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Out of interest, why is being on Verizon a selling point?

Was there something special about OS/2 that suggested it would be the winner of this war or did WP and Lotus just make the same bad bet at the same time?

Do you think they would be if they charged?

I'm not seeing a smoking gun here and the thread looks very reasonable. I see nothing related to "growth" so maybe link to something that actually backs up your assertion?

I'm not a huge fan of this question. I've been programming for 20 years (professionally for 13). Is the hardest problem some noddy maths i worked out at 15 to convert real coordina…

If you enjoyed this you might also like http://www.hackersdelight.org and the associated book.

You're being downvoted because you're wrong on a "Europe" level.

I think patatino's point was that his boss would say "You're not working" not "You're not taking time off to be sick"

That's a really good point, thanks taeric. Anything less than O(n) obviously means not needing to look at every element of the input, i.e. it's already sorted or similar. For most …

So. Having just messed up an interview at a large tech company by having trouble deriving an O(n) solution on the whiteboard, anyone got any good tips on how to take algorithms / d…

I think this is actually the original definition of honey trap.

I always thought the point was that he spots a ... tattoo? Of a snake? That reminds him of the club? Or the dancer... I'm going to have to watch it again aren't I?

This seems similar to michaelochurch's thinking about 'guilds' - which I guess is a precursor to formalised 'engineers' or master craftsmen, which is something Software 'Engineerin…

I can recommend the book "Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7" - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Creating-Interactive-Fiction-Inform-... - it walks through the process of creating a…

Thanks, that was fun and not as tricky as the blank grid initially made it appear! And the implementation was nice (although a little twitchy if you rotate twice quickly).

I agree with the author that the Single Responsibility Principle is being violated with all these annotations, but I disagree that the resolution is to move the annotations into hb…

I've just started looking at this sort of thing - can I ask what technology you decided on for the apt repo? (I'm especially interested in whether the restriction most of them impo…

The title of the image is "firefox-home-tab-mockup" - I don't think it represents the current state of the art.

If you enjoyed this, you'll also probably like Hacker's Delight: http://www.hackersdelight.org/

Purchased on the 1st of June last year - I'll keep an eye on it in the future, thanks for the warning!