abrahamsen

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by abrahamsen 12y ago
> I would say the defining property of OO, is polymorphism. Make it dynamic polymorphism, and I agree.
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by abrahamsen 12y ago
> Also, why shouldn't services be responsible for users using their service to abuse others? Because I like Hacker News. If Hacker News was responsible for the posts of its users, it would not exist. The value it provides for Y Com
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by abrahamsen 12y ago
Small investment, tiny chance of success, huge payoff iff successful. It is the lottery of applications.
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by abrahamsen 12y ago
They might, indirectly. OpenSSH would seem like a good candidate for funding from the Core Infrastructure Program.
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by abrahamsen 12y ago
I agree. The middle class of other parts of the world catching up to rising US[ ] is a good thing from any perspective except for the most cynical realpolitik subscribers. Even from a pure US centric point of view, it provides a larger mark
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by abrahamsen 12y ago
Both, as they provide the bulk of the code. It would be more illuminating to examine where the unpaid volunteers contribute. My guess would be device drivers, but I don't know.
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
Doesn't it pretend? The screenshoot shows very old movies. My initial impression from the web site was that this application provided a nice interface to some repository of freely redistributable movies.
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
I really wish for a -Weverything flags that would enable all warnings, even the stupid, useless ones. I'd then put -Wno-<stupid, useless warning> to disable those.
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
Microsoft has been distributing GPL2 software before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
Yes, Danish seems to be in between German and English, except for the first example. die/der/das -> [see below] -> the drei -> tre -> three Donner -> torden -> thunder Ding -> ting -> thing dahe
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
That means Google (the makers of Ingress) will get access to the list of contacts I have stored in Google Contacts. I believe I can live with that :-)
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
Seen from Russia, there is a power struggle between EU and Russia about border drawing between their respective empires. Thinking in "empires" is popular in Russia. So seen from Russia, it is beyond doubt that the Kiev uprising is
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/610/
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
Tire burning is not really large scale destruction. From the livejournal entry: 1."They destroyed the whole city" Not true. All of the action you see in the pictures are happening on a small square near the entrance to a Dinamo st
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
I don't understand a word you are saying.
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
This is why Google did the right thing tying their reviews to their social network. If I know the person doing the review, I can put it in context. There are people whose opinion on wireless routers I'd listen to, and people I wouldn&#
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
> A free "social" site It is not a free service. You pay for it with your personal information. It is up to you whether you find the price too high. And with the Google+ integration, the price for using Google services is defin
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
It is kind of fun how the failures didn't have to be. IBM did successfully enter and even define the PC market. Microsoft saw the threat of the Internet, and reacted swiftly to own it with Windows 95. Internet Explorer demolished Netsc
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
I'd give Larry McVoy most credit of the three. He worked at TeamWare, which was the first DVCS, at least the first I have heard of. I don't know how much credit goes to him specifically, compared to the other people who worked on
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
Thanks, that was my initial reaction as well. I'd have expected it to be a few enthusiasts, maybe something like 50.000 worldwide. 1.85 % of the Steam user base is more than a million players!
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
Robert Scoble is references in the article. I actually believe this picture helps counteract the "asshole" meme. He really does not come through as a person who takes himself too seriously here. It does nothing to counteract the
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
The reaction to the early adopters of cell phones were similar. They were perceived as yuppies who though themselves as way to important to talk to the people they were actually with at the moment.
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
It is an opinion piece, and marked as such. I can't imagine being willing to pay for an opinion, certainly not from an author I don't know. But people will donate to an author or organization that consistently publish (freely) arg
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
Roughly $1300 according to the article.
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
The Oklahoma Governor's Mansion, if anyone else is curious: http://www.ok.gov/governor/Mansion.html
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
It would be a trade-off. It would be more immersible for you, but less for everyone else, as your only only human appearance (your face) would be obscured. Longer term solution: Your presented face would be computer animated.
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
mbox can't be implemented properly, it is an inherently broken format. Or rather, a family of almost compatible broken formats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox Sounds like Mail.app exported in mboxcl2, which br
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
That is really bad advice. C style memory management is useless in the presence of exceptions, and a nightmare to get right even in C. Choose a book that teaches RAII from the beginning, and leaves C style memory management to a late, advan
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
"Accordingly, judgment will be entered in favor of Google dismissing the case." The complete ruling is here. It is written in plain English. I couldn't find a non-scribd link though, sorry for that. http://www.scri
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by abrahamsen 13y ago
I though the option of using "G+ page" instead of your G+ profile name was there to preserve the Youtube pseudonyms.

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