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by vor_ 14y ago
I didn't know that the British originally spoke with an rhotic accent. The General American accent is supposedly how the British used to sound. Perhaps the title should be "When did the British lose their original accents?" as the Americans
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by vor_ 14y ago
I was referring to the anti-C comments on the linked article, but I think it came off like I was criticizing the whole website.
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It's a speculative article, but it does address your last point: "In no way am I suggesting that attractive women are necessarily incompetent. But I am saying that the greater emphasis on looks we place on women shrinks the pool of exceptio
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by vor_ 14y ago
Yes, it does; of course it does. Google's reason for getting everyone connected through its services is to gain an audience for targeted advertising. It's certainly not "sensationalizing" to point that out. It needs users for its advertiser
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by vor_ 14y ago
Google sells users to its customers: advertisers.
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Geez, is there a single non-troll comment on that website?
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To put it simply, in Android's current state, you will never see a competitive Garageband clone due to the latency and missing features of the audio technology in the OS.
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by vor_ 14y ago
Is this like Wired's infamous "Japan Hates The iPhone" story from three years ago? Both stories are based entirely on anecdotes and marketshare percentages, which are percentages of a total--it doesn't mean sales are going down. Overall, a
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by vor_ 14y ago
> Apple, in particular, imposes a 30% cut in profits on everything that is run on their devices and decide what users are allowed to run or not! Not to get too snarky here, but piracy is so rampant on Android that it's practically unpro
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A user having problems with a piece of software should NEVER have to be an expert in the field to critique it.
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With all due respect, it's presumptuous of you to act as if you have a better grasp on the real world than other developers or that you have direct knowledge of what most developers use.
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But one of the points of Clang's toolability is that you don't have to write your own parser. You can use the compiler's and see what the compiler will see, avoiding inconsistencies as well as unnecessary work.
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by vor_ 14y ago
I don't know your viewpoints, so this isn't mean to refer to you specifically, but it might also be that one is attached to the GPL3 and doesn't like seeing it criticized. At the least, it has been my experience that many GPL advocates do n
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by vor_ 14y ago
Are you referring to the move to OS X? Apple ran the previous operating system within the new operating system just to run those old apps, and Carbon was provided as a transitional API for many years. I'm not sure what this has to do with a
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by vor_ 14y ago
> I'd much rather die fierce yet wrong than live a life shrouded in vagueness. You'd rather be loudly wrong than humbly corrected. A strange sentiment to hold.
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An ironic statement considering the backstory behind GCC's obfuscation and complexity.
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> Hence funding LLVM while starting work on Clang made sense for them, but again not a choice made (purely) on technological merits. I think it's inaccurate to portray the move away from GCC as simply political with happy side effects,
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> Certain "journalists" are seriously jumping the gun if they assume GCC is just going to shrivel up and die. In addition to mainline, it is used privately in a hundred different branches, several of which are commercially supported (e.
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by vor_ 14y ago
Dismissing smartphones as a fashion trend seems naive. There is a segment of PC users who emotionally react to the suggestion that the "PC", in reference to a box sitting on a desk, is in its twilight. I think it's due to a fear of losing m
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by vor_ 14y ago
Seems like wishful thinking. If there was going to be any snubbing, I would expect it to be an early release for the PS3 or some other platform that would make Valve money. Even during the heyday of Linux ports in the 90s, from Quake 3 to S
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by vor_ 14y ago
> You are replying to a comment which clearly states "I loved Black Mesa," and then go on to suggest that he enjoyed Black Mesa. He was replying to a comment that stated that they didn't enjoy Half-Life but wished they had, and that Bla
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by vor_ 14y ago
The news is that there wasn't some "reality distortion field" cliche or temper tantrum. It's an account of Steve Jobs that you rarely read: sitting down with a team and iteratively designing products.
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> People have been saying PC's are dying for the last 10 or so years And they have been, losing sales first to consoles and then to smartphones and tablets. Children are growing up on Xboxes and iPads, not PCs. Desktop PCs will be like
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by vor_ 14y ago
Well, Android has more users than iOS, which would make it analogous to McDonald's. Popularity doesn't automatically mean something is leading edge, but certainly the fact that something is extremely unpopular like Windows 8 makes it unlike
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by vor_ 14y ago
But surely the fact that very few use Windows 8 could signify that it is not the leading edge, because it is unpopular.
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How many people are using Windows 8 compared to iOS? iOS is a trend leader of design, like it or not.
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The deal was that Apple would buy a million in pre-IPO stock if Xerox "opened its kimono".
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Strange analogy. That happens for all politicians regardless of party. Example: Anthony Weiner
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The post you're replying to doesn't say anything about being pointless, but besides that, surely it's not a logical fallacy to point out that one action is more effective than another.
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by vor_ 14y ago
This "pacific interruption", as you delicately describe it, hurts innocent teachers and students who had nothing to do with the alleged bullying of Swartz, who was already suicidal prior to his prosecution. Regardless of what one may think

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