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Comment iOS users feel it (Score 1, Insightful) 311

I currently have a web radio transceiver front panel application that works on Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, Amazon Kindle Fire, under Chrome, Firefox, or Opera. No porting, no software installation. See blog.algoram.com for details of what I'm writing.

The one unsupported popular platform? iOS, because Safari doesn't have the function used to acquire the microphone in the web audio API (and perhaps doesn't have other parts of that API), and Apple insists on handicapping other browsers by forcing them to use Apple's rendering engine.

I don't have any answer other than "don't buy iOS until they fix it".

Comment Re:Today's computer science corriculum is practica (Score 1) 154

Meh. When I was an undergrad, you really needed to understand netmasks if you wanted to set up a network for multiplayer games. Now, it's much easier (although Windows makes it stupidly hard to create an ad-hoc WiFi network. No idea how people think it's ready for the desktop), and you can do a lot without caring. I can't remember the last time I needed to know about them.

Comment Re:Does Uber need executives in France? (Score 1) 334

in Pennsylvania you can't have your auto rates increased by filing claims

Why is that? Is there legislation preventing this?

If I file three no-fault claims because other people hit my car from behind, and my next door neighbour files no claims at all, my premium will rise and his will not.

This is because the insurance company has identified that I'm more likely to be involved in an accident, and that makes me a higher risk.

What excludes Pennsylvania from this logic?

Comment Re:Probably GPL, but depends on Apple (Score 1) 171

The GPL is "viral" in that if you use even a smattering of GPLed code, you are required to release ALL of your code as GPL as well.

Not true. Go back and re-read the GPL. You are required to release your code under a license that places no more restrictions on it than the GPL. You must also license the combined work under the GPL. It is, however, completely fine to take a few files of GPL'd code, combine them with some BSDL'd code files (as long as those files are not a derived work of the GPL'd code) and ship the resulting program under the GPL. If someone else takes only the BSDL'd files for use in another project then they are not bound by the GPL.

There are two ways in which the GPL is 'viral'. The first is that you cannot change the license of something that you do not own, so any derived works retain the copyright and license of the original. The second is that the GPL is a distribution license and, if you wish to retain the right to distribute it, then you must not distribute it in a way that does not pass on the freedoms listed in the license (meaning that the combined work must grant all of the permissions as the GPL'd parts).

Comment Re: What a confusing summary! (Score 1) 128

The test says that the class with private members and no setters is intended to be immutable after creation, so that's not a problem. Having a single linked list for the entire grid (rather than a list of lists) is completely insane though. I'd expect a student who actually knew what he or she was doing to be more confused than one that would end up writing code with horrible algorithmic complexity. Looking at the rest of the test, it's not much better. If this is what AP tests look like in the USA, then I'll make sure not to weight it very highly when looking at applicants next academic year.

Comment Re:Are we too quick to act on social media outrage (Score 1) 371

Who, aside from racists, would find them funny?

The rest of us.

See, we already live in an enlightened society. We don't find racist, misogynistic, homophobic, or other bigoted speech acceptable.

We do however find racist, misogynistic, homophobic and other jokes funny. You forgot the disabled, jokes about the events in Tunisia on Friday and jokes about the bus crash in Belgium this morning.

It's called humour. Maybe you lack it, but you can go fuck yourself if you want the rest of us to abandon it.

Comment Re:Are we too quick to act on social media outrage (Score 1) 371

Let's state five basic facts;:
Someone is not racist if they tell a racist joke.
Someone is not sexist if they tell a sexist joke.
Someone is not a homophobe if they tell a homophobic joke.
Jokes at an after dinner speech are not inappropriate.
Hunt's comments were taken out of context.

Do try and join society instead of trying to oppress it into some narrow minded thought policed travesty.

Comment Re:Statements taken out of context and manipulated (Score 1) 371

Which part of what he said do you disagree with?

Do you disagree that men fall in love with women at work?
Do you disagree that women fall in love with men at work?
Do you disagree that some women cry when receiving criticism of their work?

I'm happy to discuss constructive approaches to working through these challenges but you don't appear to agree that there are even challenges to work through?

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