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by bediger 16y ago
But isn't that where it goes astray? If we all called it "Class Oriented Programming" we'd come closer to an accurate name. "Class Oriented Programming" as a name might take away the emphasis on instances, and put emphasis on designing cla
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by bediger 16y ago
You should probably start with Brenda S Baker's work at Bell Labs: http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~devanbu/teaching/289/Schedule_fil... references the final result. Baker's alumni web page: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bsb/index.html
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by bediger 16y ago
Another story of how "Intellectual Property" (as a general concept, with copyright as the specific problem) keeps things from happening, and wastes innovator's and inventor's time on nonsense.
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by bediger 16y ago
Isn't his caveat at the end of the article possibly very important? Knowing where copy constructors get called seems like a tricky, yet performance-important thing, given the costliness of cache-flushes and lack of locality of reference C+
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by bediger 16y ago
It's awfully hard to talk about the problems (and they're HUGE) of outsourcing (really, "offshoring") to India without sounding racist, even if you don't intend to. In the USA at least, since the early 80s, "Human Resources" departments hav
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by bediger 16y ago
I agree with you, but I'd like to point out that the opposite of "civility" is not necessarily "vitriol". Lots of forms of incivility are orthogonal to vitriol, trolling for example.
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by bediger 16y ago
Your conception of trolling is totally inadequate. What you want to do is state something obvious (inflammatory or not) and see who is self-righteous enough to correct you on it. Sure, it's easier to troll with inflammatory material, but it
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by bediger 16y ago
This is extremely silly. Some academic has a chip implanted in his forearm (probably an associate of "Captain Cyborg"), has said chip infected with a computer virus, then uses the chip to deliberately infect a Pee Cee with the same virus.
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by bediger 16y ago
I'm going to take a wild guess and state that you (or your wife or partner) haven't had children.
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by bediger 16y ago
Let's face it: humans have to learn all interfaces. Nothing is intuitive, not even the nipple.
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by bediger 16y ago
This is another one (of many) viewpoints that would seem to argue against institutionalizing the concept of "intellecutal property". "The rate of cultural and economic progress depends on the rate at which ideas are having sex", "In the
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by bediger 16y ago
"The Telegraph" missed a great headline opportunity: "Scientists devise algorithm to detect sarcasm. No, really.' Can somebody try to contextualize this articleby characterizing The Telegraph? There's the Times, the Guardian, the Mail and
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by bediger 16y ago
I'm going to advocate that the USA try to meta-win this meta-competition: C'mon, USA, start competing again! Scrap with me!
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by bediger 16y ago
Didn't the author totally miss out on the most important consequence of a "level playing field"? That is, anyone can feel like they can safely invest. A level playing field opens the stock market to people in rural areas, rather than limi
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by bediger 16y ago
The article rather un-critically accepts the necessity of DRM. That very necessity is quite questionable, given that almost all video uploader to YouTube don't really care about their "property rights", and are more concerned with getting
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by bediger 16y ago
Don't bother reading the article: only bats fellate each other, no hot bat-on-academic action exists.
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by bediger 16y ago
Doesn't Massachusetts enforce "no compete" agreements? Do you own "intellectual property" you've developed on your own time, with your own resources? I'm given to understand that the answers are "yes" and "no" respectively. Aren't those two
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by bediger 16y ago
I think it was when they chose "Queen" to do the theme song of the movie.
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by bediger 16y ago
Now all we need is for the SEI to admit that CMM merely mandating "version control, any version control" is a mistake. CMM should mandate fast version control that doesn't do the stupid "lock a file when checking out", and is also portabl
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by bediger 16y ago
How is that weird? A semi-hidden API like this is a huge benefit to Microsoft itself, and a detriment to its competitors, or indeed, anyone who writes software that becomes a DLL in the next version of Windows. If you write to a documented
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by bediger 16y ago
Finally, a source on ACTA that we can believe.
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by bediger 16y ago
Pics or it didn't happen.
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by bediger 16y ago
This is a pretty old article (Oct 2006), and likely superceded by more recent work: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1222562... which finds that autism "clusters" don't have anything to do with pollution or chemical ex
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by bediger 16y ago
I'm flabbergasted that a piece of software that apparently does a small (less than 76 bytes per frame) hash can detect illegal "content". Just think: we can let NEC's software determine legality and do away with all these messy and expens
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by bediger 16y ago
Probably just a few things contribute to most of the "productivity" you can get from vim: 1. Commands to move around the screen and file under edit: with at most 2 keystrokes you can (a) move to next word (b) move to previous word (c) move
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by bediger 16y ago
I have to question the universal truth of "there's more than one way to do it". That saying bears truth for algorithmic parts of systems, but how about "business logic", that be all and end all of J2EE systems? I spent a few hours contem
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by bediger 16y ago
"Cheaper to produce" would mean that there's less leeway in the process. That directly equates to fewer ways to game the system to get free money from the process of making, marketing and distributing movies. Type "byzantine accounting" in
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by bediger 16y ago
I expect you won't be able to watch "newly released features" at home in the near term (up to 5 years from now), even when Tee Vees with the anti-feature are the norm. You'll just get the new inconvenience, and probably on old crap you wou
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by bediger 16y ago
Doesn't this kind of person put lie to the easy "marriage is between a man and a woman" viewpoint by blurring the distinction between "man" and "woman"? According to the article, this condition isn't even all that rare. Let's not even get
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by bediger 16y ago
Can someone explain all the fuss? We know that horses and donkeys can interbreed (mules), mules are pretty stable animals with no weird-beard health problems. I believe that horses and zebras can interbreed. Probably a lot of other exampl

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