heja2009

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by heja2009 13y ago
To clarify: I have no problem donating to fight for civil rights in the US. I know they affect me and there is not much else I can do as a European to change US policy. I do have a problem though with framing the debate as "privacy for
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by heja2009 13y ago
Only the American people?
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by heja2009 13y ago
Fully agree on QNX: very elegant OS, unique concepts like "syscalls" via synchronous (!) messaging, real-time from the bottom up. We used it for a robot we build in the 90s. Everything from the low-level control to the image proce
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by heja2009 13y ago
I find it really depressing that this discussion immediately degrades into Apple vs Google, people feel a need to state that they are or have been a "fan" of Google before giving their statement and similar. If we want to really discuss abo
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by heja2009 14y ago
I'd argue it is worse that almost all languages can not be used to name things. A pain that many computer users in non-English speaking countries feel regularly. As a German I set all my devices to US English for this reason -although this
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by heja2009 14y ago
Yep, my first own computer was an Atari ST plus 20MB hard disk (probably the same setup as described in the article). IIRC it was 1800 DM for the computer and the disk each, i.e. ˜1800 Euro total in todays money or ˜3600 Euro total when adj
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by heja2009 14y ago
Not 100% sure what you mean, but wasn't Java ME a portable solution, a platform geared towards app execution and development? And in a limited sense it even succeeded... Not sure I want a 2nd iteration though.
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by heja2009 14y ago
However, an unconstrained goto in C can be realized via the setjmp() longjump() library functions.
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by heja2009 14y ago
The BSI is in the German media fairly regularly with advice about private and commercial information security and has a good reputation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Office_for_Information_...
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by heja2009 14y ago
I really like your proposal and as you said, it is perfectly in line with creative ethics. However it would not work for the part of innovation that is further away from end-products and their appearance. Sometimes it is worth a lot to prod
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by heja2009 14y ago
While I would consider Newtionian physics to be much more fundamental, I would challenge the notion that it had the most impact. Compare the ~1900 feeling that almost everything had already been invended. Newtonian physics impact to technol