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by yock 14y ago
I would think that string immutability has much to do with the object creation. That might be why regular expressions was such a focus of the Java 1.4 release.
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by yock 14y ago
If such a story doesn't sell you on the ideas of rigor and corroboration, then there's probably no hope for you. Gripping, true or not, and a reminder that we often accept as truth far more than we should.
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by yock 14y ago
Even though this ruling seems to be in favor of liberty, I'm disheartened to read the excerpt of the appeals court ruling in the article. We take heed of [Benjamin Franklin's] warning and are therefore unwilling to relinquish our First Ame
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by yock 14y ago
Did you seriously just redirect me to someone elses website because you didn't like what browser I'm (forced to be) on?
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by yock 14y ago
No worries, I'm a native speaker and I was just as disappointed to learn that it isn't a parts store.
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by yock 14y ago
I love the idea behind this. I seem to recall that the previous version wasn't terribly stable on my Galaxy Nexus. I'm eager to give the new version a try.
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by yock 14y ago
Numberphile did two episodes on the Enigma machine, with some practical demonstration and a basic discussion of the mathematics involved. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2_Q9FoD-oQ&feature=share...
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by yock 14y ago
It's usually better to implement onSaveInstanceState and onRestoreInstanceState. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3542333/how-to-prevent-cu...
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by yock 14y ago
Off topic: I hadn't heard that name, so I googled it and read his Wikipedia article. Upon reaching the end, I found the most bizarre "List of..." article I've ever seen, and that's saying something for Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by yock 14y ago
I wonder if that's why we're seeing stories like this? http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2013/01/03/samsung-con... Samsung has amassed quite a history, in a very short amount of time, of heavily customizing Android for their devices.
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by yock 14y ago
I have always wondered what the FCC must think of the FAA for this policy. I don't know a lot about the FCC certification process for electronics that contain radios, but I know that it involves both minimizing the amount of harmful emissio
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by yock 14y ago
An honest question. Is there any technical reason this is limited to iOS?
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by yock 14y ago
It's still relevant to the posted article, though perhaps not exactly for the reasons stated.
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by yock 14y ago
I don't see how that's helpful. English can be an imprecise language and there is a lot of unspoken convention in interviewing for a job. Many have had to learn that convention by just plain interviewing badly enough times for it to click.
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by yock 14y ago
After attempting to use the Eclipse plugin tonight, failing, and reverting back to the Arduino IDE, I too would be interested in this making it to Linux.
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by yock 14y ago
If the area you're searching is more suburban or, for any other reason, mass transit isn't a factor, look at the cars parked nearby. New and well-maintained cars reflect positively on your neighbors.
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by yock 14y ago
If you read enough survival memoirs you start to see elements of these stories common between them. One of those elements is concern over how one will be seen by their peers for expressing caution. I don't like to speak authoritatively abou
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by yock 14y ago
There is a third option, and that is to extend the same privilege to all on record who ever violated the unjust law.
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by yock 14y ago
I assume though that this doesn't help with the issue of exchanging the air inside the chassis. For that you still would need fans, else these new component coolers would just suck back in the hot air they expelled.
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by yock 14y ago
If you're competing with SAP, then an ugly interface is a must-have.
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by yock 14y ago
I too thought immediately of Swiftkey, and wondered if Swiftype will have branding and/or trademark issues. OT, but Swiftkey is actually working on a swype-like input called Flow. http://www.swiftkey.net/flow/
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by yock 14y ago
In other words then, Canonical has modified their business plans with respect to Ubuntu, probably because the previous revenue model didn't work. What makes these so-called "alternatives" so much more viable? How will they succeed where Can
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by yock 14y ago
And to some extent I would think Canonical is okay with that. A cull of their core users expecting an unencumbered free tool is probably in their best interests. People who are willing to trade something of monetary value arguably should be
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by yock 14y ago
Most often I think it's due to poor separation of concerns. The programmer is about to push an input down a stack of method calls several layers deep. There's the success condition, the failure condition, then the exception which captures u
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by yock 14y ago
Why can't we have both? I hope to see commoditized commuting in my lifetime. My commute from work won't be on public transport (at least, not in the traditional sense), but rather in a car that is cheap to buy, cheap to use, and fully auton
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by yock 14y ago
And it would have much less collateral benefit to police.
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by yock 14y ago
The early European-American settlers still had a basic expectation of the availability of natural resources. In the case of Mars, natural resources aren't simply an unknown, we know Mars to be a desolate place largely free of any valuable r
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by yock 14y ago
Woah, wait a minute? Someone contacts Kickstarter and alleges that a paying customer of theirs is using the Kickstarter platform to violate the law and Kickstarter's only response is to contact the customer directly? This has to be some kin
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by yock 14y ago
This is all pretty comical. The hardware company we all praised when they released the iPhone sans carrier bloatware has apparently become the single most clever practitioner of carrier-prescribed device limitations. Well played, Apple.
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by yock 14y ago
What makes you say this? How many iOS system apps are inexorably linked to the OS itself (ie. not installed & updated through the app store)? This is a really hard problem. Features that you thought belonged at the system level during d

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