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  1. Re:Primary Source on 12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity · · Score: 1

    or to put it another way.... My 'c' would appear to be a lot different to the way it was the last time I wrote 'c', but it would still be c and I haven't been teaching myself 'c' in-between..... so what's the delta?

  2. Re:Primary Source on 12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity · · Score: 2

    in theory or in practice?

  3. Re:Java on Java Creator James Gosling Hired At Google · · Score: 1

    Interfaces are generally a good way to go.... but not always...

    It would possibly have been nicer if C# has split someone into to distinct modes of language to stop sloppy crap inefficient programming by doits.

  4. Re:Primary Source on 12-Year-Old Rewrites Einstein's Theory of Relativity · · Score: 1

    I taught myself C++, Prolog and x86 semantics in a week... the rest was easy.

    "calculus, algebra, geometry and trigonometry"

    All semantics in theory.

  5. Re:Isn't this contradictory? on Microsoft Sniffs Out Unused Wireless Spectrum · · Score: 1

    I'm setting up a smart proxy to reduce my bandwidth usage. hopefully by 10-20% and have more clients.

  6. Re:Sounds like vision, all right on Kinect's AI Breakthrough Explained · · Score: 1

    Go search for Women Aspergers interview tony attwood.

    Keep listening until you get to the 'sixth sense' bit.

    You may not realize it, that doesn't mean that other people aren't 100% aware.. (e.g. I'm in the third person, it's pretty apparent that I don't make the spelling mistakes I just tell my body by pushing a command out to write some stuff, and it cocks up sometimes).

    It does similar in the other direction, with various levels of indirection... and I can also push things further down for some real number crunching.

  7. hmmm.... on Expensify CEO On 'Why We Won't Hire .NET Developers' · · Score: 1

    I tried it, I broke it! (or it was broken to be more accurate)

    Started coding at a young age (8 years old, check)
    Tried everything.... yep including .net
    programmed pretty much everything, from pic micro controllers and calculators to the microwave and washing machine...
    written drivers, databases, graphics, AI, E-commerce systems yada yada... check.

    got pissed off with immutable types and borked compiler and ...well.... things closing fucking streams that don't even belong to them!!!!!!!.. check.

    (You can always write the stuff in a different language and wrap it up so .net can use it.... is that real cheese not the plastic type?)

  8. Re:so the wheels are coming of the OO band wagon t on CMU Eliminates Object Oriented Programming For Freshman · · Score: 2

    I've found the same problem with SQL and prolog (of that was object prolog, scrub that)

  9. Re:Hmmm ... on CMU Eliminates Object Oriented Programming For Freshman · · Score: 1

    well if you teach bad OOP then yes, if your good at teaching it and you pick as sensible language (for simplicity) or use good patterns... then the problems mentioned are solved by the very thing they claim is inherently against it.

  10. Re:Excellent play on India To Ban .xxx Domain · · Score: 2

    all that really says is conservatives think they should pay for sex, liberals may well, being liberal and all, get the stuff for free.... possibly off some other liberal hippy chicks.

    or a million and one other reasons (e.g. liberals put out easier than conservatives so there are more people in conservative places who ain't getting any)

    But there is one thing that should be noted.... people tell you about themselves... so if they think that only dirty perverts watch porn, they must have gotten that idea from somewhere and have some idea what a dirty pervert is. Given Theory of Mind and other models... chances are it's cos they are dirty perverts.

  11. Re:fourth domain of life on DNA Analysis Hints At a Fourth Domain of Life · · Score: 1

    comasexuals you mean?

  12. the hint... on DNA Analysis Hints At a Fourth Domain of Life · · Score: 1

    If there where a forth domain of life the method we have used would find it... if and only if.

  13. Re:Windows "was" a competitor? on How Mac OS X, 10 Today, Changed Apple's World · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mac OS is dead, long live BSD.

  14. Re:PKE meter on Gadgets For the Ghosthunter · · Score: 1

    read a book written by a dead man.

  15. Re:Unlike Gates on Steve Jobs Questioned In iTunes Monopoly Suit · · Score: 1

    "Additionally, so would doing things like making special APIs that only iTunes has access to which accelerates speed and response and reliability,"

    Can a third party client use the API to connect to whatever/wherever iTunes get's it's stuff from? or is it vendor locked into Apple?

    Are the files that are downloaded restricted to something which requires a none-free license from Apple to be able to use and use at full speed? Putting competitors at a disadvantage, and not one purely based on the un-wrapped content provided by the service.

    I wouldn't see a problem unless they didn't have any competition, because they unfairly undermined and prevented any said competition from popping up through nefarious means.

    A monopoly doesn't need to be a big monopoly nor broad reaching. Patents and copy-right are both forms of limited monopoly.

  16. Re:Unlike Gates on Steve Jobs Questioned In iTunes Monopoly Suit · · Score: 1

    There may be an issue with exclusive content deals.. That is to get some content (e.g. from the open university) you need iTunes and that's the only way you can get it.

    That's a bit like Apple making the Open University make their customers use iTunes.

    If that's done to stifle competition then that's a breach of trust....

    Price fixing may also be another thing.. and they do do some price fixing of sorts.

    Format restrictions, or preference.

    I think there was one point where Apple was pushing software on people using one of their other products through automatic updates.

  17. Re:Unlike Gates on Steve Jobs Questioned In iTunes Monopoly Suit · · Score: 2

    Does iTunes ever get bundled with anything... e.g. a different piece of apple software or maybe some products?

    And are you ever required to use the interface for anything to do anything even if it's free. say maybe a bit like internet explorer?

    do they have any kind of exclusive deals with anyone, do they lock people in or out.

    Do they in any other way abuse the trust of people?

  18. Re:It's quite simple on UK ISPs Hatch Plan To Block the Pirate Bay and Other File Sharing Sites · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you did something you enjoyed instead of working to get paid to do something you enjoyed then you wouldn't mind so much.

    What happened to doing it for the love of art? where has all the love gone?

  19. Re:well regarded ? on Chinese Phone Maker ZTE Turns Down WP7 · · Score: 1

    that would be an ex-gay man against freedom.

  20. Re:Flash on Ask Slashdot: Data-Only Android For Development? · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Man that article sucks` on Sludge In Flask Gives Clues To Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    My God... one of the scientist proclaimed. It's like the primordial soup we have been looking for, the missing link. They where playing with the very spark of life back then and no-body realized.

    We tested the ooze and nearly equal quantities, showing that it was not intelligently or deliberately created. Though the chirality was slightly weighted in one direction, the ooze could turn into anything.

  22. Re:The Python language is a steaming pile of shit on Mirah Tries To Make Java Fun With Ruby Syntax · · Score: 1

    ahhh.. and the fucking immutable retiredness of the types. I think that shows you the target audience of VB 6 programmers it was aimed at.

  23. Re:The Python language is a steaming pile of shit on Mirah Tries To Make Java Fun With Ruby Syntax · · Score: 0

    Even the bloody documentation tells you to write it badly... what do you expect.

    Python is a glue language (like PERL or PHP) for people who are too lazy to make their own glue.. I'd rather write a full application in Debug.. Python is a language for people who don't want to programme or have other people be able to modify their programme afterwards or have shit managers or co-workers.

    C# is nice, the libraries and compiler are an utter bunch of toss though... I seem to remember that disposing of one class of objects (Stream readers and writers and of that ilk) would close the stream that it had but didn't even own.. that's pattern breaking leaky shit. I've had more consistent turds after a night on the tiles and a 4 day old vindaloo. The IDE is ... well ... fucking expensive to get it anywhere near anything that I'd touch with a barge poll... especially if I'm gona get locked in and have to pay for it and the OS it runs on and resharper and etc.....

    I haven't coded in Java for a good while, would be nice to take a look at it now a-days, post C#.

  24. Re:Uh... on Mirah Tries To Make Java Fun With Ruby Syntax · · Score: 1

    load up on gun and tell your friend it's fun to loose and to prepend.

    or do you mean the writing a letter version of here's one I made earlier?

    append (to add onto) you can append the request to the header in a stream... of are we talking string concatenation..

    you would encapsulate the http request.

    prefix postfix suffix affix

    affix would be at either edge/face, hopefully no one would be dumb enough to assume affix e8 was a grave thing to do.
    suffix on the end
    prefix before
    postfix would be to release some crappy PDF viewer software that's buggy then spend the next god knows how many years adding bloat and bugs.

    I think full performance is the current technical term; Taken from full speed usb vs hi-speed usb.

    performant would be in good working order. or O(good)

  25. Re:Depends on the country... on Getting Past Censorship With Unorthodox Links To the Internet · · Score: 1

    I posted somewhere else... but there are a lot of shiny things... like mirrors on the moon... though they may be more prisms and bounce stuff right back at you.

    a tricky bit of trigonometry but possibly possible... well in some cyber-punk fantasy book maybe.