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by marvy 11y ago
Option one: turn off those features? Option 2: Set things up so they only activate in the right time window?? (Not sure if that's possible, but sounds like it should be.)
482.
by marvy 11y ago
Quirk of human psychology: you now know what you're missing. I have this problem sometimes. When I remind myself that it's just a quirk of my own mind, it sometimes helps.
483.
by marvy 11y ago
If you think that, you have more number sense than many people. Perhaps more than most :)
484.
by marvy 11y ago
mlvljr: your account seems to be banned, or something.
485.
by marvy 11y ago
But, but, ... why? Who cares what you do in your own time? Read, code, golf, fly, whatever. If anything, shouldn't they be happy about it?
486.
by marvy 11y ago
Huh? What are they going to do, spy on your house?
487.
by marvy 11y ago
I don't think I believe you. It might be a side effect, but if so I don't believe it's intended. Why would anyone want to filter out people like the person who wrote that blog post?
488.
by marvy 11y ago
I think you're double-counting something: 1) static variables outlive function scope 2) static methods don't get a 'this'. 3&4) static functions have no linkage?? I like your fifth though :)
489.
by marvy 11y ago
They still do: https://www.google.com/advanced_search
490.
by marvy 11y ago
What does it mean to invert a binary tree?
491.
by marvy 11y ago
never tried this, but: http://matt.might.net/articles/switching-to-skype-to-save-mo...
492.
by marvy 11y ago
It seems you two are actually in agreement
493.
by marvy 11y ago
You make a good point. One possible objection: does that actually allow them to do what they are trying to do? Is Android flexible enough for them to bend it to their will?
494.
by marvy 11y ago
not very popular :)
495.
by marvy 11y ago
neat!
496.
by marvy 11y ago
example?
497.
by marvy 11y ago
But this seems to be one of the few exceptions to that law. The headline was a question, and the answer was yes. Well, almost, sorta, kinda.
498.
by marvy 11y ago
It's called graceful degradation: figure out what parts of the user experience are so important they have to work even without JS enabled, and make sure they do. They clearly knew what their priorities were.
499.
by marvy 11y ago
I put up another window to block the eye so I could read in peace. I don't what they were thinking.
500.
by marvy 11y ago
Presumably mv would benefit even more. At least with cp a copy was explicitly asked for.
501.
by marvy 11y ago
Are UIs and documents so different?
502.
by marvy 11y ago
In the sense of 100% monopoly, you're probably not far wrong. But it's pretty amazing what you can do with 99% market share.
503.
by marvy 11y ago
You said not to take the cheap shots, so I replied two minutes ago with a real comment. This one is a cheap shot: starting your own OEM will not help: MS won't give you a windows license. But you will say that just means you must try
504.
by marvy 11y ago
You're right, it's possible to compete. But the playing field is tilted.
505.
by marvy 11y ago
Ok, I've read it. I agree it is serious. But I think it's also wrong. Monopolies can be abused in ways that make it almost impossible to compete against them. Let's use Windows as an example. Some companies that sell Win
506.
by marvy 11y ago
Ouch. Don't do that for devices. Or named pipes I guess. This idea has more problems than I thought at first.
507.
by marvy 11y ago
It would be possible, but not convenient: /proc/pid/fd/1. Ick. Ok, maybe the cure is worse than the disease. I'm out of clever ideas for now.
508.
by marvy 11y ago
At first I was going to say that handling this properly would require shell to have magic powers. After trying to come up with a proof of why it's impossible, I think I found a simple solution. There are two problems the author was c
509.
by marvy 11y ago
Are you predicting an end to spam in 10 years?
510.
by marvy 11y ago
Why not just use a lower resolution? Does it make things too blurry?

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