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90,242karma·8,021submissions·April 29, 2008
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imho, arguing that java and c++ both have the same deficiencies is not totally accurate. java seems to be no where as complex as c++ even with generics. however, java to me seems more complex beca…
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> That's just the US; I think there's already a small deployment of LTE somewhere in Europe. yes, lot's of places e.g. telenor (norway), vodafone (germany, maybe uk), magtel, boygues (france), d2 …
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> And.. LTE (or LTE-A) is all-ip anyway, so who needs carriers? you do realize that, cell-phones or any other access side equipment that you use, passes all data via the epc-core which is provided…
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> They have to put at least 1 satellite into service. That's a huge cost for something that you have no intention of making an important part of your service. apparently the cost of putting a sate…
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> Hopefully MS will see this as a learning experience... if the london-stock-exchange fiasco didn't change anything at microsoft, i doubt that this will have any impact at all.
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erlang also provides a number of 'behavior' modules e.g. gen_fsm/gen_server etc. which takes out the drudgery of writing boilerplate network client/server code. w.r.t your fsm, are there timeouts also…
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> Any good physics book that I could look into? Preferably books that integrate physics with programming? any game physics book would do that for you e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Game-Physics-Inter…
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> Not only did we lose an untold number of jobs, we broke the chain of experience that is so important in technological evolution... wow ! just amazing.
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> wondering what the FUCK they were doing shipping a product with as big a flaw as this most likely, the reason being that they field-tested this whole thing with 3gs look-alike dielectric (non-co…
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>In particular, I thought of the case of searching arrays of strings. If you are doing repeated searches against the same array, you can easily build a table breaking the array down into subarrays…
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> simplest solution of limiting the leak effects is not possible... For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H.L. Mencken