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by cube13 14y ago
> But that's sort of my point; today's optimisation can be tomorrow's performance regression, security bug, or be outdone by an update by the OS vendor. >It's very rare that a program's performance is being held back by a standard l
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by cube13 14y ago
Is Facebook really expected to grow that much? Even counting the 13% or so fake accounts, they have around 800 million active accounts. That's a bit over 10% of the world's population. They can't really get the growth that's expected with
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by cube13 14y ago
I actually think that you're both missing the point. Marius isn't arguing that every startup needs to change the world. He's arguing that if you're going to be making something, you should be making something new. I think pg touched on t
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by cube13 14y ago
Mass Effect's Extended Cut is basically 100% video and sound content, though, which is why it's so big. It's certainly less complex than any of the expansions to The Elder Scrolls series.
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by cube13 14y ago
>If company needs programmer and programmer needs job, the relationship is more or less symmetrical. If the company doesn't really need a programmer that much, I guess you are right that the programmer is not in a position to do anythin
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by cube13 14y ago
You do realize that, in the vast majority of all interviews, regardless of industry, the interviewee went to the company and asked for a job? They're hardly in a position where that kind of criticism is warranted, especially as an outsider
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by cube13 14y ago
If you're hardcoding it, n will be around 400,000. That's a lot of iterations.
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by cube13 14y ago
I take it with a gigantic grain of salt. It's too vague to be helpful. For example, the "dogmatic principles" criticism. The interviewers could have asked "Is security a good thing?", and he could have answered "No". Or the interviewers
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by cube13 14y ago
It's not just tech. If you're not able to take criticism during an interview, or deal with a company culture that appears to be different from your expectations, you're have to have a difficult time getting job in any industry. The only re
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by cube13 14y ago
I'm not sure how much of an effect a startup can have in this area, though. This is much more a political and social issue than technological. Startups like Khan Academy can certainly change the way that people are taught and how they lear
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by cube13 14y ago
> In some sense Gutenberg ought to have obviated the need for the lecture format in college but it didn't. Radio didn't, television didn't and I suspect the internet won't either. At least not for the majority of students. Ultimately, I
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by cube13 14y ago
I did a quick google search for the other two infringing products, and I get nothing for "Kratos 0.12.3". The only hit is the original source. MagicDocs does get a hit, but the last time it was updated on download.com was 2005, well before
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by cube13 14y ago
That's because of the OS functionality exception in the GPL. LibC is also LGPL to allow any source to link to it.
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by cube13 14y ago
>Samsung seems to have brought this in to show what the dispute was really all about. And that show with the Intel receipts didn't address the entire problem from my reading. That has never made sense to me, though. Unless Samsung coul
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by cube13 14y ago
If they found that there was patent exhaustion, Apple could not have been guilty of infringing on the patents. The exhaustion doctrine is pretty clear on this.
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by cube13 14y ago
Unless you directly designed the chip, you shouldn't be liable at all. The liable one is the seller.
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by cube13 14y ago
But even in computing, the race to the bottom produced better chips. Competition forced the companies to produce cheaper and cheaper chips, while still trying to make better ones. The TangiBot isn't a competitor to the MakerBot in the trad
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by cube13 14y ago
Only if that type of competition results in better products. If it's just cheaper products, there's no real gain. And that's where I have a problem with this. Sure, it's completely legal. But it doesn't seem ethical to just take someone
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by cube13 14y ago
The screen? That's a pretty big one. Having all the CPU and GPU power in the world is pretty meaningless when the screen it's powering is that low resolution.
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by cube13 14y ago
They're not. It's the same license as the previous full Retail(i.e. $500+) Windows licenses, with the addition of VM install rights. Previously, VM install was only allowed with the Professional SKU or above.
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by cube13 14y ago
That's what bothers me about the "Sweden will send him to the US" argument. I don't get why he's concerned about it, AND(at the same time) is in the UK, who, out of any country in the world, is quite possibly the MOST likely to agree to a U
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by cube13 14y ago
But the major difference between Bezos' strategy with Amazon and Zuckerberg's apparent strategy with Facebook is that Amazon was absolutely up front that they're willing to sacrifice short term profits for long term stability. Amazon's init
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by cube13 14y ago
He didn't completely sell out. He still has the controlling stake in the company.
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by cube13 14y ago
According to Google Finance, 14% of FB's outstanding shares are institutionally owned. I think the vast majority of the pension funds got the message.
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by cube13 14y ago
Which is a silly thing to copy. Visual studio has a different color scheme than XCode, and both have different color schemes than Eclipse. The iconography is similar(i.e. use of a "play" button for running the debugger), but the actual but
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by cube13 14y ago
>But if they say, "The date display on the Calendar icon should match the current date on the phone", that's "slavishly copying". I don't think that's the case, if it's just showing the date on the icon. On the other hand, if the instru
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by cube13 14y ago
But this isn't the issue at hand. Apple's claiming that Samsung deliberately copied their trade dress to confuse consumers. Remember, trade dress isn't functionality. It's the look and feel of the product, not the functionality. It's over
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by cube13 14y ago
>That's just evil. No, that's protecting the patent.
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by cube13 14y ago
> The question isn't whether or not Samsung was trying to emulate the elements that made the iPhone a success, the question is to whether it should be allowed or not. A world where that kind of "copying" is disallowed isn't one I want t
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by cube13 14y ago
That's because they license the hell out of their patents to each other.

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