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by tspiteri 17y ago
C++ is large, and it is not perfect, but it is very good for a large set of diverse problems. I find pointless C++ bashing (such as the FQA) quite annoying, although it might be somehow amusing to some people, most of whom do not really use
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by tspiteri 17y ago
What you are saying is that he should not learn C++.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Does a stylus work at all on a capacitive touch screen?
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by tspiteri 17y ago
> Yes: don't until you're asked. I think the question was asked by quite a few people. > iPod demos and tech specs pages on Apple's website don't advertise what formats it doesn't play. Usually a format list is complete, if a format
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Can you think of a better way to answer the FAQ "Does it have Flash?"
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by tspiteri 17y ago
I agree that MobileMe is a privacy concern, but I don't agree that the problem comes from marketers. An automated program will serve you ads which are relevant to where you are, and it is unlikely that a marketer can get directly to your da
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by tspiteri 17y ago
If the price is not high enough, coping with initial demand will be a real problem. If the price is high enough, they will cope with initial demand, then they can reduce the price "iPhone 2G style" later. So they have no reason to start wit
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by tspiteri 17y ago
But you can. What the GPL says is that if you distribute/sell the object code, you must distribute the source code as well. So you have no obligation to distribute anything to anyone, but if you do distribute the code, you are obliged to di
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by tspiteri 17y ago
He is the Java mascot, and his name is Duke. http://kenai.com/projects/duke/pages/Home
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by tspiteri 17y ago
I see them differently. Intelligence is an ability which you can use, it is similar to strength, so I like to think of it as brain strength. Wisdom is your knowledge and experience. So being more intelligent gives you potential, but you hav
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Can it be because he is not talking about evolutionary biology? He is taking a wider view of human evolution.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
In a Carlsen interview: Q: How many moves ahead can you calculate on the chess board? A: Sometimes 15 to 20 moves ahead. But the trick is evaluating the position at the end of those calculations. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/a
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by tspiteri 17y ago
It is not slightly misleading, it is very misleading. To become champion, he must win the world championship, which involves winning the candidates tournament, and then beating the current champion in a match. Which is very different then b
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by tspiteri 17y ago
gofmt is not a function name, it does not appear in code, it is a command line tool. In many cases you type something like "gofmt -w filename.go", press Enter, and then it's gone, never to be read. In the language itself, fmt (something com
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by tspiteri 17y ago
When using the command line, shorter commands are easier to type. I know, two key strokes are not going to take a lot of time, but when you do it repeatedly, it does feel a bit more comfortable. It has nothing to do with 80 character limits
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Because it's shorter.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
The suggestion by someone for a split-from-GNU vote is a response to Stallman's email. In his email, Stallman says: (excerpt) But GNOME is part of the GNU Project, and it ought to support the free software movement. The most minimal suppor
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by tspiteri 17y ago
No, F-Spot, Tomboy, and Mono are all free software using Stallman's definition. And Gnome does not bundle any proprietary software. The issue is about favourably mentioning non-free software, such as VmWare, on the Gnome blog aggregator.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Still, if the point of using the Random object is being efficient, instantiating an object for just one nextBoolean() call is likely to be more inefficient than just calling Math.random().
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Aren't Microsoft tax payers themselves?
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by tspiteri 17y ago
I looked into Go more because of its authors than because of the "Google wave".
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by tspiteri 17y ago
No, as soon as you publish your infringing app, your license to distribute the app is terminated. You are not forced to provide your source code, but you are forbidden from further distribution of the GPL part, even if you then publish your
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by tspiteri 17y ago
I don't think the article is so good. I got the impression that the main article centers around the part: Take a deep breath. This may shock you. Brand X is Algol-68. That sort of sounds cool, so why not write an article to show that Al
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Do you really think the creators of Go do not know Algol 68? They know it much better than does the article author, who admits he's "not an experienced programmer in either Algol-68 or Go".
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Being able to confirm your vote later using a serial number may be convenient, but it makes it possible to sell your vote. I could offer my vote for sale and then give the serial number to the buyer so that he makes sure I voted the way I w
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by tspiteri 17y ago
I don't think that's a problem in this case, the article says she was 16, and it's legal to work at 16.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
You can say that who is behind it is important because you do not need to add extra information besides their names, their names stand on their own.
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by tspiteri 17y ago
Emacsers don't use the mouse! Unless it has enough keys we can do without a keyboard altogether, that is.
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Hacking DNA(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by tspiteri 17y ago|0 comments
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Startup Visa(nat.org)
30 points by tspiteri 17y ago|9 comments

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