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by 0x09 14y ago
Well, you say that, but really it's had rather stable and public development, and it was my main desktop for a long time in 2005 and 6. I think part of the reason it became so drawn out was that it was already more or less a release product
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Conversely, I don't have the proper degree, don't live in a tech-heavy part of the country, and haven't been able to get consistent employment in some time. My hobbyist projects are basically my only hope for having any chance of displaying
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by 0x09 14y ago
> one on colon cleansing and three on flower related themes Good to know, I haven't used digg in a very long time so I thought my account had been taken over by viral cat product marketers.
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You are confusing MPEG the ISO working group with MPEG-LA the private company of lawyers. ISO has nothing to gain from patent trolling, they are financed by the purchase of their standards. MPEG is doing the exact same thing they have since
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by 0x09 14y ago
Every generational codec announcement from MPEG manages to attain "50% improvement", so it really remains to be seen. It certainly is a more advanced codec than H.264, which itself is already rather better than VP8 in its present form. Rega
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by 0x09 14y ago
x264 does not break spec. It looks familiar because H.265 is a very incremental improvement over H.264. I suspect the biggest single difference is the larger transform sizes.
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Although there's little to no doubt that Linux was evaluated for Rhapsody (and probably rejected for licensing reasons), another explanation is simply that Free and NetBSD represented a more direct upgrade path from NeXTSTEP's existing 4.3B
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by 0x09 14y ago
I'm personally super excited. Ever since reading this[1] blog post I've wanted to cobble together an editor with some level of libclang integration, but the amount of wheel reinvention involved kept it an idle idea. As a TM user already,
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by 0x09 14y ago
> If you must use reCaptcha on your website, do it like 4chan This is not how Yotsuba's captcha works. If you screw up, you're still taken to the post submitted page, with the error "You seem to have mistyped the CAPTCHA. Please try aga
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by 0x09 14y ago
> So here's my idea: if you strobe a really bright red & blue light, enough to temporarily blind the S & L receptors in your eyes, you should be able to see a green that is more pure and intense than you have ever experienced No
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by 0x09 14y ago
For some of us high density displays have been a holy grail for years. Up until now progress has been stuck as an archetypal chicken and egg problem between display manufacturers and the appearance of resolution independent display servers
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by 0x09 14y ago
You can! http://ompldr.org/vYWh5eA/test2.mp4 This was made by resampling in time with a DCT. Problems with this: 1. practically, it needs the entire movie in memory. 2. gibbs phenomenon in time is really weird. These could both be addre
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by 0x09 14y ago
It would seem to me from perusing the spec that they are simply taking a video, doing a 1D DCT on the time axis and amplifying a "frame" in the result corresponding to the desired period. Hopefully someone can correct me if there's more to
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by 0x09 14y ago
Matroska does not have any menu spec whatsoever.
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by 0x09 14y ago
> if I got your favourite language wrong, then please feel free to rip me apart in the comments Well, "strupr" is not part of ISO C at all. In fact I'm having a hard time finding out just which libc it comes from. Unfortunately the only
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by 0x09 14y ago
The all-important conclusion (which has yet to be reached) is to the question of whether APIs can be copyrighted. Up until now, all of our software licensing laws have operated under the assumption that APIs and header files are not copyrig
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by 0x09 14y ago
If the judge determines that APIs are indeed copyrightable, will this not have equally important implications for the FSF in the other direction? To use a particularly well-known example, libraries implementing a readline-compatible API cou
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by 0x09 14y ago
Discussion from the initial announcement in January: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3480016
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by 0x09 14y ago
UTF-16 is most certainly Unicode, even if it isn't the preferred flavor.
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by 0x09 15y ago
Even if it's a dried up subject, the blog is comprehensive and concise enough to almost be reference material. Everyone knows PHP sucks but this is a damn good illustration of why. What I'm saying is disregard that guy.
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by 0x09 15y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3707421
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by 0x09 15y ago
The word on the street was that they got skittish about stepping on Apple's IP. Which is a shame, because GNUStep doesn't get nearly enough attention.
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by 0x09 15y ago
> are there projects using Obj-C out of an Apple context? It's the same as 12 years ago: just GNUStep and things in the GNUStep halo like Étoilé. Sony started a project to put GNUStep on mobile (SNAP) a few years ago and promptly droppe
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by 0x09 15y ago
It's right here in the code, with this odd fixed timestamp: seconds = epoch_seconds(date) - 1134028003 Which happens to be December 8 2005 -- a few months after reddit began and probably the date this scoring system went into effect.
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by 0x09 15y ago
I'm not clear on the criteria you used for the web-apps column. The LGPL and GPL are listed as applying differently, but to my understanding both are equally agnostic to network use compared with something like the AGPL.
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by 0x09 15y ago
Better make that 16 unless your image is greyscale.
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by 0x09 15y ago
The point is moot. They'll never have to pay money at all since they're only supporting this by interfacing with platform codecs. If they were shipping an H.264 decoder themselves it would be a different matter entirely.
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MPEG has made (I think) the right choice in splitting off a track for royalty-free web video (WebVC/IVC) while continuing their traditional generational codec development (HEVC). The former allows them to utilize expired patents from their
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by 0x09 15y ago
> I couldn't quickly find a Cocoa method call with eleven parameters Allow me to introduce you to NSBitmapImageRep, which holds the dubious honor of being initialized by the longest public selector in all of Cocoa. Here's a contrived ex
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You've got it wrong. Typical chan-goers don't give a shit about Lulzsec and where they do the opinion ranges from tepid to disdain. This is especially true of the one notorious for pizzas and phone calls. If there's any kind of response to

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