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by pja 15y ago
The whole point of the Manifest file is to make sure that Android Apps are not offered to incompatible devices. Need OpenGL ES 2.0? You can specify that and eliminate all the OpenGL ES 1.0 only devices. Need a high-res screen? You can s
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by pja 15y ago
The poor sales of the Linux EeePCs really only applied in the US: EU sales were 50/50 with no particular returns bias between the two if my memory of Asus' statements at the time is correct. Perhaps there was some difference in the marketin
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by pja 15y ago
It's not just rounding issues: depending on the values involved the order in which you carry out FP operations can lead to radically different results. In this particular case, the difference due to re-ordering of multiplications is likely
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by pja 15y ago
Personally, I wouldn't mind if it weren't for the fact that popups seem to mess up the browser positioning on url fragment ids. The popups seem to guarantee to pop up over the top line of the fragment that was in the link you've just follow
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by pja 15y ago
Flexibility of the language I imagine. Function application: point free or not? Control flow: Monadic? Continuation passing style? Do you prefer to use Functors and fmap or list comprehensions to build lists? etc etc. In Haskell it's natura
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by pja 15y ago
One of the interviewers asked me to name a software I used and liked. I said emacs. He then asked to draft a design of emacs on the whiteboard. First, a high-level design, then refine one of the modules, etc. That's a fantastic intervie
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by pja 15y ago
Personally, I'd be quite happy if they pulled user affiliate codes from links and replaced them with their own. Every sane person knows that a site like reddit has to be paid for somehow & this seems like a relatively unintrusive way to
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by pja 15y ago
That's my take too. The remaining question then is just how far the reach of the GPL is in the context of a javascript library. Just the javascript that actually calls the code? Everything else called from the same html page? Everything els
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by pja 15y ago
Does anyone have a good handle on what the GPL means in the context of a javascript library invoked by an html page rendered by a browser? I certainly don't! nb, you say: "libmad has commercial license. As for jsmad, we're in a sort of grey
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by pja 15y ago
These MS language developers play for keeps don't they? First Spec#, now F*... But seriously, this is good stuff. I wonder how long it's going to take for this kind of proof-driven code to reach mainstream programmers? Decades I imagine.
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by pja 15y ago
Hmm. I think my counter-point would be that in this particular case the interviewee has a direct incentive not to tell the truth and a plausible alternative story provided for them by GroupOn's PR machine. Plus they know that whatever the
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by pja 15y ago
Cool project: The "I need a map of where I am on my 3G Kindle now " demographic is out there waiting to be tapped! (ps, if the author is reading this: you've misspelt "your" on the homepage.)
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by pja 15y ago
Sorry, I don't see the contradiction at all. Of course journalism is about asking "tough questions" but there's nothing that compels the interviewee to answer those questions, and even if they do answer truthfully their "truth" may differ f
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by pja 15y ago
I think any phone with the words "Nkia" or "Blockberry" on could reasonably be called counterfeit. At the same time, I imagine that the buyers of these phones know exactly what they're getting, so whether the companies in question have real
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by pja 15y ago
Right, because obviously a small business owner is going to be happy to tell some random journalist who phones them up, "Yeah, we did that third GroupOn deal because otherwise we weren't going to be able to pay the rent". They'll make up
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by pja 15y ago
Yeah, but Youtube ought to work fine; it's wfm on every Linux box I've ever been anywhere near. That suggests that something else is up. NetFlix needs Silverlight's DRM, which Moonlight on Mono doesn't have. On the one hand, it's not really
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by pja 15y ago
I suspect once an organisation gets big enough, you're going to find perl and python in use somewhere. The OSX kernel is written mostly in a restricted dialect of C++ once you get above the microkernel level isn't it? The control software f
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by pja 15y ago
The other problem with buying a bike online is that the bike will probably come only part-assembled & if you don't know what you're doing you can really make a mess of things. A proper bike shop will be doing this assembly for you: it's
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by pja 15y ago
Given that you can achieve 12x return on equity within YC, the obvious follow-on is: can YC itself scale, or does it depend on the few individuals currently running it for its success? I know other YC-a-like organisations have started up el
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by pja 15y ago
Um. The UK has universal healthcare (the NHS) and a parallel private system. I'm not sure why that make it a bad example in this context. (Admittedly, the NHS is not the best health care system in the world, but then we spend less on it tha
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by pja 16y ago
Yeah, this is going to mix very badly with exceptions. Also, a little rootling around on the web reveals the following statement in IBM's z/OS docs: "Do not issue getcontext() in a C++ constructor or destructor, since the saved context woul