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by cmccabe 14y ago
Code points aren't letters. Consider the following sequence of code points: U+0041 U+0308 [edit: corrected sequence] That equals this european letter: Ä Two code points, one letter. MAGIC! You can also get the same-looking letter with a s
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by cmccabe 14y ago
"And that's our promise to you, here at the Pentagon."
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by cmccabe 14y ago
If the number of people on the internet isn't growing (and it has pretty much plateaued in the US, at least), and there are more competitors, then yes, I would say consumer is "getting harder." Good ideas will always buck the trend, of cou
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Apple definitely didn't start as a B2B company. They sold computers to individuals, and if businesses happened to buy, that was fine too. Apple had some limited success in the educational market in the 1980s, but PCs dominated the busines
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Doing research is no guarantee that you'll come to the correct conclusion. For thousands of years, people treated serious illnesses with leeches, bloodletting, branding, ingestion of liquid mercury, and so forth. These treatments did not
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Not all is roses in the enterprise software world. Businesses will often refuse to buy from companies they regard as likely to disappear in a few years-- unfortunately, most startups tend to get lumped into this category by default. The bu
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by cmccabe 14y ago
It depends on what you mean by "low quality." Enterprise products often don't have shiny GUIs, extensive marketing associated with them, cool domain names, etc. But they do have to avoid permanently deleting data or being inaccessible for
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Their off-time work is contractually owned by the company? Is this true for most game development companies? It depends. If you live in California, you are protected by the California Code, section 2870. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bi
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by cmccabe 14y ago
You think they ducked up when they chose it?
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by cmccabe 14y ago
While udev can be built from the systemd sources, it still requires building dependencies that are NOT needed by udev. So patch the Makefile.in. Maintaining one patch requires a fork? I am testing and throwing in suggestions for using i
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by cmccabe 14y ago
LWN has appeal because it has actual original content, often written by some of the people who work on the Linux kernel and related projects. It's not just a link aggregator (although it is that too.) It's also a place where discussions ar
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by cmccabe 14y ago
That's a pretty insightful comment. I think it really gets to the heart of the issue-- Mark brings a lot of value to the TV networks, but not that much to Facebook. And Facebook knows it.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
So what? Those other marketing channels, like TV, newspaper advertisements, and so on, aren't free. And neither is Facebook. I'm sure that Mark Cuban's hockey team drives a lot of viewers to watch TV. Does that mean Mark should get to ad
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by cmccabe 14y ago
No, you're paying $3 CPM to reach Facebook's audience. They own the platform. You're just visiting. And nobody rides free. The price for the users is to be spammed and data mined. The price for advertisers is to pay cash.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Yeah, it's kind of funny that the article concludes at the end that despite all the things that they "could have used instead of gmail" it wouldn't have mattered. So... basically the article was a waste of time, proposing a technical soluti
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by cmccabe 14y ago
I think we pretty much all agree that flash is dead on mobile. That includes iPad, iPhone, Android, and so forth. On the desktop, it's a bit of a different story. Chrome supports Flash on Linux quite well. Internet Explorer also has Flash
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by cmccabe 14y ago
from http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/27/fast-and-fu... In a meeting on Jan. 5, 2010, Emory Hurley, the assistant U.S. Attorney in Phoenix overseeing the Fast and Furious case, told the [ATF] agents they lacked probable caus
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Someone on StackOverflow suggested we think of ugly Java class names as poetry Vogon poetry, to be specific.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
better solution: don't use default parameters. They're a misfeature in every language they appear in.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Nobody is blaming Bush (protip: he is not the president any more, and even if he were, the president is not responsible for determining gun laws in Arizona.) However, the fact that a random 18-year old can buy $20,000 of guns in Arizona an
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by cmccabe 14y ago
This whole "fast and furious" thing is just mind-bogglingly stupid. Seriously-- it takes a lot of effort to be this stupid. Do you realize the reason why Mexican drug gangs buy guns in Arizona? It's because the gun laws there are extremel
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by cmccabe 14y ago
$COMPANY is doomed because they're ignoring $BUZZWORD. It's sort of like $INANE_ANALOGY. I give them 3 months, tops.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
There's a name for what's going on here: bullying. And it's happening to users, who are being told their concerns about GNOME3 are irrelevant, and also to developers, who are being told that "you have to decide if you are a GNOME app, an Ub
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Xfce is sticking with gtk2, in order to avoid the some of the v3 issues discussed here. Individual applications may still switch to gtk3, in which case those applications will experience the breakages. But that can't be helped-- it's up to
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by cmccabe 14y ago
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." -Weisert.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Yes, clearly the only reason someone would want to continue accessing files they uploaded to a cloud service is to re-affirm their "property rights" to the data. Nobody would possibly use this service to collaborate with other people, or m
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by cmccabe 14y ago
James claims not to be burned out, but I think I can see the telltale signs. If you're interested in programming, you won't arbitrarily declare that big parts of programming are "below the threshold of what matters." That's a pretty bold
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by cmccabe 14y ago
Indeed. You wouldn't want to risk compromising your fractal of failure by throwing a successful technical decision into the mix. http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de... I'm sorry... it was just too, too easy.
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by cmccabe 14y ago
The question isn't whether it's plausible or not-- this is Indiana Jones, after all. The question is whether it worked in the movie. The whole scene is bizarrely out of place and is making light of something that most people don't think i
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by cmccabe 14y ago
The one that most of us would prefer to forget. www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/ For a while, it seemed like "nuking the fridge" was going to replace "jumping the shark" as a metaphor for creative failure.

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