tarkin2

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   by tarkin2 15y ago

   What EU directive is this? Please link or state the directive before claiming such.
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   by tarkin2 15y ago

   The Commission's staff are chosen and approved by both the indirectly elected Council (Member State government ministers) and the directly elected European Parliament[1]. The Parliament has forced the dissolution of the Commission before.
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   by tarkin2 15y ago

   I would be interested in this if you didn't have to give it access to your facebook information.
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   by tarkin2 15y ago

   Thanks a lot. I'll take a look into that. Pity that you still need to nil the objects before they're garbage collected.
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   by tarkin2 15y ago

   I use both Java and Obj-C at work. Objective-c suffers from its C heritage. 1. Pointers (just not useful or needed these days) 2. Memory-management (you don't get ARC unless you're happy to not cater for users using <5.0 (apparently thi
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   Ask HN: What is Rob Pike's function pointer advice in practice?

   1 points by tarkin2 15y ago|0 comments
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   by tarkin2 15y ago

   It's telling me no on HTC / Orange / UK.
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   by tarkin2 15y ago

   Are we so enamoured with pg that we must use such sycophantic titles?
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   by tarkin2 15y ago

   €120.7 billion for the year 2007. From wiki. It's not so much it just has budgetary powers, but it must also approve most of the EU directives: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament#Legislative...
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    by tarkin2 15y ago

    That's not been true since the 1970/80s really. The Parliament must approve the EU's budget (and has rejected it for political reasons before), approve the Commission's staff, the Parliament has even taken the Council to court about its fai
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    by tarkin2 15y ago

    I can understanding Google wanting control over who implements a not-quite-ready Android version. But, purely from a development perspective, if Ice-Cream Sandwich isn't fully OSS, it will decrease my enthusiasm for the platform enormously.
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    by tarkin2 15y ago

    I was 16 when they stopped Computing at A-Level. This was in 1998. Students before complained A Level material was duplicated in their first year at Uni, apparently. Now I.T. is basically vaguely proficient use of MS Office. That, and a vag
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    by tarkin2 15y ago

    $ is superior though, simply for its ease of access using the left index finger. £ would require the use of the middle finger. To British sensibilities, it would mean swearing at PHP on every variable declaration! Actually, that said...
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    by tarkin2 15y ago

    Exactly what I was thinking. They'd be a good market for this kind of thing.
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    by tarkin2 15y ago

    The font is rendered via HTML5's canvas, incidentally.
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    by tarkin2 15y ago

    That cookie law, for those just scanning the comments, is EU in origin. All member-states have to implement. Nothing's really being done about it, enforcement-wise, from what I can tell. The UK has just recently given all businesses an extr
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    by tarkin2 15y ago

    Hardly Hackernews (flag?), but here's RMS: http://hamakor.org.il/pipermail/discussions/2011-May/002978....
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    by tarkin2 16y ago

    I don't think Bitcoin solves the main problem of new currencies: confidence of their acceptance. John Law introduced paper money into France by getting the government to accept it for paying taxes. Every Frenchman and woman was confident th
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    by tarkin2 16y ago

    It's good they're trying, but it doesn't instill confidence, somehow, especially that picture of Cameron. Perhaps I'm being too cynical, but I'd put more confidence in the weekly pub meeting they have in Brighton than this. That said, there
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    by tarkin2 16y ago

    East midlands. But the southerners think I'm northern. So let's take their lead.
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    by tarkin2 16y ago

    The British library also has a coffee shop within. Not a bad building, plenty of reading rooms, fairly attractive, too.
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    by tarkin2 16y ago

    In the sorted parameters example contract, would it not be as good to pass an new object whose constructor ensures the sorting?
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    by tarkin2 16y ago

    If someone ported Flex it would be a good start.
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    by tarkin2 16y ago

    Out of interest, can you link to sources detailing the censorship?
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    by tarkin2 16y ago

    The UK only has five: Oxbridge, Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol. That said, for the size of the UK compared to US/China I guess it isn't too bad. I still feel the UK performed poorly. But from what I can tell of other European countries,
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    by tarkin2 16y ago

    I don't know. The author seems to think we'll become Zuckerberg's zombie army due to extended Facebook use. So was the same true of the time UseNet? MSN Messenger? And all those others when they were highly popular? Weren't we trapped in th
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    by tarkin2 16y ago

    "[Y]ou can now build an entire Android application without writing a single line of Java." You'll need to use JNI to do more than the NDK provides in regard to Android's API. I wonder if this will lure C/C++ devs to Android, especially thos
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    by tarkin2 16y ago

    I'd normally agree, but many of the points resonate well with entrepreneurs and the psychological issues therein.
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    by tarkin2 16y ago

    A Nature article suggests it's music training in general with regard to verbal memory: "...adults who received music training before the age of 12 have a better memory for spoken words than those who did not. Music training in childhood may
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    by tarkin2 16y ago

    Decentralized systems hold personal information about you, but a detailed profile requires merging them all = difficult. A centralized system requires hardly any effort to gain a detailed profile of you = dangerous.