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by pi18n 14y ago
Chicken allocations and GC are a really great compromise between heap and stack memory. I've been looking into GC implementations recently and it's one of the most interesting. Another one I think is interesting is Lua's with the "upvalue
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by pi18n 14y ago
Iterators are great! I think I prefer thinking in terms of recursion because it helps me break it into subproblems better. That doesn't invalidate anyone's preference for iterators or generators. And you Python devs have nice list comprehen
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by pi18n 14y ago
I think it's definitely not you that is the problem :) Even the latest releases love to hog all the memory (even when idle) and mine creates zombie processes every time I run the simulator. It's the single crashiest piece of software my com
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by pi18n 14y ago
That is a well-stretched analogy. What is the tractor?
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by pi18n 14y ago
Gatekeeper is an okay compromise. I'd feel better about it if they didn't include restrictive app policies. What if I want to run apps that are signed by a certificate from some third party CA? I'd feel great about it if it would also infor
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by pi18n 14y ago
The only way I could agree with you more is if you didn't think they were catering to App Store developers. Xcode is terrible, the provisioning profiles are irritating, their requirements can be inscrutable. It seems like a bad experience c
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by pi18n 14y ago
I agree with this. I'm just pointing out that without even observing the icons in question I can assert that no theft occurred.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Actually under no circumstances whatsoever can copying an icon cross the line into actual theft. It's possible to cross the line into actual copyright infringement.
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by pi18n 14y ago
There's also a few apps that can copy and paste between devices. I use Any Send to pass links and PDF's around.
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by pi18n 14y ago
This is a good workaround, and I am voting you up in the hopes that others see it.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Even worse; their customer agreement seems to indicate that you are responsible for the content. They also refuse to turn it off if you send them an email. What a shitty little company to be inflicting this on their customers.
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by pi18n 14y ago
This is what happened. For example, I previously gave Name.com the benefit of the doubt and sent them an email asking them to fix the issue. They did not, so now I mention this every time I see their service mentioned. They are scum just li
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by pi18n 14y ago
Cheers, me too. Any ideas on what to switch to?
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by pi18n 14y ago
The only problem I have with this is that (and I say this as an Apple user) it is becoming clearer and clearer that Apple is pushing their desktops to be a good experience for people that don't know how to use computers, which (so far and I
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by pi18n 14y ago
This is exactly what I thought would be irksome, and it was :) I am aware that it is hard to avoid a subjective analysis when it involves oneself, yes. So I'll just say, as far as your points on long functions, interdependency, and reuse, I
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by pi18n 14y ago
The company is expected to have costs when hiring, it isn't appropriate to push them onto the applicants by having them work it off. What if a company gave you an itemized bill after your interview? You're still exchanging something of valu
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by pi18n 14y ago
Actually I saw the first comment about the boss posting as well, which altered how I judged all latter comments. All the other posters were fairly respectful and mostly wrote the OP should consider that he might be wrong. Can't disagree wit
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by pi18n 14y ago
I don't actually have any argument against what you said, in fact I agree wholeheartedly that the answer is the OP should empirically prove what they claim. Nevertheless, I hope you won't take offense if I use that as the starting pistol of
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by pi18n 14y ago
I do that too! I felt bad for the postmaster at fuckyou.com. It's weird but this technique has not yet been rejected, whereas mailinator gets rejected all the time.
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by pi18n 14y ago
The problem is that they work hard to appear in the top page of Google and then don't show the answer unless you sign up. I'm not going to be signing up and I very much resent that they've taken a position that could have been filled with a
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by pi18n 14y ago
But what is your plan for when a bunch of trivial parts of your invention are already patented by trolls as things like "method and apparatus for suppling power to a device"? I don't think you are wrong, I just cannot see a proper solution
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by pi18n 14y ago
Yet another case of DRM harming legitimate customers more than pirates. Meanwhile some guy in China is selling Windows DVDs with that stuff patched out and a full version of Office already installed. There's absolutely no way I'd pay for an
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by pi18n 14y ago
But they have the "smaller safe" problem. This is where people don't want to read through the whole thread, so they skip to the end and post and write, "I bet there's a smaller safe inside!" So readers have to skim past dozens of those to g
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by pi18n 14y ago
I agree in the general case but there are many cases where a goto statement is actually more readable than the alternatives in C. Especially if you choose descriptive labels.
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by pi18n 14y ago
I'm fine with advertisements in desktop apps. Those guys have to make money. But I think there should be a way to pay a fee and forcibly remove them even if the developer didn't code for it. It's your machine, after all.
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by pi18n 14y ago
I think the moral is to incorporate company A, which sells source code without any warranty to company B (also yours), which sells the binaries to users. Company B is perpetually in debt to company A; if they are sued they use their remaini
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by pi18n 14y ago
No, there was an article recently on HN about how Intellectual Ventures "loads" a shell company by transferring a patent to it only days before filing the dispute. If you put the shell out of business they lose only the single patent (if th
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by pi18n 14y ago
If you disagree then watch every patent as they are published to make certain they are non-obvious? This guy is full of it. Of course you would have to be full of it to think this patent was non-obvious.
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by pi18n 14y ago
If peer influence is the cause the perceived shame of viewing men kissing will have the same effect. Also what I presented is not a serious solution to kids acting like jerks. Kids would just invent new words to get around a filter like tha
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by pi18n 14y ago
I have a solution for that. The more a person says "faggot" the more images of men kissing they see in the game. A homophobic 13-year-old would be totally horrified by this whereas a reasonable adult that (somehow) didn't use the word as an

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