eevilspock

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by eevilspock 15y ago
So governments are dangerous and not to be blindly trusted. Agreed. That does not mean that we'll be better off with zero government. Human organizations do not scale beyond tens or hundreds without government. The root problem is the flawe
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by eevilspock 15y ago
Or argue that the Scala language provides more information to the static compiler allowing it to produce better byte code. Has anyone done that analysis?
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by eevilspock 15y ago
Agreed. Likewise the article is wrong when it says Java is built "on top" of C/C++. It compiles to JVM bytecode which is JIT compiled to native machine code. So its whole "thinking logically" premise is broken.
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by eevilspock 15y ago
you could accuse them of, once again, stealing ideas from Xerox PARC To steal means to deprive someone of something that by all rights they should have had. So the only way this could be construed as theft is if Xerox PARC's plan was to w
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by eevilspock 15y ago
You guys are funny. The conclusion that you should be reaching is software patents are simply not a viable mechanism, period. In other words, even if you like the idea of patents in theory, in practice they do not work because we will never
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by eevilspock 16y ago
No, I believe this is only true if you provide a link from within your app. For example, as long as Amazon's Kindle app doesn't have a link to the Amazon Kindle bookstore, they don't have to support in-app purchase (and hence don't have to
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by eevilspock 16y ago
Link doesn't work. "appdevmag.com" doesn't work. Googled "site:appdevmag.com" and got zero hits. WTF?
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by eevilspock 16y ago
I don't think you understand my criticism. App publishers are paying you to pay people to download their app. How can that be the basis for quality, objective recommendations? Or let me try with a question: Explain how exactly your app help
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by eevilspock 16y ago
Yup, that's what I said in another comment. Sadly no one else here seems to care about product but only about revenue, however it is achieved.
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by eevilspock 16y ago
Great. Another idea that taps into human irrationality and weakness. Maybe Netflix should stop trying to come up with quality recommendations, and come up with a scheme like yours. The real reason to watch movies is to get paid a few bucks