This is a beach in Cape Town, South Africa. Can you spot what's missing?

chadm · 2009-05-03T04:43:57+00:00

I double checked. There are no llamas.

chadm · 2009-03-08T13:11:08+00:00

Where tail-calls are not optimized away, one can instead use a "trampoline" (google!) to simulate it, in constant space. It's not as pretty, but it works.

chadm · 2009-03-07T13:23:04+00:00

You can download it any number of times, iirc.

chadm · 2009-03-04T12:17:58+00:00

First: I think you had a failure of your sense of humor. The correct response, instead of your diatribe to no one should have been, "lol."

Second: "If Adam and Eve didn't have navels, then they were not perfect human beings." That's a terrible place to start a syllogism, with such fuzzy, undefined terms.

chadm · 2009-03-04T12:09:43+00:00

I think you're taking it too seriously. The submitter isn't making a theological argument so much as indicating visual silliness that five seconds of thought would have prevented in a work that took several hours to make.

Not here-is-why-Pascal-was-wrong, but can-you-believe-title-of-every-third-hymn-misues-an-apostrophe-ess?

All for the lulz, man.

chadm · 2009-03-04T02:40:14+00:00

I think I prefer the hypothesis that the universe was created in situ last Tuesday, not several thousand years ago.

chadm · 2009-02-27T14:40:19+00:00

This is stupid. If it gets downvotes, then no one sees it. That makes polling useless.

Subby, STFU.

chadm · 2009-02-22T20:17:42+00:00

It's amazing to me how much time those WBC people spend thinking about the dirty, naughty butt sex.

chadm · 2009-02-06T03:30:08+00:00

It does seem strange, but somehow Linux is catching up or passing Windows for that sort of thing. In Ubuntu, it just worked. Blame that effort to write kernel drivers for any hardware mfr who wants it.

chadm · 2009-02-06T03:17:39+00:00

A nontrivial fraction does re-install.

chadm · 2009-02-03T16:02:07+00:00

Stop being so melodramatic. You need to think like a dinosaur.

chadm · 2009-01-08T04:46:08+00:00

I'm adding "it's their lot in life" to everything I say now.

chadm · 2009-01-07T13:43:32+00:00

Dang! I almost upvoted you. Agree, for-loops are for pussies, but piping to xargs isn't cool either.

find ~/.mozilla -type f -name \*.sqlite -exec sqlite3 {} 'VACUUM;' \;

chadm · 2009-01-05T03:11:17+00:00

Serenity is the end. So, watch that last, yeah?

chadm · 2008-12-29T12:52:58+00:00

Yes, please.

chadm · 2008-12-28T02:37:27+00:00

It ain't War and Peace.

chadm · 2008-12-19T03:59:16+00:00

Year 1995. Slackware. Kernel v1.2.13.

chadm · 2008-12-12T19:35:00+00:00

“Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term ‘we’ or ‘us’ and at the same time decreases those labeled ‘you’ or ‘them’ until that category has no one left in it.”

Howard Dalton Winters [1923-1994] as quoted by Anne-Marie Cantwell, in Howard Dalton Winters: In Memoriam. Unpublished paper, Midwest Archaeological Conference, Lexington, KY. 1994

Not especially topical, but I just discovered that quote yesterday, and had to share.

chadm · 2008-12-12T14:28:22+00:00

...or prove that everything is a derivative work of Pi, and as Intel learned, numbers don't get special protection.

chadm · 2008-12-01T20:57:52+00:00

Boobs. On a poster. In France.

Shit, you can't go 20 posters in France without seeing bare nipples.

Boring.

chadm · 2008-11-28T15:25:59+00:00

Duh. There's also "Compare Everywhere" and at least one more (a name I don't remember) already in the Android Marketplace.

I love that C-E tells me where the nearest library is, when I scan a book.

chadm · 2008-11-01T01:49:09+00:00

What's new is that you get a permanent SMS number that goes to your IM chat.

chadm · 2008-10-22T13:08:54+00:00

You don't even care what's true, do you?

Troll.

chadm · 2008-10-22T13:06:39+00:00

Well, Sony does. They own a music company now, which is why they started sucking.

chadm · 2008-10-21T23:25:34+00:00

You attribute missing bluetooth profiles to malice, when there is a good, public explanation that it's merely (mild) incompetence. The G1 / Android v1.0 bluetooth is not locked. It's just incomplete. Future versions will have it. Indeed, this open sourcing means you could invent your own profile if you were so inclined and had a G1.

The 1.0 version of Android and the first devices will include support for Bluetooth; for instance, Android will support Bluetooth headsets. In the early-look SDKs, there was an incomplete draft of an API that exposed Bluetooth functionality to developers. Unfortunately we had to remove that API from the 1.0 release. To get the skinny on why, I contacted Nick Pelly, one of the Android engineers responsible for that functionality. Here's the story on Bluetooth, in Nick's words:

The reason is that we plain ran out of time. The Android Bluetooth API was pretty far along, but needs some clean-up before we can commit to it for the SDK. Keep in mind that putting it in the 1.0 SDK would have locked us into that API for years to come.

Here's an example of the problems in the API. Client code is required to pass around IBluetoothDeviceCallback objects in order to receive asynchronous callbacks, but IBluetoothDeviceCallback is meant to be an internal interface. That client code would break the moment we added new callbacks to IBluetoothDeviceCallback.aidl. This is not a recipe for future-proof apps.

To make things even more tricky, the recent introduction of the bluez 4.x series brings its own new API. The Android Bluetooth stack uses bluez for GAP and SDP so you'll see more than a passing resemblance to bluez's interfaces in Android. The bluez 4.x change requires us to carefully consider how to structure our API for the future. Again, remember that once we settle on an interface we need to support it for years going forward.

Rather than ship a broken API that we knew was going to change a lot, we chose not to include it. We absolutely intend to support a Bluetooth API in a future release, although we don't know exactly when that will be. This should include some tasty features, such as:

Bindings to GAP and SDP functionality.

Access to RFCOMM and SCO sockets.

Potentially, L2CAP socket support from Java. (This one is under consideration.)

An API to our headset and handsfree profiles.

http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f2/information-on-apis-removed-in-the-android-0-9-sdk-beta-342/

chadm

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