wendroid

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   by wendroid 17y ago

   Shame he didn't try an Android with a hardware qwerty keyboard. I've got a G1 Dream Dev, everyone that's tried it has liked it. It has a very nice tactile feel. I tried a few handsets and nearly bought an E71, luckily it couldn't get a dece
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   by wendroid 17y ago

   > However, in tech circles and beyond, Apple's Tablet is the only game in town. That's a circle of hell I missed when reading Dante.
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   by wendroid 17y ago

   I'm not declaring the awesomeness or otherwise of Lisp but you're a shitty C coder :)
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   by wendroid 17y ago

   I hope they paint the reverse with black chalkboard paint cos you're gonna need it, the "black slate of death" coming to someone with more money than sense near you. EDIT: I knew I would pay in karma :>
5. 275.▲
   by wendroid 17y ago

   scrolling isn't network bound
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   by wendroid 17y ago

   The notion you talk of with your integer exchange is called "channels" which are typed pipes. see http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/thread for the C library On Inferno the Limbo language has channels as a type with their own ope
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   by wendroid 17y ago

   On plan9 Trying compiler constants first... f is 0.12345, rounded to 0.1235, expanded to 0.123450003564357760000000000000 d is 0.12345, rounded to 0.1235, expanded to 0.123450000000000000000000000000 ld is 0.12345, roun
8. 278.▲
   by wendroid 17y ago

   Lots of the plan9 code is written in a style like this but with enums A bit tricky to find the best example on my phone while on the bus but here's a flavour, the in-memory file system http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/r
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   by wendroid 17y ago

   Well exercised, mature and stable?
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    by wendroid 17y ago

    Sorry, did I fall into a time warp to 1990?
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    by wendroid 17y ago

    We'll have to agreee to disagree then. I'm not so shallow on the appearance part, that's just your sexism.
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    by wendroid 17y ago

    Are you really sure that's what you mean? If this is what you call talentless http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3pUItwVxyc And let me tell you, musical talent alone will not get you very far in showbusiness.
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    by wendroid 17y ago

    The quote was to illustrate that Smith wasn't anti-regulation.
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    by wendroid 17y ago

    We call that a palindrome.
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    by wendroid 17y ago

    143% Faster than your current primary DNS server Yep, that'll do me ! I'm use dnrd http://dnrd.sourceforge.net/ caching DNS So I plugged in the fatsest three servers from the returned list and ran it again : 399% Faster than your current
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    by wendroid 17y ago

    Adam Smith's warned us that self regulation of the financial industry would lead to the financial ruin of the country. His invisible hand concerned the freedom to trade physical goods. I don't have a bunch of snappy quotes available, the bo
17. 287.▲
    by wendroid 17y ago

    I still aim for the old school 7 +- 2 not including declaratons
18. 288.▲
    by wendroid 17y ago

    ehe no I'm not sure, I thought PlayStation came with an engine.
19. 289.▲
    by wendroid 17y ago

    Oberon highly influenced the Plan9 team.
20. 290.▲
    by wendroid 17y ago

    You mean something like an Apple Newton?
21. 291.▲
    by wendroid 17y ago

    Surely most companies licensed Id, Unreal or Duke engines or used the ones supplied by Sony / Xbox. Early Id, Unreal & Duke Nukem 3d are all OSS now.
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    by wendroid 17y ago

    Once upon a time Theo was considering the Plan9 tool chain for the OpenBSD project. Sadly Lucent's lawyers proved not too adept and writing software licenses in what was a brave new world of OSS. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan
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    by wendroid 17y ago

    4 in 5 people scanned, send 5 people
24. 294.▲
    by wendroid 17y ago

    Do you know what Worse is Better means? btw. the top500 Linux boxes run with OS bypass because the kernel just isn't fast enough. Nice try though.
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    by wendroid 17y ago

    Dear Ms. Cranton, Are you seriously suggesting that criminals won't intercept calls in order to blackmail and insider trade because call interception is illegal ? I don't remember anyone going to prison for these : http://en.wikipedia.org/
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    by wendroid 17y ago

    Subsequently the reply : (woo I'm a journalist!) Dear Sir Please find below my full reply to the journalist's enquiry. Regards, Claire Cranton. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We have been asked about this a number of times and the industry positi
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    by wendroid 17y ago

    I got the address right in the actual mail, I wrote that from memory, damn. GSM is bringing new encryption, presumably because they already know it is weak. I work in the industry so have no fear, it will be an issue.
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    by wendroid 17y ago

    I don't like Linux, I think it is a curse, technically poor and the ultimate worse is better. But I respect the fact that you did it, you kept it together, kept it going, brought people together on a worldwide project. Your pragmatism is re
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    by wendroid 17y ago

    I sent this to press@gsm.com, the email address of Claire Cranton, quoted in the article : Dear Ms. Cranton, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/technology/29hack.html?_r=... “This is theoretically possible but practically unlikely,” said C
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    by wendroid 17y ago

    Maybe he'll just use a chronometer.