Arelius

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901.
by Arelius 14y ago
> especially if many of them are for it. I do not think that is the case, generally speaking.
902.
by Arelius 14y ago
>Though I support the idea that wealthy people should pay high taxes, perhaps even higher taxes than they do now, I think it's also worth noting that the US already gets 70% of all its taxes from the top 10%[1]. You do realize that if y
903.
by Arelius 14y ago
Needs some polish, For instance, "Ingredient 1" Should go away when I start typing.
904.
by Arelius 14y ago
The links you reference are mosly for OpenGL, SDL, and File I/O, which is a small part of what Emacs actually needs.
905.
by Arelius 14y ago
I suspect however, that it doesn't support X11 and many of the other required libraries that are required by Emacs. Also, don't feel bad about "actually..." ing me, I'd prefer to know the truth, than to think a falsehood.
906.
by Arelius 14y ago
Because, it's not as simple as that. A huge amount of the C code is interfacing with platform libs, emscripten doesn't just fix that.
907.
by Arelius 14y ago
Money hats: Blizzard is making them right now. But yes, if anyone realistically thinks these server issues significantly alter sales, they must have also forgotten the SC2, WoW, DiabloII launch.
908.
by Arelius 14y ago
My comments are specifically about data storage. It was much harder to store terabytes back then.
909.
by Arelius 14y ago
Really? No Screenshots, no live preview, even the video doesn't show the actual application? No offense, but why would I want to sign-up to even get a glimpse of your editing environment?
910.
by Arelius 14y ago
The thing about a weird sense of humor is it's likely not the same weird sense of humor any particular other person is likely to have. The problem with "ninja" developer and the like is by now it's starting to get played out, even among mor
911.
by Arelius 14y ago
Your statement is a bit unclear, in particular, this part "I realized it's in the doing." What's in the doing? > It's better to alter your mindset about your work. Elaboration on this would be interesting.
912.
by Arelius 14y ago
How is that underestimated, a world of 10GB Hardrives when that's much less than the base package of dropbox these days. Managing the terabytes of data required for the movie back then was a much more difficult task.
913.
by Arelius 14y ago
The infrastructure to maintain authority on terabytes of data on late 90's hardware in a distributed fashion would be a pretty significant amount of development effort. It'd be much easier to just get a giant RAID NAS, and manage it all the
914.
by Arelius 14y ago
I meant to imply that Nvidia the company doesn't need to support Wayland specifically, rather that Wayland has multiple ways to support the GPU without the company's involvement.
915.
by Arelius 14y ago
"Not that you would" Implies that you could. I was pointing out that they could not, for two rather poignant reasons. I didn't mean to do it offensively, but the point is that syncing and managing the huge amount of data that they have woul
916.
by Arelius 14y ago
If you are suggesting that could they store Toy Story II content in Dropbox you A. forget how long ago Toy Story II was (1999) and B. underestimate the size and throughput of all the data that goes into making such a movie. edit: added "cou
917.
by Arelius 14y ago
It seems that Brendon has commented on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2983157 tldr: Nacl cannot be standardized, and the relevant API's are too strongly tied to chrome/webkit details to provide a first-class port to Mozilla.
918.
by Arelius 14y ago
You use the word proven as if it means something. The work you list is no more proven in terms of building production systems than any other research work. Additionally, I find it interesting to note, that if you had in fact been very famil
919.
by Arelius 14y ago
The problem, is that at the end of the day, some code somewhere is going to have to deal with resource allocation. Generally speaking with all the other fluff aside, an operating system, fundamentally manages and multiplexes resources. It's
920.
by Arelius 14y ago
This is in the original context of how all systems will be written in "GC enabled system programming languages". If the language is not GC enabled due to missing a runtime or w/e then the technicality isn't relevant.
921.
by Arelius 14y ago
The wayland compositor is the traditional window manager, takes a similar amount of code to write, and has the same scope and usage. Additionally, Nvidia doesn't need to support Wayland, that is why Wayland isn't using GLX by default.
922.
by Arelius 14y ago
So, if I have one light, and an object casting a shadow, and then another object inside the first's shadow, the area that is obscured by both objects is darker than one obscured by just a single, this is an inaccurate lighting model, and lo
923.
by Arelius 14y ago
The problem with the LGPL is that it's designed for code that is compiled and binary linked, which makes it harder to reason about for JS code. Additionally, afaict, it's problematic to use on embedded, closed platforms, such as iOS.
924.
by Arelius 14y ago
> we live in a world where hand-written assembly is considered a badge of honor Even in video games where this held true for longer, this is generally no longer the case. > where people prefer to patch up a 40-year-old dinosaur rath
925.
by Arelius 14y ago
C hardly requires it's runtime. Objective-C without the runtime is just C, if you write the runtime, GC, and other low-level system components in the C subset of Objective-C you are just writing the kernel in C.
926.
by Arelius 14y ago
Uhh, sure.
927.
by Arelius 14y ago
Interesting that none of those systems are in active usage... > Eventually all mainstream OS will have such type of languages and C will be legacy. That's just speculation. Personally I have high hopes for languages with optional-only G
928.
by Arelius 14y ago
IIRC, The entire contract is not invalid, just the specific clause that says that. The specific clause is: Except as provided in this chapter, every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, o
929.
by Arelius 14y ago
The Macbook Pro 17" Still ships with a 1920x1200 screen, still not as nice as the same on a 15" though.
930.
by Arelius 14y ago
Yeah, that's not what happens, at least not today.

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