billmcneale

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by billmcneale 15y ago
You are like these crazies announcing the end of the world. Yes, it will happen eventually, but if you don't know when, you're not adding anything to the debate by stating the obvious.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
The US - has very strong support for software patents - is one of the most innovative countries in the world in the software area China - has no support for software patents whatsoever - has close to zero innovation in software Can someone
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by billmcneale 15y ago
How about the idea that you spend months and hundreds of thousands of dollars of your own money to come up with a new product, and two weeks after you launch, another company with a lot of money releases a copycat of your product?
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> It's a seriously exciting time to be a developer. Or to be alive in general, really. I have yet to meet a dead person that's excited to be dead.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
You are very naive about the costs of migrating or rolling back, especially in the bank industry.
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> Your rant screams inexperience. So does the "M$" spelling...
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by billmcneale 15y ago
It's funny to see Mac advocates criticize Google for letting Android go wild and suffer fragmentation from it and then criticize them as well if they decide to enforce a few rules to improve consistency. Damned if you do...
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by billmcneale 15y ago
Pretty much every single point applies to Android as well, and if you have to pick based on mind share and momentum...
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by billmcneale 15y ago
> extremely fast compiles - you miss this when you go back to languages that compile more slowly. It allows for rapid prototyping and trying stuff out without having to worry about a massive build time. You're paying a price for this sp
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by billmcneale 15y ago
Not sufficient. Does the notification showing the ad show which application it's coming from? As long as you don't implement this, you are being disingenuous. Not that I really care that much, to be honest: I bet that AirPush will shut down
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by billmcneale 15y ago
Sometime, even user choice is not acceptable because the feature is so obnoxious. "Check this box to install malware: X" For me, AirPush is in that category. Come on asherisaac, be honest and imagine that you leave the company you work for
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by billmcneale 15y ago
Fair point but a bit exaggerated, in my opinion. You won't see an "exodus from Android", just from that particular phone that comes preloaded with unremovable crapware. The market tends to autocorrect itself pretty quickly for this kind of
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by billmcneale 16y ago
That was then. Now, he finds this kind of practice criminal. I know: I once asked him a similar question after one of his talks (the kind where he plays the flute). He just finds the concept of charging for software repugnant.
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by billmcneale 16y ago
I was with you until you said he's a "practical guy". He's not. No radical people are practical, it goes with the job of being radical. rms wants you to write code for free, give it away for free and never ask for any money if anyone uses i
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by billmcneale 16y ago
If it doesn't already exist, then you issue a compilation error. Better then than the way it works today, IMO.
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by billmcneale 16y ago
tl;dr: Apple puts "Apple" first.
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by billmcneale 16y ago
As I said in my comment, this is never going to fly for any company past a certain size. There is just too much confidential and legally sensitive stuff going through your email on a daily basis. Especially if you want to go public at some
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by billmcneale 16y ago
Another positive aspect of sentence passwords is that they are more likely to survive a keylogger attack.
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by billmcneale 16y ago
You're missing the point. The problem is not that the service is free (especially since as a free service, Google's uptime probably leaves all their competitors in the dust). The problem is just having your email stored outside your private
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by billmcneale 16y ago
You need to realize that while Scala was in development, there were quite a few languages that were also rapidly gaining in momentum and mind share. Having said that, while I do see Scala at conferences and in articles, this hardly qualifie
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by billmcneale 16y ago
That's technically not the reason why they were "censured", although what you describe was seen as part of abusing their monopoly. Like the commenter above said, there is nothing illegal with being a monopoly.
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by billmcneale 16y ago
<sigh> So you're one of these "Code properly written shouldn't need comments" people, uh? To understand code, you need to figure out "why" and "what". Code gives you one, comments give you the other.
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by billmcneale 16y ago
This might be beautiful code but come on, not a single comment?
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by billmcneale 16y ago
Dijkstra was provably completely wrong about this: pretty much all the most talented programmers I have ever talked to or read about started with BASIC. The starting language matters very little, the important part is to remain curious and
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by billmcneale 16y ago
I have no problem with the Montessori method but if you're going to throw the names of a few very successful people as examples, you also need to show the full picture, i.e. for all these Montessori kids that became so successful, how many
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by billmcneale 16y ago
For people not familiar with Feynman, here is a recent review of one of his story books: http://goo.gl/5QLaG
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by billmcneale 16y ago
Yup, even more so since we're not even sure new consoles are even going to come out. Have you heard about Microsoft's plans for the next XBox? Or Sony's next generation PlayStation? Exactly. Nothing. Games are pretty profitable on consoles,
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by billmcneale 16y ago
Number of casualties from nuclear plant accidents: a few thousands. Number of casualties from coal mining accidents this past century [2]: 100,000. That's accidents in coal mines alone, not even counting lung diseases and similar. The fact
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by billmcneale 16y ago
All corporations want to make money, what makes you think Apple is different? They have turned evil in the sense that they are restricting developer freedom, overwork their employees (who are happy to oblige, at least in the US, but that do
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by billmcneale 16y ago
This technique is not for speedcubing nor did it claim to be optimized. Its goal is to be easy to memorize. By definition, speedcubing is the opposite of "easy to memorize". The easier it is to memorize, the less formulas there are, there

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