lokedhs

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by lokedhs 13y ago
Someone mentioned returning a closure from a function. That's something that is done all the time in higher-level languages and hard to do without a GC. Also, in general GC's are much faster than reference counting (especially whe
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by lokedhs 13y ago
Yes. In South Korea you can't just put a SIM card in a device and use it like you can in the rest of the world. The phones have to be activated with the carrier. I don't know of any other place where this happens.
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by lokedhs 13y ago
That sounds very suspicious. Do you have a source for this? Remember that you don't even need a carrier to be able to use the app store. Who takes the 25% from the payments done from my wlan-only tablet?
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by lokedhs 13y ago
Just wait for the collector's edition. Elite: Elite.
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by lokedhs 13y ago
Mountain biking has plenty of downhill segments. In fact, there is an entire category of the sport conveniently named Downhill. Downhill racing can definitely be dangerous, but it is my belief that the people who do it are much more experie
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by lokedhs 13y ago
Yes, I think it's arguable that MS won the console war. Could you tell me what you are measuring to reach that conclusion? Last I looked, the only category where the Xbox was ahead is US sales, and even there, they were only marginally
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by lokedhs 13y ago
Eclipse has always been terrible, but IDEA on the other hand is the best development environment in existence, regardless of platform. Even Google finally realised that Eclipse is a dead horse and switched the official environment to IDEA.
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by lokedhs 13y ago
But it is important to mention these things. It's needed as a counter weight to the message that was spread not long ago by people like Gruber, "there is no tablet market, only the ipad market"
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by lokedhs 13y ago
First, actually. :-)
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by lokedhs 13y ago
The European Union web page is europa.eu.int. That's the biggest one I can think of. I do admit that one probably don't see that one a lot if you don't live in Europe.
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by lokedhs 13y ago
If you want to preserve your vision, you probably want to change those colours. You need dark text on light background.
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by lokedhs 13y ago
What part of Android requires keys to install? Oh, you mean the _hardware_ is locked down? Guess what, I can't install Ubuntu on an Iphone either. I guess that makes Ubuntu non-open then?
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by lokedhs 13y ago
Regarding the spelling errors, I was also quite shocked at the low quality of the text until I realised that Chrome had decided to tray to translate the English text from Norwegian to English. After disabling the stupid translation, it was
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by lokedhs 13y ago
What open source implementations are those? I spent some time recently learning APL, and the only one I could find was NARS2000 which is Windows-only, very buggy and has practically no documentation available. If you know of any others, ple
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by lokedhs 14y ago
I was just about to post the same thing (mentioning emacsclient though). Does that make me a troll? :-)
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by lokedhs 14y ago
I think it has more to with mathematicians seeing programming as nothing more than an implementation detail. They spend their time designing an algorithm on paper, writing a paper on it and probably has a whole pile of versions sitting on h
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by lokedhs 14y ago
That looks like typical code written by a mathematician. Look online for implementations of various mathematical algorithms and you'll get more code like this than you'll ever wanted to ever see.
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by lokedhs 14y ago
He's still completely ignoring the fact that Apple in their infinite wisdom decided that you absolutely must use two hands to zoom (pinch). That sort of defeats any argument that they designed the phone for one-handed use.
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by lokedhs 14y ago
So you prefer the way the calendar application looks now?
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by lokedhs 14y ago
Mine is not on the list. Some banks do require 5 or 6 digit pins.
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by lokedhs 14y ago
We've been hearing about how great graphene is and how it will revolutionise everything under the sun for the better part of a decade now. My question is simply, when will we see an actual product using it? To my knowledge none exists, and
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by lokedhs 14y ago
Save yourselves some time and scroll down to the last paragraph of the article. If you want to save even more time I'll summarise for you "all leak detectors suck, so buy our product which supposedly doesn't"
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by lokedhs 14y ago
If you don't read/type them, what's the point of a URL shortener in the first place? It's not harder to click on a long link than it is to click on a short one.
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by lokedhs 16y ago
On a 64-bit architecture, this is completely pointless as there is no problem with the address space. Memory is also not a problem since all modern operating system allocates stack memory as needed. So, my question is why spend time on impl