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by schrototo 15y ago
Bunch of weasels.
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by schrototo 15y ago
For the same reason we shouldn't allow openly gay people into programming teams, because it would negatively affect team morale...
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by schrototo 15y ago
The insinuation that it's all just done for the grant money.
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by schrototo 15y ago
Actually, if I remember correctly from his interview on the WTF podcast, his father is a programmer and Louis was always pretty technologically adept. E.g. he edits his TV show himself on his MacBook.
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by schrototo 15y ago
I think that's the whole point of these types of problems: the first step is always to parse the question, find out what's the actual problem and which data is relevant. You know, just like in real life. (Granted, those particular examples
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by schrototo 15y ago
Have you guys not noticed that every time someone posts a link to an onswiped article, half the comments are about how shitty onswipe is?
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by schrototo 15y ago
Wow, that context really doesn't help your case at all.
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by schrototo 15y ago
What the fuck? That is absolutely horrible! What piece-of-shit university do you work for?
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by schrototo 15y ago
God forbid a model of a human being should actually resemble a human being...
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by schrototo 15y ago
It could also be a reflection of how laptop usage has changed over time. Maybe a couple of years ago laptops were closed most of the time, hence the decision to put the logo up that way.
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by schrototo 15y ago
Any time a story like this pops up, regardless of the company involved, I assume it's the fault of some overzealous subcontracted lawyers. I can't imagine any sane company executive approving something like this, since it makes absolutely
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by schrototo 15y ago
Of course, Microsoft's real problem is not that they killed the product, but that they made it public at a time when it wasn't clear it would really go to market.
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by schrototo 15y ago
Saying we can't ever blame a company for doing something, because the express purpose of a company is increasing shareholder value, is such an absurd line of reasoning. Then blame the shareholders instead of the company! At some point the
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by schrototo 15y ago
> If the first OR statement is true, any good compiler will skip the next two clauses. This has nothing to do with the compiler, it's part of the language specification. If your compiler doesn't comply with this, it's broken.
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by schrototo 15y ago
Probably because of the Tim Ferris mention. That guy causes a strong spike on the bullshit-o-meter...
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by schrototo 15y ago
Man, what a bummer. I was so looking forward to that magazine.
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by schrototo 15y ago
Why is 2GB a problem? I use more than that almost every day downloading movies & TV shows...
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by schrototo 15y ago
That's pretty neat. The only thing that's missing IMO is an option to preview the pattern as the background of the page.
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by schrototo 15y ago
And of course, LLVM is free and open source as well... just without the GPL.
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by schrototo 15y ago
If they could do it, they would do it. There really is no point in announcing these sorts of things.
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by schrototo 15y ago
I don't think Apple has ever promoted its products as "luxurious". Jobs introduced the iPad as " a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price ". I think that Bezos quote is actually very Apple-like, what with "people are goin
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by schrototo 15y ago
While this project is clearly a joke and the article has fun with it, the statement It is also a practical test of the thought experiment that wonders whether an infinite number of monkeys pounding on an infinite number of typewriters woul
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by schrototo 15y ago
The satellites had a resolution of about 2 to 3 feet (0.6 to nearly 1 meter) And that was in the 70s, imagine what stuff they've got up there right now!
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by schrototo 15y ago
Well, I think the generally agreed upon meaning of "garbage collection" is something along the lines of "automatic memory management at runtime " (garbage piles up and gets collected) while "automatic reference counting" is "automatic memo
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by schrototo 15y ago
Why does it use an ASCII emoticon instead of an actual graphic that isn't turned on its side?
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by schrototo 15y ago
Let me guess: they already have a couple million dollars in funding for what's essentially a student's weekend project?
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by schrototo 15y ago
This would be infinitely more useful if it was backed by some actual data instead of those utterly useless search activity patterns. Why not combine a search like this with something like Wolfram Alpha? What a waste... edit: Seriously, wo
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by schrototo 15y ago
While Vista sold 20 million copies within its first month (double that of XP), Lion sold one million copies on its first day . Judging from those numbers, and taking into account that Macs have a global market share of about 5% overall, I
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by schrototo 15y ago
I can't imagine the insurance file being little more than the full uncensored cable archive. What else could it be? If Wikileaks had a gigabyte of compromising information on the US government or some other powerful entity, surely they woul
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by schrototo 15y ago
> "No concerns were expressed when the book was published and if anyone at WikiLeaks had thought this compromised security they have had seven months to remove the files. That they didn't do so clearly shows the problem was not caused b

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