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by dtf 16y ago
Perhaps he works for Airbus? edit: apologies, cperciva, hadn't read your profile. Backup software is nearly as critical!
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by dtf 16y ago
Brilliant. Makes me want to become a customer to support their sheer chutzpah. I guess they must have done at least some legal homework. Not that it matters much when you're baiting the attack dogs of the content industries, whose primary f
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by dtf 16y ago
I'd never heard of sprezzatura. What a great word! Reminded me instantly of one of Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power: "Make your Accomplishments Seem Effortless" All the toil and practice that go into them, and also all the clever tricks, m
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by dtf 16y ago
Seriously, why not C++? It's just C with some stricter type checking. Pretend it's C, then judiciously grab a pair of angle brackets when you need them. No macros required.
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by dtf 16y ago
Teaching sounds like one of the hardest jobs in the world. You get it from the kids, from the parents, from your superiors, from the government, from the media. I think I have at least a vague feeling for that spark of humanity that drives
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by dtf 16y ago
Just be sure to check the length before you put anything into the buffer. No need to check. The comment reassures both me and future maintainers that I have countenanced this potential pitfall! Assign away....
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by dtf 16y ago
char buf[1024]; /* should be enough */ I actually write this a lot in my code. Not code that I intend to share with others, of course. But I do find it amusing about the value I put in brackets. I find it amusing that I have an OCD-like pre
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by dtf 16y ago
So when can we get the specs for the microphone protocol? :-)
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by dtf 16y ago
To tilt the camera up and down, making it more adaptable to the range of televisions it may be housed on or under.
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by dtf 16y ago
"Google gave employees the option of taking their $1,000 bonus home in cash on the day of the announcement. Which would undoubtedly have constituted a pleasant surprise for the families of many."
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by dtf 16y ago
Great set of employee-centric examples. And there was me thinking only of the market effects!
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by dtf 16y ago
The guy actually says in the video "this is not a sniffer, this is not a man in the middle", which is quite incredible. Just a laptop running Linux. Look at his desk: a complete mess of wires and hardware and a single Rubiks cube. Total hac
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by dtf 16y ago
Hector said in the video that he doesn't even have an Xbox. I guess that's like turning up to the cafe five minutes after opening time when it's just you and the waiter.
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by dtf 16y ago
Opera Mini on the iPhone 4 is a pretty bad experience. Hope they get time to update it soon.
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by dtf 16y ago
Yes, but it sounds like they're planning on charging for it! Start your _free trial_ for group video calling beta _one-to-one_ video calls and instant messaging are free
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by dtf 16y ago
Regarding the relative danger of alcohol, David Nutt has just published a new study in The Lancet. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/nov/01/alcohol-more-h... "The maximum possible harm score was 100 and the minimum zero. Overall, al
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by dtf 16y ago
This is the effect of drug prohibition in our modern age. You can attack the supply chain, but not the demand. Savvy entrepreneurs, internet marketing and a cornucopia of untested synthetic drugs will continue to satisfy the demands of a la
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by dtf 16y ago
MDAI and MDAT seem to me to be particularly suitable drugs for therapy. Whenever you blanket ban a group of chemicals you also make research on medicinal use practically impossible.
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by dtf 16y ago
I always downvote on harsh tone or meanness directed at others (but not directed at myself). I upvote for valuable and interesting information, and intelligently argued points. I try not to upvote for mere agreement (although sometimes it's
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by dtf 16y ago
QT Quick (Nokia), Clutter (Intel) and Core Animation (Apple). Would it be fair to say these are modern toolkits with similar goals? Does anyone in the know have an opinion on which one's doing it the most right?
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by dtf 16y ago
I mean avoid: employing sophisticated financial and legal engineering to reduce your rate of tax by an order of magnitude . We all try to avoid paying too much tax, but that's not tax avoidance. Sending your profits to the Bahamas via Holl
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by dtf 16y ago
Because Google have a public image of behaving ethically. Everyone expects banks and evil multinationals to do this kind of thing. Is it ethical to avoid paying tax as an individual? Many would say no. But when a company does it, they lay t
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by dtf 16y ago
I'd say its worse. At least when running you have endorphins and hormones to help you out over the course of your few hours of "pain". Launching a product involves months or more of numbing drudgery, self-doubt and incertitude about whether
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by dtf 16y ago
Some creative apps are dataflow systems. Dataflow maps very well to GUIs and intelligent tools. For the parts which aren't dataflow, you end up with the same manual labour that you have in code editing. Video editing, for instance, is quite
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by dtf 16y ago
I'm sure I remember the Amstrads running CP/M, a competitor to DOS. I wonder if that choice was made before or after Bill's visit.
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by dtf 16y ago
Another fascinating story about Feuerstein from his Wikipedia page: When the Malden Mills factory burnt down on December 11, 1995, Feuerstein decided not only to use his insurance money to rebuild it, but to also pay the salaries of all th
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by dtf 16y ago
OpenGL 4.0, like the rest of the world.
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by dtf 16y ago
I disagree. Craft is skill. Art is expression.
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by dtf 16y ago
I found this disturbing, morally repulsive, profoundly insightful and utterly compelling. Blog added to reader.
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by dtf 16y ago
"Kick someone's ass on the first day, or become someone's bitch. After then, everything will be alright." This seems to be Michael asserting his place in the pecking order, in his own mischievous way :-)

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