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by jcl 16y ago
As well as being an outstanding developer platform, it's a really nice everyday phone; IIRC, previous developer phones were not allowed to download/run paid Market applications, to reduce piracy. Is that also the case for this phone? If
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by jcl 16y ago
I think the unhedged call is a better metaphor. The stuff you gain by writing sloppy code is not sales but saved development time. The potential downside is the development time spent debugging or updating the system. The lost development
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by jcl 16y ago
Actually, they proposed to make a $10 laptop, and the device in the article appears to be the result of that effort. Here's an article from four years ago covering the proposal: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2019126.cms
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by jcl 16y ago
It raises a valid issue though: The article's author is operating under the assumption that any replacement language must be totally interoperable with C -- both calling and being called. If you have some crazy stack-reassignment logic in
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by jcl 16y ago
You might be thinking of an article that was on HN several months ago -- "The Benefit Of Being Naked": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1244308
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by jcl 16y ago
Heh... Somewhere there's a movie exec reading this article and thinking, "Hey, with this new system, we can update the ads that we force them to watch at the beginning of DVDs!"
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Braid was not part of the Humble Indie sale.
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How would the Humble Indy Bundle sale have fared had they done things differently? This study suggests that it was wise of the Indy guys to give part of the purchase price to charity, as it encourages people to pay more on average. However
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Are there any states with laws in place to explicitly protect citizens from this kind of abuse?
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Your solution will run a lot faster if you change one line (allowing hashed membership tests): subset = set(word for word in valid if len(word)==n) ...although at that point there's not much benefit in filtering on word length.
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by jcl 16y ago
(FYI: HN's forum software is open-source: http://arclanguage.org/ )
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by jcl 16y ago
That visualization is unhelpful, but at least it isn't grossly misleading, like the graphic corrected in this post: http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/three-decades-of-maj...
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by jcl 16y ago
According to the following article, not only is Minnesota one of the eight states with such laws, but it was actually the first: http://www.orinlaney.com/ipguideweb.html#legislative
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by jcl 16y ago
As a side note, I'm surprised that that site's FAQ appears to be advocating computer use on the treadmill but makes no mention of static discharge. In the winter, our treadmill becomes a giant Van de Graaff generator, unpleasant to use if
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by jcl 16y ago
(FYI, you can edit/delete comments if it has been less than two hours since you first posted them. Look for the edit and delete links on the right side of the comment's header line.)
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by jcl 16y ago
Fun exercise: paste in excerpts from famous authors. I gave it Faulkner and it said he writes like Joyce. Hemingway writes like Shakespeare who writes like Dickens. Lovecraft writes like Poe who writes like Nabokov. (It correctly identi
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by jcl 16y ago
Some prior articles: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383376 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060019 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1460852 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447428
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by jcl 16y ago
I suppose 46 could also be someone looking for (e.g.) a cell-phone tracking service for parents.
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by jcl 16y ago
Reminds me of the Sandbenders computer from William Gibson's "Idoru": ...he used to tear up her hardware, the designer's, and put the real parts into cases he'd make in his shop. Say he'd make a solid bronze case for a minidisk unit, ebon
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by jcl 16y ago
However, there's a difference between style (different process) and impediment (broken process). The giant, flashing warning sign that the hotel is ignoring: "Ah, sorry. We get that question every time."
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Century-old Color Photography of Prokudin-gorsky(quazen.com)
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by jcl 16y ago
On the other hand, searchyc.com seems to have a copy of everything on HN. And I believe jacquesm has siphoned off much of the database for his personal offline analysis. And, of course, Google and other engines download, cache, and index
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by jcl 16y ago
To GTA IV's credit, if you click the right options when starting the game, you can play a single-player, local game without setting up a Rockstar Social Club or Windows Live account. They still present the login each time you run it, thoug
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by jcl 16y ago
Well, he acknowledges that you can do native code, but then he argues that native code is actually bad because the marketplace isn't screened, so people can easily post malware that relies on native code exploits. His unspoken assumption is
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by jcl 16y ago
I guess with a two letter domain name, they're probably not a fly-by-night scammer, but this would sure be a great way to get a list of names to grab for ransom.
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A slightly misleading headline... My first impression was, "Changing from 'ITA' to 'Hot Ticket' is a good move."
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Using new features of TeX π, Knuth has inserted interrobangs along critical fault lines, and he intends to offset the entire West Coast, widening rivers and reflowing the Pacific; the Bay Area will be left flushed and right ragged, creating
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by jcl 16y ago
FWIW, Doctorow attributes the entire quoted paragraph to "Jeff", who apparently runs the microsofttaxdodge.com blog; Jeff has incentive to think Microsoft is behind Gates Sr.'s tax proposal, as it helps his site's argument.
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Some of the drawings make me wonder if the kids were coached towards a specific message... http://ed.fnal.gov/projects/scientists/david.html
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The Android Market has a list of content that is not allowed, including an ambiguous "any material not suitable for persons under 18". And since applications are not individually screened for content, we will see a number of them revoked v

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