tychobrahe

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by tychobrahe 15y ago
What's up with this massive chip in your shoulder? For fucks sake, why don't we get rid of those anti-Apple (slowpoke) and anti-Google (chugger) types? This is getting ridiculous...
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
> I believe you're pretty offended though. And so are you, it seems... ;) EDIT: Since you cherry-picked my points and completely ignored what I tried to say in order to attack me, I'll just repeat what I wrote, since it's what I would r
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
Nope, I didn't. Actually the issue was getting the correct packages from apt-get. DLL hell all over again. In the end I simply formatted the machine with a non-stable version and the drivers installed as expected. Easy peasy. EDIT: But that
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
Ever heard of "blame the game, not the player"? Trying to put all the blame on Steve Jobs' shoulder, right after his death, is horrendous. Steve Jobs wasn't the enemy of freedom RMS paints him as. That he personally wrote letters against DR
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
Hey, NH, I'm not the poster, but why is this being down voted? Linux being easier to use and easier to maintain isn't something we all could benefit from? And for fucks sake, don't say "it's FUD". I had a hard time installing drivers for an
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
Way to split hairs and miss the point, huh? But that sorta proves his point. Linux isn't good to normal people today just because it's full of geeky magic dust. It is good today because it "Just Works™".
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
> You occasionally drop a few hundred lines of code on github and then think you are a contributor to Free Software? Yes I do. Github being is so successful these days is proof that FOSS matters. FOSS is not only about kernels, compiler
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
I believe smcfancontrol installs its kext by demand from inside the Cocoa App. I don't know how it's done (I only do UNIX stuff on my Mac =/) but I believe it changes the .kext owner and invokes kextload. You can 'sudo' from inside a Cocoa
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
Why do we care so much about genius scientists but dismiss genius dilletantes? Also, why do we have to dillute our opinion on people and reduce them to the stereotypes? Is it something we do just to feel better? Saying that Steve Jobs was j
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
No, it doesn't. This is impacting news for our industry. Also, it's NH's way of saying goodbye. Please, don't try to ruin this. Don't worry, it will all go away in a few hours. Just go out and take a walk if this affects you negatively.
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
I know how you feel. Last time my manager asked me to come up with a simple test for interviews I added a question with code and asked what it was: a bubble sort in C#. No one got it right, not even a "it sorts the array".
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
> Like pay them a lot of money Highly unlikely, considering Apple's complete lack of interest in licensing or having a clone market.
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
I'd say that the sum is bigger than the parts when it comes to copying products. One or two things would be perfectly okay, everyone does that, in every market, but the accusations range from the packaging and peripherals to the core produc
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most of those complaints related mostly to the SQL generation rather than the "mapping" part? I find that the problem when discussing ORMs is that we gave them two completely different responsibi
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
Judging from the advertisements in local phone stores here, I'd say that Samsung and Motorola appeal much more to the young folks, while HTC is more of a premium brand for executives and uber-geeks who want to fiddle with the bootloader. I
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
C'mon let's be fair here... What Gruber said was that "the right way to do things" depends on whether the person is writing for Apple or for Microsoft, and he (as punctuated by the "To me") doesn't feel like MS's way is the right way. The w
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
I'm sorry, where do you get that? I never had a problem with iPhones, nor know anyone who ever did, except for a cracked screen or another. No antenna-gate here either. C'mon... On the other hand, I have a 3RL'd XBox which was promptly repl
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
Isn't it too early for that? Given the number of developers working with Microsoft's ecosystem, I don't think it will be long until they have a market as big as Apple's or Google's when it's released. I think that WP7 wasn't a hit because M
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
Looks like it. Seems like it's a war where everybody wins. EDIT: But yeah, I don't think they're giving up completely on Flash, considering we'll still need it for some things until pure HTML5 doesn't cover all corners.
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
"Hackers gonna hack!" :D
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
I love the whole tone of the article and how Brendan Eich is painted as the hero. Because he is. He managed to make a language that, despite its simplicity, is still in its peak after 16 years of heavy mainstream usage. I discovered functio
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
Yep, you're right! "The concept behind the XMLHttpRequest object was originally created by the developers of Outlook Web Access (by Microsoft) for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
Ridiculous indeed. People think that Apple did a lot of things on the iPad, but all they did was removing the pen, removing some useless physical buttons, using a tailored touch-oriented OS instead of adapting one from desktop computers, bo
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
Hasn't things been always like this? People would complain that Macs were too expensive, wouldn't run most apps/games, that the iPod had DRM, that the iPhone had no SDK, that you had to code only in Obj-C (section 3.3.1, dropped). In the pa
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
This blog post completely misses the mark. This kind of thing should be downvoted into oblivion. The blog post basically bashes NH, then accuses Apple of destroying Microsoft and says that Microsoft should team up with Android. I've never s
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
Actually, in the line you quoted, he's saying we need more academics (instead of amateurs) to solve the P =? NP problem, not to build decentralized social networks.
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
If the patch contains good code/documentation, doesn't break anything, works as supposed to do and is relevant to the direction of the project, I can't see why it wouldn't be approved. If my patch conflicts with the direction of the project
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
> This is why Microsoft have lost their way. Instead of focusing on their own products and innovation, they try to make money through other less honorable means. Actually, Microsoft is innovating very much. They probably have one of t
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
Yes. Pretty much anyone can contribute. Your patches just have to go trough an approval process. It is complex and takes time, but of course it is possible.
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by tychobrahe 15y ago
I've been reading your comments for some time and you seem to have serious anger problems when the subject is Apple. Also, you're very disrespectful to Apple users, bringing the topic even when it has nothing to do with the company. I serio

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