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by jamess 18y ago
That's nonsense. I know of no phone or device that does this, it's not like the calculations needed are exactly challenging even for your typical phone with a 200Mhz arm chip.
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by jamess 18y ago
By all means take a year off before University, but I'd highly recommend going. You'll find that lots of places won't even give you an interview if you don't have a degree, no matter how smart you are. However, here's something to think abo
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by jamess 18y ago
Nah, but now Jacob has told them they need to move the village.
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by jamess 18y ago
Trick questions, or questions with some kind of gottcha have no place in interviews, However, simple, straightforward programming exercises are essential. I've seen people who claim to have X years of industry experience who can talk a good
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by jamess 18y ago
This seems like rather a waste of user and processor time. While the Debian OpenSSL disaster is both hilarious and embarrassing, the impact on the end user is more or less non-existent. For one thing, in path attacks not on the local networ
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Ask HN: Is a distcc style plugin for professional workgroups an idea whose time has come?
4 points by jamess 18y ago|4 comments
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by jamess 18y ago
I've got one I use for demos, since my main work laptop is cluttered with stuff which I may or may not want customers to see, and since it runs XP in "look like Windows 2000 mode" or as I like to think of it "emulate the last version of Win
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by jamess 18y ago
Indeed, my experience of SOAP seems to be data transfer overheads often totalling several hundred percent of the data transferred. This always seems to me to be wrong on principle. I don't think I've ever seen an instance of SOAP used appro
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by jamess 18y ago
Keeping a taboo when the underlying reason for it has gone away tends to be detrimental for society. I saw a wonderful documentary recently called "Born rich" (I highly recommend it, amongst other things from it I finally learned why there
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by jamess 18y ago
Yes, that's the thing. There's literally millions of people in Africa who get little or no animal protein, and they grow up just fine. The point is that study after study shows that with just a tiny portion of animal protein, they end up a
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by jamess 18y ago
Erm, hardly shocking. It has been established since at least the 80s that vitamin B12 is essential for brain development, and any number of large scale developmental studies have been carried out to that effect.There are no non-animal sourc
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by jamess 18y ago
I don't think this is true. I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone under the age of 40 (that is, approximately of breeding age) who is genuinely offended by most words that are designated taboo. Any offence that is publicly displayed
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by jamess 18y ago
For their own sake, don't let your kids be vegetarian until they're at least 16, that's the worst disservice you could ever do them. I speak as a vegetarian myself, but you've got to be pragmatic. Your kids need animal protein right up unti
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by jamess 18y ago
Ah, the cycle of incompetence. Mphasis employs too many stupid people to live. Mphasis is acquired by EDS. EDS employs too many stupid people to live. EDS is acquired by HP. HP employs too many stupid people to live, who will bail them out?
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by jamess 18y ago
Uh huh. So after a hard day killing people, they can blog about it? They're gainfully employed, if they want a damn laptop let them buy their own. On a list of people deserving of charity, soldiers come way down mine. Surely there are some
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by jamess 18y ago
Not exactly a secret, but Nokia's Remote Device Access (RDA) is insanely great. As far as I know, it's unique in the industry. It lets me test UIs on every single iteration of every target phone quickly and simply, and it means I can keep m
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by jamess 18y ago
Platforms that support open development: - Symbian (Nokia S60/Sony-Ericsson UIQ) - Windows Mobile (various flavours thereof) - Android (No real hardware yet available) - Non-Native development (J2ME et al.) The best way to get started would
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by jamess 18y ago
While I've met many of the guys who work at OpenMoko and think they're great engineers, OpenMoko just isn't any sort of serious mobile platform. They can't even claim the kind of industry support SavaJe had before they went tits up. They're
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by jamess 18y ago
From the software engineer's point of view, there can be no question that Symbian is by far the nicest platform to work on. It's got the same two decades of heritage as pretty much every other popular operating system that exists today, but
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by jamess 18y ago
Seconded. I'm still using a 15 year old buckling spring keyboard, they're robust and they have great tactile feedback. Although if I were working in open plan, I'm sure the noise would drive everyone else spare. You can get new keyboards fr
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by jamess 18y ago
No, people who you don't follow can ping you saying they've sent you a message. Your software can simply drop them on the floor if you don't care to receive messages from people who you aren't following (AKA people who aren't on your whitel
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by jamess 18y ago
What's your point? You might as well say HTTP is a method that allows strangers to get files from my server! While technically true, it doesn't say much. Yes, people can send you false pings, which is why you need to go back through the nam
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by jamess 18y ago
If you think it's a hard problem, you aren't thinking about it correctly. When you say "@foo Hi, foo!" You're sending a message to some person named foo. That's a push. If you start thinking of it as a pull, then you get in to the sort of t
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by jamess 18y ago
Does anyone else think that all this head scratching over what is the most trivial of problems is hilarious? Twitter is just another naming service. Instead of addressing someone as foo@foo.com, they're now just @foo. All that's needed to m
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by jamess 18y ago
This isn't really true for all software development. If you write a detailed design, the process for writing the software is as simple as "write what the design says you should write, then test it conforms" It's only true for the sort of so
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by jamess 18y ago
+1. Round robin DNS has worked well for me in the past,
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by jamess 18y ago
Pipe bomb in that when you hear about it you have the urge to call a bunch of men in padded jackets to safely defuse it? Yeah, I quite agree. A small hint: If you were to draw a venn diagram of the internet, the intersection of the most syn
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by jamess 18y ago
Spoken like a man who hasn't read ESR's sex tips for geeks. ESR is a weirdo, and has had more or less nothing to do with open source for more than a decade now.
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by jamess 18y ago
Not all the good ones are gone, but it's certainly getting increasingly hard to find a sensible domain name. What worked for me recently is although I couldn't find a domain name that wasn't taken, I found a good one that was registered but
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by jamess 18y ago
Top startup tip: Never take advice from someone who doesn't know the difference between "advice" and "advise."

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