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by jcl 17y ago
In which case, your request becomes "Can we stop the language bashing, unless you really know how bad the language is?" Which, of course, is useless. You might as well write an article asking people to stop writing uninformed articles.
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by jcl 17y ago
Every language, including the most vile but still Turing complete abomination (I'm looking at you, mumps) has something that we can all learn from and something that is worth singling out for admiration. The article might be more convinci
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by jcl 17y ago
Motorola did in fact pay Lucas to use the word. I don't think that necessarily means Lucas had a valid case against them, though; I think companies sometimes seek more clearance than they need in order to mitigate risk. http://www.cnn.com
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by jcl 17y ago
I'm curious: What exactly are you expecting to be able to do with multitasking that Android doesn't already do?
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by jcl 17y ago
You mean, to offer movies for rent earlier than Netflix? Isn't that what RedBox is doing?
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by jcl 17y ago
I doubt portable games would affect OpenGL's use on the desktop directly. Games on the major consoles are typically not ported to portables and vice versa, so the two markets will remain segregated. And while console games are frequently
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by jcl 17y ago
While I agree that we are better off without software patents, copyright does not fill the same role. Copyright protects against direct duplication of a work, while patents protect against a range of possible implementations. For example,
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by jcl 17y ago
Heh... It was pretty obvious what would happen, well before 1994. From a 1991 Bill Gates memo: If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would
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by jcl 17y ago
Agreed. SETI@home is exactly the sort of thing an engineer would run in the background on a cluster of computers. And a cluster of computers is exactly the sort of thing a guy would have if he were making millions through "investment algo
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by jcl 17y ago
The article is not complaining about jQuery. A "code smell" is something in the code that is not necessarily bad in itself, but may indicate that the code's author is inexperienced or unskilled. Such code may contain subtler errors. The a
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by jcl 17y ago
See jimmyjim's comment below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1034232
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by jcl 17y ago
They might as well have one; they sell more than just phones, and some of their phones (e.g. N900) have not yet been adopted as subsidized models by U.S. carriers.
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by jcl 17y ago
In fact, if you look at the source code in the actual article, you can see the graphical characters used to draw the board right in the Basic code listing. :)
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by jcl 17y ago
Interesting... It's fairly difficult to find male celebrity names that do not come up with "___ is an idiot".
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by jcl 17y ago
This reminds me of a page on fast and accurate geometric primitives; the code requires that you to flip the Intel FPU into a reduced precision mode to make the error easier to estimate. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/robust.pc.html
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by jcl 17y ago
For readers in the future, here's a link to the article instead of the whole blog: http://www.dabeaz.com/blog/2010/01/python-gil-visualized.htm...
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by jcl 17y ago
Me too. And as Tim might hope, Ada seems to be more popular among safety-critical software implementers. However, Ada also seems to run a bit slower in practice than C -- which is odd, considering that you are handing the compiler more in
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by jcl 17y ago
Note that "Lists" is the first link at the bottom of the page.
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by jcl 17y ago
The best link between OLPC and netbooks that I've found is Asus's CEO admitting that he was inspired by OLPC when they created the Eee PC: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=728044
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by jcl 17y ago
...which is amusing in the context of the recent media buzz about Apple creating a tablet computer that doesn't even have a wheel . :)
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by jcl 17y ago
...On further consideration, I can't think of any prominent airline terrorists of recent years who have not spoken English. The shoe bomber and the liquid bomb plot were British, and the 9/11 guys trained at flight schools in the U.S. mi
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by jcl 17y ago
Never mind that the passenger in question attended University College London: He speaks English. And if acting nervous on a plane is reason enough to move a person to the back of the plane to conduct a full-body search... well, let's just s
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by jcl 17y ago
From the numbers, we can conclude that Zed is at least somewhat awesome: http://top.searchyc.com/domains_by_average_points
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by jcl 17y ago
If the picture is indeed not faked, a bear would make more sense; to my understanding, wolves generally avoid humans and are not curious in the way a bear cub might be. It's a better fit for the color and fluffiness, too.
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by jcl 17y ago
Article makes itself pointless in last paragraph: "Unlikely? Yes. But if it happens, buy AAPL."
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by jcl 17y ago
I think the biggest issue is that it makes it hard for programming environments to pick the right syntax coloring. There may also be problems selecting the MIME type when serving the file. So if you have to use a conflicting file extension
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by jcl 17y ago
Heh... Might want to choose a file extension other than ".cs".
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by jcl 17y ago
Presumably the choice of the word "safe" (and perhaps "clasp") was to make the solution hard to search for. Traditionally, the word "chest" is used. http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=chest+lock+key...
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by jcl 17y ago
The big question: Is this bigger or smaller than the Settlers of Catan boom? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=944858
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by jcl 17y ago
However, the XO 1.75 proposed later in the article sounds well within reach -- an incremental improvement to something that already exists.

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