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by nathanb 11y ago
Excellent point. Thank you for the clarification. This is true in c99 as well.
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by nathanb 11y ago
Incorrect. However, (0x33 == '3') will return true, as will (51 == '3'). Your point is valid, even if your code is wrong. Automatic type coercion can produce unexpected results in any language. PHP's automatic type
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by nathanb 11y ago
The usual Google product lifecycle: * Create new product to great fanfare * New product sees wide adoption * Many competitors to new product die off due to Google's monopolistic practices * Google decide supporting the now-standard pro
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by nathanb 11y ago
FWIW, I think Robin is just parroting information the Register incorrectly reported some time ago. The departure of beepy is certainly true, though I think speculation as to his departure's significance has been a bit over-dramatic. I
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by nathanb 11y ago
Yeah, the title mangling really changed the sense of what the title was trying to convey.
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by nathanb 11y ago
Thank you, that's exactly what I was wondering. I didn't see anything in the article that gave good reasons for why iOS would be a significant improvement.
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by nathanb 12y ago
I firmly believe that there is only one production-quality makefile that has ever been written from scratch. Every other makefile has been copied from an earlier makefile, dating back to the one Ur-makefile, and modified to suit the author&
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by nathanb 12y ago
I didn't interpret the tone as smugness so much as someone who's tired of having people illegally use his images and then try to argue with him about it.
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by nathanb 12y ago
Should the Chinese government have the power to shield their citizens from information and monitor them electronically? Should a group of people in democratic, Western countries be able to subvert the will of a world superpower with impunit
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by nathanb 12y ago
> "We were storytellers. We were kinda thrown by the wayside. The innovations that adventure games made over the course of their lifespan were absorbed into the other genre of games. You have inventory. You have object manipulation.
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by nathanb 12y ago
Are there any updates to this story? How is the de-ratification going? A few searches did not turn up anything that seemed like a useful update.
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by nathanb 12y ago
Uh, it's the Edison quote mentioned in the article...
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by nathanb 12y ago
The biggest change I made is not talking online about how I protect myself from surveillance. This thread is probably innocuous. But if I were watching one of you already, I would be very interested in hearing what you had to say about how
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by nathanb 12y ago
Capitalism in general lends itself to institutionalized repression of the minority, and I don't claim to have a solution to that. My gut tells me that the government forcing private business is not always the right answer (though it so
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by nathanb 12y ago
Forcing someone to accept payments is the other side of the same coin. I don't want my government to strongarm credit companies into refusing to process payments for politically troublesome customers. But I also don't want my gove
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by nathanb 12y ago
+1 because the existence of fdroid had not penetrated the rock under which I live before now.
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by nathanb 12y ago
Yeah, am I the only one who's skeptical of the whole "hidden in a box" part? More like "hidden until we thought we could convince her to publish".
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by nathanb 12y ago
Embarrassingly, I first misread this as Harper Lee working on a sequel to the Hunger Games finale Mockingjay, and I was so confused.... I was forced to read To Kill a Mockingbird for school. I started reading it with a bad attitude. After I
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by nathanb 12y ago
There is another option...share some of the money users paid to get rid of ads with the artist. But that's just crazy talk.
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by nathanb 12y ago
I'm from Knoxville, though I currently live in the Raleigh-Durham area (one of the areas the fiber gods have smiled upon). You should consider coming out here. I would not go back. (Land prices are super cheap in Knoxville, though!)
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by nathanb 12y ago
Is there any evidence that they're doing anything sleazy? This seems like a crackpot conspiracy theory, not actual news.
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by nathanb 12y ago
I find all caps / block letters slower to write and harder to read. What made you decide to go with that approach?
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by nathanb 12y ago
I hate it that there's such a large dichotomy between typing and handwriting. I hand-write stuff all the time. Not because I'm a doddering fossil or because I'm a luddite or anything like that...I find that hand-writing notes
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by nathanb 12y ago
Interestingly, the Kindle (at least, the Paperwhite I have) does not seem to hyphenate words, preferring instead to leave a ragged right edge if it's not able to justify within tolerances. I realize this is a completely different situa
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by nathanb 12y ago
I respectfully disagree with this advice. But I don't have any evidence, anecdotal or otherwise, to back up my opinion. Have you (or anyone else here) had direct experience in this area? Anyone had a job offer rescinded because you ref
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by nathanb 12y ago
This is actually a really good point. Google have been fighting a public relations war for a long time now to not appear creepy or stalkerish. I can think of few things they could blog about to make people consider not using Google more tha
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by nathanb 12y ago
That would not solve the problem they're trying to solve. Let's say I post something that I shouldn't have posted -- insider stock information, nude photos, whatever. Perhaps something illegal for me to post. I need to make i
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by nathanb 12y ago
Sadly, it does. archive.org respect the robots.txt of the current website owner. This can mean that they have the data but choose not to give you access to them. I have seen cases in the past where a website I once frequented became defunct
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by nathanb 12y ago
Can you explain what you mean by "perfectly safe bicycle infrastructure" and how this removes the need for a helmet?
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by nathanb 12y ago
What value does QKSMS add that Hangouts does not? "It looks better" is a very valid answer, but honestly after reading the Google Play page, I'm still not sure. From reading the description in the Play Store, here's wher

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