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by rm445 15y ago
I'm not a plan 9 programmer, but to me it looks 'cute' (in the sense of attractive to some people but annoying to others) - that form of abort() would only be used on systems where that operation is known to abort the process, but enclosing
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by rm445 15y ago
The way he floundered looking for somewhere to get started was quite instructive. I've used several programs over the years that would have really benefitted from a UI element that indicated 'click here if you have no idea how this progra
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by rm445 15y ago
That's a very pessimistic way of looking at insurance. Sure, extended warranties on consumer goods and so on are things to be avoided, but insurance would still exist in a world of informed and rational people. When you buy insurance you ge
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by rm445 15y ago
The example at the end of the article is terrible. (The Nash equilibrium for the two-people-writing-down-a-price puzzle, the Traveller's dilemma, is for them both to write down that the item is worth the bare minimum, but that has no releva
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by rm445 15y ago
Hard drive failure is probabalistic. You're just one data point. There are plenty of people who have seen a moderate number of drive failures, and some people who have so many drives fail that you have to check that they aren't tapping them
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by rm445 15y ago
Because when other social networks have stopped growing, they have massively shrunk as the next big thing has come along. Of course, it's very possible that that argument is mixing up cause and effect, and this is still a relatively young f
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by rm445 15y ago
From a business point of view they seized a market very well. They took notice of an advance in UK banking practice - bank transfers that complete immediately rather than in three days or even one - and built a business out of it. Getting a
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by rm445 15y ago
1 point. Easy solution, just mark your comment score at the top of your comment, and when you come back later to check for replies edit your comment to show your current score. We'll work on the honour system for now, but if it catches on m
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by rm445 15y ago
That's harsh, and I hope things work out for you, but there is another thing going on here - a constant treadmill of qualifications is becoming the norm in many industries. You might be doing your career harm if you isolate yourself from
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by rm445 15y ago
Good question. When you reset your PSN password, they send you a link, rather than your password in plaintext, which at least hints they were doing the right thing. But who knows.
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by rm445 16y ago
Sorry, but your reasoning isn't logical. You accept that point three recurring is one third, presumably because you accepted it as a young child - but you don't make the leap to accepting that point nine recurring is 3/3, by the simple corr
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by rm445 16y ago
You have the wrong end of the stick, because you're missing the history of the story. Reddit have a weird budget when it comes to staffing costs versus operating costs due to their parent company's policies as a media comapny - so they hav
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by rm445 16y ago
There's a lot of residual good will for Plan 9, because of the people involved, and because of the way many of its good ideas have work their way into other OSes (despite Plan 9 itself's relative lack of success). So ideas from Plan 9 will
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by rm445 16y ago
Interesting article. As I read it, I supposed that the conclusion would be that the iOS ecosystem would be Apple's disruptive advantage in the set-top box market. Instead, he concludes that Apple might make a disruptive television . It's i
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by rm445 16y ago
Really? Someone who said 'Gee-numeric', or who just assumed the 'G' is silent, would get the gist of it.
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by rm445 16y ago
It's horrendous, but nowadays many advertisers are directing people to their site with addresses in the form: facebook.com/productname
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by rm445 16y ago
So he's an angel?
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by rm445 16y ago
One thing the comments here haven't addressed is how Twitter's behaviour in this case compares with how such things have traditionally been dealt with on the Internet. I think there's a reasonable expectation that big Web companies act in a
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by rm445 16y ago
Not as far as I'm aware of, though in some countries the authorities have some oversight of names, so you might be stopped from naming your child Pepsi Microsoft or other silly things. More to the point, there are laws governing what names
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by rm445 16y ago
All your points go off at a tangent to the original article. 1). Author doesn't claim that most Mac owners are developers. He attributes "a large part" of Apple's success to recommendations that began with developer mindshare. 2). It's no
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by rm445 16y ago
If the survey was done properly, then 'other' consists of lots of different things and bzr is just a small chunk of it not worth dealing with separately. If the survey was done badly, with an 'other' option with no way to write in what you
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by rm445 16y ago
I think I've fallen into an alternate universe. I could swear Warren Beatty died just after 'Dick Tracy' came out. Who did die at about that time?
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by rm445 16y ago
That's a fascinating article, and you may be right that little more need be said, but the author wanders WAY off the subject when he gets to the benefits of Java. Claiming that you can use the time saved by having garbage collection to mak
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by rm445 16y ago
You can't always trust your instincts with these things. We got used to the Wii in the end - product names often sound strange until the metaphorical corners rub off through repeated use.
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by rm445 16y ago
Is this a wall of shame for the packages in red, or for Python 3 itself?
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by rm445 16y ago
Yes Nokia has MeeGo, but for some reason they just haven't been able to get it out of the door. It has been nearly ready for months and months, and it's a real shame because even as 'nearly ready' it's a really nice environment. I haven't
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by rm445 16y ago
Nokia used to have levels of consumer satisfaction and devotion similar to what Apple have. Consistently, for about a decade (from the mid-nineties), they made the most desirable phones, with the best combination of hardware and user experi
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by rm445 16y ago
They might have to start putting decent processors in their phones. Besides its other problems, I'm sure people wouldn't hate Symbian so much if it was just snappy. Symbian phones just seem to have that quarter-second time constant on ever
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by rm445 16y ago
What happened to MeeGo? Can anyone tell me why Nokia couldn't ship MeeGo phones sooner? It was in a seemingly-near-finished state a year ago. I thought it was really promising - I even ran the netbook release full-time on my netbook for a
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by rm445 16y ago
This is fascinating. Naughty Dog has developed for Sony consoles since Crash, so they might have low visibility if you're not in touch with the Playstation ecosystem, but they're renowned for their total mastery of successive generations o

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