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by grogers 16y ago
That's the application, the actual granted patent seems to be: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec... (note that the date is May 11, 2010 - last week)
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by grogers 16y ago
The common theme in almost all of these are: 1) implicit integer promotion causes hard to find errors 2) operator precedence is non-intuitive (just use parens anyways!)
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by grogers 17y ago
I've been using this for a little while and have been really liking it. I wish there was an option to make it so you would have to manually switch to insert mode, I hate having it automatically switch and find myself doing the wrong thing -
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by grogers 17y ago
Insert basically passes keystrokes through directly without having them perform their special function - for example when you are typing into a text area. Its basically like switching from normal mode to insert mode in vi.
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by grogers 17y ago
Claims typically start out broad, and then refine further to get at the core of what exactly it is they are patenting. Since many patents are extensions or improvements on existing things this seems to be a common theme in the patents I've
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by grogers 17y ago
haha, there is a banner ad: "Tired of scrolling?"
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by grogers 17y ago
If an abstraction requires extra typing, then it isn't really abstracting anything is it? Ie. you wouldn't use it if it wasn't going to benefit you.
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by grogers 17y ago
Another issue is that USB ports have a pretty small power limit - 2.5 Watts, so using it as a charger is going to take significantly longer than what you plug into the wall...
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by grogers 17y ago
"If you change the password for one copy of the game, you will then be locked out of all copies of the game, until you re-enter the new password for each of them on startup." I don't understand this. You do not need to be connected to the i
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by grogers 17y ago
You can always use the mobile version which IS a separate webpage that you type the domain and your password into and it generates your password (which you copy paste). http://supergenpass.com/mobile/ Although this still requires that you
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by grogers 17y ago
I wonder what percentage of queries is 42?
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by grogers 17y ago
Not exactly a law, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment If your laptop battery suddenly started dropping towards zero charge when it was plugged in, you wouldn't be at all concerned? What if you needed it at f
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by grogers 17y ago
The way I see it is that the code to test if a GUI element is properly formed is basically the same code that would just properly form the element in the first place. So by automatically testing the GUI you are basically just repeating your
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by grogers 17y ago
Its nice to see that subversion as a project is still evolving, but I will continue to use git-svn as my subversion client anyways most likely. They haven't really mentioned exactly what will be supported by these changes, but it seems to m
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by grogers 17y ago
Except that in subversion, branching is a great way to lose revision history. I think this is partly fixed with the merge tracking features in the more recent subversion, but in git it is simple - it just works like you'd expect.
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by grogers 17y ago
While video may be a small aspect of what flash provides, it is likely the overwhelming majority of what flash is actually used for. He's right that even if flash video was obsoleted, it wouldn't die completely because it does have other le
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by grogers 17y ago
Or you can use boost::unordered_set right now, in any compiler, whether it supports tr1 or not.
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by grogers 17y ago
Note that his example is about a processor that can only execute one thread at a time, switching on a cache miss. This is not SMT. The main problem is if the working set size of the single threaded code fits just in cache, but the combined
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by grogers 17y ago
Even with no cache misses, SMT can still be a win, since it can increase instruction level parallelism - a single thread can may not have enough instructions being able to execute in parallel to completely fill the pipeline. But with SMT, m
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by grogers 17y ago
Not true. T-Mobile is one of the only carriers (at least in the US) that offers month-to-month service. If you don't like them then you can just switch to a different carrier and pay no penalties other than what you've already paid for that
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by grogers 17y ago
Maybe, but have they yet? Until the concept becomes massively popular, there is still a business opportunity. Keep in mind also, that it only matters that the end users get more money from their bandwidth than it costs them to buy it from t
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by grogers 17y ago
Realistically wireless coverage inside your house will be spotty for a long time to come. And you will may never get service in your basement. I'm looking for femtocells to provide service in these situations.
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by grogers 17y ago
While your cell phone battery might be weak, why do you think that your wireless network doesn't have battery backups on all critical infrastructure? Uptime is just as big of a deal for wireless networks as it is for wired networks.
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by grogers 17y ago
The point is that with the named_table option, you don't need the tid of the table to access it, you can just use the name. Which makes it a global entry point. It doesn't matter if it requires messages to make it happen, it is still an imp
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by grogers 17y ago
Its because its so simple that it causes the surprising behavior. But it is only surprising the first time. After that you realize that everything between two underscores means highlight that section of text. If you actually wanted the unde
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by grogers 17y ago
Anyone who has been bitten by that one a couple times will just do the sane thing and escape the underscores or use backtick code tags around the words you need to have underscores in. It would only be _obviously_ wrong if it didn't even le
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by grogers 17y ago
I understand that continuous deployment could be very beneficial, but how do you change a customer from using US Army type deployment to accepting continuous deployment? What if you need to satisfy multiple different customers, all with the
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by grogers 17y ago
I've never really heard anyone define OOP past "I'd know it when I see it". At least this article explicitly picks polymorphism as a language feature that defines whether it is OO or not. But basically every modern language has polymorphism
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by grogers 17y ago
What gui is that on the videos that shows the supervisor tree?
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by grogers 17y ago
I'm a little upset that there aren't little scroll bar colons separating the hours/minutes/seconds.

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