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by jdq 14y ago
Everything about the story reads like it was fabricated.
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by jdq 14y ago
The code in question is most certainly not TimSort, but the rangecheck() method within it, which is copied verbatim from arrays.java, which Bloch wrote while at Sun. It's what Oracle is using to show that Bloch did reference Sun code and
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by jdq 14y ago
"...Josh Bloch (the Google employee who checked it into Android) wrote it in the first place and gave it to Sun." What does that mean exactly--'gave it to Sun'? He was a Sun employee at the time. It's silly to say the Java code he wrote
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by jdq 14y ago
Tiny correction: As of March 2011, iTunes has 200 million credit cards. http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/02/apple-200-million-itunes-ac...
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by jdq 14y ago
"It took contacting them again, insisting on a response, to get an explanation." Which was...?
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by jdq 14y ago
"As we are constantly reminded here, Apple takes 80% of the phone industry profits and thus deserve proportionate blame for working conditions." Blame needs to be proportional to amount produced, not amount profited. If I have one phone m
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by jdq 14y ago
Not trying to refute you, but how can that be the problem? From the email you cite, "Please be assured that your Adsense account remains in good standing and any actions taken on this domain do not affect the performance of your other Ads
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by jdq 15y ago
You mean the non-smartphone that was announced a couple weeks before the iPhone? I forget, how was multitouch on it? And the web browser, was it any good?
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by jdq 15y ago
Except that you just made this up. Do you really think Apple doesn't know people are on the lookout for just such behavior?
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by jdq 15y ago
So "a consistent experience that users expect" == user tracking for ads?? I don't think so. That's quite some spin on Google exploiting a bug to track me.
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by jdq 15y ago
The Battelle link is a horrible explanation. His position is that user tracking for ads is a normal function of the web people want and therefore it is Apple's fault for blocking it by default. Unreal.
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by jdq 15y ago
The post in question by itself means nothing. There is no context. We know Google and Sun were in talks about Java. This post could have very well been posted when Google made it clear they were going to use the Java language, but before
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by jdq 15y ago
Agreed. I wouldn't want to do business with this company.
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by jdq 15y ago
Windows Phone 7 is 'stealing' the idea [of a touch-screen smart phone]. That is very different than just copying. Ex: http://www.cultofmac.com/side-by-side-comparison-samsung-vs-...
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by jdq 15y ago
There is a difference between stealing an idea and blatant copying.
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by jdq 15y ago
"...Tornado because it offers little support for the plethora of Python drivers that are blocking only." Could you list an example of what you mean by support for blocking drivers? Thanks.
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by jdq 15y ago
"To defend Android, Google must attack software patents" But then Google jeopardizes its own search patents.
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by jdq 15y ago
" A common algorithm for succeeding in the App Store is take Popular App A from 2009 and re-implement it with new graphics and perhaps an additional gameplay mechanic and release it as Hopeful Popular App B in 2011." Not disagreeing with
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by jdq 15y ago
It's going to be hard to get the 'best' framework, but you'll certainly get a lot of responses of frameworks that definitely work for people. I'll add: Tornado http://www.tornadoweb.org
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by jdq 15y ago
Better title: How to create Cappuccino interfaces using XCode4
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by jdq 15y ago
The io is burstable. Try doing a sustained large download and you will see the speed throttle down
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by jdq 15y ago
I concur, but technically Scrapy is an entire web scraping/crawling framework for writing crawlers, not just XML/HTML parsing like BeautifulSoup or lxml. You don't even have to use Scrapy's built in processor, you can use BeautifulSoup (or
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by jdq 15y ago
Good advice, thanks.
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by jdq 15y ago
Prices are listed as well. How would one describe a price comparator/search engine for something like a tag line?
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Show HN: Qwink.com - Search engine for online movies
5 points by jdq 15y ago|6 comments
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by jdq 15y ago
It's this part that's going to get people disagreeing with you: "No more pixel perfect web apps that feel like desktop apps, no more sites that look like glossy brochures, and embracing chaos and amateurism over order and professionalism.
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by jdq 15y ago
Now updated to increase the total number of apps with malware to 34.
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by jdq 15y ago
Perhaps, but this is with the assumption that the $499 inexpensive model is the most popular. A research report from Context showed that the best selling iPad 2 model is the 64GB 3G model, i.e. the most expensive one. http://gigaom.com/ap
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by jdq 15y ago
I'm not sure exactly what you are implying about feeling since Apple is very polarizing (happy iOS devs are getting sued?), but if you take a step back you'll see that this isn't just an Apple problem. The lawsuits will come to Android app
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by jdq 15y ago
90 MB per month, according to: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/05/30/nielsen-androids-lead...

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