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This statement confused the heck out of me (wow! magic free memory) but of course, the pointers are being held to the contents of the memory, just not to the start of the object, w…

And had the 1password article stated that, then I would not have needed to post.

I believe it was changed because the first version caused a massive furor. I don't believe that dropbox has any intention of screwing people over. Nor do I believe that they had an…

No, I think they completely missed the issue. Which is * dropbox's customers are not lawyers * serving up people's files without passwords one week reduces people's confidence when…

It is not significantly different to a lawyer . Is dropbox's target market lawyers?

to the extent we think it necessary for the Service vs to the extent reasonably necessary for the Service. This license is solely to enable us to technically administer, display, a…

Here's my complaint. The author is complaining about a big furor over the TOCs, and then proceeds to show us the TOCs that "seems" to be behind it. Here are the facts: * Dropbox re…

Ah yes, the old "we can fuck you as long as we use nice words while we do it" argument. I made a "civil" argument and was modded down. Censorship isn't civil. And your 2.8 avg isnt…

Dont fucking mod me down. The author claims that this is the paragraph that caused the furor: We sometimes need your permission to do what you ask us to do with your stuff (for exa…

Except that the excerpt you posted is the new, modified version after all the furor. http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/0515218/Dropbox-... Compare the above version to th…

The big "Play Angry Birds NOW" button in Chrome seems to be evidence to the contrary.

I once pair-programmed an IK animation harness. The math was hard (for me anyway). There were plenty of times where I'd have balked and gone and made a cup of coffee but my partner…

How are regression bugs more dangerous than other kinds of bug? Here's how I'd rate the "dangerousness" of a bug: 1. How easy is it to detect? 2. How easy is it to reproduce? 3. Wh…

The complaint: but unfortunately the culture at RIM does not allow us to speak openly without having to worry about the career-limiting effects The response: it is particularly dif…

Can we PLEASE lose the paper-on-desk metaphor and have a 7 day calendar that always shows the next 7 f&*!@##! days!

Testing: testing is at the forefront of our development philosophy. We never need to check our code coverage to know that it's at 100%: with disciplined TDD, no line of code will b…

This is what I learned from a half-day legal seminar in california aimed at startups: In California, unless the work is for course credit at an established institution, an intern m…

Eddie Murphy said it best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpPdgrr5diM

What's next? a 556 loveseat?

And oh god i had to install it from floppies. I think windows NT was 20 of them.