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by valleyer 13y ago
Huh? Microsoft was terrifying because they dominated the PC market. This comment proposes their having 33% of the smartphone market. How is that "terrifying"?
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by valleyer 13y ago
I think a better idea would be to just limit yourself to a small number of photos. It used to be that you were physically limited to 24 or 48 photos. Limit yourself to that. You'll appreciate having some photos of your vacation wi
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by valleyer 13y ago
I was laughing until I saw the swears in variable names. Now I'm mad.
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by valleyer 13y ago
pthread_cond_timedwait has existed on OS X since Tiger. Look in /usr/include/pthread.h.
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by valleyer 13y ago
If it's you driving, you put down the phone and pay attention to the road. :)
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by valleyer 13y ago
Of course, and if these formulations are valid British grammar, then I don't expect you to change them. That's why I asked.
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by valleyer 13y ago
Notice that I said "as the subject of a sentence". It certainly works in the single case you chose. How about these: "… and me and Carl were quietly trying to weigh up which team …" "Me and Carl had a winner and …
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by valleyer 13y ago
Is "me and X" as the subject of a sentence valid British English grammar? It comes across as really uneducated.
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by valleyer 13y ago
I'm pretty sure he didn't mention "mass-market smartphone access" at all.
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by valleyer 13y ago
n = 2 => don't make conclusions
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by valleyer 13y ago
Your implicit comment that the link only points out an iOS vulnerability is correct, but don't you think it's good advice generally?
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by valleyer 13y ago
UNIX time, really?
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by valleyer 13y ago
Well, for the PTY example above, the reason is backward compatibility. Eventually we need to decide to rid ourselves of the limitations that backward compatibility (with, e.g., bash) brings and clean up the implementation.
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by valleyer 13y ago
Ah OK. That makes sense.
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by valleyer 13y ago
You mean, like, in the compiler? If x is actually a macro that expands to zero, that will (or at least should, for a sufficiently smart compiler) happen. Otherwise, I can’t imagine a runtime check of this being appreciably faster than har
766.
by valleyer 13y ago
note: “... in replace function”
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by valleyer 13y ago
It’s not as black and white as you make it out to be. On one end of the spectrum, we have the inane “compliment sandwich”. On the other, we have Linus saying “your code is shit”. In the middle, we have professional yet effective criticis
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by valleyer 13y ago
I think he means breaks in the actual source itself? I.e., not occurrences of “<BR>” but occurrences of “\n” ?
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by valleyer 13y ago
Then at worst it’s just literally like the status quo?
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by valleyer 13y ago
Sample size: 1.
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by valleyer 13y ago
> "more privacy" BS -> the proprietary DRM plugin is much less controllable by the user than Flash and Silverlight Please explain.
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by valleyer 13y ago
Yeah, I find that attitude quite counterproductive in software development. I understand and agree with the argument that some “can’t you just”s are way more complicated than they are presented. But this kind of attitude, taken to its ext
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by valleyer 13y ago
Could also be habit? < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Application_Suite> < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Communicator>
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by valleyer 13y ago
Because maybe next time the customer will come back shopping for a personal machine instead of one they need to run some Windows app. And they’ll remember the great service from round one.
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by valleyer 13y ago
No need for the complex analogies. What we need is to decide whether we, as a society, think what Apple did is OK. That’s it. If we think it’s OK, then we console the developer. And if we don’t, we pass laws to keep Apple (or anyone else
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by valleyer 13y ago
The article was rather clear that he does it intentionally in the style of SJ.
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by valleyer 13y ago
So, you’ve tuned your expectations for Parker appropriately. Good. But that doesn’t change the definition of “excess”.
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by valleyer 13y ago
> RMS has thought deeply through these issues for decades, you aren't going to discredit him with 5 minutes of snark. OTOH, religion has been pondered well longer than RMS has been alive. RMS is not going to discredit the Church with 2
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by valleyer 13y ago
This is correct, but in case it makes more sense this way (it does to me): log (base X) Y === log (base e) Y / log (base e) X So the difference between log (base 2) and log (base 10) is just the difference between being divided by log (base
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by valleyer 13y ago
Old habits (and legacy establishments) die hard.

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