np3000

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np3000on Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"

http://twitter.com/#!/vicgundotra/status/35182523650801664

Looks like Nokia is going with Windows Phone 7

np3000on Playboy Interview with Steven Jobs Circa 1985

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing

It is interesting to note that Steve Jobs' biggest hits came in his 30's, 40's and gasp 50's dwarfing what he did in his 20's.

30's - NEXT and foundation for MacOS X

40's - iPod, iTunes

50's - iPhone, iPad

np3000on Ask HN: Is Facebook benefiting from a ponzi scheme? a bubble?

Thanks. As the article states, it might be cyclical. It doesn't give the details on the business services sector, apart from Marc Andreessen's anecdotes.

np3000on Ask HN: Is Facebook benefiting from a ponzi scheme? a bubble?

  Techcrunch recently mentioned venture funding drying up in consumer space, instead the money is flowing more towards enterprise. Therefore, those startups won't have massive budget to advertise online anymore.

Can you point to the article please?

np3000on Dev Diary: John Carmack on RAGE for iOS

Some more Carmack tweets on C++

IMO, good C++ code is better than good C code, but bad C++ can be much, much worse than bad C code. 10:17 AM Oct 6th

I wish C++ had a "functional" qualifier to enforce no global references or side effects. 11:16 PM Sep 21st

Reading More Effective C++. I have grown to appreciate at least some uses of most C++ features, but I still don't buy in on exceptions. 10:26 PM Aug 13th

np3000on Your code should be taken out back, lined up against a wall, and machine-gunned

see http://c-faq.com/malloc/mallocnocast.html

np3000on Android Project Changeset 4f8b683: libc/memset.c

it should be memset(buffer,0,SIZE*sizeof(int))