Stormbringer

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by Stormbringer 15y ago
"I've been a Google fanboi for years and defended them in the public square when they've been accused of nefariousness. But these revelations of intentionally ignoring users' privacy settings have shaken me. Maybe it's time to put them int
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Is "Google does evil shit and violates users privacy" even news-worthy anymore? Isn't that the default? Yeah you heard me Google-tards. Down-vote me like you always do, I got karma to burn baby burn .
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Waiting for the inevitable DuckDuckBro spin-off
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Frankly I think that spending half the intro talking about how sexy they are and then essentially giving an update on what the person in question has been doing lately with their genitalia is just wrong. Are they in the pr0n industry? No?
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
It's okay, the risk of being massacred by the horrible Australian wildlife probably exceeds the reward anyway.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Well, the good news is that even if you're a big company, the Apple App approval process is just as annoying for you as for everyone else. The bad news? That's where the herpes comes into the picture...
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Quick! Alert the people selling software that it's just pixels! It's pixels all the way down!
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I have a new favourite word
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
he suffers from Gruber-syndrome. Which is to say, that he will argue till the cows come home that market share is udderly (sic) irrelevant... ...right up until Apple gets a market share lead in something, when he will whip out the megaphone
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Man up, move to Australia, and sue the bastards.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
If you think Google wouldn't spend some considerable time with a lawyer in preparation alone, then I have a contract to sell you..
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Technically it mioght not be theft, but Google certainly has a clear fiduciary repsonsibility in this case, and violating that is generally a lot more serious than mere theft.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
It seems like the equivalent would be to go to small claims court. In any case, the likely legal fees involved in Google fighting it vastly outweigh the actual benefit of screwing him over. Of course, if more people start taking Google to c
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
You did read the bit about how Google was arbitrarily with-holding the advertising revenue his site had generated? Sounds illegal to me. If my bank decided they didn't want me as a customer anymore I'm pretty sure I'd want my deposits back
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Yes, but they're much happier making budget hardware, handing over the majority of their profit to Microsoft and fighting tooth and nail over bread crumbs than they would be otherwise. Gotta pursue your dream dont'cha know. It's a freedom
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Oh noes! I almost cared about the virtual thumbs up! Call me when I can spend karma on caffeine and maybe I'll start caring. ;-p It's a quote about war - in a thread about war. The rest is left as an exercise to the reader.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Today I remembered what was the most tantalisingly interesting thing about XCode back then - the distributed compilation. The idea that you could have a team of people and my computer would steal spare cycles from yours (and vice versa) wh
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
The Americans will always do the right thing - after they have exhausted all other options. - Churchill
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Universities also teach philosophy, and it isn't science either. Of course, as we can see from the Philosophy of Science courses, that philosophy is actually more important than science, because philosophy is more meta. That is to say, with
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
A simple but sad explanation would be that it is dependent on the reviewer, or more likely reviewers, over at Apple. E.g. if Sandeep finishes reviewing faster than Nikolai, then those lectures will go up faster. The Apple "new improved tex
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I believe there's a free (as in freedom) version of Objective-C out there, I think it runs on Windows and Linux. Check out the book by Stephen G. Kochan The caveat of course, is that Cocoa (an Objective-C API used for making interfaces) is
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Focus on gameplay rather than graphics. Which is to say; make a game with compelling and interesting rules that doesn't rely on performance
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
The claim has been made that it is easier to move from a formal education in maths to functional programs. E.g. if you've been dealing with things like f(x)->g(x) in math class for a couple of years, then a functional language is a more
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Of course it makes sense, Baseball and Football are both sports, why not compare them? Because as different sports it isn't really relevant. Are you going to say that cricket is better than tennis because they can hit the ball further? I
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
No, the better way to rebut this claim of ineffectiveness in the market would have been to say "which Lisp?" The fact is that Lisp has spawned a great number of descendants. So to compare modern Java to some ancient version of Lisp from th
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I do not think you understand what an infographic is. An infographic is not the same as a chart, they are orthogonal, they have different purposes.
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I get modded downwards by the Google fanboys everytime I say that Google is just an advertising company. Now I admit I was wrong all along. Google is only 96% an advertising company!!! Yeah yeah, hit me with your downvotes, because karma i
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I think before you read too much into this: "I first became interested in what adult ADD treatments do after seeing a testimonial from an HN participant, a programmer, who said that his productivity increased dramatically after beginning A
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
Douglas Hofstadter (sp?) in Godel Escher Bach postulates a link between music and maths (and hence programming - though perhaps that should be 'certain kinds of programming')
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by Stormbringer 15y ago
I regularly give up caffeine for extended periods (months) and then get back on the wagon again for similar long periods of time. Recently during one of the transitional periods I found that caffeine negatively impacts my ability to play ch

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