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by jedsmith 16y ago
> 12,588 up votes 10,018 down votes That's a fascinating look at peoples' reactions to this. A reminder of mortality split right down the middle.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Change of venue, maybe? Perhaps widen your net? I think San Francisco is your problem here. A four-year degree is a solid leg in for a lot of backwards HR departments (isn't it? everybody telling me to finish mine seems to think so), so I'm
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> Diaspora is much more significant in that it solves the gay bar problem of social networking I had to go through the slides to understand this: basically, it said in the case of a woman they did research on, she commented and liked ph
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by jedsmith 16y ago
When I read about this I always think about Joel Spolsky's observation about 15-minute distractions that affect programmers. When you start thinking about your day in those terms, telling the people talking to you to get bent (in nicer term
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Never noticed that. Strange that you can edit almost everything else.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Lots of people think it's a Jeopardy reference, but actually I was thinking of that time Watson and I were cellmates in prison, and it kept raping me. After I read that response I scrolled right back up and checked his proof that it's him
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Had to read the headline a couple of times.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
There's no easy way to word what I came away from your comment with, so I'll just get it out there: your comment was exceedingly enlightening. I doubt that during the development of Trumpet anybody thought they were saving even one life (it
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Reddit has the donate to a shiny object market cornered at the moment, at least from my reading. It's a good market to disrupt.
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> Thanks all... I had honestly thought the Internet had forgotten about me. I don't think anybody can forget Trumpet. Trumpet is one of those pieces of software that is unique in that everybody has a warm memory about it, as evidenced
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Hacker News giving Reddit a run for its money? Bravo.
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Show of hands, who's surprised?
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Yes, he did. http://mashable.com/2010/05/28/zuckerberg-diaspora/
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> Is this what FSF has become? You mean there was a time when FSF didn't launch ideological arguments to demand that people use software from the GNU Project? I'm not picking a side, just pointing out that this is par for the course. If
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by jedsmith 16y ago
There is no <head>, </head>, <body>, </body>, or </html>.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2279949 is a start.
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> Doesn't Objective-C have dynamic binding? I'm sure you can determine what function to call at runtime, You need a message name (@selector), and the names are strongly typed -- meaning, they're pretty obvious with reflection tools. If
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by jedsmith 16y ago
There are two scenarios where such a site has been useful to me: 1) Making sure I deprecated the right addresses in the Linux kernel, and that the kernel was using the outgoing address I wanted instead of the one it would pick via RFC 3484,
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Are you speaking from experience?
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> This is one thing I've been wondering about, how is it that they don't know every single API call the executable is linked to? They do. I used an old example from the Internet, and that API was now private; Apple rejected the app and
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by jedsmith 16y ago
They do static analysis of your executable and check what you call, which is why they know if you're using a private API and reject you because of it. They've also caught bugs in my app and sent it back. I believe the advantage of Objective
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by jedsmith 16y ago
There's probably a lot of people that don't "get" Gmail and delete all of their messages. There's probably also a lot of people who sign up for an account and don't use it, ever, and they contribute to the numbers. Keep in mind ~80 MB is fo
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True, but Angry Birds is a physics game, not a floating-point arithmetic game. I can see both sides, including yours.
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If everybody filled their mailbox, 500 PB would back up 66.1 million Gmail accounts. Since they don't, we're probably looking at everybody on Earth: 73.8 MB per mailbox, which sounds like a pretty good shot at an average. Looking at the SL8
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I wouldn't accuse them of bad faith either. An oversight, perhaps, and one easily rectified. I certainly don't think there's malice involved. Changing the license, on the other hand, would make the legal situation extremely complicated. I'm
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So what you're saying is, you didn't make it to the part of my comment where I indicated that I wasn't on board with his stunt? I merely pointed out that dismissing his gripe is a bit premature. How he went about expressing his gripe is an
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> Publicly acknowledging his contribution to their commercial success may be ground for a multi-million dollar lawsuit. For abiding by the terms of the license? Unless the law diverges from common sense significantly here (we all know i
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Counterpoint: If your company has developed a powerhouse franchise with a value roughly equivalent to the GDP of Canada, and all of that is built upon a little piece of open-source software, it wouldn't hurt anybody to toss him some credit
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Is a followup to Silk next, with 1,000 strokably-soft kittens? (I'm kidding. I love Silk, thanks for making it.)
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> Your reply sounds like you don't value him as a customer anymore because he's not giving you money anymore. I think you mean: replies .

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