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by glassx 15y ago
Varies a lot by country and by community/programming language/kind of job.
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by glassx 15y ago
That's not true at all, or not anymore after iOS 4, at least. (to be fair, lots of Androids don't need rooting at all, too) In fact, it's quite the opposite of what rooting is intended to do in the context of this article , which is puttin
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by glassx 15y ago
A local (Brazilian) phone operator made 'we only have unlocked phones' as their selling-point. Also they don't have contracts, and (at least for me) no crapware apps. Sorta gives me a bit of hope on capitalism. I stay with them on principle
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by glassx 15y ago
Yeah... Redis could probably use a subset of SQL, though, but I don't know if it would be practical.
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by glassx 15y ago
I might get some down votes for that, but I really wonder when people will realize that Google is just a company, not a religion of sorts. (same applies to everyone else btw)
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by glassx 15y ago
there's no particularly interesting ideas in it I sorta agree. I particularly would like to see operating systems implemented using JIT compilation and software isolation. Managed code running safely on the ring0 of the processor. Microso
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by glassx 15y ago
Hotmail is #1 result for me when you search for "e-mail". :-) http://f.cl.ly/items/1X081Z0a2P1E2y2J3U0Y/email.png (Gmail is still #1 for "mail" though, probably because of their URL - mail.google.com)
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by glassx 15y ago
Same here! But I remember using Altavista for a long time after switching to Google because of Babelfish (translator0 and Image Search (was it Altavista?) Today I use DuckDuckGo a lot.
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by glassx 15y ago
And it's a cool thing. I hope Apple learns their lesson too, with articles like this. My guess is that, in both cases (Honeycomb and FaceTime), it was more a problem of corporate inertia or laziness rather than evil.
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by glassx 15y ago
A second HD in place of the optical drive? I never thought it was possible. Sounds like a plan for my recording rig: the SSD plus a bigger mechanical drive.
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by glassx 15y ago
I've been hearing this for a couple years, and I even had some people mistakenly telling me they don't get a MacBook because they think it only runs Apple-approved software. I don't really think it's gonna happen. "It runs Windows" is a maj
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by glassx 15y ago
I remember vaguely... The first iMac was released in 1997, I think?, and the outcry was because they dropped not only the floppy but also parallel and serial ports. Some people called it "a toy".
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by glassx 15y ago
What I did: go to Stack Overflow, pick the most popular question of the month and search on Google. Lots of 'mirrors' will appear (probably not on the first page) and you can use your judgement.
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by glassx 15y ago
The opposite is true for me too. I've had an Enterprise Java guy telling me once that "programming and Object Orientation got lost with those simpler, easy-to-use language and frameworks", referring to Ruby and Rails. I dunno about that. Al
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by glassx 15y ago
I started with Erlang, to pick up the basics of functional style, and then tried Haskell. It was a breeze, but I alreadt had C#+LINQ and Ruby experience.
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by glassx 15y ago
If you are working on an application on the left monitor and need to access a menu item you have to mouse all the way over to the middle monitor and then back. If you're using it more than 10 times a day you shoud make a custom keyboard s
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by glassx 15y ago
That's what I've heard too. Also, according to this article, 70% of the laptops run OS X and 30% run Ubuntu. Most desktops are Linux, though. http://digitizor.com/2011/07/12/google-android-linux-dream/ and http://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by glassx 15y ago
Twitter, Tweetbot, tumblr, Instagram, Skype and Wunderlist (my most used apps) all get away with the 5 icons on the bottom. They mostly contain 4 main options, plus another screen with configuration and advanced options. Tweetbot's fourth b
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by glassx 15y ago
It's a great idea. Having the OS run on a ROM directly would make things easier... For me, the worst part of writing an OS to x86 is that you have to start with a bootloader, a primitive filesystem, change CPU modes... all that before you g
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by glassx 15y ago
I think we should take it as "You'll still have plenty of stuff to learn even after 30 years, just like today." Which is encouraging if you're a learning-addict like me :) By the way, I completely agree with him. After years of Eclipse or V
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by glassx 15y ago
Actually, words like 'bitch' and 'ho' ('whore') are very common gender slurs among some groups, unlike 'bastard' or 'asshole', so it's hard to find a 'reverse' situation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitch_(insult)#Hip_hop_culture
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by glassx 15y ago
I don't know about FSW, but there are some Googlers working with OStatus. And Google created PubSubHubbub, which is one of the core parts of the specification. Btw, omg, I just checked and Google+ is already sorta-compatible with OStatus in
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by glassx 15y ago
If you just want to practice programming, a Blog is a great idea, as invertedlambda suggested! You can also try cloning sites you like, such as Twitter, Facebook, Hacker News. Or maybe a text-mode game. Anything that you might think is cool
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by glassx 15y ago
There's one right here: http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
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by glassx 15y ago
"If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with"
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by glassx 15y ago
Wow, I just accessed the site to check for myself and in two featured bands, Morcheeba and Death Cab for Cutie, the latest comments from fans are, respectively, from 4 and 2 months ago. Surprisingly the layout is actually pretty good now. A
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by glassx 15y ago
A personal example. Just when I started college, was trying to write a 3D game in C++ (I was young, so yeah, I thought it was just C with classes, LOL). Since I had no idea about design patterns, so I made a singleton called "Rendering Mana
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by glassx 15y ago
YMMV, but the way I prefer doing it is by telling the settings explicitly to the different classes, instead of having all those classes rely on getting it by themselves from the singleton (this is where the problem lies). You can pass the s
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by glassx 15y ago
A quite good answer, from Wikipedia: "a design pattern [that restricts] the instantiation of a class to one object"
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by glassx 15y ago
What's wrong with having a 5% market share? Safari is good, and so is Opera. Both are great when it comes to compliance to standards (Somebody correct me if I'm mistaken), and are pushing the envelope as much as the three big players. Also,

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