gridaphobe

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by gridaphobe 14y ago
> He noted that during a time of growing litigation in the smartphone industry, "innovation continues at an absolutely breakneck pace. In a system like ours in which innovation is happening faster than people can keep up, it cannot be s
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
Money in politics is certainly an issue, but I think it pales in comparison to our lack of proportional representation in Congress. Many communities are now distributed across the country, which can effectively deprive them of representati
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
> You say that like its a bad thing. If humans like to categorize, why shouldn't our programming languages be designed around this tendency? I've always had the impression that we (at least as programmers) are incredibly bad at categori
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
> I'm not saying everything needs to be a class, they're a nice tool to have in your toolbox. Use when needed. That's exactly what he said.
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
Ahh, a quick bit of googling does seem to suggest that LTE should provide lower latency than HSPA. That certainly is a benefit, much more so IMHO than the bandwidth numbers we see carriers boasting about!
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
As an iPhone user (4S) that all sounds pretty standard! On a more serious note, I don't understand all the fuss about LTE. IIRC it's something like 20Mbps in practice, which is faster than most Internet connections in the US. What is the us
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
Heh I'd be very hesitant to visit iphone4settlement.com had I not just read the article. Something about that screams malware to me.. But I guess Apple probably knew that when they bought the domain.
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
I'm really tired of people calling Apple an innovative company. Apple is a company that polishes existing ideas to a point beyond most other companies, and they are damn good at this. Apple is also routinely rewarded for their skills by bei
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
Perhaps this is just luck on my part, but I don't think I've ever had a "Sign-in with Twitter" app spam un-authorized tweets on my behalf.
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
I've been using Rdio for a while now and really like it. I think Spotify's library is a bit larger but, like you, I hate being forced to sign up via Facebook.
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
I generally assume that all marketing, regardless of who produced it, is a lie.
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
Apple and the patent system are equally at fault in my opinion. The patent system for creating the circumstances that allowed this lawsuit and others, and Apple (and Samsung, Motorola, etc.) for filing the actual patents and lawsuits. Tech
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
The problem with your argument is that jury nullification is designed to prevent unjust punishment. In this case the jury appears to have deliberately increased Samsung's punishment.
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
The best possible outcome IMO would be for Facebook to back Zynga and have EA and Zynga/Facebook sue each other into oblivion :D
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
My impression was that he wasn't actually a member of Mensa. That was his lie, but he didn't try to cover it up.
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
As is usually the case, both extremes are wrong, or rather half-right. People are fat because they lack self-control AND corporations are lining up to take advantage of said lack. I see no abdication of individual responsibility in creating
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
I believe the idea is that future grants would stipulate that some percentage of the grant be used to cover publishing costs, whereas current grants include some money for subscribing to journals. That way the publishers are still guarantee
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
The Writer Monad probably isn't too useful in any impure language, and IMO was a poor choice by the author. If you read the last few paragraphs though, you're introduced to the List Monad (the bit about HTML nodes), which is useful in imp
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
A simple solution would be to exchange employer-provided benefits for government-provided benefits :-/
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
Agreed, I've found jogging to be particularly good at clearing my mind. I like going to the gym in the afternoon for that reason: I can work for a while, and then take a break to jog when I inevitably get frustrated by something :)
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
This a thousand times, and while we're at it please include tax in the advertised price. Growing up in Germany and the US, I find the US system incredibly deceptive and annoying..
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by gridaphobe 14y ago
I have to say I'm disappointed by this decision. I bought Sparrow a few months ago based on the understanding that Push would be coming in a future update. I don't believe they specifically said it would be free, but since devs cannot charg
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by gridaphobe 15y ago
> Vim is verb-first and emacs is noun first :D I'm not sure I agree with this comment. I think vim and emacs are both verb-first, but they operate on different nouns. Vim focuses on manipulating text, whereas emacs focuses on manipulati
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by gridaphobe 15y ago
Copmuter Science is a very broad topic, so I wouldn't be too worried. I'm taking a Graphics course this semester, and I can't stand it. That doesn't bother me though because I'm learning two important things from it: (1) a bit about how com