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by icefox 14y ago
It is funny how much effort google is putting into their maps and yet their interface to the maps (maps.google.com) could still use basic improvements like how 99 out of 100 times I want directions it is to or from my house and yet I have t
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by icefox 14y ago
The best algorithm depends upon the data presented. What is the: - Average number of parameters - The % that are already sorted - The % that don't have keys that start with same letter
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by icefox 14y ago
Any more detailed information about the coding challenge? For example the repo references a 5Murls.txt file, but it isn't part of the repo and the blog says it needs to "output in a standardized format:", but doesn't specify what "standardi
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by icefox 14y ago
So you can get that same feature (smaller size) for cheaper elsewhere? If so than it is ridiculous, but if not than it is only overpriced if people are not willing to pay for it. As with all startups, to get customers start by solving an
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by icefox 14y ago
How do you explain the rise of Objective C using that same logic? Will ObjectiveC go the wayside and be replaced by web browsers? I would rather make the argument that Qt will rise and fall on the platforms it works on. In the past this
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by icefox 14y ago
Agreed, but for the example the object only needs to live in one list (as shown by the fact that it could have been a C struct that contained the next/prev pointers) so passing iterator would have been sufficient and would have solved the O
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by icefox 14y ago
Your url is missing a 't'
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by icefox 14y ago
And of course there is a Qt for native client project: http://qt-project.org/wiki/Qt_for_Google_Native_Client
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by icefox 14y ago
100% agree. It almost feels insulting to say that C++ programmer will only use std::list and a C programmer will only use a hand made doubly linked list. This almost feels like an interview question: > Which is faster and uses less m
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by icefox 14y ago
Sounds like a perfect first thing that should be on their website.
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by icefox 14y ago
:( I am so used to seeing toy things like this in html/js that it is a bit sad to see a flash plugin is required.
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by icefox 14y ago
In Chrome and Safari I can't get past the instruction screen :(
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by icefox 14y ago
Way over thinking it here, there will be _someone_ that sticks a (hopefully mounted) video camera in front of the screen and hit record.
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by icefox 14y ago
One of the most compelling feature of using GitHub for private repositories is developers already know how to use it, already have accounts etc. GitHub has a nice growing moat in that regard.
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by icefox 14y ago
A git server frontend is really about three things (I would say in this order) 1 Providing permissions to access the repository 2 Providing a visual way to browse the source code and link to the source code (sha X, file Y, line Z) 3 Slap fe
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by icefox 14y ago
If you provide something that GitHub doesn't have it will make for a much more compelling sell. Currently GitHub doesn't give you fine grain access controls, this is something you could capitalize on and provide for clients. Something they
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by icefox 14y ago
How about having a part time service where you accept mailed in HD's and upload their contents. Edit: assuming you can do that under the UA
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by icefox 14y ago
Well O'reilly recently did put out "Making Software What Really Works, and Why We Believe It" http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596808303.do which is a collection of essays backed by not lore, but actual scientific studies about softwar
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by icefox 14y ago
An email client that doesn't have search in 2012 is not an email client.
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by icefox 14y ago
The last half a decade I would say users are not as much driven by office applications, but by network applications, specifically the browser and email
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by icefox 14y ago
In a way the article yells out trouble for Microsoft and friends. If their customers hardware from the last five years is "good enough" they wont go looking for an upgrade. (They will go looking for a _new_ toy with the ipad though). If
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by icefox 14y ago
I also have a sheeva plug as my server, but if i did it over I would choose to grab an mac mini. My big jump to the sheeva was the power usage, but then I found out the mini only uses 12W! Along with the 12W you get a x86, with hd, cd dr
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by icefox 14y ago
"In a corporate environment, I don't want to wait around for 3.5-4 hours before my data even becomes available for restore in a disaster recovery situation." I am guessing you work in a company with a good IT department then, I am guessing
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by icefox 14y ago
At least for me the vague threads of legal action during the aim time where not very vague, but trademark infringement for naming my application Kaim. Unlike the Gaim guys I simply switched my application name Kinkatta (Kinkatta is not Kai
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by icefox 14y ago
At first I thought it was just a marketing page to see if there is interest, but on the spec sheet it says "Order now from Codethink for September delivery", but again, no price
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by icefox 14y ago
"Facebook is, presumably, many separate components that don't depend on each other in any way" Based upon the public statements about their build system and their revision control system and pain when trying to put it in Git I would be conf
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by icefox 14y ago
I think you are forgetting what it is like to first learn how to program. For me and many of my friends the programming class was something you did so you could make games! If you finished your assignment early you didn't make yet another
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by icefox 14y ago
More useful than a pyramid, how about a solar updraft tower?
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by icefox 14y ago
Much more interesting to think about is what you can do that exploits the properties of this. The two big ones seems to be insane speed and curved surfaces. Could this be used to rapidly build bunkers or bridges in a war? How about rome
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by icefox 14y ago
125 isn't many compared to the number of employees they have already. I would expect some goodwill to appear on the next quarterly report though.

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