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by hexagonc 15y ago
Not bad but I would have liked to have seen a formal grammar for the syntax structure, especially since it is so different from Java, C# and C++ which most developers are familiar with. It was especially difficult to understand the syntax
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by hexagonc 15y ago
The problem is that we already have previous measurements of the speed of light (in a vacuum) to high precision and they have all been roughly the same. Now I haven't read the paper but the surprise of this latest experiment is that they a
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by hexagonc 15y ago
Yeah, I read a few comments on that thread and was immediately reminded why I prefer Hacker News to most other tech news sites.
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by hexagonc 15y ago
You're only looking the smallest of expenses. It also depends on how far along you already are with the company. For any non-trivial idea that you're trying to implement from scratch, (especially if you're doing all the work yourself) you
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by hexagonc 15y ago
Was your relative asking for a percentage stake in the company or a percentage of the profits? In either case, what I would tell him is that his percentage will be in rough proportion to his overall contribution to the project. Lots of id
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by hexagonc 15y ago
Resistance is futile. (Come on, somebody had to say it.)
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by hexagonc 15y ago
Seems pretty well reasoned to me.
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by hexagonc 15y ago
I was hooked on the section covering Berkeley DB design and will be recommending this to pretty much all the developer friends I know. I even put up with registering on Lulu to pay for the PDF version. I am so sick of registering for thin
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by hexagonc 15y ago
I don't see why you think WP7 is a competitor to Google but not Apple. Philosophy-wise, it is somewhere between the iOS and Android platforms. More locked down than Android, less locked down than iOS. Like Android, WP7 is currently distr
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by hexagonc 15y ago
I agree completely. One of the key problems with software patents is the very idea that an algorithm is deemed worthy of patent protection simply because it is not obvious to the "average practitioner" of the art. But what skills/level of