CamperBob

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by CamperBob 15y ago
Holy @#$@, people. Did I wake up in a naïveté vortex? No, C doesn't define sizeof(int). It is implementation defined. But you don't change it once you implement it in a given development environment... not if you want people to creat
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by CamperBob 15y ago
You seem very ignorant Yeah, that must be it.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Fantastically dumb comment. FWIW int in C is also 32 bit on all mainstream 64 bit operating systems, and Go has int64. ROFL. I challenge you to find documentation for the C language or any other language commonly used in production where
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by CamperBob 15y ago
From that page: "At the moment, all implementations use 32-bit ints, an essentially arbitrary decision. However, we expect that int will be increased to 64 bits on 64-bit architectures in a future release of Go." So, in other words, it's Am
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by CamperBob 15y ago
I'm historically a braces-on-their-own-line guy, so getting used to the strict enforcement of the other style was a pain for me Wait, what?
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by CamperBob 15y ago
As their first business venture together, he and Jobs sold blue boxes. So, the irony level that was reached when Jobs ordered the creation of a locked-down cell phone platform wrapped clear around 2^32-1 and back to zero.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
If there is a famine in an area, and people are dying, is it OK to offer them food and water in exchange for slave labour? No pay, just food and water, and everybody that doesn't like can go and die of hunger. How does this deal sound? My
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by CamperBob 15y ago
My wife and I used to live in China, and we did traveling in both the high and the low places. What was your impression of working conditions on the rural farms that are one of the most often-cited alternatives for many of the Foxconn wor
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by CamperBob 15y ago
That said, the various security clearances you'd have to pick up would virtually guarantee serious compensation in the private sector, if/when you chose to leave. There are a lot of positions that can't possibly be outsourced or filled wit
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by CamperBob 15y ago
If they weren't using all that power to spy on US citizens, it might be a bit more palatable. You can make a case for being nosy when it comes to people who aren't covered by our own Constitutional guarantees, but when it comes to US citiz
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by CamperBob 15y ago
have yet to see any of the loud-mouths spouting off about patents offer to do something like put together a fund to be used in pursuing changes to the laws. An, of course, none of them will write a check for a few million to fund it. Jeff
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Except someone else is likely to patent the same thing. Not if the invention is published or otherwise disclosed in any other form. You don't have to claim ownership of an idea to keep someone else from patenting it.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Corporations are like nations: they don't have friends, they have interests .
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by CamperBob 15y ago
With treble damages, that could turn into an expensive hobby.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Things worth being made would be prefunded Prefunding isn't going to get us flying cars, just faster horses.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Translation: "We need to clean up our act in this cave before we try building grass huts. Otherwise we'll just make the same mistakes out there that we're making in here."
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by CamperBob 15y ago
True... and yet again, we're reminded that failing to give J. L. Borges the Nobel in literature after a lifetime spent anticipating this very phenomenon was every bit as silly as giving President Obama the Peace Prize during his first year
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by CamperBob 15y ago
For definitions of "personal computer" that don't involve toggle switches and #47 pilot lamps, yes, they invented the personal computer.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
What would've been even creepier: "Fight/flight response, check. Reattach components. OK, this one's good to go."
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Where, oh where is the Apple of this space?
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Would you like to buy my rock?
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by CamperBob 15y ago
"A/B or GTFO," I believe is the parlance of our times.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Exactly. I wonder how many threatening letters the average Starbucks location receives per month?
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by CamperBob 15y ago
Not all lawyers are good lawyers. Not all clients are good clients. Far more important, not all judges are good judges, and hardly any jurors are good jurors. Hence the (correct) advice to "Be afraid."
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by CamperBob 15y ago
In other news, people can be paid to appear surprised and delighted in a TV commercial. Ric Romero has more at 11.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
How fair is it to compare a medium-sized city in Florida with one of the largest metropolitan areas in the UK?
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by CamperBob 15y ago
He knows a lot about how busy people feel and where the priorities of most people lie, as expressed by their actions, as measured, rather than their words. So he's able to "measure" how many people don't buy from his company because they
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by CamperBob 15y ago
You sure seem to know a lot about how busy I am and where my priorities lie.
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by CamperBob 15y ago
(Kumaran recalls telling the investor he couldn't speak because of confidentiality and antidisparagement agreements.) Memo: when writing an antidisparagement agreement, the first rule of antidisparagement agreements is that you agree not
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by CamperBob 15y ago
To some extent that's true for all drugs (as well as all foods). It's like poking random numbers into memory and restarting your Asteroids game to see if you get 65,536 extra ships, or if the process locks up.

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