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by deong 10y ago
I guess they could be saying that they don't want to run servers for competitors to connect to, but under patent law, there's clearly nothing preventing them from doing so.
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by deong 10y ago
But they did do the work to circumvent the patent. "Patents" can't logically be the reason FaceTime isn't an open standard today. I doubt they ever were. Apple simply realized that FaceTime was an effective sales drive
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by deong 10y ago
No one understands anything at all to do with Google's strategy on Hangouts. Certainly no one working at Google does.
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by deong 10y ago
I'll also give Dell some much-deserved credit for making available a full repair manual for their laptops (or at least some of them). I bought the Windows variant of the XPS 13 because Costco had the 16GB i7 model for $500 cheaper, and
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by deong 10y ago
That's a separate problem. It's true that the selection bias around a lack of negative results is a problem, all that means is that you cannot interpret a lack of support in the literature as evidence one way or the other. I can&#
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by deong 10y ago
But you can't tell the conclusion is flawed just from that. You're saying that funded research is by definition only valid if it yields results that are neutral or harmful to the interests of whoever funded it. That's blant
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by deong 10y ago
In my experience, this usually leads to having a team of "architects" whose job it is to sit in meetings with people actually building things and tell them how to do it. I've yet to meet anyone who can do that job well. No on
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by deong 10y ago
I would have gone deeper, but their site navigation wasn't working in my browser. That said, it definitely seems that in markets like the US at least, a large percentage of Android phones being sold today are late model Samsungs, LGs,
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by deong 10y ago
There are exactly five new phones on the first page of the AT&T site for sale right now that you can buy with less than 32 GB of memory. They are: * Apple iPhone SE * Apple iPhone 6s+ * Apple iPhone 6s * Apple iPhone 6+ * Apple iPhone 6
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by deong 10y ago
Tiny text messages, profile images, avatars, inline linked media, etc. Start caching the stuff you obviously don't want to re-fetch over HTTP every single time the user scrolls around in their timeline, and 100MB is a pretty reasonable
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by deong 10y ago
The problem, in my opinion, is that the Java community (generalizing, I know) decided to bless that abuse as a best practice.
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by deong 10y ago
That ignores a huge amount of evidence that we routinely shoot ourselves in the foot by making flawed assessments of the relative benefits of short vs. long-term rewards.
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by deong 10y ago
This has nothing to do with marketing or prospects for different degrees. It doesn't matter what degree you choose -- if you go to graduate school, you'll be trained for a job that you will likely never get. That's as true in
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by deong 10y ago
Well, there's L1 norms, Lagrange point L1, an L1 visa, etc. In any of those contexts, it's an excellent variable name. There's also the case of short little utilities. For something like strncmp (or at least my slightly naive
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by deong 10y ago
No one argues that. It's much more dubious whether the consumer has the right to patronize a business in explicit disregard of the terms that business sets. If you don't want to see ads on Forbes, you can not go to Forbes. I'
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by deong 10y ago
Because when a company sells millions of things to people, those people are potentially affected. Giving the company -- even one you have no particular love for -- a chance to figure out how to mitigate risk for their customers is a nice th
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by deong 10y ago
The unfortunate part is that because of iOS's restrictions, it's also a bit like, "if you coincidentally buy your frozen pizzas from Wal-Mart, we're not allowed to sell you our product anywhere but Wal-Mart". Spot
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by deong 10y ago
The goal is reduce the size of the phone that's lovingly displayed on the wood and glass table at your local Apple store next to a tasteful sign informing you how much of your money they want. If it requires you to also purchase and ca
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by deong 10y ago
I think Prolog suffers in that comparison mostly because of its much more ambitious scope. Most non-developer/DBA people have no concept of what a SQL query is actually doing, whereas most nontrivial Prolog programs require conceptuali
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by deong 10y ago
I think everyone gets it -- the article is intentionally given the slightly cheeky title.
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by deong 10y ago
Firstly, the ACLU is open about it. There's no way to know, but my guess is that had Thiel stepped up in public a few years ago and said, "Gawker is a terrible gossip rag that needs to be taught a lesson -- contact me if they&#x27
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by deong 10y ago
You don't have to have sympathy for them to want this not to have happened. I don't like Gawker. If you want to argue the world is a better place without them, I'm not going to take the other side. But the way they've be
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by deong 10y ago
Ironically, unlike Gawker's reporting, your comment actually is libelous.
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by deong 10y ago
Well, that's kind of what you have to do. The definition of a bubble is contingent on the burst at the end. If it never bursts, it wasn't a bubble. So you take today's valuations (which you assume are bubble-inflated) and the
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by deong 10y ago
No one is against coding structure, or even "best practices", if you interpret it as meaning the thing someone fluent in English but with no background in software development would understand it to mean. The problem is that &quot
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by deong 10y ago
To be fair, that's not an enormously crazy thing to say. If I read George R.R. Martin's work and then write the exact same story, going through sentence by sentence and changing each material word just enough to say it wasn't
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by deong 10y ago
> I think this is similar to the issue that Americans tend to pay relatively high taxes and get relatively little in return, compared to citizens of other countries. I don't know to what extent this is a I don't think it's
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by deong 10y ago
As well they should hire qualified people. I don't want "college-dropout Facebook engineers", and the goal of something like the OTA isn't to act as Google's lobbying firm. It's actually not at all difficult
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by deong 10y ago
As stated by no less than the supreme court, we all recognize the difference between Michelangelo and Larry Flynt.
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by deong 11y ago
According to this paper, they dropped the O(1) scheduler a few years ago for a CFS scheduler that's O(log n) but exhibits nicer behaviors in other ways.

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