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541.
by seabee 15y ago
Bear in mind that Labour offered AV with no referendum necessary, but did not have the seats to form a majority with the Lib Dems alone. Had they upped their offer to (a referendum on) PR it would have had the support of the minor parties a
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by seabee 15y ago
It's described under the 'simulation method' heading. Unless you have a reason to suggest otherwise, it's reasonable to assume voters' preferences follow a normal distribution.
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by seabee 15y ago
If you want Google to update your phone, buy Google's phone. It would seem obvious that OEM phones are ultimately under the control of the OEMs (and the carriers); it has always been this way. I don't see Android getting updates in the same
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by seabee 15y ago
This is true when you buy retail, but I find it hard to begrudge Steam. I can buy a game and have it ready to play within the hour. And when I go to the parents' house, I can install the games I bought onto their computer. It's not without
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by seabee 15y ago
€1 per gigabyte is pretty reasonable as overage charges go...
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by seabee 16y ago
It's impossible to unit test a component whose criteria for 'working' is tightly coupled to dependencies out of your control (video hardware & drivers). Thus you'll never be able to unit-test a video game completely. Or even fulfill oth
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by seabee 16y ago
Your facts don't support your assertions. Population of China (2007): 1,321,851,888 ( http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004391.html ) Suicide rate determined in 2007: "more than 287,000 people end their own lives every year" ( http://www.chin
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by seabee 16y ago
Isn't this concept the whole rationale towards foreign outsourcing?
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by seabee 16y ago
How does one achieve reform without disruption?
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by seabee 16y ago
> the mobile version of GTalk uses a proprietary protocol That's a really irrelevant point to standards. With that logic you could argue that Opera Mini isn't a web browser because Opera servers download the HTML and convert it to a pro
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by seabee 16y ago
He had to connect to the internet in the foreign city at least once before. The difference is now it must be every time.
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by seabee 16y ago
CSS sprites wasn't the issue anyway. It was an interaction between the way the CSS referenced images and reddit's overzealous optimisations for its CDN turning every reference into a unique one.
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by seabee 16y ago
tmalloc() is memory management. As are other, alternative memory allocation strategies, chosen for better performance for certain applications. The notion that there is only one right way to do things is quaint, even if you're talking about
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by seabee 16y ago
For a company that sells as many units as Apple does, this is no argument for keeping 512mb on iPad 2 but increasing memory on iPhone 5. The price increase would be small compared to the cost of the device. Perhaps there is something they k
555.
by seabee 16y ago
Maybe, but how much does 1GB of RAM really cost?
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by seabee 16y ago
> They have mapping software built into a couple hundred million smartphones... Could be a nice differentiating factor. Open up Maps, hit the 'Find Places' button, and pick Restaurants, for example. There's a sponsored, very generic lin
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by seabee 16y ago
They might be valuable, but I'd rather take a single solid, thought-out method over the reports of a hundred random, failed attempts.
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by seabee 16y ago
The pros and cons of different styles is another discussion entirely. This is about judging how 'OOP' something is, so it's probably most fruitful to compare it to its original definition rather than to the derivatives it inspired. Hence Al
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by seabee 16y ago
Ordered it on Saturday and got it today. I'm pretty excited to try it out tonight!
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by seabee 16y ago
Then that's what someone should say, and then promptly get upvoted. Some questions need to be asked, alternative points of view made, and then shown to the world why it's a bad idea; we shouldn't hide them from view to be missed so someone
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by seabee 16y ago
How do those features impact runtime performance? One example of templates affecting runtime performance is poor use of the instruction cache due to code duplication in every instantiation of a template.
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by seabee 16y ago
I see he uses the "Hotdog Acquisition is Satisfaction" idiom.
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by seabee 16y ago
From the Bitcoin FAQ: How divisible are Bitcoins? Technically, a Bitcoin can be divided down to 8 decimals, so 0.00000001 BTC is the smallest possible amount. For convenience, the program currently accepts only 2 decimal places.
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by seabee 16y ago
Isn't Darwin open source in the same way Android is? As in, the development process can only be seen by those in the inner sanctum.
565.
by seabee 16y ago
If it were open in the public development sense, how many more committers do you think there would be? 10% more? 50%? 200%? In the context of the rapidly-changing ubiquitous computing space with open-source (or even commoditised) hardware n
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by seabee 16y ago
It directly impacts those using CyanogenMod, which would not exist were the OS not open source.
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by seabee 16y ago
> it's difficult to detect an invalid result from combining or comparing signed and unsigned ints Isn't this why you should compile with all warnings on?
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by seabee 16y ago
Isn't that what Chromium is for?
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by seabee 16y ago
The implication in those decrying the 'wives are expensive' comment is that they do not believe spouses in general are expensive. Anecdotally, I find that very hard to believe.
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by seabee 16y ago
As someone who hangs around in the reddit dev and downtime IRC channels, several-hour outages do happen on a monthly basis, as well as loss of some features more e.g. commenting. Reading between the lines on each outage, it was due to build

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