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by joecode 16y ago
That's a rather interesting mix of good points and religious crazy talk. I think the most pertinent point is that the U.S. has in fact acted in an imperialist way over the past half century or so, and has killed a very large number of peop
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by joecode 16y ago
hmm... when i resubmit with the same values, it keeps changing. ranges from .006 to .011
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by joecode 16y ago
Yea, I thought of this (I'm sure others have, too) a few months ago and dismissed it after a few back of the envelope calculations made it clear the business model just wasn't there.
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by joecode 16y ago
The cynic in me sees these being used in crowd control---with occasional "mistakes".
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by joecode 16y ago
Job's point may be correct, but it is fairly obvious to even a casual observer this is not the real motivation for Apple's actions. From the get-go, Apple has done whatever it can to prevent Flash from getting on the iPhone. The purpose,
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by joecode 16y ago
the use of third party software in Your Application to collect and send Device Data to a third party for processing or analysis is expressly prohibited I guess this is the Admob killer clause? Goes along nicely with the Adobe Flash kille
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by joecode 17y ago
it seems silly for a company like Apple to take a definite position on exactly what “originally written” and “intermediary translation” means irregardless of one's opinion about section 3.3.1, there's actually nothing silly at all about a
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by joecode 17y ago
Indeed, it is bizarre that the courts allow creditors to continue charging 25%+ interest even after garnishment has begun. High interest rates like that might be considered "fair" while there is still a high chance of default---but pretty g
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by joecode 17y ago
It's like working with the evil offspring of GridBagLayout and XML That one had me laughing out loud. Ah.. Good ol' Java, I remember you. Anyway, as an iPhone dev looking to branch out into Android, I found this piece immensely useful,
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by joecode 17y ago
It certainly smells like #2. The app store is extremely poorly managed. This has all the hallmarks of having been poorly thought through---a snap decision made by some higher ups and then implemented in a very rough fashion by people who
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App Store Adds Explicit Category for iPhone Apps(macobserver.com)
2 points by joecode 17y ago|0 comments
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by joecode 17y ago
Indeed... the article is so poorly written it looks more like satire. Anyway, though it made sense to do something about the proliferation of these apps, just removing all of them was a stupid move, for both developers and users, given that
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by joecode 17y ago
Yea.. I'm rather surprised by this stupid move. I was expecting them to relax their guidelines over time, not tighten them. Now, though I was actually excited about the iPad, I'm going to invest time into Android. I'll start by porting m
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Apple now removing apps with "overtly sexual content"
10 points by joecode 17y ago|3 comments
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by joecode 17y ago
In the long run, this is actually a very good and profitable business decision by Google. If the Chinese government is allowed to continue their human rights abuses, it will have major economic ramifications for everyone as China continues
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by joecode 17y ago
Meanwhile, the Arctic is melting... Maybe some of the climate change scientists got caught up in the politics of the situation and inappropriately exaggerated matters. But consider this: every single national academy of science in the wo
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by joecode 17y ago
Perhaps they just don't use anything so retro as radio anymore, and are so much more intelligent that they have no interest in communicating with us.
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Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto(google.com)
3 points by joecode 17y ago|0 comments
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by joecode 17y ago
what, i'm being voted down? so sources don't matter? i don't know whether the emails are authentic or not, but certainly there is cause for concern, no? if you look at the other articles of the author, tony hake, you will see they invaria
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by joecode 17y ago
I'm reposting this comment by "by" that got lost in the comments below. While all this seems pretty damming, it could be misinformation. Examiner.com seems to be owned by Clarity Digital Group who are in turn owned by the Anschutz Company.
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by joecode 17y ago
Brilliant! Implementing now.
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by joecode 17y ago
Talk about it. I just got a rejection today for a major bugfix on my last update. The only change in the update is to use utf-8 encoding---one tiny change on one line of code. After 2 weeks, they tell me they can't approve the update bec
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by joecode 17y ago
And women rated about 8.3/10 (rather than perfect 10/10) got the most messages. This is a misleading statement. As a total number of messages, they did indeed get the most, since there are more of them, but the ones rated 10/10 still got
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by joecode 17y ago
While, say, the outright cruel attacks by some anti-Vietnam protestors to returning vets was unhelpful, I don't see why I should celebrate people who are fighting wars of conquest for the sake of oil. I don't think they're bad people, and
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by joecode 17y ago
I would be careful about taking Pinker's argument too uncritically. It relies on a very particular selection of secondary academic sources, such as Keely's "War Before Civilization." But Keely's book, while a reasonable response to the "m
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by joecode 17y ago
"There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical."
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by joecode 17y ago
Wittgenstein's generation was the first one in which Philosophy as an academic and literary endeavour has contributed virtually nothing to our understanding of the world. I think I remember this refrain from a history textbook somewhere,
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by joecode 17y ago
My college abstract algebra professor, who was fond of grilling us in class, once asked me to define an "isomorphism". I said something to the effect that an isomorphism is when you have two structures that though technically different, sh
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by joecode 17y ago
I generally don't accept work, but if I did, it would be $120 at least, and I'd do it mostly for fun. There's plenty left to be done independently.
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by joecode 17y ago
He seems to be neglecting the most difficult aspect of releasing your own OS: getting most developers to port/write software for it. Apple has followed a peculiar path that has allowed it to successfully accomplish this, but it is very dif

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