zdouglas

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by zdouglas 14y ago
I was mainly referring to the implication by omission that Blizzard had nefarious intent with its watermarking. Though, my comment was itself inflammatory; karma's a jerk.
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by zdouglas 14y ago
I find the title inflammatory and ignorant; I would downvote this if I could. While I applaud the tenacity in prospecting and divulging the methods at which Blizzard has employed to create such "tracking" "watermarks," I highly doubt this i
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by zdouglas 14y ago
First, thanks for making this! Just a little note, I think there's a bug in your profile picture retrieval: asker & answerer have different usernames but the same pictures; e.g. John Skeet & Remus Rusanu on p. 9.
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by zdouglas 14y ago
> _I just want a device that works, and upgrades easily._ As a loyal TMo G2 (stock Froyo) owner, I wholeheartedly agree with that opinion. As other replies called out, TMo has a knack for luring you in and never releasing OS updates. Th
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by zdouglas 14y ago
+1 (Funny.)
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by zdouglas 14y ago
Edit & continue is available with the V8 engine as well, so add JavaScript to the list of languages being unrighteously ignored.
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by zdouglas 14y ago
> The only way I could justify this is if I began developing a free replacement for that very program. If the Oracle suit taught me anything, it's to be careful when using APIs.
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by zdouglas 14y ago
> Jason [...] does not understand or respect his responsibilities in his business relationship. This is indisputably the most succinct account of what has transpired. I would have presumed there to be laws governing a minimal merchant b
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by zdouglas 14y ago
Arguably, such an obtuse implicit cast is failure at string comparison.
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by zdouglas 14y ago
This is the binary-vs-plaintext argument all over again. Java's been through this once before, and they settled on .jar files containing bytecode (the author's ASTs, etc.), and human-readable source. To jinshaun's point: I wouldn't mind r
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by zdouglas 15y ago
I greatly appreciate their honesty, prompt timing, and engineering lesson. That's above the call of duty, even for the best distributors.
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by zdouglas 15y ago
Palpability is in the eye of the beholder. There's a lot of talk in the GH issue comments dismissing GH's "obvious" failure of not using `attr_accessible`.
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by zdouglas 15y ago
[4tehlulz]( http://insanepenguin.com/goto.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fejohn.org... )
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by zdouglas 15y ago
A machinist I knew for an airline told me a story about how the avionics in plains in the late 80's could land autonomously in fair weather. The problem wasn't that the systems weren't smart enough, but that the tarmacs weren't robust enoug