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by danek 17y ago
Nokia has a balanced portfolio of crap. I used nokia phones for 4 years before getting an iPhone. Their menu systems look like they are designed by programmers. They are so hard to use. I mean, you learn to live with it, but it got to th
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by danek 17y ago
So much for all the analysts on Wall Street that predicted doom. As a shareholder, I've learned to ignore everything the "experts" say about Apple.
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by danek 17y ago
+1 for the correct use of "times".
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by danek 17y ago
often i'm a slow reader because a lot of times i'll get stuck on the issue of how something is pronounced, lose focus on what i was doing, and start daydreaming. i also seem to have trouble reading when music with vocals is playing in the b
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by danek 17y ago
Agreed. I think people spend too much time arguing about "capitalism the ideal" when what we should be talking about is "capitalism the implementation."
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by danek 17y ago
There is also no telling how bailing out failed businesses will help us in the long term either. Intuitively it seems worse to me. And unfair--what about all the other banks that didn't screw up by leveraging 35:1?
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by danek 17y ago
re: pains of unit tests when refactoring -- i.e. my experience with poorly written unit tests i took over a project once from a crazy person that had a ton of unit tests in it. about 50% of the tests were dumb, so i deleted those (seriousl
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by danek 17y ago
And try not to use a company computer for anything except work. Big corps usually have spyware installed on their computers so they can track everything you do. The last place I worked had software that took a screenshot of your desktop eve
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by danek 17y ago
i like unit tests only after my design has solidified. they are a big slow-down when i'm doing exploratory programming and getting a feel for the problem. but after i've figured out how it all works together, i'm cool with writing them to f
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by danek 17y ago
starting a new country is in a completely different category. i'd agree with "gross abuses" since this is a treaty being crafted in secret, with special "access" given to certain interested parties... basically the government isn't working
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by danek 17y ago
Hell, someone would probably set up a linkbait news posting to a webpage that they claim is protected ip and have a script issue automatic disconnect requests to everyone who views the target page. sounds like a good way to shut down supp
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by danek 17y ago
very true. and lets not forget they have incentive to act of any accusation since they get to seize a bunch of property and fund their department... i've heard that police departments in some places send the swat team for everything since
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by danek 17y ago
does the EFF lobby? if not, maybe what we need an organization to lobby on our behalf. maybe a new startup could somehow do this? i don't know how it would get the money to do so...
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by danek 17y ago
It is appropriate to treat copyright infringement in the same way one treats the international opium trade? yeah, if you are: the RIAA or MPAA a news organization that doesn't want anyone blogging about the truthiness of your reporting a
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by danek 17y ago
so there's no point in ever crafting a nice letter? good to know.
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by danek 17y ago
in c# you wouldn't use the .Equals() method. You just do myString == someOtherString. Also it has a nice static method on the string class: if( string.IsNullOrEmpty(mystring) ){} I use that like crazy. I'm not sure if Java has something s
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by danek 17y ago
yeah, i only put the constant on the left in languages that let you do assignments in the if, like C++.
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by danek 17y ago
Maybe this is the American dream? Don't innovate. Get legal after your business starts going downhill due to lack of said innovation. Claim it's to benefit the consumers.
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by danek 17y ago
reminds me of an article my friend wrote: http://kcomposite.blogspot.com/2009/06/uniquely-american.htm... (short answer = taxes and banking)
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by danek 17y ago
you know, i tried conservatism once but had to stop because of all the crappy products my political worldview was causing me to buy
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by danek 17y ago
historical debugger
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by danek 17y ago
>> The Church has always sponsored scientific enquiry lol
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by danek 17y ago
what about D or OCaml? OCaml can compile to machine code and supposedly can acheive c++ level performance. D is allegedly a "fixed" c++. i haven't used either, just conjecturing based on what i've heard through the grapevine.
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by danek 17y ago
yeah, i was kind of hoping for more examples in the article since i probably won't buy the book
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by danek 17y ago
I could be wrong, but I once heard a complaint against 3-strike that (in CA) a lot of crimes that are misdemeanors can become felony charges if you've been convicted of a felony in the past, so people with a previous felony were getting lif
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by danek 17y ago
Those of us that use F# don't really care if it doesn't run on non-windows machines. That said, it runs fine on my iMac in a windows vm :) Really though, it's a great language for writing business software to run on windows and lots of peop
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by danek 17y ago
It's official. However since it's not yet released it's still considered a research project.
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by danek 17y ago
this made me think of a 2 things 1, the event doesn't even seem like it should be newsworthy. isn't there more important stuff happening? 2, even for the most unimportant of events, it seems the different outlets' bias shows. As usual, Fox
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by danek 17y ago
How about a criteria that says "we will not accept applications that are crap or that make us look bad or dilute the pool of good applications"? Because this seems like it's what Apple is doing. Now whether they are doing their filtering
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by danek 17y ago
umm yeah. once in college, before i knew what this was, i explained the symptoms to a professor who just lectured about REM sleep. He had no idea what I was talking about and it made me feel like a crazy person. But a few years later mor

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