metageek

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by metageek 16y ago
Yeah, there's no good reason to change print. Sure, making it a function can be handy; but they should recognize the "print foo" syntax and compile it to a function call.
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by metageek 16y ago
I like that map and reduce return iterators; it lets me map over a huge collection even if I just want the first few.
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by metageek 16y ago
You're assuming he has more than two names.
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by metageek 16y ago
Upvote, but there is a large difference in degree. Nobody's paying $86M for Hacker News.
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by metageek 16y ago
Was Martin Martin from Germany? Here at ITA, we used to (before my time) have someone of that name. He was born in Germany, but naturalized in the US; his last name was too difficult for many Americans, so he gave up and had it changed to
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by metageek 16y ago
Actually, that might be your answer: if 100 geeks show up at a sports bar and ask them to turn one of the TVs to Jeopardy, maybe they'll do it.
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by metageek 16y ago
> Everybody knows what chess is all about, Well, that's kind of the point. Chess is a hard game, but it doesn't require broad knowledge of a human culture. If you're going to build a machine that exhibits such knowledge, you've got t
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by metageek 16y ago
I believe I saw a report recently that they had finished taping it.
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by metageek 16y ago
Mmm. They could try it; but the only shows for which it would be easy to try it would be those for which they own the copyright. I don't know whether that would be a representative sample.
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by metageek 16y ago
Write once, run away.
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by metageek 16y ago
Nicely twisted.
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by metageek 16y ago
Cam you give an example of a noncompliant address that actually works?
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by metageek 16y ago
I work for ITA, which is being acquired by Google, and this is one way in which it's going to be a step down. ITA's noncompete is the narrowest I've seen; it only claims stuff that I do in the travel industry.
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by metageek 16y ago
And then there's this bit: > History matters; the Android codebase is designed to be ported in ways Microsoft is probably culturally incapable of even imagining. NT is portable. It's been ported to at least four CPUs that I know of (x
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by metageek 16y ago
> The second is that MS apparently exercises strong control over the design of WP7 phones, This is where I went wrong; Elop was able to negotiate an exemption for Nokia.
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by metageek 16y ago
There's the Archos 28 [1], which is a little taller (3.9" instead of 3.25"), but thinner and lighter (9mm and 64g instead of 15mm and 103g), and costs less than $100. Runs Froyo. The Veer's screen looks better, though, at 320x400 instead o
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by metageek 16y ago
Debit cards are 2-factor.
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by metageek 16y ago
WFM. (Firefox, 64-bit Linux nightly build.)
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by metageek 16y ago
Doesn't SSL do compression? (Most good encryption systems do, because compression strips out the redundant data that codebreakers need.) If so, you should be able to do persistent connections over HTTPS, and get the whole stream compressed.
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by metageek 16y ago
I see two things to make me hope they might not go with WP7. The first is the ecosystem: he correctly points out that the ecosystem is what they're lacking; but WP7 doesn't yet have one to offer. The second is that MS apparently exercises
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by metageek 16y ago
> My best guess is WP7 with Qt allowing Nokia's services and apps on those phones. This would be additional to Symbian and MeeGo devices. If they adopt any third-party OS, I can't see them keeping MeeGo. That'd be stupid; it'd leave t
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by metageek 16y ago
> Nokia regularly cripple features, specifically including VoIP, at the demands of carriers. Perhaps not US carriers, Oh, definitely in the US—look at the difference between the E71 and the E71x, the AT&T version. The GP was talki
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by metageek 16y ago
> Unlike what [iPad] competitors are still doing (which is bullet-pointing tech specs and saying what the competition can't do), Apple gives a very simple and crafted message about what you can do and how easily you can do it. The Xoom
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by metageek 16y ago
Well, the correct answer in that one is "neither"; they're both orbiting their common center of gravity, which is near, but not equal to, the center of the earth.
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by metageek 16y ago
Oh, right. Forgot about that.
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by metageek 16y ago
> The decision to rename a project is certainly not, in and of itself, a fork. Mozilla's web browser went through a couple renames before landing on its present name of Firefox. Bad example, since Firefox is a fork of Mozilla; it sta
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by metageek 16y ago
> I have no exprience with github and won't be caught dead using it. ...because?
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by metageek 16y ago
Maybe the writer was actually quoting, and the speaker felt the need to say "Celsius" because they couldn't tell whether they were speaking to an American. (Satellite phones probably have low sound quality, right?)
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by metageek 16y ago
Ah, nice. Thanks for answering.
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by metageek 16y ago
That's nice to know, since I'm hoping to get an NS One Of These Days. (I know it's not the headset, since it's the same one I used to use with my Nokia, and it worked fine. But I could well believe it was a problem with the phone.)

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