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The Boss in Leeds (or why politicians love industrialists)
(thejaywalker.net)
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13y ago
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Agile Development leads to Alzheimer's (not really)
(swreflections.blogspot.com)
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13y ago
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Are you anxious?
(thejaywalker.net)
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14y ago
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jaywalker
14y ago
Google is a company which is not short-sighted at all. I recently shared a story about Google's chairman's mysterious visit to Pakistan: http://www.thejaywalker.net/2012/06/googles-ceos-mystery-vis...
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jaywalker
14y ago
I'm interested in knowing others viewpoint on this!
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Google's CEO's Mystery Visit to Pakistan
(thejaywalker.net)
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14y ago
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So, what's money, anyways?
(thejaywalker.net)
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14y ago
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jaywalker
16y ago
I doubt this is OK by Japanese standards. Did anyone commit suicide?
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16y ago
Best comment: I never anticipated this day would ever come....
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China rises, and Checkmates (continuation to "Chinese mothers" debate)
(nytimes.com)
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16y ago
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jaywalker
16y ago
Isn't it the cost of having direct access to the memory? Can you name another language where you can control so many aspects of the system, and still remain "clean"?
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jaywalker
16y ago
What?!! VB6 is still alive?!!
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jaywalker
16y ago
which are?
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Least Known C++ Keywords
(thejaywalker.net)
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16y ago
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jaywalker
16y ago
Well, I guess I should have waited for this discussion to reach a conclusion :) I read in Advanced Linux Programming (the famous ALP book) that fork() as well as creating threads via pthread library use clone() in the background. Any ways,
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jaywalker
16y ago
thanks for correcting me on fork(); not sure what I was thinking when I wrote that statement :)
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If everything in Unix development is POSIX, what the hell does C library do?
(thejaywalker.net)
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16y ago
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jaywalker
16y ago
perhaps he has a very different keyboard?
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jaywalker
16y ago
Even Mac is like a PC, then!
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16y ago
Here is what James Gosling had to say about one of the patents Oracle alleged Google infringed: Oracle finally filed a patent lawsuit against Google. Not a big surprise. During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle where we were b
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16y ago
Your views may differ. But I would take the statement "not developed by Google" as "not born at Google." I would compare that to SQL Server which wasn't born at Microsoft amongst a lot of other things. Also, the fact that Android is not Lin
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16y ago
Do you think any of the "facts" mentioned on the page are drawbacks for Android? Let's recap: forked Linux, competing with Java ME within Java eco-system and having a non-JVM virtual machine to run the programs.
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Facts about Android
(androided.me)
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16y ago
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16y ago
Yes, that's exactly why I think the "operations" concept was added. But isn't it good to provide extra sem_wait() and sem_post() for most of the rest of us who want a single increment or a decrement? I have yet to find a good use of an arra
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System V Semaphores: How not to design an API
(thejaywalker.net)
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16y ago
Perhaps, "a money machine" is a better word than "hands-off investment."
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Two Energetic Electronic States from One Photon
(smarteconomy.typepad.com)
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16y ago
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jaywalker
16y ago
Only for the US
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jaywalker
16y ago
It's not just UK; there is a huge market in Singapore as well.
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jaywalker
16y ago
Great insight into the relationship between C++ MP and Haskell!
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