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721.
by mfukar 16y ago
All credits due to @cyanogen, of cyanogenmod.com.
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T-Mobile's "rootkit" is nothing but a palliative.(pastebin.com)
5 points by mfukar 16y ago|1 comments
723.
by mfukar 16y ago
Oh my, the extrapolation is making my brain shrink!
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Hey New MySpace Logo, New Gap Logo Has Some Words For You(techcrunch.com)
1 points by mfukar 16y ago|0 comments
725.
by mfukar 16y ago
You have a point, but guidance is important. Without it, there's no structure (which is worse than a rigid structure, imo), hence no directed focus, hence no learning except by accident. A teacher, or parent, or anything else that would ful
726.
by mfukar 16y ago
Completely useless 20/20 hindsight. ENISA's emerging cyber threats document, for example, which circulated 3-4 years ago iirc had pointed out targeted attacks on physical infrastructure (wink, wink) as a possibility, as well as other issues
727.
by mfukar 16y ago
Writing code for 2 & 3 would probably take more than solving it with pen&paper, for me at least. I wrote code for #1 because it was practically 3 lines.. If it was really meant as a programming challenge, it should feature problem
728.
by mfukar 16y ago
Wow. You just invalidated startups (among other things) in a single sentence. Nice.
729.
by mfukar 16y ago
Since you're not referring to economic fairness, did you mean moral? I don't understand how crowdsourcing is immoral in that sense, or how does that constitute exploitation.
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Announcement - Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of UAE on Blackberries(tra.ae)
1 points by mfukar 16y ago|0 comments
731.
by mfukar 16y ago
I wish I could upvote this multiple times; the article is spot on.
732.
by mfukar 16y ago
So, are you pleading for the designers' "fear" of this crowdsourcing trend, a fear based on their time being wasted because designs from other people may be better (for any subjective definition of the term)? Are you honestly saying with a
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Microsoft pays licence fees for 74 smartphone patents(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by mfukar 16y ago|1 comments
734.
by mfukar 16y ago
..and more useful as well.
735.
by mfukar 16y ago
That sounds odd, since if it was sharded by term, then a given search would only need to go to a handful of servers (one for each term) and then the intermediate result combined. But with it sharded by document, every query has to go to al
736.
by mfukar 16y ago
And here I was thinking that it was both demand and supply. Damn you, Adam Smith!
737.
by mfukar 16y ago
It's OK, you're safe from women. Really.
738.
by mfukar 16y ago
Which is exactly what would've happened if the "winner" was hired in the first place without crowdsourcing. What's your point?
739.
by mfukar 16y ago
No, designers should not be expecting to form guilds or a cast and be treated like one. They're not a special kind of workers. That is, assuming they do want to be treated like workers and not as artists. You hire workers, you don't hire ar
740.
by mfukar 16y ago
Yeah, I bet none of Microsoft's or Adobe's products ever worked for you .
741.
by mfukar 16y ago
Expect to be contacted by lawyers very soon.
742.
by mfukar 16y ago
I don't think so. Both Adobe and Microsoft benefit from the existence of (and their coexistence with) Linux.
743.
by mfukar 16y ago
A former associate, in what struck me as an absurd notion, recently questioned whether so called "systems people" are necessary today. I thought the contradiction of what the term meant back from EWD's time to today and from Europe to Ameri
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E.W.Dijkstra Archive: Are "Systems people" really necessary? (EWD 1095)(cs.utexas.edu)
1 points by mfukar 16y ago|1 comments
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The Need for Global Collective Defense on the Internet(blogs.technet.com)
1 points by mfukar 16y ago|0 comments
746.
by mfukar 16y ago
Not necessarily. What worked for me will probably (definitely) not work for you. Especially since you don't mention: a) any short- or long-term goals of yours b) any preference on language, or what language(s) your project is using c) any p
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by mfukar 16y ago
What makes you think your ( wow ) programmers are slow? Are they inexperienced, like yourself? They may be poorly guided or have no clear definition of goals. Or a lot of other things. But by all means, get a hold of a compiler and a text e
748.
by mfukar 16y ago
It is, because it's a direct conflict of interest between the one implementing the "ugly solution" and the ones who are later going to need to read it, debug it, refactor it, etc. Who are, in fact, most likely to be colleagues, in this cont
749.
by mfukar 16y ago
Try the telecom sector: ~20K €, entry level. It's almost stupid.
750.
by mfukar 16y ago
This whole discussion is anecdotal.

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