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Jun 29 |
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Be a better programmer or an irreplacable employee? "The graveyards are full of irreplaceable men" (DeGaulle) "If you want to see how irreplaceable you are, stick your thumb in a bowl of water and then pull it out and observe the resulting hole." (Harvey Mackay) |
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Jun 29 |
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What are the most important languages to localize for on the App Store? Good thing about Korean (compared to all other Asian languages except Tagalog and Bahasa): very easy to read and write. If you don't already read Chinese or, God forbid, Japanese, don't even try to do the localization yourself. French uses (mostly) the same characters as English of course, and there are a lot of words in common, so it's even easier, but the only places that actually use it are France itself, bits of Canada, and countries (like Benin and Haiti) where owning an iPhone would practically make you a member of parliament. |
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Jun 29 |
answered | What are the most important languages to localize for on the App Store? |
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Jun 24 |
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Can we technically un-blur images? Think of blurring as a function, like rounding. If round(x) is 3, was x 3.1? 2.9? 3.499? 2.501? No way to tell. The information has been removed. |
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Jun 21 |
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How do I publicize a cool bookmarklet? I submitted it to ykombinator, let's see what happens. (Ironically, there's a ykombinator submission bookmarklet.) |
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Jun 21 |
accepted | How do I publicize a cool bookmarklet? |
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Jun 21 |
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How do I publicize a cool bookmarklet? It's probably cheeseball to upvote a comment praising my post but after some of the doofus I've had here, it's a relief. |
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Jun 21 |
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How do I publicize a cool bookmarklet? @aceinthehole -- not untrue, but it isn't a scalable solutions. I would think the mods would start getting suspicious if every week I asked, "How do I publicize this?" "How do I publicize that?" |
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Jun 21 |
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How do I publicize a cool bookmarklet? Does work, so go ahead. |
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Jun 21 |
asked | How do I publicize a cool bookmarklet? |
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Apr 29 |
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Is it wrong to copy ideas from other languages? @Carson63000 -- hey, I quoted him first! (vide infra) |
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Apr 29 |
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Is it wrong to copy ideas from other languages? A patent is very different from a copyright. You have to apply for it for one thing, you have to pay (a lot) for it, and it's a lot weaker. It has a short lifespan, and violating a patent is only a tort, it can never be a crime, so the FBI won't help with a "crackdown". |
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Apr 29 |
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Is it wrong to copy ideas from other languages? @DavidThornley -- yeah, I remember that. Wow, FORTRAN sucked; haven't seen it in 20 years easy and haven't missed it a bit. Strange how some really great, or at least interesting, languages were designed in the '60s (LISP, Pascal, APL), but the really awful ones got all the attention (FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC). |
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Apr 29 |
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Is it wrong to copy ideas from other languages? @Rein Henrichs -- No, ++3 == 4 isn't true. It won't even compile, in C, C++, or Java. Try it, the compiler will tell you what I have been trying to tell you all night: required: variable, found: value |
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Apr 29 |
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Is it wrong to copy ideas from other languages? @Rein Henrichs, honeybunch, I don't know what point you think you're making, but you're not making it. It's very simple, integers aren't mutable. 3 remains 3 for all eternity. In most languages, integer-typed variables -- hugely different things -- are mutable. I said "lacuna" because I meant "lacuna" and if you wish to discuss word-choice take it over to english.stackexchange.com . |
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Apr 29 |
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Is it wrong to copy ideas from other languages? @ReinHenrichs -- Are you under the impression that i=3;i++; would cause 3==4 to be true? If you are, you're nuts. If you aren't, but still think "integers are mutable" you have a tremendous conceptual lacuna around the difference between a variable and value, and reciting the names of programming languages isn't going to help. |
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Apr 29 |
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Is it wrong to copy ideas from other languages? @ReinHenrichs -- integers are immutable. In a most languages, the variables that contain them are mutable (can be set to different integers). In a few languages, variables are immutable (or more strictly, there are no variables, only identifiers) -- Haskell and Clojure are two good examples. I'm not aware of any language where integer-typed identifiers are always immutable but other types are not. |
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Apr 29 |
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Is it wrong to copy ideas from other languages? Copyrighting algorithms is not a sore subject. It don't exist. You can't copyright an algorithm. You can try to patent it, it's legally permitted, but don't hold your breath. |
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Apr 29 |
answered | Is it wrong to copy ideas from other languages? |
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Apr 29 |
awarded | Critic |
