sambeau

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by sambeau 13y ago
Ha. Yes, maybe I went slightly tangential due to my weekend experience but I think the core is relevant: Some geeks accuse the App Store of eroding our freedoms (and the freedom of free software). I say that truly free software is a luxury
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by sambeau 13y ago
Apple did not create the need for the App Store any more than locksmiths created the need for us all to live in locked homes. The App Store was created by a small group of Malware writers, virus creators and Spammers who exploited their fre
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by sambeau 13y ago
I once wrote a programming language that had a localised 'this' called 'it' exactly for this pattern. if (something_exists) { do_something_to(it) } It was really useful (and readable). I believe Perl has som
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by sambeau 13y ago
<BLINK>THERE ARE PLENTY MORE TO FIND HERE</BLINK> http://www.iamsad.co.uk/
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by sambeau 13y ago
"The study of the patterns produced by vibrating bodies has a venerable history. One of the earliest to record that an oscillating body displayed regular patterns was Galileo Galilei. In Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
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by sambeau 13y ago
It depends on your definition of useful Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. Thes
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by sambeau 13y ago
It's not the low-pay per se that concerns those who criticise the outsourcing of everything to the developing world. It is the lack of comparable safety standards, environmental standards and workers' rights. We in the developed world fou
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by sambeau 13y ago
Pointing out real flaws in China's employment & environmental business practices is not anti-China propaganda. These are things that generations of campaigners have fought against since the beginning of the industrial revolution. China
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by sambeau 13y ago
It was wrong then and it is wrong now.
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by sambeau 13y ago
Building one the biggest most exciting tech companies in the world is 'screwing'? Or are you accusing him of ruining your day by dying of cancer? Without a link I can't call this linkbait so I can only call you out for attention seeking. Ho
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Ask HN: Who wrote your website?
4 points by sambeau 13y ago|2 comments
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by sambeau 13y ago
I really like this idea but I think your categories are confused and confusing. First, I was disappointed to see the lack of a 'design' option. Then I wondered whether you could be a designer or a code mentor for each category. But designin
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by sambeau 13y ago
From the press release: "He and his wife have one child and one dog. Neither is for sale."
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by sambeau 13y ago
"Having a say" is very different to being a dictator. A good designer understands that design is a discussion and that there will always be pragmatic compromises to be made. However, having the implementer make the important design decision
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by sambeau 13y ago
Surely an alternative and equally plausible story here is that the files were corrupted locally and Dropbox gave a 60-day window for them to be recovered. However, having spent some time with people debugging a WebDAV client I suspect that
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by sambeau 13y ago
Bank is the Hogwarts of tube stations.
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by sambeau 13y ago
You are a private citizen. A police officer is not while in the process of carrying out their duty. This is, in part, why they wear a uniform and why the are badged and numbered. The police have a very special and privileged place in our so
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by sambeau 14y ago
"And a game where a single error is "start over from the beginning" is a non-fun game, generally." Before the 1990s nearly all computer games worked like that. Most only ever gave you 3 lives many started you from the beginning a
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by sambeau 14y ago
As gate-keepers to the law the police are in a very special position. How can we expect them to investigate abuse of position if they are abusing their position?
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FAA: 'No, you can't hijack a plane with an Android app'(theregister.co.uk)
64 points by sambeau 14y ago|29 comments
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by sambeau 14y ago
I suspect gold will prove a lot harder to manufacture than diamonds. Gold is created in the explosion of a large supernova that was formed from the remnants of generations of supernova before, each explosion creating heavier and sometimes t
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by sambeau 14y ago
It's funny. I've never understood the hatred of the hockey puck mouse, I always loved mine. I think the answer was in how you held it. I held it very lightly with the tips of my fingers and so could throw it around with real speed and accur
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by sambeau 14y ago
For some reason I thought that was a fallacy. I must now go and re-read Tanenbaum.
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by sambeau 14y ago
You do not let me zoom your page on my iPad and you limit the font-size to really small. You limit page width to the same tight column when I change to landscape. Why anger your readership? I will not read your stinking blog.
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by sambeau 14y ago
Does this suggest that maybe we should be sharing each other's poo to prevent our gut being dominated by a single bacteria? And does that suggest, maybe, that obesity is in some way partly caused by modern hygiene and hand-washing preventin
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by sambeau 14y ago
I was under the impression that even with shared libraries each running process gets its own copy of the library in its memory space.
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by sambeau 14y ago
It's backed by Samsung.
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by sambeau 14y ago
It's the basis for Tizen, Samsung's new mobile operating system.
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by sambeau 14y ago
Although it is always referred to as a set top box it (*7) was more like a Tablet. You can see one here: http://gcc.uni-paderborn.de/www/WI/WI2/wi2_lit.nsf/64ae86483...
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by sambeau 14y ago
Just being able to hold down a modifier key to move an element up down left and right would be great. You can do this in one dimension at a time at present but to be able to exactly place something would be a tremendous time saver.

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