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Comment Re:K&R (Score 1) 352

K&R was an excellent introduction (short, expensive, valuable). However, I think I learned more about the why of C from reading Harbison & Steele, "C, A Reference Manual". It was a book for compiler implementers and programmers, and went into some of the design decisions, which really helped my comprehension.

Comment Re:That's some crazy shenanigians right there. (Score 3, Interesting) 303

As I read it*, the argument is over the 37 verbatim copied headers that define the API. That's like Oracle making a beautiful (ahem), elaborate sign explaining how to ring their doorbell. Google made their own doorbell but copied the sign, embellishments included. While the content of the sign is "fact", the decorations are arguably product of a creative process.

While I'll have to wait for better analyses of the ruling, I think we can take away that if you're reimplementing a library, you might want to reimplement the headers too.

* IANAL, and I'm not speaking for my employer. I only scanned the ruling.

Comment I loathe screen (Score 1) 77

I know I shouldn't. But every time I use it, I get trapped and have to pull up another xterm/console to kill it. It wouldn't be so bad if the "quit" commands were the first thing in the man page. And why ^A? I use ^A for 'start-of-line' all the time, and get annoyed when I realize it didn't work after I finished my paragraph. Now, ^X^C (no), F10 (no), ~. (no), M:q! (no), ^Q (no), M-F4 (no) argh!

Submission + - FTC Approves Tesla's Direct Sales Model

cartechboy writes: We've all read about Tesla and the ongoing battles its having with different dealer associations. Basically, dealer associations aren't too pleased about the Silicon Valley startup's direct sales model. Today the FTC has had made a statement on the matter and it's actually in favor of Tesla's direct sales model. "In this case and others, many state and local regulators have eliminated the direct purchasing option for consumers, by taking steps to protect existing middlemen from new competition. We believe this is bad policy for a number of reasons," wrote Andy Gavil, Debbie Feinstein, and Marty Gaynor in the FTC's "Who decides how consumers should shop?" posting to the Competition Matters blog. The FTC appears to take issue not with those laws, but with how they're being used, and with the direct-sales bans being passed in several states. Now the only real question is how long will it be before Tesla prevails in all states?

Comment Sony Dream Machine (Score 1) 702

I'm in your camp. Although 99% of my Dream Machine works fine, it stopped keeping time shortly after the warranty ran out. Not just keeping bad time, but actively resisting me trying to set it correctly! I'm guessing the RTC chip is broken somewhere, but that 1% brokenness has reduced its usefulness to being an iPhone-charging-picture frame. Blah.

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