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by heresy 16y ago
If you can learn the power of compound interest at your age, you're going to retire very comfortably.
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by heresy 16y ago
Carriers or OEMs certainly don't have the users in mind when they're "adding value" by disabling features or shipping uninstallable apps. We already know how well that worked out before 2007, why would it be different this time? Also, it
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by heresy 16y ago
If it's anything like here, any one engineer's task list is essentially a weighted list of fires to put out and technical debt to pay down, in addition to the features to be delivered next day / week. Guess more extensive monitoring just go
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by heresy 16y ago
Good thing it isn't really up to them.
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by heresy 16y ago
I'm sure in the US this is probably legally possible, but can you clarify why/how one can patent an API? An API in and of itself is nothing, it seems ridiculous to me that it can be afforded any legal protections. I don't see how an API is
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by heresy 16y ago
The response to Android in markets where the iPhone isn't carrier hobbled like with AT&T is lukewarm, to say the least.
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by heresy 16y ago
The rock star accountants are all in jail.
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by heresy 16y ago
I've often wondered what the result would be if budgets were determined by something like that. Just the line items of potential things to spend money on, and citizens indicating their preferences, without any emotive rhetoric to color thei
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by heresy 16y ago
It's not the language, it's what you do with it. Everything else is just hot air.
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by heresy 16y ago
Cheers, not sure why I thought Direct2D was supported on XP. Deleted my comment for being factually incorrect.
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by heresy 16y ago
I think the story of "forking" system packages for local use needs improvement. And for all Debian's adherence to standards, it's unfortunate that one couldn't be agreed upon for source packages, 'apt-get source' is a mixed bag. This makes
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by heresy 16y ago
I'd rather they return the youth during which I was a Debian maintainer.
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by heresy 16y ago
It's clear we disagree. The author put something out there under a free license, Debian benefits by including it in the distribution. There is no onus on the author whatsoever. People bitch because it's always Debian from which these proble
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by heresy 16y ago
Debian doesn't really work too well when you need multiple or new versions of software, or need something custom. It's either spend a week wrapping your head around all the different ways of getting something to spit out a conforming .deb,
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by heresy 16y ago
Why should the author report a bug when it's the incompetence of the Debian maintainer? The 'gem' command not working after installing the 'rubygems' package does seem like a bit of a bug, to put it mildly, you'd think a cursory test by the
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by heresy 16y ago
I hardly know any grammatical rules, but I don't make very many grammar or spelling mistakes in communication forms where correctness is desirable (customer emails, letters, articles, blog posts). Why? Reading heavily from age 5 to 18, mean
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by heresy 16y ago
I've put off reading Tintin again, I liked it way too much as a kid. I don't want to discover Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus suck :P
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by heresy 16y ago
- Be more open to learning from, working with and using OSS software that was not written inside Redmond campus. I'm sure most of these projects would love to treat Windows as a first-class target platform. It's just not possible that Micro
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by heresy 16y ago
I don't buy this argument, I think Microsoft's development structures are the cause of their slow release cycle, and "enterprise customers" is a convenient excuse for the slowness. Enterprises happy to go along with this argument, so they c
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by heresy 16y ago
For now.
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by heresy 16y ago
How would "ballers" show how much money they have then?
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by heresy 16y ago
Epitome of a hacker.
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by heresy 16y ago
Not quite correct, the paywall is coming in 2011, which will likely kill NYT as a source of news for me. But for now, a free account still gives you access to the content.
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by heresy 16y ago
Here we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prandtl-Glauert_Singularity
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by heresy 16y ago
US Android developers can sell apps to NZ users. NZ Android developers cannot sell apps to any users. Still targeting iOS, thanks.
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by heresy 16y ago
I imagine they're sent over top-quality Denon cables too, your packets never felt so good.
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by heresy 16y ago
My 3 year old MacBook Pro with an SSD runs circles around my girlfriend's 2 month old version with a 7200 RPM drive. Ditch the 7200RPM, get an SSD. It is that big a difference.
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by heresy 16y ago
If it's what he wants to do, and his parents aren't pressuring him to do it, where's the problem? Worked for Terence Tao.
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by heresy 16y ago
Why are all the fonts on that page rendered so badly? It's artifacts all the way down. (Chrome 7 on Windows 7)
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by heresy 16y ago
If you need any of * MKV support * 1080p support * Subtitles (.sub/.idx/.srt) * Remote control XBMC on a Gen 1 Apple TV with a Crystal HD card is pretty simple to get going, and has decent performance. I've tried: * Gen 1 XBox running XBMC

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