misterbee

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by misterbee 14y ago
> > Samsung filed counter-claims against Apple too. Samsung also holds patents.
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by misterbee 14y ago
> Some of Samsung's products will even fit in 3rd party Apple addons that make use of the 30 pin dock. In this particular point, Samsung is 100% in the right. Interoperability is one of the explicit justifications for copying. Vendor lo
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by misterbee 15y ago
The bright side is that Android won't be infected with the user-unfriendly finger-straining slide-to-unlock gimmick.
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by misterbee 15y ago
Experts Exchange, not Stack Exchange
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by misterbee 15y ago
Yes, at is says on the http://www.knowlabs.com/ website.
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by misterbee 15y ago
Corruption in investing doesn't just hurt founders. It hurts everyone in the end. Every time one of these articles about "how investors screw founders" or "how employee stock option are never going to pay out", the pool of employable staff
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by misterbee 15y ago
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by misterbee 15y ago
This is not really true. A description of a "solution" is common practice for modern software patents, which is legal gobbledydook that has nothing to do with implementation. It's no diagram of a cotton gin these days.
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by misterbee 15y ago
But they'd only each have the subset of your data that you choose to publish on their respective networks, right?
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by misterbee 15y ago
"they were n't released is because nobody was willing to buck the PC status quo of not having resolution in dependence" Quintuple Negative!
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by misterbee 15y ago
Forbes is not hacker news.
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by misterbee 15y ago
In 5 years all of those trusts will have merged into Small Business Loans of America Corporation, and all the loans will be sold on the derivatives market within a month of origination, and an army of loan brokers will individual figure out
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by misterbee 15y ago
What about for the 1-5 years before employee #6 joins?
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by misterbee 15y ago
And with structured programming, it's only one extra argument per function call, StuffThisFunctionNeeds (plus a structure definition for each different flavor of StuffThisFunctionNeeds)
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by misterbee 15y ago
Why don't you pass the session data as an argument to methods that need it?
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by misterbee 15y ago
No.
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by misterbee 15y ago
If you mean this: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/More_C%2B%2B_Idioms/Named_Const... , which is called a Factory, in Java, then no. A Named Constructor / Factory creates a new instance on demand. A mingleton hands out references to the same
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by misterbee 15y ago
If you use Guice you aren't using a singleton anymore. Guice is creating an instance and passing it to multiple classes as a dependency. This is different from any class just referencing a Singleton by importing it statically. It's a slight
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by misterbee 15y ago
If you aren't writing an actual hardware device driver for a specific peripheral port, you are abusing Singleton.
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by misterbee 15y ago
No, Settings/Configuration is a classic example of where using a Singleton horribly breaks testability, because you can't run multiple "application runs" in the same "test run" without completely exiting and rebuilding the app runtime envir
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by misterbee 15y ago
Nothing. Both are the same bug.
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by misterbee 15y ago
I get a Google login window when I click this link.
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by misterbee 15y ago
Ah. That's what I thought, and I originally wrote "early 1980s" (which made my reference to the Internet more sensible), but then I changed it based on the "1992" date shown on the Amazon page (for the 2/ed, or something like this.)
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by misterbee 15y ago
Fun fact about sound: I discovered yesterday that one can restore sound on a Ubuntu 11.04 system by killing the pulseaudio process (it will instantly restart and restore sound.) No reboot required, in my case. This is now one of the more fr
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by misterbee 15y ago
For #1, use a Long-Term Support version every 3 years, and, if you like, install an individual software package with its own non-Canonical (ha, pun!) .deb, or a PPA, or just download a package from the publisher. For #2, a thousand times am
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by misterbee 15y ago
When I got my first managerial role in a software organization, my boss told me to read The Goal . I was really turned off by the fake family narrative aspect. I skimmed it, trying to pick out the practical business parts. I was already aw
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by misterbee 15y ago
If you include other sources of software professionals: math, applied math, physics, and engineering, you'll probably get closer to 50,000 per year. Add in non-college and college dropout and you'll get even more. (The "8,000 from one schoo
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by misterbee 15y ago
In Hollywood.
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by misterbee 15y ago
(Something like) Those are actually real! My mother taught me that basic strategy for betting on a "horse race" carnival game with the similar design (but the winner was chosen randomply via multiple rolls of a die that represented each "st
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by misterbee 15y ago
So, Steve Jobs wasn't always above secretly copying another company's product the way he claims to be now. "Cupertino, start your photocopiers." ( http://www.macnews.com/content/wwdc-apple-blasts-microsofts-... )

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