jaywalker

Google is a company which is not short-sighted at all. I recently shared a story about Google's chairman's mysterious visit to Pakistan: http://www.thejaywalker.net/2012/06/googles-ceos-mystery-vis...

I'm interested in knowing others viewpoint on this!

I doubt this is OK by Japanese standards. Did anyone commit suicide?

Best comment: I never anticipated this day would ever come....

Isn't it the cost of having direct access to the memory? Can you name another language where you can control so many aspects of the system, and still remain "clean"?

What?!! VB6 is still alive?!!

which are?

Well, I guess I should have waited for this discussion to reach a conclusion :) I read in Advanced Linux Programming (the famous ALP book) that fork() as well as creating threads via pthread library use clone() in the background. Any ways, the discussion here is quite informative!

thanks for correcting me on fork(); not sure what I was thinking when I wrote that statement :)

perhaps he has a very different keyboard?

Even Mac is like a PC, then!

Here is what James Gosling had to say about one of the patents Oracle alleged Google infringed:

Oracle finally filed a patent lawsuit against Google. Not a big surprise. During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer’s eyes sparkle. Filing patent suits was never in Sun’s genetic code. Alas….

I hope to avoid getting dragged into the fray: they only picked one of my patents (RE38,104) to sue over.

source: http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/the_shit_finally_hits...

Your views may differ. But I would take the statement "not developed by Google" as "not born at Google." I would compare that to SQL Server which wasn't born at Microsoft amongst a lot of other things.

Also, the fact that Android is not Linux means that you can't take a Linux app and port it to Android...it won't work...amongst other things there is no glibc; there is no windowing system; etc.

Do you think any of the "facts" mentioned on the page are drawbacks for Android? Let's recap: forked Linux, competing with Java ME within Java eco-system and having a non-JVM virtual machine to run the programs.

Yes, that's exactly why I think the "operations" concept was added. But isn't it good to provide extra sem_wait() and sem_post() for most of the rest of us who want a single increment or a decrement? I have yet to find a good use of an array of operations in a single atomic fashion. Neither dining philosophers nor reader-writers need multiple increments/ decrements in one go.

Perhaps, "a money machine" is a better word than "hands-off investment."

Only for the US

It's not just UK; there is a huge market in Singapore as well.

Great insight into the relationship between C++ MP and Haskell!

Why we can't just call it "Internet Identity?"

I second the opinion. It's like saying that AOL, Compuserve, and the BBS of the past decade had everything the consumer wanted. Why invent a page ranking algorithm then?

Though a typical internet user does spend an insane amount of time each day on Facebook, the experience is mostly related to 3 things (at least in my circle of friends and relatives): uploading photos, sharing videos and playing Zynga games.

The potential to expand from that point onwards is to base on the "profiles" of the users (and their list of friends) and show targeted ads/ services, etc.? But won't that data gathered by Facebooik still be related to shared videos and uploaded pictures as well as how much score you made on Farmville?

Is the offer only for Americans?

So, basically they have just reverse engineered the already very simple Luhn-10 algorithm, and labelled it as a "new algorithm" to generate tokens which get validated by Luhn-10.

How many lines of code was that? I would be surprised if the guys have written more than 10 lines.