sambeau

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by sambeau 15y ago
Please, people. If we mean "use" can't we just use the word "use"?
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Ask HN: Did ifttt's time-based bot just blow up?
2 points by sambeau 15y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 15y ago
This acquisition demonstrates the wisdom of investing in people rather than products. A good team will be flexible and have the ability to take advantage of small pieces of success and build them into hard-won 'luck'. Being lucky requires t
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by sambeau 15y ago
Marco said everything that needed to be said. Meaney should have kept smugly quiet. "I wish someone had kicked my complacent ass about fonts sooner."
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by sambeau 15y ago
Accountability for other people's mistakes is law in commerce. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donoghue_v_Stevenson
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by sambeau 15y ago
I've flown to Nice many times and it's fine. Although, on the way out last time (when I had a proper beard) I was pulled aside by the security guy and had the following whispered in my ear: "I know who you are…" panic. heart in mouth. I'm
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by sambeau 15y ago
New York.
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by sambeau 15y ago
While the card-filling and pointless questioning is a pain the worst aspect of arriving in the US is the state of the US airports, specifically the facilities in arrivals. On my first visit I was unable to find a working ATM, was insulted b
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by sambeau 15y ago
Tourists bring lots of money which they spend in the shops, hotels, restaurants, taxis, etc of voters. Voters should be voting to encourage this.
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by sambeau 15y ago
ARM is a brilliant (if not the poster-boy) example of why the UK government should be investing in new technology companies rather than car manufacturing and banking.
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by sambeau 15y ago
Writing an efficient lexer without goto is a complete nightmare.
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by sambeau 15y ago
While I partly agree with with your argument, I disagree with you conclusion. Linus then goes on to say: Even when Linux was young, the whole and only point was to make a *usable* system. Which I think is accurately summed up:
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by sambeau 15y ago
I mentioned it only because their copyright page says they do use OS data. United Kingdom: Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2010. http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright (I agree with your other
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by sambeau 15y ago
"It’s also missing the necessary credit to OpenStreetMap’s contributors; we look forward to working with Apple to get that on there."
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OpenStreetMap: Welcome Apple(blog.osmfoundation.org)
364 points by sambeau 15y ago|151 comments
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by sambeau 15y ago
Confirmed (but no mention of stealing): http://blog.osmfoundation.org/ though there is this: "It’s also missing the necessary credit to OpenStreetMap’s contributors; we look forward to working with Apple to get that on there."
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Are Apple 'stealing' Open Street Map data?(alastaira.wordpress.com)
133 points by sambeau 15y ago|65 comments
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by sambeau 15y ago
I don't understand what problem this solves. Can anyone explain?
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A big party for Douglas Adams’ 60th Birthday(douglasadamstheparty.com)
1 points by sambeau 15y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 15y ago
Indeed, although I was referring to the announcement of the announcement. Is there anything wrong with a little speculation beforehand? While not exactly 'science' this kind of discussion does allow us to test our prediction skills, debate
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by sambeau 15y ago
While the announcement may not belong here the interesting, informed discussion that will hopefully accompany it surely does. I certainly have nowhere else to discuss this announcement sensibly and in depth.
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by sambeau 15y ago
Link straight to the Quora question and answer. http://www.quora.com/Why-hasn-t-Facebook-migrated-away-from-...
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49% of UK get less than average broadband speed. (bbc.co.uk)
9 points by sambeau 15y ago|6 comments
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by sambeau 15y ago
Does this say something fundamental about transistors or something fundamental about atoms?
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by sambeau 15y ago
I don't understand this bit: Under both system of copyright and copyfree work, J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series of book, became a billionaire JK Rowling became a billionaire through licensing her characters to film-makers,
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A giant 35ft long camera that takes 6ft negatives(dailymail.co.uk)
3 points by sambeau 15y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 15y ago
And of course there are many valid programs where leaking memory is totally fine (and more performant): shell tools, cgis etc. When I write any of these, the only time I free anything is when I've had to malloc something huge.
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by sambeau 15y ago
This is one good reason to learn functional programming. Functional programming is all about algorithms and the algorithms are generally laid bare to be easily seen (rather than hidden in the noise of syntax). I have found that being taught
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by sambeau 15y ago
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting." The age of an article has no bearing on how interesting a good hacker would find it.
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by sambeau 15y ago
I have found that it more likely holds on to some pointer longer than it could rather than leaking memory. For instance, I've never known it to start eating up memory.

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