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by krichman 14y ago
I think it would fall under some sort of wire fraud or hacking, except that you probably have to agree to it in the EULA so it was "allowed".
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by krichman 14y ago
I was hoping it got chosen empirically. It's awesome that they were wise enough to not pick some theoretical best and calling it a day.
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by krichman 14y ago
I'm pretty sure CPython reference counts objects. Also Objective-C -- as in GNUStep, if you aren't using a Mac server. EDIT: There's a downside to reference counting in that either you or the runtime does the retain/release calls very oft
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by krichman 14y ago
I don't know if we hate paying for things, but it's certainly going to be hard for a single company to outperform any given popular GPL tool. I think you are right about selling to the company instead, but services (I don't want the hassle
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by krichman 14y ago
Simply because there are some propositions that are unprovable in a consistent system with finite axioms. Having an algorithm that solves any proposition would be equivalent to having an algorithm that solves the halting problem.
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by krichman 14y ago
It's a forcible interruption of whatever the user is doing, and the user has to interact with it before continuing. As such, it should be used only when there is something that needs attention immediately. If it's used for collecting user
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by krichman 14y ago
This is a nice modal, but I'd much rather never have a modal ever. The only time a modal should appear is if a critical error occurred that the user must know about immediately. For most cases where modals tend to get used, like on iOS "ple
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by krichman 14y ago
Yep, imagine the horrors that would have fallen upon us if a terrist had gotten through with some nail clippers. Many security experts think it is trivial to get weaponry past them. They aren't extensively trained, you know, they are cheap
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by krichman 14y ago
The USA would need to somehow simultaneously remove sociopaths from office and remove voting privileges from idiots before they can have rational legislation in favor of the people.
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by krichman 14y ago
I think you are missing out on the furor over US police thinking they are a military organization operating in hostile territory. Edit: this was hyperbole, but I think this is the slippery slope people are objecting to.
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by krichman 14y ago
We need a way to pierce the corporate veil in very frivolous lawsuits. Like, "did prior art exist that didn't require extensive search to find? $1 million damages to the defendant from you, personally, Myrvolds."
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by krichman 14y ago
I also thought that was a good pitch. Please make a post or something when you have the beta open, I'd like to try it.
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by krichman 14y ago
That's probably right, I know they have improved security greatly in the last few years.
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by krichman 14y ago
Seriously. The management/owners have financial interests in the majority of what they cover. And by "cover" I mean "advertise for".
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by krichman 14y ago
Unless I am mistake, newspapers have distribution costs that are orders of magnitude larger.
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by krichman 14y ago
IMO you still see people using XP because that was the peak. It was certainly better than Vista, I cannot give an unbiased review of Win 7.
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by krichman 14y ago
The iPad is locked-down enough that it's basically a toy for reading the internet and doing mail. If the Surface enables a different model of tablet computing, there's no reason why it shouldn't be a success. It's surely going to be rough a
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by krichman 14y ago
I could not agree with this more. Whether they support such obviously awful legislation due to malice or ignorance is irrelevant, they are still not doing their jobs correctly.
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by krichman 14y ago
I was under the impression that Germany already fucked up once, so who would know better than they why it's wrong to be a police state?
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by krichman 14y ago
They certainly aren't obligated to, but when an employee of a business that does this complains about difficulty using software because of regioning, DRM, or similar, why are you so incredulous that someone points it out?
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by krichman 14y ago
I'm totally fine with empiricism! Your post here is helpful. It's just rude and not helpful to respond to a post like that with nothing more than "no".
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by krichman 14y ago
The parent post spent a lot of time to try and inform us, including multiple links. To post a dismissive comment in response, with no explanation whatsoever, is well beyond rude.
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by krichman 14y ago
I came here to point this out as well. It just does not make any sense whatsoever to have this license if you are trying to make an open-source project. I get that the idea is to prevent fragmentation, but it is enough to require they don't
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by krichman 14y ago
Definitely; I'd much rather do R&D as well. Good luck!
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by krichman 14y ago
I write tail-recursive functions in C using gotos sometimes. I figure why bother with recursion when the function call would be two jmps, register spills, and stack growth? I'd say you are doing it right, it's just too bad the companies you
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by krichman 14y ago
One day the workers will be billionaires and at that point they want to be able to tread upon their underlings as they themselves were tread upon?
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by krichman 14y ago
I tried AppCode and I preferred Xcode, actually.
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by krichman 14y ago
It would be nice if they bothered to fix Xcode so that it wasn't buggy, crashy, and a burden to develop with. They could do that in parallel.
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by krichman 14y ago
I'm assuming by the fact that it took you a few weekends, you are beyond the level of learning about OS's as an undergrad, though :) I'm sure it is doable, but the point is probably that it's a non-trivial detour from writing a basic OS.
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by krichman 14y ago
There's morals and ethics which should forbid it.

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