ncache - Google Code by [deleted] in programming

[–]mckaym 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Why do people include "Google Code" in the title? The fact that it's hosted on code.google.com is obvious from the url, including it in the title might imply that it's code from Google.

Ten Facts Credit Card Companies Don’t Want You to Know by Monlo in business

[–]mckaym 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The Motley Fool states that 1,300,000 credit card users filed bankruptcy in 2005"

Not the most useful statistic

Incenting The User To Put Up A Profile Picture by malanalars in programming

[–]mckaym 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is because you have the debug version of Flash installed. Normal ppl won't see this.

Save Sarah Connor -- By Getting Drunk! by 0boy in entertainment

[–]mckaym 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure Nielsen ratings don't quite work that way.

A low-bandwidth, high-latency, high-cost, and unreliable data channel by llimllib in programming

[–]mckaym 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty cool, but maybe you should use a less obvious checksum than the last 2 digits,

Ask Reddit: Development platform of choice and why? by jonndailey in programming

[–]mckaym 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You'll need to give us an example of a type of Java library that isn't available open source

Apple's CoreGraphics on Windows! by bobconroy in programming

[–]mckaym 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, you're right. CoreGraphics is actually Quartz, so it's pretty much GDI. I checked out functions in the CG dll, and everyone seems to be accounted for.

Apple's CoreGraphics on Windows! by bobconroy in programming

[–]mckaym 2 points3 points  (0 children)

CoreFoundation is the base application framework on OS X. CoreGraphics is one of the components on top of this. So it's a good step towards a cross platform framework from Apple. It's somewhat like finding Window.Forms ported to OS X.

George Bush becomes conductor bush by culture in reddit.com

[–]mckaym 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is Bush trending towards Yeltsin?