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by cube13 15y ago
>Google claims that such suits would only be to defend itself when sued ("no first strike", just mutually assured destruction via countersuits), but Microsoft hasn't replied to that claim. I don't think MS has to. They're currently lic
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by cube13 15y ago
>The DoJ ruling merely means they can't really leverage those patents against Google to stifle them more, which I'm sure the legal departments of Apple, Microsoft, and Oracle would have loved to do. It means those patents are less of a
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by cube13 15y ago
>Google wanted the patents to fight back against Microsoft, since Microsoft is the one probably leveraging the greatest patent tax against Android devices. A joint ownership of the patents would be useless against Microsof. They could l
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by cube13 15y ago
I didn't mean to imply that they are copying the open source code directly. Without a copy of their code, it's wrong to make that assumption. I'm saying that their entire rendering process, as described in the video, sounds suspiciously l
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by cube13 15y ago
>I didn't know that there is a specific time limit to launching? I must have missed something in startup school. If you're going to promise specific features(in this case, dynamic lighting, shadows, and animations), then you damn well h
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by cube13 15y ago
You're missing the part where they said basically the same thing here a year ago, and haven't delivered on most of it.
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by cube13 15y ago
>I highly doubt that the performance difference is a result of not inlining/unrolling sprintf(). The difference is most likely due to the fact that sprintf() is parsing the format string over and over, whereas PyPy is only parsing it on
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by cube13 15y ago
Two things potentially different between the two implementations: 1. The C code is stack allocating a pointer in every loop iteration. 2. Cleaning up the memory without(potentially) triggering Python's GC. Is the Python GC getting trigger
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by cube13 15y ago
Depends on their GCC options. If it's the default option, it should be using the shared library. If they changed it to statically link libc, that should produce a(possibly considerable) performance boost.
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by cube13 15y ago
Totally off topic, but I thought that Geocities was closed for all TLD versions. Apparently I was wrong.
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by cube13 15y ago
Oh, that's right. It was the Dakotas. Whoops!
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by cube13 15y ago
Minnesota is where a lot of credit card companies are based from. I believe that there was a Regan-era law(may have been earlier, not sure) that allowed multi-state credit card corporations to basically use their "home state" laws for ever
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by cube13 15y ago
>The problem also applies if one inventor invents something, then another individual gains access to it before the inventor distributes it publicly, and files a patent on it. No. This would be fraud(because the "inventor" that filed di
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by cube13 15y ago
>For instance, if you came up with a novel software process, didn't patent it, and went about your business, it should theoretically be harder for another company to come along and patent your work. Since our patent system is broken, it
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by cube13 15y ago
>Eve is hemorrhaging accounts and the player outrage from the aftermath of their attempts to directly monetize the playerbase beyond PLEX accounts make them a VERY bad example to follow. I would argue CCP's issues are more with their ma
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by cube13 15y ago
At one point, they were pretty protective about WoW's economy. In vanilla, there were a lot of gold sinks, like skill/spell training costs, riding skills, etc. Those are sill present, but don't impact the game nearly as much. They're mos
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by cube13 15y ago
It doesn't matter what Blizzard does to make it easier to get, really. If there is even a perception of rarity, someone will try to sell it for real money. An entire economy has developed around buying virtual items, and Blizzard is only t
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by cube13 15y ago
He didn't just make himself a nuisance, though. He did two illegal acts: 1. He misrepresented himself by saying that he was a legitimate buyer for the drilling rights. 2. He was unable to pay for the bids he won. Both of which are pretty
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by cube13 15y ago
>The solution is that intellectual property and government granted monopolies are bad and should not be the law. They exist on shaky ground in that we assume that they produce more good than harm -- not a well grounded assumption imho.
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by cube13 15y ago
> While it's clear Symbian is going nowhere in the smartphone space (it could have a temporary future in the high-volume dumbphone segment as S40 gets pushed down by better hardware) and that MeeGo took ridiculously long to mature into
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by cube13 15y ago
This works for negative values of x, though. It should be: ((x>0) && ((x & -x) == x))
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by cube13 15y ago
>Once upon a time Java was one of the preferred methods for writing Mac OS apps: Apple clearly doesn't want that anymore. Apple just doesn't see enough benefit in continuing their own JVM development. The primary reason that Java was t
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by cube13 15y ago
OT: That blog brings me back to 90's web design in the worst way possible. It took me a minute to separate the content from the ads, and I'm still not sure if I actually read the post. Since Google didn't turn around and immediately releas
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by cube13 15y ago
To be fair, it's completely non-obvious, and innovative. Mostly because nobody in their right mind would consider that many steps to be a good thing, but still...
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by cube13 15y ago
>Terrible advice. Use NIO and do it properly. Creating 1 thread per connection is for unskilled programmers. Depends on the application. If the connection is handling real-time financial data(for example), there might be enough heavy l
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by cube13 15y ago
>I may be wrong, but I thought that in a multithreaded environment, doing i++ is not atomic and could result in garbled data. Instead you should use __sync_add_and_fetch. However, I have no idea if it should be used inside abort(). This
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by cube13 15y ago
Only he's a fellow at Harvard, not an MIT student or faculty. So no, they couldn't handle this internally. Possibly with the local police, but that may have been what caused it to escalate.
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by cube13 15y ago
>...in a similar sense that HN is run by YC and an inordinate amount of YC startup news is poured through here. The difference being that YC doesn't try to hide it at all on HN. YC ads cannot be commented on, and YC related stories are
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by cube13 15y ago
It looks like they tried to patent Twitter. I'm pretty sure that's existed for longer than this has been in development. Good luck with that.
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by cube13 15y ago
>Well, generation numbers can be determined by counting up through parent commits. So they are derived information, it's just that that takes ages and lots of disk seeks to count through. >Timestamps aren't really needed. First off,

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