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Authored by: SilverWave on Sunday, December 02 2012 @ 05:48 PM EST |
Goodbye Firefox Its Been Fun, Hello
Chrome My Cool New Friend.
Its been Firefox for me for a *long*
while but time to move
on.
There is a list of cool extensions linked
from the post as
well that could be helpful for any one else doing the
same.
Oh and a bit of a train wreck in the comments :-|
The
main enabler for me was a new extension "Sidewise Tree
Style
Tab".
--- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 08:26 AM EST |
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 10:37 AM EST |
The short version is that Strike Debt maintains that there is no
risk here, when as we will demonstrate, the outcome is not knowable at this
juncture (yes, that is unsatisfying, but welcome to the world of tax). It’s
possible that things will work out just fine for the Rolling Jubilee. But if
not, the ramifications to Strike Debt and the borrowers whose debt was cancelled
would be significant. Thus, to dismiss this very real possibility is
irresponsible.
Tax issues are nerdy. You need to be prepared to read this
entire post, carefully. Go get some coffee or a cola. I’m planning to box
readers about the ears if they raise issues that were addressed in the
post.
Susan Webber, writing as
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 11:06 AM EST |
So, I happen to be in charge of teaching Java to a set of first year university
students (undergraduates). I needed to set a coursework question on throwing
exceptions, and being a Groklaw reader, I thought "well, I think I've seen
something like that before...". So I extracted an approximate spec for
rangeCheck from its code, wrote it in the form of a question, and gave it to the
students to see what would happen; it happens to make for a particularly good
example (being a real-world example of a useful function).
Setting the question itself was interesting. In particular, when writing the
documentation for the function, I found it very hard not to duplicate what
Oracle had written when describing the parameters; there's only one sensible way
to talk about the index of the first element of a range in Java documentation
style. The question ended up a little awkwardly worded due to my attempt to copy
only the API, not the actual code. (There were also a couple of small changes to
the function due to the constraints of the sort of question I wanted to set, but
nothing that significantly changes the nature of the problem.)
The results were interesting. I'd say about half the students wrote a correct
solution. The other half had mostly made arithmetic or logic errors in deciding
when to throw the exceptions; it's very easy to fail to catch a particular
combination of range endpoint versus array endpoint. For the students who'd got
it right, the actual content of the method tended to fall into two patterns; one
was the one Oracle used, and the other can't be used while keeping 100%
compatibility (but was more common, because my spec was slightly different from
the Oracle version).
So my conclusions: rangeCheck is a little less trivial than I thought it was,
and the scope for mistakes is why it was a good idea to bundle it up into a
method in the first place, but it's still very easy to write.
Oh, and it's not worth nearly as much as Oracle claimed it was :)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: artp on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 02:06 PM EST |
You really have to read this! It's hilarious!
On Techdirt:
Copyright
Troll Case Tossed
For 'Fraud On The Court' After Abbott & Costello-Worthy
Hearing
--- Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 07:17 PM EST |
Yeah!
Ericcson - which has thousands of FRAND patents - is filing suit against
Samsung in the United States for REFUSING to pay its FRANT patents. It has
also filed suit against Samsung for an injunction against the sale of Samsung
devices in the United States.
This is going to be very interesting since Samsung is playing the same game
against Apple.
However, while Apple is very willing to pay a FRAND fee for FRAND patents,
Samsung is refusing to do so.
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Authored by: celtic_hackr on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 09:06 PM EST |
Well, I can't say for sure they seek to ban every product, but they did list
every product line of Samsung's electronics, and i saw no list of devices. So
maybe one or two devices don't allegedly infringe.
Here's the link http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/443591/ericsson_wan
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