'
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by bartl 16y ago
To me, lack of upvotes is one of the better traits, as on other social sites, good stories are often downvoted into oblivion in order to make other stories look relatively better.
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by bartl 16y ago
The article explicitly says that that isn't true (on page 2): "It was thought that Google engineers used some of Project Harmony's code for the project, but the ASF has subsequently debunked this notion."
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by bartl 16y ago
App stores could imply the dead of applications like Google Docs the office suite: there's actually no need to put your data on the web, except for the fact that the app requires it. But for other applications, especially those that require
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by bartl 16y ago
It was taken down, apparently. Nothing to see here, you should have posted a screen cap.

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