xsmasher

76 ms·

901.
by xsmasher 14y ago
FYI that's a racially charged term in the US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambo_%28racial_term%29
902.
by xsmasher 14y ago
That's a rule of C; stack vars are not initialized. Same thing would happen with an int. Member variables of a class are set to zero by (init or alloc? can't remember.)
903.
by xsmasher 14y ago
Properties and methods are given "positive" names as a matter of convention, and to make reasoning about Nil easier. In Objective-C, the question "should I name my method isEnabled or isDisabled?" has a reasonable answer - you consider what
904.
by xsmasher 14y ago
> what kind of company can lose money for decades without going bankrupt? By your argument, embezzlement and tax fraud and retail theft don't exist either. Just because a loss isn't fatal to an industry doesn't mean it has no effect.
905.
by xsmasher 14y ago
> The link at the top is mislabeled, you can't be an "adult" and not have kids. I don't know what drive you to that conclusion, or what makes you equate not having children with never leaving your comfort zone. I know parents who are no
906.
by xsmasher 14y ago
The first author says "we" and "me" and "I" and talks about their own experience, including some consideration on what they may be missing. The second author says mostly "you" and projects their own experience onto every childfree couple. T
907.
by xsmasher 14y ago
Creepy indeed. What happens if #2 has kids... and he's still unfulfilled?
908.
by xsmasher 14y ago
The answer seems to be "depends who you are." Some people have an overriding and insatiable drive to have children, and would be miserable without them. Others have no such drive, or an aversion to children, and are perfectly happy without
909.
by xsmasher 14y ago
Sorry, I mixed up my tabs. "Square D" was in the other 1922 article. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4969041
910.
by xsmasher 14y ago
The "Square D" company mentioned is real; in fact your circuit breaker box probably has a [D] logo in or on it. That doesn't prove the truth of the rest of the story, of course.
911.
by xsmasher 14y ago
I second this recommendation, with an aside: the title was an incredible turn-off to me, but I read it anyway and it is worth its weight. It is not lessons on "How to be False and Unctuous" or "How to Abuse the Kindness of Others," which we
912.
by xsmasher 14y ago
Every public web site on the planet is "accepting data from an untrusted remote client" - but allowing public db access is something else entirely.
913.
by xsmasher 14y ago
Every time I've gotten one of these documents I've amended it to "any IP for aspect foo of business bar." Example: video training software, or freemium mobile games. My employers have not objected, and it's a restriction I cane live with. H
914.
by xsmasher 14y ago
2 live crew sampled the Orbison recording. There is no compulsory license for recorded music. It's a different situation than "using the same notes."
915.
by xsmasher 14y ago
All other news reports seem to indicate that this Facebook-Ryan is the brother of the killer.
916.
by xsmasher 14y ago
Weird Al "using the same notes" is not fair use. He pays the compulsory license. Using the music verbatim would not likely be fair use, and the videomaker owes a license fee.
917.
by xsmasher 14y ago
In Objective-C, I can easily say "if anyone calls a method on me that I don't implement, sent it to this object instead". I can also say "if anyone calls a method on me that I don't implement, do (foo) instead". C++, for example, has no equ
918.
by xsmasher 14y ago
Mobile Game Developers (C++) at TinyCo in San Francisco http://jobvite.com/m?3Rq9sfwC We make freemium games for iOS and Android in C++. Always looking for new client-side developers. Growing company with strong revenue from out stable of
919.
by xsmasher 14y ago
>I was a believer of the thermodynamics-like theory that deltaWeight = weight + (calories in - calories out)*stuff; many a post on HN convinced me that it's not true Like doing big-O notation, there are constants that get factored out.
920.
by xsmasher 14y ago
They didn't steal server code; it was confidential business docs. > Zynga says Patmore took files that are critically important to the game maker's business, including revenue projections, monetization plans, more than 10 unreleased gam
921.
by xsmasher 14y ago
If a startup is thinking short-term, then they'll ask technical/tactical questions. Explain X command or language/os feature. Find out what the candidate knows now. Like you implied, strategy doesn't matter if you're dead. If they're thinki
922.
by xsmasher 14y ago
How so? EA can flip a switch to remove the games, and claim there was never a valid license. As long as EA honors the orginal terms of the coupon, I don't see how the "cheaters" were wronged.
923.
by xsmasher 14y ago
Understanding of the characteristics comes from understanding the implementation. I can not explain why it takes longer to insert in the middle of vector vs a list without explaining at least a rudimentary cartoon of the implementation.
924.
by xsmasher 14y ago
That's the problem with analogy - it moves the conversation off the topic and onto the fit and fitness of the analogy. I should have thought of something with cars. My point was not that both crimes were equivalent. My point was that "a use
925.
by xsmasher 14y ago
The blogger put the post up on Wordpress.com. It now resides on a server wholly owned by Wordpress, which is serving up the blog to the entire world. I'm trying to avoid making a third analogy, because analogy usually takes you further from
926.
by xsmasher 14y ago
Not by half. More like "bookstore gets sued for selling defaming material;" the posts were hosted on wordpress.com. The lawsuit is asking Wordpress to take down the posts or the blog, which is well within Wordpress' power.
927.
by xsmasher 14y ago
I can't help thinking of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, which did not do well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Rasa_%28video_game%29 For the youngsters: they're both alums of Origin Systems, storied PC game developer and home of Wing
928.
by xsmasher 14y ago
He's suggestion creating better thumbnails for the issue, instead of just shrinking the cover. The icon for MS Word is not a scaled-down picture of the box; you don't create a banner ad for your website by taking a screenshot of the site. T
929.
by xsmasher 14y ago
> The trigger to make an app use full iPhone5 screen is to include Default-568h@2x.png into the project. Have you tested that without using the new SDK, or is that a theory? The Default-568h@2x.png might be required-but-not-sufficient.
930.
by xsmasher 14y ago
I was surprised to see that this lawsuit seems to be about copy protection, specifically Android app signing, not anything specific to flight simulators. The specifics of the suit were two clicks away from the linked page: http://www.x-pla

More ›