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by cjg 17y ago
Of course companies exploit (as in make use of) open source software - it's free (as in beer and speech). As a developer, using open source without proclaiming that to the rest of your company is hardly plagarism. Unless a licence forces a
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by cjg 17y ago
Sounds good. Don't forget that having the idea is the easy bit, the hard bit is the execution.
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by cjg 17y ago
If he has no idea of the rough form of his password then perhaps it isn't his in the first place. Or perhaps he wants you to go back and tell that it is impossible so that he can be sure that full disc encryption really is secure. Sorry if
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by cjg 17y ago
Not quite what I wanted - this shows the most voted for articles in the last 10(?) days. I would like something that can show the most voted for articles since I last visited. Defining "last visited" is non-trivial - I want to be able to lo
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by cjg 17y ago
I would really like to be able to see all the articles that were submitted since I last visited ordered by their votes. That way when I don't visit HN over a holiday or a busy weekend then I know that I won't miss anything important.
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by cjg 17y ago
I wouldn't expect hacker news articles to be restriced to technology or startups or even news. I would expect them to be aimed at a deeper understanding of a topic.
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by cjg 17y ago
Generally you should only buy insurance if you would not be happy insuring yourself (e.g. buying a new one when it breaks). I fyou buy insurance then the profit margin and overheads of the insurance company are an extra cost over insuring y
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by cjg 17y ago
If Z caught most of the cases that X missed, but not many that X caught then it would be very useful.
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by cjg 17y ago
My advice is to do the subjects that you will enjoy the most, rather than those which you think will be easiest or better for a career.
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by cjg 17y ago
One important thing about TDD, in my view, is that you have two separate descriptions (the test and the code) that agree. If you get your code generated from your tests then how do you detect bugs in your tests?
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by cjg 17y ago
Sounds like bad science too me. The energy put into breaking a hydrogen to oxygen bond will be the same as the energy release when forming the bond - which is what happens when hydrogen and oxygen is burnt. Just think conservation of energy
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by cjg 17y ago
I think the line between an IDE and a text editor is not that clear and instead there is a spectrum of editing. At one end you might find Leafpad (aimed at simple text editing) at the other end something like IntelliJ. IntelliJ provides mor
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by cjg 17y ago
In my view they are definitely a monopoly (not convinced? try http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/01/what-an-antitrust-case-... ). The question is whether they are abusing the monopoly. Probably not at the moment. However, as the original qu
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by cjg 17y ago
Not quite sure why you lump ARM in with Qualcomm and Broadcom. I would think it would be great to be ARM right now with more than 10 billion ARM processors on the planet.
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by cjg 18y ago
On one project I worked on, we divided all feature requests into small, medium, large and huge (expected to be roughly 2, 5, 10, 20 days worth of effort respectively). This allowed us to come up with a quick overall costing of the project b
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The Four Color Theorem And Algorithm(math.gatech.edu)
15 points by cjg 18y ago|14 comments
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by cjg 18y ago
It might also depend on the licence of the original project. For example, a project originally released under BSD could be re-released under many different kinds of licence.