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by nathanb 15y ago
Isn't that just called "not voting"?
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by nathanb 15y ago
I know, right? Reading through the comments on that post, the "you should have told us this last week" comments are just about balanced out by the "why are you wasting time with this instead of getting the PSN back online" comments.
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by nathanb 15y ago
Holy cow, one request per month is low ? I know that's less than one account in a million, but that's still way higher than I expected.
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by nathanb 16y ago
FWIW, Google spelunking reveals this university to be the University of Georgia, whose policies I would have expected to be better than that. However, public state schools do have to deal with a lot of pressure from the state to not expel t
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by nathanb 16y ago
Can Google plausibly claim to be OSI-compliant on Honeycomb when they have released the product without the source? I like to think that I understand the difference between the two, but I have difficulty seeing how "I'll show you the source
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by nathanb 16y ago
Little hard to be open source when your source is closed and you don't let anyone look at. Android source is released sometime after the product has been out to market. Android is only open to the extent that it benefits Google, not the ext
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by nathanb 16y ago
For an open source project the code is the product. If you claim to be open yet release your bits before the code, you are deluding yourself. The quote from Savoia and Copeland in the article seems to be saying that Google won't release t
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by nathanb 16y ago
This is why salary pools are secret. Don't share the link with your boss (or sycophantic cow-orkers) and you should be fine.
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by nathanb 16y ago
It would be extremely interesting to see whether or not having these data publicly available (especially in such a context-free fashion as in this article) is truly helpful or not. It reminds me of another HN story which saw the front page
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by nathanb 16y ago
See also: http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2011/03/31/the-good-... This one actually came to a decision and the judge ruled against Righthaven, at least partly because of the odious nature of the copyright trolling business.
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by nathanb 16y ago
There are a couple of problems I ran into in the tutorial (or in my ability to follow the tutorial as a complete SDL/OGL newbie): * GL_COLOR_BIT should be GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT. This may be a change which occurred between the version the auth
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by nathanb 16y ago
If you want to make a credible claim to being open source, you have to realize that the code is your product. To say that the code is too bad to be seen and then turn around to say that the product is wonderful and everyone should buy an
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by nathanb 16y ago
I'm saying there's a snowball's chance of my device seeing Honeycomb at all; manufacturers are certainly not going to go out of their way to get a broken version. (They might go out of their way to get a broken version for new mobile devi
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by nathanb 16y ago
Spammers make money off of volume. The more expensive it is to deploy each individual spam, the less money spammers make. Processing and running javascript, retrieving and inlining external CSS, and rendering HTML all take time. Writing cus
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by nathanb 16y ago
In my experience, the problem you describe is non-existent. I don't see manufacturers trying hard to get the latest and greatest onto their devices; what I see is consumers having to complain long and loud before manufacturers and carriers
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by nathanb 16y ago
I think that this hits the nail on the head. If the code is ready to be used by consumers, it should be ready for developers to inspect it. Imagine if a writer said "I'm ready to publish my book, but I'm not willing to release the manuscrip
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by nathanb 16y ago
In my workplace, I'd say that about 20% of the developers run Linux, 40% run MacOS, and 40% run Windows (the Windows users generally ssh or vnc into a Linux compute server to do builds and stuff). I also run it on my netbook (an Eee PC from
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by nathanb 16y ago
Good point...unless they require unique passwords (huh?) or disambiguate username clashes via password (double huh?), seems like this wouldn't work very well at all.
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by nathanb 16y ago
Mozilla started off with a compelling product and provided very clearly-defined ways for the community at large to contribute to the design and implementation. Does design by committee (or, worse, design by community) ever work? You are lik
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by nathanb 16y ago
Real hackers ship. Developing a project under an open source license should never be an excuse for vaporware, but unfortunately it often is. If GNU Free Call turns out to be any good--and the bar for being better than Skype on Linux or Andr
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by nathanb 16y ago
Without specifying dialect (ANSI C, C99, etc.), I believe "valid C" really only means "some C compiler somewhere will accept it without generating errors".
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by nathanb 16y ago
Some colleges have engineering- or even cs-specific career fairs. I know Virginia Tech does...it's called the CSRC fair, and it's held twice a year. I recruit there for my company, and we get everyone from sophomores looking for internships
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by nathanb 16y ago
> Typically, in a mature company the salaries of the dev team are a rounding error on the total operation. Depends on the company. For a mature software development company the engineers' salaries are likely to be quite a large line ite
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Ask HN: What are the repercussions of a broken passport RFID?
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by nathanb 16y ago
The implied second step to this method is that you have to be constantly on the alert to hear or read about new tricks. In Feynman's time this was much more difficult in industry than in academia, but nowadays thanks to the Internet I suspe
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by nathanb 16y ago
Unfortunately, X > Y shows up too commonly online, which really serves as a call to declare partisan allegiance rather than an invitation for discourse. LaTeX is superior to Office how? To my eyes, LaTeX produces more attractive typeset
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by nathanb 16y ago
I'm going to make a controversial blanket statement and say that any company which doesn't consider extracurricular experience to be meaningful is probably not a company you want to work for. The reason being that side projects, open source
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by nathanb 16y ago
There's a difference between "able to articulate well" and "exceptional mastery of one's native tongue".
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by nathanb 16y ago
But even this one seems to be disproven by example. Some of the best programmers I know are exceptionally slovenly in their written language. I strongly suspect that this list of "uncomfortable truths" is intended to illustrate that a compe
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by nathanb 16y ago
Agree; it would have been interesting to hear the responses if he had asked Alice (or Bob) "what was I trying to say at the time where I said 'points'"? Or if he had even asked them to summarize his talk up until that point.

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