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by batista 14y ago
Those are annoyances one can work around. They are not APIs anyway (which is what the debate is all about), they are UI design decisions. Plus "Save As" kinda came back (hold Option while browsing the file menu), and Spaces are still here i
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> An LOL at "this is why you don't see much innovation from the big companies" followed by a what-if-Apple-did-this example. Apple is a big company. The biggest. And a LOL for misunderstanding his point. He said that "this is why you d
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> The semiconductor industry is brutal in general. Selling to consumers is worse, but the worst by far is the part that sells any type of memory. Really? Because there have been all kinds of price-fixing scandals and accusations for th
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It's not only products siting in inventory. It's also: 1) products sitting in store fronts and retail, that will be unsold if they announce something new. 2) Investments (in the billions) they have made for flash production. You don't just
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> There's no sensible scenario where memristors are ready to go but they don't want to sell any memristor products yet because it will hurt existing sales. It's not about existing sales, it's about stock. If you have built a lot of sto
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Why would you need 1mb session data? Or 200K for that matter?
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Your point has nothing at all to do with whether a specific article about cheaters and liars is good. And. this. one. is. not.
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> The problem here is not that the journalist is human, had an opinion, or has shown a little emotion, the problem is that he mindlessly bashed subjects of his reports revealing bias that is most likely crippling his ability to properly
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> Yahoo fired its former Washington bureau chief on Wednesday for a joking comment he made during a video broadcast from the Republican convention. Isn’t it about time we admitted that journalists have emotions and opinions, rather than
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Here's an example: "In St. Petersburg, 2005, Benjamin Smith III was arrested and charged with "unauthorized access to a computer network", a third-degree felony in the state of Florida, after using a resident's wireless network from a car p
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> This is where I think Miguel's got the most traction, it's a historically weak area for Linux. But it's quickly becoming less of a problem. "Cloud" apps remove the issue of client compatibly breakage, Google's very successful internal
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> The bottom of the screen contains a small window clearly displaying the text "image compression works in part by "rounding off" less-important visual information. There is corresponding". That text is copied verbatim from the Wikipedi
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> Astract: You're a total troll and/or a dishonest propagandist. Yes, thank you for your deep reading comprehension and insight. I'm sure everybody reading our exchange will reach the same conclusion as you did. > It was fun to see
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> So you claim that there are so many sexist skeptics that it is a given that all skeptics are sexist? No, but I do claim that the "all" quantifier is useless in human affairs. Why even try to rephrase my statement with "all"? To make
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by batista 14y ago
Well, as for AutoCAD: The language was introduced in AutoCAD Version 2.18 in January 1986, and continued to be enhanced in successive releases up to Release 13 in February 1995. _After that, its development was neglected by Autodesk in favo
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> I started learning C++ during my freshman year of High School, that was at about 14. I don't really consider myself an outlier... Well, divide the number of the kids that did the same thing with the kids of the same age that did not
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> The point is that these are not outliers in aptitude. They're outliers in opportunities offered. Kids that can program in "several assembly languages" (your words) are just outliers in "opportunities offered"? Even in college, heck,
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> Both the above examples would require the prosecutor to prove "guilty knowledge", knowledge that the behavior was wrong. It's the same with open WiFi hubs. No, it's not. You are not supposed to use a wi-fi, even if it's open (that
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by batista 14y ago
> Than you program some more and, if you're smart, you realize there's Common Lisp. And then you realize, oh, it was just "premature realisation", actually Common Lisp is not the one "to rule them all" after all. E.g it's useless for m
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Nothing. He's complaining that they used new Array instead of it.
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You could buy something once then, and the other days just re-use the password from outside the cafe.
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> Why is it hard to use random open wifis? Walking around my neighborhood there are at least 5 open wifis in my block. With google fiber, high speed, open public wifi will only get more common. If you are in the US (and in some other c
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> Gnome is still the default GUI on a lot of operating systems The one statement does not contradict the other. For one, any operating system that uses Gnome as its GUI besides Linux has an insignificant user population (FreeBSD, NetBS
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And I know tons of them that cannot even pin point their country on the maps. What's with using outliers as examples?
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"What I meant is just because bad person A has opinion X, it does not invalidate opinion X. So just because Sexist A is skeptic it does not follow that every skeptic is sexist." Of course not. But as he, I also noticed a lot of them being s
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Because that would be running TOWARDS the trial. Why should he go back to a country he has left just to have a trial?
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OT, but: "[they] work so well they are used by NASA" is hardly an argument. NASA can also use piss poor technology. Remember that Challenger disaster? Plus, wasn't NASA that did the BS publicity stunt of the supposed discovery of "life base
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"Capitalism is based on information and knowledge, not greed" Really? Then someone please inform the capitalists. So when, for example, a large multinational executes workers demanding better pay and conditions in third world country factor
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> No-one pretends that was about western superiority - just about killing them without losing our own soldiers. Why? Are civillians targets to be killed in a war? "Killing them without losing our own soldiers" is the worst thing I've e
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> Wikipedia gave in 30 seconds (in a link I already gave!) 20+ pogroms in the 19th century. Making a query and getting some numbers back fast does not equal knowledge on a subject. > 20+ pogroms is NOT "mighty fine"! You are writin

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