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by ssp 17y ago
To be precise, it's devoted to an example where software didn't sell itself. Maybe it was just bad and nobody wanted to tell their friends about it.
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by ssp 17y ago
If they can make sure H.264 become the standard, then that's a big problem for firefox, which is good for Microsoft, so it wouldn't be totally illogical for them to skip VP8.
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by ssp 17y ago
No, (uintptr_t)buf + len is parenthesized like this: ((uintptr_t)buf) + len.
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by ssp 17y ago
Christensen also points out that disruptive technologies often start out the opposite of expensive. They target some low-margin market that is being over-served by existing technology. Then they grow to eat the high-margin competitors from
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by ssp 17y ago
Their solution is not undefined. After casting to uintptr_t, the value is an unsigned integer which has well-defined overflow behavior. The casting itself is okay too because uintptr_t is guaranteed to be able to hold a pointer.
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by ssp 17y ago
Click the first link here if you hit the paywall: http://www.google.com/#q=apple+rains+on+adobe%27s+parade&#38...
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Apple rains on Adobe's parade(online.wsj.com)
1 points by ssp 17y ago|1 comments
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by ssp 17y ago
It got two upvotes almost immediately after I submitted it, but then no more since then. Maybe it triggered the anti-voting-ring software. (That would be ironic).
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by ssp 17y ago
Via Andy's blog: http://wingolog.org/archives/2010/04/11/slouching-towards-be...
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Moglen: Software Freedom, Privacy, and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing(softwarefreedom.org)
9 points by ssp 17y ago|5 comments
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How to Achieve Painless Registration(asktog.com)
6 points by ssp 17y ago|1 comments
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by ssp 17y ago
In general when an open source project is failing at something, the maintainer is failing at something. A maintainer has a lot of power over the project he maintains, but this power comes at the price that you have to make sure the boring s
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Slashing Subjective Time (2007)(asktog.com)
1 points by ssp 17y ago|0 comments
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Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known and Loved(billbuxton.com)
17 points by ssp 17y ago|4 comments
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Fred Brooks: No Silver Bullet - Essence and Accident in Software Engineering(people.eecs.ku.edu)
2 points by ssp 17y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 17y ago
maybe even back to the iPod with its proprietary connector and its proprietary software. Geeks have really short memory: Apple has always been evil. In the famous 1989 lawsuit between Apple and Microsoft about whether look and feel could
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Apple shows developers the money(betanews.com)
1 points by ssp 17y ago|0 comments
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Clash of the titans: Apple, Google battle for the mobile Web(betanews.com)
1 points by ssp 17y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 17y ago
Greenspun didn't write it, he just posted it on his website.
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Electrical Engineering vs. Computer Science(philip.greenspun.com)
39 points by ssp 17y ago|48 comments
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by ssp 17y ago
(It happens I am about to start recruiting again, and no, I'm not a maths graduate.) Out of curiosity, are you an EE?
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by ssp 17y ago
I think most people still prefer tabs to their "clever" image Tabs is web browsers are evidence of some fundamental brokenness with the web. I think Microsoft's designers probably instinctively hated the idea, just like Apple's probably d
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Diversify or Die(electronicsweekly.com)
1 points by ssp 17y ago|0 comments
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by ssp 17y ago
See also these Fake Steve pieces: http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/10/why-ibm-is-in-trouble-with-... http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/10/case-against-ibm-continued....
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by ssp 17y ago
Would it be possible to make a license - "PGPL" - that included something to the effect of "If you assert any patent against any PGPL-licensed project, you lose all rights to all PGPL-licensed projects forever"?
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by ssp 17y ago
Bruce Tognazzini covers the topic of information theory in user interfaces very well in "Tog on Interface" (which is an excellent book in general).
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by ssp 17y ago
Yes, there is a huge power advantage to parallel cores. This is definitely worth reading for some background on why Apple is doing what they are doing: http://perilsofparallel.blogspot.com/2010/02/parallel-power-... The comments on it are
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by ssp 17y ago
The main things I have noticed after using it for a couple of weeks: - Unlike with Bing, I didn't switch back to google after a couple of days - The results often include more relevant pages covering the same topic, whereas google seems to
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by ssp 17y ago
One thing I like about my bank: I can send them an entirely unencrypted email and ask them to move money from my account to some other account, and they will do it. It was a pleasant surprise that I could do this; I fully expected it to be
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The (ahem) "Art" of Pricing(crankypm.com)
1 points by ssp 17y ago|0 comments

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