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jaywalker | 13 years ago | on: Google’s next advance will be hard fought

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...

jaywalker | 13 years ago | on: Google's CEO's Mystery Visit to Pakistan

I'm interested in knowing others viewpoint on this!

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: Groupon CEO Apologizes For Poorly Executed Offer In Japan

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

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?

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

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: Least Known C++ Keywords

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"?

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: The Little Book of Semaphores

What?!! VB6 is still alive?!!

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: Least Known C++ Keywords

which are?

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: If everything in Unix development is POSIX, what the hell does C library do?

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!

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: If everything in Unix development is POSIX, what the hell does C library do?

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

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: Facts about Android

perhaps he has a very different keyboard?

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: Facts about Android

Even Mac is like a PC, then!

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: Facts about Android

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...

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: Facts about Android

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.

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: Facts about Android

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.

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: System V Semaphores: How not to design an API

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.

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Fastest route to $2000/mo. cashflow, worry free and conscience clear

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

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: BankSimple Launches Preview Site

Only for the US

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Extremely High Paying C++ Jobs?

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

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: What Does Haskell Have to Do with C++?

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

jaywalker | 15 years ago | on: Coding Horror: Your Internet Driver's License

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