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The latest from the Oracle vs Google trial

Judge: We heard the testimony of Mr. Bloch. I couldn’t have told you the first thing about Java before this problem. I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I’ve written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do it, you could do it. The idea that someone would copy that when they could do it themselves just as fast, it was an accident. There’s no way you could say that was speeding them along to the marketplace. You’re one of the best lawyers in America, how could you even make that kind of argument?

Oracle: I want to come back to rangeCheck.

Judge: rangeCheck! All it does is make sure the numbers you’re inputting are within a range, and gives them some sort of exceptional treatment. That witness, when he said a high school student could do it

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I never understood why it seems to be every geek’s prerogative to put people down when they say they are unaware of something.

I believe that for someone to improve, not just in knowledge on a certain topic, but for life in general, they have to admit (not just to others) but to themselves that they are lacking in that area.

I intentionally make it a habit to do this, to admit that I don’t know something (usually, much to the annoyance of my friends), though once I am educated on that topic, I find the discourse later much more indepth and enjoyable.  

Had I just pretended that I knew what the other person was talking about and just nodded my head, I’m sure in the short term it would please the person talking, but it helps no-one and future discussion on the topic would be moot

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It’s quite clear that Android was being designed to a completely different target before the iPhone was released. What we see here would have fitted in perfectly with the world of Symbian and BlackBerry. This early build of Android is in fact even less capable and mature than the 2004 release of Symbian Series 90 (Hildon), the OS that runs on the Nokia 7700 and 7710 - Nokia’s first, and only, pre-iPhone touchscreen smartphones. It’s not hard to see that iPhone really changed the thinking across the entire industry, and caused everybody to start from scratch. Android, webOS, Windows Phone 7, Windows 8, BlackBerry 10 - all of these exist because of the iPhone, and standing on its shoulders they have made some amazing and unique contributions to the ecosystem.

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Welcome back Ze!

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Adam Savage form Mythbusters

We are all bags of meat and water, we all start with the same tools.

I love the idea that different branches of science are called fields of study.  Most people think of science as a closed black box when in fact it is an open field, and we are all explorers.

Reporter Rob Schmitz is the Bureau Chief of Marketplace in Shanghai. He is the person who discovered a large portion of Mike Daisey’s accounts about Apple’s Foxconn factories from China. Now, he has become only the second reporter ever to get the opportunity to visit the Foxconn factory floor.

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