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by mithaler 16y ago
Dunno how much this means, but the Java package namespace is within com.google. http://bitcoinj.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/index.html
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by mithaler 16y ago
Why am I reminded of Douglas Adams? "All the planning charts have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you've had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it's far too la
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by mithaler 16y ago
As a self-identifying "coder who can't design", I'm willing to offer a few explanations (though not necessarily excuses) for some of the behaviors the OP describes, at least as far as my experience goes--if only to explain where I'm coming
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by mithaler 16y ago
I run Facebook Disconnect too, and it also caused the comments to fail to load on the TechCrunch article, in case you were wondering.
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by mithaler 16y ago
Oh, don't get me wrong--I agree. It's not their fault that women at hackathons are genuinely uncommon, and they're not bad people for acknowledging this (though I would argue that they shouldn't gawk and draw undue attention to them, and th
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by mithaler 16y ago
This is neither true (I've personally known plenty of computer geeks of both sexes who aren't interested in hackathons), nor evidence of some sort of gender difference, since if the statement in the first place were true, you would have exa
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by mithaler 16y ago
That's not quite true--there is this bit: > I'm actually pretty flattered that you'd like me to come to these events. There's just little in it for me, while you guys get some good publicity with me and my fine lady coder friends in at
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by mithaler 16y ago
> The biggest feature the interface adds is the ability to restrict the results by whether or not a recipe contains a particular ingredient. I don't think that this is very interesting or useful. Did anyone who really cooks use this? Th
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by mithaler 16y ago
You're right; I've updated the post, thanks for the correction. :)
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by mithaler 16y ago
Well, one who thinks that the GPL's wishes are a good idea could certainly feel that they deserve heat for being what the GPL was meant to prevent in the first place. But, that's no comfort to less ideologically zealous developers who want
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by mithaler 16y ago
...and if your profit margin is close to that 30%, as it is with many businesses, you are now required (should you choose to develop an app for iOS) to sell your product to users whom you have to support and stand a very good chance of gain
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by mithaler 16y ago
While the OP comes across as a tad hyperbolic, this is what I've thought for a long time: if a business is dependent on the good graces of the provider of a platform it's built on, it simply does not have a working model. It happened before
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by mithaler 16y ago
> Kindle is practically the reason I was going to buy it. Then why not just buy a Kindle?
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by mithaler 16y ago
Facebook may be displacing marketing and social traffic, but without evidence that the search market is similarly decreasing, this article doesn't have much of a case. facebook.com/starbucks displaces starbucks.com, not a Google search for
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by mithaler 16y ago
Our company's PHP framework has a system like this in our database logic. We only use one implementation of it. Ever.
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by mithaler 16y ago
As an Ubuntu user running the exact same hardware he describes (Dell XPS M1530), I don't understand his frustration, since literally everything in Ubuntu Just Works for me on it. I haven't had a single bit of trouble on that hardware in all
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by mithaler 16y ago
Be warned: it doesn't appear to be the same server. I'm logged into news.ycombinator, but I'm not currently logged in to hackerne.ws. I can only assume it's a different server mirroring it, and unless I know it's run by the same people I'm
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by mithaler 16y ago
One of the reasons why I like Google Voice on Android so much is it handles texting through data, which is free if the plan is unlimited. And that's not even counting the additional benefit of being able to get threaded texting through the
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by mithaler 16y ago
Can someone please explain to me whom exactly it harms to use "HTML5" as an umbrella term for new tags, CSS3 and new Javascript features? I mean, many of those tags aren't even useful without hooks to manipulate them. What's the point of a
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by mithaler 16y ago
I'm using its nightly build PPA. I'm consistently amazed at just how rapidly new features are appearing in it.
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by mithaler 16y ago
You're probably right; I can't imagine that Google would have been careless enough to not have an army of lawyers look over everything before releasing it.
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by mithaler 16y ago
Analysis on this score has been done by an x264 developer (this came out around the same time WebM was announced): http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377 Money quote, from the conclusion: "With regard to patents, VP8 copies too much fr
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by mithaler 16y ago
Not surprising, considering Justin Bieber uses up 3% of Twitter's infrastructure.[1] [1] http://mashable.com/2010/09/07/justin-bieber-twitter/
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by mithaler 16y ago
If I copy the URL of your site/blog into my RSS reader's Add Subscription dialog, I don't know of any RSS readers that wouldn't scrape your site for the link tags I assume you put in and discover the feed for me.
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by mithaler 16y ago
> Carriers still "own" customer contact in most countries. If they decide to be really afraid of Google, they will stop helping Android adoption. I wonder how they might do this. Possibilities I can think of: A) Stop releasing Android p
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by mithaler 16y ago
Your emoticon indicates you were joking, but in all seriousness, in the context of discussion about this article, Zed himself makes it a real issue.
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by mithaler 16y ago
I'm no libertarian, but I don't see why those statements make the article terrible. After all, are they not true, and do they not underscore his point--that both of those constituencies benefit from government intervention in society as it
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by mithaler 16y ago
I'm perfectly fine with zsh, it gives me all that except syntax highlighting (which I don't really need)--I just use the GRML zsh scripts with some of my own personal aliases (and I don't have to learn a non-bashlike syntax). http://grml.o
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by mithaler 16y ago
Sounds awful until you click on the Reviews link at the top and find many mixed opinions on the same subject. (I stopped clicking through the reviews when it made me log in to keep looking at them though.) A bunch seem to agree on the high
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by mithaler 16y ago
I will not dispute that those are problems. I will dispute whether they're issues with all colleges. I went to a liberal arts school, and a good one. I was never in a large lecture class (my CS101 class had 12 students in it), professors we

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