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by rchowe 15y ago
Legally, they're not. Bitcoin just isn't actual money in any country. Someone should buy sealand and change the national currency to bitcoin...
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by rchowe 15y ago
Ubuntu was supposed to be the linux distribution that was easy for the everyday user. Now they're suffering from GNOME politics and Canonical treating their users as beta testers (but Unity works great for (most) people with Intel laptops).
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by rchowe 15y ago
Android is a different story. Even though it's based on Linux and is supposedly "open source", Google's still the driving force behind its development. So the problems the article points out with the linux development process won't really a
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by rchowe 15y ago
The problem is that java bytecode and the JVM are a good match for java in terms of safety: array bounds checking and such is enforced on the bytecode level. C programs which either are written poorly and take advantage of some of the unsaf
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by rchowe 15y ago
But the market places a higher value on a single btc once they are "out of circulation" because money is scarcer, right? So the only person losing money is you.
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by rchowe 15y ago
What if I put a link to my github account on my resume. And a potential employer sees me being a member what someone thought of as a joke? Losing potential jobs is a big deal.
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by rchowe 15y ago
The original USB interfaces which apple made mainstream in the iMac? I don't know. But I do know that MacBook Pro prices with Thunderbolt are similar to without, probably because the thunderbolt controller also does DisplayPort (I wouldn't
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by rchowe 15y ago
The author is saying that they won't be relevant and doesn't give any context. I believe they won't be relevant in the consumer market, because I think most people would rather have a droid or an iPhone. However in the enterprise market the
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by rchowe 15y ago
There aren't really any good libraries for it. You can compile straight ObjC on linux fairly easily with gcc or clang (use -lobjc), but the thing is without NSString and all of the foundation you'll end up doing a lot of work. And yes, you
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by rchowe 16y ago
> verifying solutions is much easier than finding them If P = NP Bitcoin breaks down. Interesting.
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by rchowe 16y ago
At this point, I just prefer the way gedit renders text compared to OS X. It seems crisper and easier to read than OS X's anti-aliased with no regards to the pixel grid. That's the main reason I do all of my non-mac development on linux.
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by rchowe 16y ago
What I'm saying is that you can't do something like this in C++-derived OO languages class Test { Test( int count ) { if ( count > 5000 ) return new Implementation(); return new OtherImplementat
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by rchowe 16y ago
NSArray/NSMutableArray are class clusters - meaning that upon allocation/initialization they choose between many classes (and it might swizzle the class pointer to be of type NSArray/NSMutableArray, I can't remember). What's interesting to
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by rchowe 16y ago
I had assumed this was a weekend project that just launched, my bad.
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by rchowe 16y ago
Your copyright notice still says 2010.
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by rchowe 16y ago
My school censors almost everything on the internet. paulgrahm.com is blocked for being a personal site, as are all blogs, wikis, and forums. And the best part? The teachers have different censors so if a teacher gives you an assignment wit
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by rchowe 16y ago
GNUStep also has garbage collection (albeit Boehm, not the same as the collector in OS X). Yes, it is missing from the language, but it doesn't make OS X special. And all that needs to come along is a version of GNUStep that fits in with th
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by rchowe 16y ago
I don't think the problem with OOP is that it's antiquated, but rather that it leads to spaghetti/difficult to maintain code because things get so tied up in encapsulation or not properly encapsulated that you end up with a bad java framewo
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by rchowe 16y ago
The coding, compsci, and reverse engineering reddits have a fairly high signal ratio for computer science (higher than the programming reddit). All of the language-specific reddits are also fairly focused.
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by rchowe 16y ago
I had hoped that this would have been an internal install of Diaspora one day... The whole concept of a "business" social network seems to me like a fit that a startup tries to force every now and then. If it were me I'd look at combining p
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by rchowe 16y ago
I find github second only to the sonic screwdriver.
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by rchowe 16y ago
There is, but you need to be at a certain karma threshold.
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by rchowe 16y ago
But what about updates? Now handled by the mac app store, for apps bought by the mac app store. And the iPhone SDK may or may not be distributed with the mac, which may be out of date from the current iOS.
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by rchowe 16y ago
The problem is that if there's a high barrier to entry there might be a "Google Wave" effect - people joining, finding out they have no friends on the service, and never using it. What the distributed social network market needs is a networ
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by rchowe 16y ago
It created "Aspects", or groups of friends, and you post things to specific aspects or to all aspects. Only the people in that aspect will see updates.
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by rchowe 16y ago
Most people won't have to do this. Most people will just join an existing site. Diaspora is much more significant in that it solves the gay bar problem of social networking ( http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... )
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by rchowe 16y ago
I think Scoble's "The bar is low" is better expressed as the fact that it's an undeveloped market. Whether or not there is a gold-rush for this app store remains to be seen, but his other points still remain valid. By using the builtin API
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by rchowe 16y ago
It seems like a whole UI refresh. I haven't seen an image yet, but the top bar is different and the there's more padding on the messages. Kinda un-google-like; they're normally minimal padding and 1px rounds.
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by rchowe 16y ago
Some iPhone/Mac devs are obsessive about their UI. This does not look like their kind of app.
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by rchowe 16y ago
UCLA grads on Top Prospect are more likely to be founders than Stanford grads, which may or may not be a representative sample of the population of founders.

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