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by sjwright 12y ago
If he was designing a video game, your assessment would be viable. As it happens though, Torvalds writes code that makes half the world function reliably; some would say his exceptionally direct attitude has served him well in this endeavor
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by sjwright 12y ago
I live in Australia, but I've also driven in the UK and parts of Europe. Any roundabout I've used has worked in the same way -- as you approach the roundabout, you must give way to vehicles already on the roundabout. Relevant to t
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by sjwright 12y ago
That rule already applies. It's no different on a circular road or roundabout; traffic already on a road has priority over traffic turning onto it.
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by sjwright 12y ago
It's not immediately obvious, but all the diagrams on that page are actually live and interactive demonstrations. You can move the entities, and you can reshape the walls as much as you like.
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by sjwright 12y ago
> My local electorate is Fairfax I'm sorry.
2736.
by sjwright 12y ago
Musk might not have been the founder on paper, but he was the founder in every respect that matters. The company you see today is his vision, not the product of Eberhard and Tarpenning.
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by sjwright 12y ago
Fixed.
2738.
by sjwright 12y ago
Musk isn't just a CEO. He's their Steve Jobs -- co-founder and visionary. He's chief product architect. And he's also the money. I think he deserves the right to have a CEO-centric view of his company.
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by sjwright 12y ago
The ROKR might well be the worst thing Steve ever showed in any of his keynotes. It was comedy awful.
2740.
by sjwright 12y ago
There have been numerous instances of IBM and Apple working together in the past. The AIM alliance (PowerPC) and Taligent immediately come to mind.
2741.
by sjwright 12y ago
That's a clever comment. http://www.cbc.ca/undertheinfluence/Welcome%20IBM.%20serious...
2742.
by sjwright 12y ago
That ad worked because customers at the time associated IBM with the impending corporate monolith. IBM was just the whipping-boy for the larger idea. (Much like how today Apple is the whipping-boy for Foxconn manufacturing scandals.) It b
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by sjwright 12y ago
And the digression on the thinking behind the name makes the article feel like a spoof.
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by sjwright 12y ago
> "blue-white-red countries (France, Cambodia, Russia)" As distinct from "red-white-blue" countries (USA, Cuba, North Korea) or "blue-red-white" countries (Netherlands, Australia, Iceland). After all, most p
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by sjwright 12y ago
I can't imagine ObjC is going anywhere, much like how ObjC didn't cause plain C or C++ to disappear. There's far too much established code out there, in third party applications and Mac OS X itself, so support will remain. Be
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by sjwright 12y ago
> Have they? Pretty much; Apple doesn't tend to release big things like this on a whim. At minimum they've certainly signaled that Swift will be treated as a first-class language on par with Objective C, and has every likelihoo
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by sjwright 12y ago
Not for me. Try using your browser's private browsing mode.
2748.
by sjwright 12y ago
It should be noted that Australia is currently transitioning lexicon from Soccer to Football. The local governing body, FFA (Football Federation Australia) has stopped using the word, though it still exists in part with our national tea
2749.
by sjwright 12y ago
That's not the same thing.
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by sjwright 12y ago
Margins are irrelevant; it's the column width that matters. I agree that the font size is too small (I use the NoSquint plug-in to remember a 200% zoom for it) but the column width is bang on with about ten words per line.
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by sjwright 12y ago
> it seems to do nothing about non-practicing entities It doesn't do anything about non-practicing entities because it can't. There's no formulation of words that could cause a license to have any bearing on NPEs. Your pot
2752.
by sjwright 12y ago
Apple ended up doing the following almost exactly as stated: 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23, 25, 26, 33, 34, 37, 39, 50, 51, 62, 63, 70, 76, 83, 85, 87, 94, 95 and 98. And they pretty much did these in spirit: 5 (but even simpler)
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by sjwright 12y ago
I went straight from a CFML/Java/Javascript web developer to picking up Objective C in a week. I had some coaching from a C/C++ expert, who learned ObjC on the fly and wrote a first draft of an app I designed, but from there
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by sjwright 12y ago
> because of their focus on secrecy, they're doomed to relearn all that we learned That's wrong, condescending and misses the point. Wrong because the developers were not cut off from learning what was learned by others. Condes
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by sjwright 12y ago
Which implicitly means that swift code can be compiled for iOS 7. Which isn't surprising since the compiled code uses the ObjC runtime.
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by sjwright 12y ago
With that hyperbole, I'm willing to bet you've never stepped a foot outside the USA. Don't you realise it also adds friction for US companies doing business in the everywhere else?
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by sjwright 12y ago
Okay, so boiling water happens to be a convenient number. But my point surely stands for the temperature where water freezes?! Metric makes no sense.
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by sjwright 12y ago
> I am deliberately not giving conversions to Fahrenheit But I spent all that effort learning what temperature water boils at in Fahrenheit. Who the hell is going to remember what that temperature is in Celsius??
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by sjwright 12y ago
America is like the fat kid who's the last to jump into the swimming pool; everyone else is shouting the water is fine, it's warm, it's fun, but you're sitting there worried about the consequences of being wet. As if you
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by sjwright 12y ago
The amount of effort required per capita is still much the same.

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