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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> By downloading a film, even if you don't pay for it, you are contributing capital to that film. You'll cache the the plot, characters, actors in your mind and likely talk about it with your friends & collegues --in social situatio
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Not all names are simple or even computable transforms though. How do you deal with entries like "Mom" or "Steve," names like "St. Clair" that may be entered dozens of different ways, or non-English names like "姚明" that may have dozens or h
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
And the likelihood that you'll match somebody got a lot smaller. Names have different spellings, phone numbers have different spellings (to say nothing of different numbers), people have multiple emails. You can't canonicalize some of these
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> I hate the term "software engineer", because we're not engineers. I don't buy that. We're building software in a time before we have a universally accepted engineering doctrine for software, but you can hope that somebody calling them
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
The test pilots are basically told what part of the world and for how long they have to fly; when they turn in a plan like this basically for the sake of cuteness, that's a lot of work picking waypoints. This pleases me.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Gnutella definitely was once you found another node to talk to.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
That makes it difficult to provide progressive enhancement though. If I use a prefixed property, I have the ability to make sure it works fine without it, and I can assume that in the future, if the semantics of it change when it becomes no
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Prefixing just did not work. We should push the standards bodies to drop that nonsense ASAP. Making all of us blindly insert 5 or 6 duplicate declarations in every CSS rule is not a solution, and in fact circumvents the original purpose of
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
I don't think GitHub has the cheddar to acquire Google.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> Not that you have anything to prove to me, but I reject all your examples, and think you were too cavalier about judging K&R. I don't think it's necessarily cavalier. If I was asked to review code that aligned with the K&R exa
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
It was a rhetorical question. What's the sense in having functions that operate on "strings" if you can't figure out what a "string" is at runtime? It's much saner to have functions operate on "strings that are 80 characters or less" or "a
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
How do you test that something in C is a string?
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
I dug out my 29th printing copy for this :) Dated: the "Hello world" on page 6 produces warnings when compiled "> gcc -ansi -o hello hello.c -Wall" c.f. http://c-faq.com/ansi/maindecl.html Buggy but only to a pedant with infinite time
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Dated, buggy, and un-stylish examples are exactly what diminishes it.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
https://www.dropbox.com/features claims "Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and AES-256 bit encryption," and I truly do believe they encrypt. However, I also know that since their website allows me to access data and reset my password, their key
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
I suspect that the way the carriers each demand slightly different feature checklists and releasing a new phone every month (c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Android_devices#Samsung and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTC_p
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> (Perhaps cars are turning into this model. It used to be that it was not a big deal to take your car to your favorite mechanic, but now I gather, various forms of IP lock-in or just plain expensive required diagnostic tools are creati
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
There's some Hubot forks to allow it to work over IRC or XMPP.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
It is; that's mostly what people want.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Why would you expect a business (an entity that subsists entirely on money) that has made shitloads of money to suddenly stop doing everything it can to continue to make shitloads of money?
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
None of the companies you listed are one-man shops; believing that they can either lobby or make new products and not do both is silly.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
That's not an automated landing system failure, that's a landing gear failure.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Every "private EC2 infrastructure" I've seen is a bunch of hypervisor servers.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
I couldn't find it in the current Terms of Service, so I expect that they saw the typical /r/gaming histrionics, checked and saw that they hadn't actually sold the info, figured out how much reddit histrionics cost in sales versus the almos
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
It sounds more like legal: Suit: "We're collecting this data? Why?" Cubicle-dweller: "Dunno, seemed useful." Suit: "Well, we better put something in the ToS about it so our customers know that we're storing it."
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
They got bought out nineteen years ago; it's not the "once mighty Origin Systems," it's a trademark that EA owns becoming attached to a product.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
You can enable unknown sources: just buy a developer key for $100. It still doesn't allow you to mess with the lower-level system stuff that's the big appeal for jailbreaking. Jailbreaking is more like rooting an Android than the unknown so
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> If that is the logic, why make jailbreaking difficult at all? Apple pays support costs (facilities, labor, etc.) for everyone who brings in an iOS device to a store, and it's their best interest to allow their personnel to turn proble
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
iOS 5 ZIP-compressed install files are 700MB each, a 500MB Android wouldn't be terribly surprising.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> This isn't a hardware capacity issue. The Nexus One has 512MB of internal storage. The Nexus Galaxy has 32GB of internal storage. If ICS weighs in at much more than 400MB and has the stellar (read as: "perfunctory") MicroSD support we

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