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by voidpointer 17y ago
I wouldn't necessarily blame it on the unicode consortium but rather on the assumption that a character in a programming language should conform to the notion of a character in UCS-4 or some other unicode encoding. From a programming langua
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by voidpointer 17y ago
That very much depends on your definition of a String. I'm not sure what you mean by reversing a string not being equal to reversing its characters. It's certainly not always equal to reversing its bytes (depending on the encoding). Same go
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Well put. There are far more relevant points, such as the fact that the fudged data series isn't even used anywhere in the rest of the program. The code fragment is indeed pretty useless without the entire program. It seems like ESR has sto
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by voidpointer 17y ago
After ten fake yawns I felt more like I had been hyperventilating - I'm clearly doing it wrong :/
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by voidpointer 17y ago
So what he wants is a modern language in which to write fast programs for NaCl? I find Go to be a rather strange choice for that given that it is quite new and a bit unoptimized. I think that D might have been a more intuitive choice as it
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Works good in VMWare Fusion 3. Does anybody know how to change the screen resolution?
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by voidpointer 17y ago
"Does Rogue Amoeba use these images to reflect specific elements of the Mac OS X environment? I guess so." I would agree they do, but them they don't do it in the Mac OS X environment but using it on the iphone... (Apple managed to crea
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by voidpointer 17y ago
The public API they are referring to is a Mac OS X API. They assert that it is alright to transfer the image provided by that API to another device and display it there. This may or may not be the case but in my opinion, the argument could
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by voidpointer 17y ago
What are these people thinking? Some of them put language there like "please read these terms and conditions carefully before using this web site...". How detached from reality can you become? If they find themselves in a lawsuit and want t
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by voidpointer 17y ago
If we were still hunting for our food in the woods that wouldn't be an advantage and that may explain why in the cause of evolution, getting rid of brown fat with growing age, was a fitness criteria. In our "developed world" however, there
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Strawman in a sense were the party offering the unpaid internship distorts the value of the compensation through gaining experience. So the argument of the first party not being paid can be refuted by saying that compensation occurs through
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by voidpointer 17y ago
I think the argument that interns are somehow compensated by "gaining invaluable experience" is somewhat of a strawman. Experience doesn't go away if an intern gets it. Money does and work gets done. I have seen too many people being lured
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by voidpointer 17y ago
This is exactly what I thought when I read the article. However, one needs to remember the reasons for the pushback that XML and XHTML got in the web developer/designer community: The SGML based HTML allows all these nice quirks through the
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by voidpointer 17y ago
If there was any doubt left that PHP is the VisualBasic of the web it should be cleared now. BTW, I think nobody linked the classic goto critique from Dijkstra yet: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/EWD215.... (or paywa
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by voidpointer 17y ago
The guilds in medieval Europe had this figured out very well. Also Terry Pratchett is portraying the same situation very nicely in the Discworld novels (assassin's guild, tomb raider's guild etc.)
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Can they force him to pay refunds? I suppose customers who bought his (cr)apps would need to delete them because they contained unlicensed content. (A bit like the Kindle/1984 issue only I think Apple has no technical possibility to kill ap
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by voidpointer 17y ago
People went crazy about iphones before there was even such a thing as an appstore on the horizon. I really don't understand why no other manufacturer is capable of producing something that gets close to the iphone. Even less since android i
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by voidpointer 17y ago
So if the JVM beats CLR but C# beats Java, why isn't there a C# compiler for the JVM? I suspect that all language features of C# should be expressible in Java bytecode, but I have not thought about the details yet. If you know of anything i
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by voidpointer 17y ago
So now, if I understand this correctly, we get to mix all the special treatment for IE6 in one messy stylesheet instead of keeping them in a separate one where we can jut throw them out all at once when that thing has died off? I don't thin
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Hacker Says iPhone 3GS Encryption Is ‘Useless’ for Businesses(wired.com)
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Very interesting link, thanks! In the interview, he mentioned that the folks at MIT wrote the program in high-level-language called MAC (MIT Algebraic Compiler) and hand-compiled it to the machine language of the actual computer which I tak
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Zeke has his own blog too: http://blogs.msdn.com/freeassociations/default.aspx It's referenced from the IEBlog at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-win...
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by voidpointer 17y ago
I think you made a good point there about the drawbacks of cross-platform end-user apps. The problem is that the idea of developing a single code-base for all the different platforms are so damn compelling to both managers (from a business
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Yeah, it's a stupid bug. Most bugs are once you find them. I also agree that this got into the security layer is probably the most worrisome part of the whole story. Maye this could build a case for mandatory code reviews for security relat
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Well yes, it's a bug but it's hardly a fiasco. Something like this should be caught in pre-release testing. Still, most users have their browsers running all the time anyway so a slow startup is not really that critical. I've seen far more
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Sounds a bit like what I was told this guy wrote about: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0525948023 Haven't read it or anything like it yet. Nevertheless, the idea that one might be caught up in planning and looking forward and forgetting the joy
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Think about the people PG mentions in his essay. Do you think any of those ever formulated the goal to become a "great hacker"?
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by voidpointer 17y ago
I think it's pretty certain that you don't become a great hacker by trying to be a great hacker.
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Well, since there is the need for this work to be done, it makes sense that someone gets trained to do that work. I remain skeptical though whether a university is the right provider for such a kind of education. I'm from Germany and we do
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by voidpointer 17y ago
You are right. The guy runs a business and he is looking for a certain type of worker. What I take issue with is the view that it is the responsibility of academic institutions to provide the type of workers that he needs. If he finds that

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