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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Yes: Don't force me to log in with facebook. No: Don't force me to make another fucking password. I have a whole shitload of passwords. I use an independent (not in the browser) password tool. I'd really like to be able to generate a passwo
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
The problem is the prisoners dilemma. It is in businesses own best interests to manufacture, design, etc, in the USA, but only if their competitors also do so. Instead they are engaging in destroying the purchasing power of their own custom
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
"New" as in "having recently come into existence", yes. Love it. "New" as in "new to me" but actually created in 1986, no, not so much.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Except that doesnt work, because that just changes the hash of the submodule (as stored by the supermodule) again. The problem is that the supermodule just stores the hash of the submodule. The only way I found of fixing it was to: 1. Cre
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Well, I've spent the last six months learning the shitiest language and libraries with the most backwards arse tools. What a total waste of my time. Can't decide whether I'm furious at this loss of time and destruction of my competitive adv
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
In the UK we said, "We don't need manufacturing, we have our scientists and R&D". Then when our Universities and our R&D started to decline, we said "We don't need our Universities and R&D, we have our Service Economy". Then whe
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Until you have merge conflict. If someone could explain to me which file contains the conflict markers so I can fix them I'd be really happy. Its not the .gitmodules file.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Reads like "industry experience" to me.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
RTFA. But no, he's arguing that even if you had the best armor in the world, an international agreement that all tanks must park at the top of the nearest hill would be Bad for the life expectancy of the crew.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
So bored intel ops can play spot-the-difference between natural and IR images?
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
That was the paragraph that jumped out at me too, because he got that exactly wrong. The iPhone designers clearly did understand their users, all 120 million of them. My wife is a total technophobe and the iPhone has finally connected her t
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
I agree, with a caveat: Distribution involves an endpoint: me+device. Netflix has me, and millions like me. On any device. I watch on my PC, my Mac, my Wii, my iPad. My 5 yr browses for shows on the Wii and the iPad. So Netflix has the adva
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Doesn't happen on the Wii, PS3, Xbox, iPad, iPhone and I'm guessing not on the new apple tv either.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
FTLA: "Those results are not definitive, and might be wrong, but so far they're better than anything Grove serves up." If they are wrong, how are they better exactly? Fact: the Global Market makes a ton of money for the ultra rich, and scre
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
I have been responsible for patents at a tech startup. My job was not only to find patents that we might infringe upon, but to find patents that a troll could use to extort money out of us, even though they did not apply, and then assign ri
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
>They're about as different as any two VMs are. I suggest that these differences are what makes them different as applies to patents. Patents are usually either so broad as to have prior art, or so narrow as to not apply to even "simila
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
OP: "I'm pretty sure the Mono people are worried. " You are saying that Miguel de Icaza is not one of these Mono people, nor is he representative of them.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Hierarchy of needs: air, food, shelter. If you live in the USA and want food and shelter, you cannot get it without paying the man taxes. Even if you own your own land, you must pay taxes on it. The counter argument (that one could be a hom
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Why the markdown? Objective-C is shitty with shitty tools. Ellison is Jobs' friend. Ellison owns Java. Android is iPhone's rival.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
I shouldn't still be surprised by this shit, but the claims of patent 5,966,702 are basically "There was some data and we normalized it". Seriously. WTF? Can we start putting questions like these on 1st year bachelors exams, so we can final
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
And in evidence for the "Pretty Sure They Aren't" statement, here's Miguel de Icaza shitting his pants (not): http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Aug-13.html
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
In some ways the Dalvik VM is more different. Its register based for a start.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
I know. I also hope they are using process level security, not class level security, which will completely bypass patent #1. Google people aren't stupid.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
You've not looked at them have you (the VMs)? The JVM is entirely a class-focused JVM. The CLR is a general purpose VM. I can access arbitrary memory in the CLR, but cannot on the JVM. I write as someone who has attempted to build a byte-co
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
Please oh please let it be a Java-based iOS SDK instead of the archaic shit we have to use now.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
And needless to say, at least patent 6,125,447 has prior art.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
No I'm pretty sure they aren't. The CLR is totally different to the JVM.
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
The JVM bytecode is shitty. It cannot support dynamic languages at the VM level (yet: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=292 ), the support for the C# equivalent of structs has been pushed back, and that makes any kind of hardware acceleratio
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
What to do? Read paper or hit next months deadline...
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by binaryfinery 16y ago
So far, to fight "Special Interest Groups" we have: The Bulldawg Nation. The No Kill Nation (human treatment of pets) Drunk Nation LGBTQ Nation Netroorts Nation Outdoor Nation A Woman's Nation Elevation Nation Basically Sean has created Fac

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