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by jcl 17y ago
Of course, then Apple couldn't screen for the things that they care about but that users won't report. For example, applications that use Apple/iPhone imagery wouldn't get reported because users don't care about the dilution of Apple's bran
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by jcl 17y ago
I was more put off by the fact that I was expecting an article about programming languages but got an article about the social dynamics of the people using programming languages. This is like an article titled "How to fix Lisp" filled only
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by jcl 17y ago
This was posted here not too long ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=925847
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by jcl 17y ago
Mr. Hodgson said he wrote up his findings each year and asked the board for permission to publish the results; each year, they said no. Finally, the board relented -- according to Mr. Hodgson, on a close vote -- and the study appeared in J
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by jcl 17y ago
It seems the submitter intended to point out the blog itself, not the top article. A better title might be "xorl %eax, %eax -- A low-level security blog".
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by jcl 17y ago
...perhaps that's a prime indication you made a mistake. Or it's an indication that your competitor wants everyone else to think you made a mistake... And that they want you to make each future employment decision based not only on its go
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Hands-On Motorola Droid OpenGL ES Specs(rbgrn.net)
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by jcl 17y ago
...I do spend some time looking for errors that the Haskell type checker would tell me about immediately. But what that means, is that I have to find my type errors by thorough testing. Oh, wait a minute, I'm working with a testing tool! I
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by jcl 17y ago
You can simply modify your definition of "simplest" to be "shortest that completes in a million steps" or some such. A program that takes so long to finish that you're not sure it will return your desired value is probably not the simplest
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by jcl 17y ago
Sorry, the APL program is only 26 characters: +/1 ¯4 4 8×[2](⍳9)∘.*¯1+⍳4 And outputs: 9 73 241 561 1081 1849 2913 4321 6121
851.
by jcl 17y ago
I don't know why you're being modded down. To elaborate: You can define "simplest program", for instance, as "shortest string consisting of [0-9], plus, minus, times, parentheses, and the symbol 'n' that when evaluated as a mathematical exp
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by jcl 17y ago
It's fine writing, but upon visiting the linked article, I had no idea what it was. No indication of author or intent, or even if it was fiction or non. I was half-expecting an Asimovian plot twist revealing that the Nemesis would next ap
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by jcl 17y ago
Wikipedia's shorter, less narrative text: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_%28star%29
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by jcl 17y ago
Monty Python references are standard within the community. There are projects named Eric, IDLE, Bicycle Repairman, Parrot, etc.
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by jcl 17y ago
But with several of those options, you take on liabilities that may exceed the money you made. By the same logic, you could use your two hours to get a mortgage on your house. (And the last option sounds like fraud.)
856.
by jcl 17y ago
Reminds me of GetSatisfaction, in the sense that they are setting up an ad hoc community around someone else's product in hopes that the product creator blesses it as the official community.
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by jcl 17y ago
My impression was that he was asking about factoring in general, not specifically in relation to the TI.
858.
by jcl 17y ago
I'd guess that it can, if that number is being used to protect a copyrighted work. That sounds like exactly a situation that the DMCA was designed to make illegal.
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by jcl 17y ago
You mean, translating a phone conversation? I believe Android's current API doesn't allow you to access phone call audio -- similar to the iPhone, if the article is correct. (A translating app using IP telephony might work, though...) ht
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by jcl 17y ago
At the end of the day, though, people want quality. If a low-quality SEOed article appears higher in the search rankings than a high-quality article, it is a flaw in ranking algorithm -- a weakness that other search engines can exploit. I
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by jcl 17y ago
Presumably a true nerd would discount personal experience as anecdotal and get the shot anyway. ;)
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by jcl 17y ago
Agreed. And while the article characterizes the matchmaking service as "a Chinese version of match.com", that doesn't really do it justice -- their methods are actually quite different, even if the end goal (finding a mate) is the same. I
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by jcl 17y ago
There is also research that suggests that getting a regular flu shot may increase the chance of getting H1N1, so it's possible that the interaction between the various flus and vaccines is more complicated than we thought. http://www.thegl
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by jcl 17y ago
Of course, if you wanted to hack together a language that compiled a single source to both Objective-C and C++, Scheme would be a pretty good environment in which to prototype it.
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by jcl 17y ago
How do you figure "almost all"? Even if the text could only contain paragraphs of length 3 and 4, the spacing alone would be incorrect in half the cases (assuming that a 3-4 and 4-3 split is equally likely). (Of course, we are leaving as
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by jcl 17y ago
...or "something that isn't an iPhone". Apparently there are GV apps for Blackberry as well.
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by jcl 17y ago
Agreed. Even without pinch gestures, multitouch is vital for two-handed games on phones that lack button input.
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by jcl 17y ago
Well, there is more to the issue than just whether you can legally get away with changing a project's license. If you make an unpopular license change, even if you are legally unassailable, you risk that your contributors will leave or sta
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by jcl 17y ago
It's not a new development, either. The action figures for He-Man looked just like the updated Luke, if not more exaggerated, and they came out around the time of the old Luke. ("He-Man"... There's a subtle product name. I bet it won on
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by jcl 17y ago
Neat. It might be interesting to try this with DrScheme, since it can display images inline in the repl. http://docs.plt-scheme.org/quick/ http://docs.plt-scheme.org/teachpack/image.html

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