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by btn 16y ago
"The customer didn't really want to use a unique identifier though, because though it was anonymous, the customer wanted to count computers, but unique identifiers are for tracking (following a user over time)."
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by btn 16y ago
What's the magic number of LOC that any markup language should be implemented under?
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by btn 16y ago
It's not saying that they're wrong, but that there are factors beside sexism and bigotry that contribute to the problem.
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by btn 16y ago
The author seems to misunderstand the open-closed principle, and his first example confuses bug-fixing with API modification. The open-closed principle is designed to promote API stability and reduce errors caused by API contract changes th
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by btn 16y ago
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/embedded.jsp
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by btn 16y ago
They already do. Apple provide WiFi and Ethernet connectivity at WWDC, but they're hardly going to roll out 5,000 individual cables.
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by btn 16y ago
Where? They seem to endorse the New Yorker article; linking to it on their front page.
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by btn 16y ago
The entire article is also available at: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/cpumemory.pdf
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by btn 17y ago
The article is poorly written and misleading. Apple doesn't use the term licence; this is simply a consolidation of their existing paid ADC levels.
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by btn 17y ago
Because they were registered before IANA reserved all available single-letter domains in 1993. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_doma...
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by btn 17y ago
Almost all of those photos come straight from the Rotten Tomatoes tour: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wall_e/news/1741321/exclusiv...
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by btn 17y ago
Twitter will die when we come up with a more efficient form of telepathy. Or, the novelty of being continually flooded with pointless and trivial information wears off.
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by btn 17y ago
I'm thinking we need to put the formatting help -- for new users only -- directly in their line of sight Even then, you'll find that some users will just spend their time looking for a way to get rid of the help (and do what they came to
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by btn 17y ago
Does anyone remember when ZDNet was a source for the answer to questions like this?
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by btn 17y ago
Kernighan & Ritchie have already written that book.
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by btn 17y ago
If you work in an environment that makes heavy use of Microsoft technologies (specifically, Office features), then it makes doing collaborative stuff with them easier. Its value depends on how much you buy into that.
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by btn 17y ago
Writing their own language/compiler surprised a lot of people: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html
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by btn 17y ago
When everything is in the 'cloud', how do you know the difference?
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by btn 17y ago
Why? It only took ~4 years for DVD to obliterate VHS, and even less time for DVD sales to exceed those for VHS [1]. Hastings doesn't say if the replacement for DVD will be BluRay or streaming, but I think rapid consumer uptake of new delive
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by btn 17y ago
The drop-down next to the "inlinks" button lets you filter out links from the same domain.
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by btn 17y ago
The lack of detail in what their users were actually doing on the sites they tested makes it hard to tell what they're trying to dispel. If you're giving users a specific task to perform on a specific website in a controlled environment, th
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by btn 17y ago
Turns out it's a simple matter of reading the iTunes music library XML catalog file on a customer's computer, and using that to create a sync capability for the Pre. The author seems to mistakenly believe that this XML file is a documente
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by btn 17y ago
The flash uploader provides a much better user experience: better designed controls (usually), multiple-file upload, upload progress. But graceful degredation is always appreciated.
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by btn 17y ago
Just because an argument is in the extreme doesn't mean it have any merits whatsoever. Perhaps, but my specific problems with this article is that I don't think it advances the argument in any meaningful way, and it doesn't provide eviden
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by btn 17y ago
And I am absolutely sure that if we got rid of patents tomorrow innovation wouldn’t be reduced at all I don't think this is true at all. While most of the bad press about software patents comes from frivolous patents and companies that tr
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by btn 17y ago
"coming in CS5" is misleading. CS5.org is not run by Adobe, who haven't said anything about this being included in CS5 products.
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by btn 17y ago
For people more typographically inclined, there is a much analysis and history of Arial at: http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html
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by btn 17y ago
The point of using LaTeX to render an image is that it preserves the beautiful and precise layout that only the (La)TeX engine can give.
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by btn 17y ago
Wave, in a lot of ways, is just a XMPP client/aggregator. I don't mean that in a condescending way, it's very cool, but it's hardly "the first truly revolutionary leap since HTTP itself". The article says that this revolution hinges on XMPP
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by btn 17y ago
It's a survey site... it seems to imply that I have to pay people to take my surveys/will get paid to take surveys... but the site gives absolutely no details on how this is supposed to work, or why I might want to do it (the FAQ answers w

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