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by jm4 17y ago
The story broke on a Sunday. As for lack of transparency, do you really expect any company to keep us all apprised of every routine decision that's made? That's right- routine decision. It was probably made by a relatively low level employe
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by jm4 17y ago
You're only partially right. The GSM standard requires a SIM, but it doesn't say anywhere that it's required to be a card or that it needs to be removable . The SIM could just as easily be built into the device.
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I don't see how this is a problem exclusive to a GSM carrier. Who says there has to be a SIM card ? Couldn't the information be on a chip soldered to a board?
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by jm4 17y ago
Personally I find the GPL distasteful; because it locks you in. Frustrating (and I cant help feeling causes substantial code duplication for some projects that dont want to use GPL code) That's probably true of any license based on philos
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by jm4 17y ago
You're right on all points, and I believe licensing CLISP under the GPL was a good thing. Still, RMS was basically a bully about it. It's reasonable to think the guy might have GPL'd the code anyway because he did seem to agree with the phi
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by jm4 17y ago
You're right. It probably does happen all the time. Just last week in one of those GPL vs. BSD threads someone posted a link to a story about how the author of CLISP was more or less coerced into using the GPL license. In any case, through
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Plastic Logic reader to use AT&T network, has deal with B&N(tech.yahoo.com)
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by jm4 17y ago
Enough of these web celebrity gossip kinds of stories. Please. Whether Trent Reznor, or anyone else for that matter, uses Twitter is completely inconsequential. Seriously. Are you a shill for TechCrunch, or what?
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by jm4 17y ago
I haven't used either project so I can't comment on the technical merits, but they have very different licenses. I would imagine that could be a primary deciding factor. Lamson is free so it would be easy to try it out. On the other hand, i
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How so? I don't think anyone needs to get permission from Amazon. There are a few formats that are compatible with the Kindle. I've bought a few books from The Pragmatic Programmers and they offer a .mobi version that works on the Kindle.
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by jm4 17y ago
It's disappointing that there is, apparently, no support for the Kindle. It doesn't look like there's support for any dedicated reader, for that matter. It's a software reader that can be installed on a computer, iPhone or Blackberry. I lov
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by jm4 17y ago
I don't get it. How is paying a writer for sole distribution rights cheaper than a staff writer? Keep in mind you've got to compete with other organizations shopping for the same story. Isn't there going to be a very small time frame for fi
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by jm4 17y ago
Stuart Halloway (author of Programming Clojure ) came up with a rewrite of Uncle Bob's bowling game: http://github.com/stuarthalloway/clojure-bowling/tree/master
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http://top.searchyc.com/domains http://top.searchyc.com/domains_by_points http://top.searchyc.com/domains_by_average_points
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I'm kind of in the same boat. There are plenty of resources for learning Clojure, but I haven't found any that help with the transition from object oriented programming to functional programming. I read Programming Clojure and I feel like
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by jm4 17y ago
This story is bullshit. The whole premise for it is a Twitter message. It wasn't even a complete sentence let alone a statement worthy of a story. Then, Arrington goes on to infer that Rose is not happy about the situation when all he said
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by jm4 17y ago
Agreed, although I think an even better solution is to not use URL shorteners at all. It could just as easily be one of the others that does something stupid next time.
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If you've borrowed money from family and friends to hire some developers in order to get something working as quickly as possible you should use whatever tools are going to help you make that happen. You probably don't want to be tinkering
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There's no doubt IE is a piece of junk, but I would imagine that has more to do with the business end more than anything else. It's not as if programming a browser is that difficult; choosing exactly which features to support can be. The we
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by jm4 17y ago
No one is blaming the advertisers. This is a fairly typical form of protest in this kind of situation. Complaining to or boycotting advertisers is a proxy for attacking the bottom line of a company that makes it money selling ad space. It's
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by jm4 17y ago
That's not entirely fair. The specific information he was looking for is not made available to the public by Apple. He was only able to find the information after getting the model number for the display and checking with the vendor. There
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by jm4 17y ago
It sounds like you might be confused about what GWT is. It's not a replacement or alternative to FireBug. They do completely different things. GWT is basically a set of widgets and controls. It allows you to write Java code that generates a
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by jm4 17y ago
They probably use a better crawler than the one you've put together. Reliable crawling is not the easiest problem to solve. There are a lot of crappy sites out there. When you're Google you can tell them to screw off. When you're small and
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In particular, the guy who wanted to be able to make it a compile-time option had a program that would do basically nothing without readline That's not true. If you read the story you'll see that the guy had a working program for years be
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You're right, and I think that's exactly what the submitter tried to do by asking here. Still, it's probably a better question for the people turning down the work.
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There could be other reasons why they retain data. For example, it could be to maintain data integrity. Let's say you've sent messages to people, left comments, written on walls, etc. When you delete your account it's going to be much easie
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by jm4 17y ago
You could consider raising it. I did some freelance work several years ago and offered my services for what I thought was a very reasonable price-- $50/hour. I was losing a lot of jobs at that rate. A friend told me how his father had been
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by jm4 17y ago
This makes sense. From the very start, Mono was intended to be used for creating desktop applications for GNOME. Java has been lousy for the desktop starting with the decision to use a least common denominator window kit. AWT specifically e
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by jm4 17y ago
I agree with most of what you're saying. MSN definitely should have been taken into account and it's way to early to call Bing a success. Where I disagree is with the criticism of the data used for the article and then use of equally unreli
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This is going to get ugly very fast. Just last week we had people coming out of the woodwork to say they could clone StackOverflow over the holiday weekend. There can't be a debate about this because the article doesn't mention any specific

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