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ARM processors try to find the sweet spot between small size, low power and high speed. By picking which pieces to include, which to leave out and which to optimize for size/power/…

This is actually great news. It has been impossible to find out whether you are on the US watch list. Now you have to do is get an Australian with your name to order something from…

If Bill Gates really thinks his phone is not being tapped I have a bridge to sell him.

Thaat's > 7 10^9 dollars to developers. So how many devs are out there? if we assume [for no good reason] 100,000 (10^5) devs that's 7 10^9/10^5 = 7*10^4 (70,000) dollars per dev. …

Is leaking your users' private information wworth $100 Billion?

To me the take away is that he doesn't care that his company exposed the private information of the company's users.

> Is it 100% feature complete or fast? No. If it's not feature complete it's vaporware.

Please note that potential employers don't like seeing resume gaps >6 months.

Lines of code can be particularly misleading. Read: -2000 Lines Of Code http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

> GNU has a concept of freedom that it tries to protect via the GPL. Licenses like the BSD or MIT do not. BSD and MIT are trying to protect their own concept of freedom.

> Honestly, I wish Apple would just get with the times and allow an appropriate degree of freedom on their devices An appropriate degree of freedom is different for you and eight y…

The article says that the state is limiting the amount of land that can be used for marijuana cultivation? For thirty years all of the best weed in Washington has been grown indoor…

Seems kind of weird to imagine lots of drones flying over urban areas and not hitting each other falling out of the sky and hurting people.

I used to joke that Duke Nuk'em Forever hadn't shipped because they were using Perl 6. But Duke shipped first. :)

Perl 6 is the Unicorn of computer languages - a mythical beast. Yes I know I'll be downvoted to zero karma.

been done https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9533

I agree. The OP's examples are lame. Anyone who has written a memory allocator (I've written at least a couple) knows there's overhead for each allocation. There are many ways you …

Off topic(since it's not about C/Java), but Python has a long integer type which won't over/underflow unless you run out of memory. % python Python 2.7.5 (default, Aug 25 2013, 00:…

> Google Support is unbelievably awful - anyone got any sugggestions? Don't use Google.

True enough. I just pointed to the K&R on his bookcase and said "Look it up".

He asked me to implement strcpy(). He thought it was strcpy(from, to) - it's strcpy(to, from).

http://www.nand2tetris.org/

"we're not interested in anyone who wants to spend evenings and weekends with friends and family"? -- I once interviewed as a 30-something with a company that generally only hired …

The the article talks about the Left Coast - I call it the Best coast. It's where Intel, Boeing, HP, Microsoft, Tesla, Amazon, Starbucks and the Grateful Dead come from. Let any ot…

The economics of manufacturing in the US make sense when the product is mostly made by automated machines. Glass is like that.