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by wzdd 16y ago
Even if winestock compiled a complete list of 195 countries, their religiosity, and their fertility rates, and showed a correlation between them (which it seems is unlikely -- see for example steadicat's post, or my other post), it would st
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by wzdd 16y ago
Let's look at a few others, then. USA: 2.1 UK: 1.9 Spain: 1.5 Portugal: 1.4 Denmark: 1.9 Nice to see that Spain, Portugal, and the USA, those bastions of atheism, have such high fertitily rates. A better explanation is "Weste
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by wzdd 16y ago
> Careful reading of the "bottom line" winestock posted will show that (s)he actually understands this. This is incorrect. Winestock: > Bottom line: Lack of religion is either non-adaptive from a fitness perspective, or it is strong
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by wzdd 16y ago
The article makes the claim that inline functions and macros in header files are copyrightable. This is plausible (based on what I've heard from lawyers). It then goes on to suggest that applications which use Android's NDK could be declare
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by wzdd 16y ago
The explanation does actually derive from a security concern. Apps are sandboxed on the file system, so they can't access the cache. If apps were given access to the shared cache, they could pollute it. Of course there are plenty of ways th
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by wzdd 16y ago
This is (apparently) wilful misinterpretation of the translation of a retailer's warning, here: http://www.gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=152082 Key passage: "In case if you use equipment which is illegal or unapproved by Nintendo or if
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by wzdd 16y ago
The ln command just doesn't expose the functionality. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/80875/what-is-the-bash-co...
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by wzdd 16y ago
The PEP was written in 2008.
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by wzdd 16y ago
The problem with discussions about this hateful list is that discussion of the interesting, timeless comments is drowned out by arguments about whether BASIC still warps minds (or whether it ever did), whether physicists should share FORTRA
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by wzdd 16y ago
This looks a lot like the Windows Mobile 6.0 Today screen (circa 2007): http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=windows%20mobile%206.0%20to... When I had a Windows Mobile device, I found the Today screen very busy. I'm usually only interested in
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by wzdd 16y ago
Impressively, it runs (very slowly) to the point of showing a title screen on an HTC Desire, but then I can't figure out how to send input.
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by wzdd 16y ago
Like pascal_cuoq, I was bothered by the apparent lack of rigour here. The problem is a mismatch of expectations. The post is presented like a paper (references, novel algorithm, comparisons, future work), but it isn't a paper. Viewed as a b
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by wzdd 16y ago
I think you're right. From the article, as one of the reasons YC is unsuitable for women: > "Vivek Wadhwa has done research to show that the average entrepreneur is 35 and has 1.2 children. I don’t know many adults with children that wi
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by wzdd 16y ago
I don't think it would work either. Take an app that needs, say, wake locks, Internet access, and SMS access. Say further than none of them is strictly required. Now imagine that users can deny this access on a per-permission basis. Now ins
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by wzdd 16y ago
I am working on a startup, but didn't raise my hand. I should have. Honestly, and this is not a criticism, that evening felt much more like "talk about programmer stuff" than it did "talk about startup stuff". There were a couple of good ta
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by wzdd 16y ago
Fascinating. I was planning on doing the same thing and now I don't have to -- thank you for taking the time. As you mention, this stuff could all be happening server-side, of course.
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by wzdd 16y ago
I'm not sure why Firefox has to support H.264 on all its platforms, but in this case it can, through Flash. Even if it couldn't, why would it be a bad thing for Firefox to support OS-supplied codecs on OS X and Windows, and a set of built-i
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by wzdd 16y ago
Short answer: no. Long answer: I have used it as part of a function that generates functions when I was writing an AST-generating portion of a parser. You need to make a bunch of similar functions, so you make a list of tuples containing al
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by wzdd 16y ago
This paragraph: 'But what do you call memory that is both used for something and available for applications? You would call that "free", but Linux calls it "used".' is IMO the best way I've ever seen of explaining the issue. It also reveals
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by wzdd 16y ago
I liked that the largest single-char difference between DejaVu Sans Mono and Droid Sans Mono is that the Droid version has a G in the style of Google's favicon.
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by wzdd 16y ago
It's even a bit worse than that because of the Market's restrictive file-size limitations (versus the App Store). Many larger games download data from some other server after they've launched. It can easily take longer than 15 minutes to go
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by wzdd 16y ago
I've been subscribed to his youtube channel for a while ( http://www.youtube.com/user/daito ) and it's very entertaining to see some of his projects come up, decontextualised: electric stimulation to people's faces (usually his own), drawin
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by wzdd 16y ago
Based on the fact that two other people here apparently didn't finish reading the paragraph either before commenting: if it was a joke, it was a bad one. :)
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by wzdd 16y ago
It opens one new attack vector I think---any exploit targeting an Android phone could be used to deliver a different exploit to the computer the phone is connected to. Given that this requires a kernel driver (on the phone side), it would h
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by wzdd 16y ago
Right -- this commonly comes up as a perk of Google, but (for example) I've dug into Python internals and I haven't yet found a reason to contact Guido about it. More to the point: if I did, he seems like a reasonable guy, and I expect he w
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by wzdd 16y ago
I read "don't scroll down until you're done", thought "ah, this is probably one of those tests that has an entertaining comment at the end unrelated to the questions", scrolled down without doing answering any of the questions, read the ent
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by wzdd 16y ago
This is a good question to ask of a rational, logical person. However, people change their minds all the time, so I'm interested in the legalities: could a contributor to a BSD project get applications taken down? Assume the contributor is
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by wzdd 16y ago
I'm not entirely convinced about this, so perhaps someone can help me out. If I contribute to a BSD-licensed project but don't assign copyright, wouldn't that give me the right to ask Apple to remove the project from their store on copyrigh
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by wzdd 16y ago
If Skype decides to do something you don't like, you have fewer alternatives. As an example of the types of things Skype could do, last year Skype announced plans to charge money for Skype-to-Skype calls over 3G. To their credit, they didn'
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by wzdd 16y ago
Also, iPad applications seem to be up to twice as expensive as iPhone applications -- even if they're essentially the same app. I expect the same mystical price expansion will happen for Mac apps.

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