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by incepted 11y ago
Not a single Elm job, though, which totally contradicts the article.
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by incepted 11y ago
> Committing commented out code means you don't know how to use your version control system. Read the linked article more carefully. It's an example of how, sometimes, it's better to keep comments in the code than relying
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by incepted 11y ago
Fascinating. Do you know how they do it? I mean, in order to crack these games, they need to have the original physical floppy, don't they? Or do they have a digital version of the protected floppy with all its weird sectoring and data
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by incepted 11y ago
This is spot on, that's exactly how I remember the scene back then. "Beneath Apple DOS" (and later ProDOS) were the cracker bibles back then. It's pretty much the only official documentation you could buy that described
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by incepted 11y ago
Oh, wow... now my mind is blown for real. May I ask how you know that? Does this mean that the person actually cracked this game recently just to post such a write up?
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by incepted 11y ago
I'm both impressed and terrified that most of this article makes sense to me, even thirty years later. It feels like writing the protection must have taken longer than developing the game itself. If you're curious, here is the act
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by incepted 11y ago
All companies doing business in a country have to abide by the laws of that country. What's the big deal? If anything, I'm surprised to learn it wasn't already the case.
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by incepted 11y ago
I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't know parser combinators tell you the snippet above is readable. First of all, what language is this? Well, I know, but you seem to forget that the parser combinator syntax
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by incepted 11y ago
> More verbose but so much more readable First of all, "more readable" is extremely subjective. Second, there are a lot of different parser combinators, all with very different syntaxes. Finally, parser combinators are readabl
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by incepted 11y ago
> A regexp is almost always the wrong solution. That's quite a sweeping statement. Sure, complex regexps can be hard to read but state machines are just hard to read for humans in general, whatever the form. What do you recommend fo
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by incepted 11y ago
> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. jwz's wit was a lot of fun in the early 2000s but that quote is too often used wrong. This quote
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by incepted 11y ago
It's a bit naïve to think all it takes is one engineer. First of all, you probably need at least more than one to keep you honest. Then a designer. Then probably at least a PM. When comes the time to ship, you need to involve release e
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by incepted 11y ago
Can't really blame Twitter for estimating that the minuscule Mac OS market is not worth wasting their engineers on. Better outsource and get your own engineers to work on core business stuff.
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by incepted 11y ago
We already have something better than both Java and Go and it runs flawlessly on Android: Kotlin.
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by incepted 11y ago
This is a commit to the Android code base, what does this have to do with HotSpot, WebAssembly or even the JVM?
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by incepted 11y ago
Whenever I read a Modula 2 source, I get the feeling the programmer is yelling at me.
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by incepted 11y ago
No, I'm disbelieving the claim that it's broken. Same thing that saying you don't believe in god does not mean you believe there is no god. In both cases, I'm just saying not enough evidence has been brought to support t
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by incepted 11y ago
Not a problem as long as they are practicing entities. This is still the spirit of the law.
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by incepted 11y ago
I never made that claim, reread what I wrote.
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by incepted 11y ago
> False, you're claiming we're this innovative because of patents I never made that claim. All I said is that the US is the most innovative country in terms of software. That's my claim and it's fact. People who say t
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by incepted 11y ago
You're missing my point. I'm not talking about filing a patent but acquiring an existing one. You should only be allowed to acquire an existing patent if you acquire the company that owns it.
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by incepted 11y ago
I offered a solution (patents can only be acquired if you acquire the company that owns them). I'm sure there are others.
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by incepted 11y ago
> That doesn't prove your idea correct; it's likely the case we're innovative despite patents No. My claim is simply: "The US is the most innovative country in the world in terms of software, and has been for the past
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by incepted 11y ago
> Let's put your idea to the test. My idea has already been put to the test and proven correct: the US is the most innovative country in the software area. And has been for decades. The scenario you are proposing is unrealistic
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by incepted 11y ago
You're making a tough claim here. You're not just saying that the system can be improved (which is kind of self evident and applicable to pretty much everything) but you're saying that software patents are holding back innova
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by incepted 11y ago
> Bah, the patent system as a whole is broken anyway. There are very few patents whose absence would have slowed down innovation. On the contrary, the presence of patents tend to slow down innovation. There is very little evidence of tha
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by incepted 11y ago
How about maintaining software patents (which have merits) but making it so the only way to acquire a patent is to acquire the company that owns it? This would completely kill the patent troll business while adding value to startups that fi
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Kotlin 1.0-beta 4 is out(blog.jetbrains.com)
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by incepted 11y ago
The Dart authors are geniuses but even they can't violate the laws of physics. Dart is between two and five times slower than Java, as of six months ago [1]. It's not clear whether Dart can close that gap since Java is not standin
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by incepted 11y ago
Dart's optional typing and performance makes it a non starter as a replacement for Java. Make no mistake: if Java is ever replaced as the main language on Android, it will be by a language that's at least as fast (which kind of im

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