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by DerekL 9y ago
> An off-topic criticism of the author's previous article calling bitcoin a Ponzi scheme. That article may have been premature in its predictions, but seems accurate on the facts. Who would be miffed of being warned of a ponzi schem
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by DerekL 9y ago
Watch the commercial and look at how he uses the mouse. He holds it from the side, with his thumb and middle finger on the near and far sides, instead of on the left and right sides. Did people commonly use it like that?
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by DerekL 9y ago
Probably an encoding error. An m-dash is E2 80 94 in UTF-8. (An n-dash is E2 80 93.) I suspect that the original UTF-8 is misinterpreted as ISO 8859-1 or a similar encoding, where 0xE2 is “â”, and the other two are unassigned or control cha
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by DerekL 9y ago
*free rein
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by DerekL 9y ago
So? After you buy the machine, you can choose your own password for the Management Engine, and also disable the remote configuration. The owner has ultimate control of the machine, but the user (for example, an employee, a student, or some
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by DerekL 9y ago
It attacks the users' freedom? Good! The owner of the computer should be in ultimate control, not the user. Buy your own computer if you don't like it.
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by DerekL 9y ago
Also, some of their animated movies are original, including “Lilo & Stitch” and “Zootopia”.
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by DerekL 9y ago
> I don't know what you think a Disney story is, but all of Disney's major works are based on existing folk stories and other works already in the public domain. False. Here's some of their animated features based on copyr
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by DerekL 9y ago
Where did you get 18,500/km^2 for San Francisco? 870,887 / 121.46 km^2 = 7170. More like Queens, not Brooklyn.
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by DerekL 9y ago
> Apple, Cisco, Oracle, Intel, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Adobe, Ebay, they all have HQs in the peninsula south of SF. It's more accurate to say “south of SF” instead of “in the peninsula south of SF”. Apple, Cisco, Intel, Netflix,
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by DerekL 9y ago
No, that was made by Lucasfilm Animation, a division of Lucasfilm. LucasArts is the name of the video game developer and publisher.
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by DerekL 9y ago
Note that this article was published in January of 2013, and it's now been 35 years since the Machine of the Year.
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by DerekL 9y ago
Assuming it’s a Core i5/i7 with the same tower case as the new Mac Pro, Apple should call it “Mac Tower”. The Xeon-based tower would then be “Mac Tower Pro”.
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by DerekL 9y ago
Mahjong solitaire also started on PLATO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong_solitaire#Computer_gam...
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by DerekL 9y ago
Title has a typo.
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by DerekL 9y ago
> It's not like Time Warner, with a monopoly you can't avoid. What monopoly? Time Warner has many different businesses and products, so you need to be specific.
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by DerekL 9y ago
> And frankly i suspect that CLI gets a bad rep because MacOS never had a CLI to begin with (OSX got one via its unix internals, but i am unsure Apple knew to value it), and DOS was minimalist to put it mildly. Macintosh didn't have
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by DerekL 9y ago
What is the point of making it permanent? If you want to increase the daylight after the workday, then just make working times one hour earlier, instead of changing the clock.
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by DerekL 9y ago
The last one is backwards, should be: #define my_assert(X) ( !(X) ? error() : ((void)0) )
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by DerekL 9y ago
You can use user-defined literals for a portable way to write four-character codes: constexpr std::uint32_t operator "" _4CC(const char* str, size_t len) { std::uint32_t result = 0; for (size_t i = 0; i <
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by DerekL 9y ago
One way to solve the do/while(0) problem is by using a “statement expression”. It's a GCC extension, and I don't know the reason it has never been accepted into the standard. Here's how it works: #define my_assert(
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by DerekL 9y ago
Mickey Mouse is only 88 years old.
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by DerekL 9y ago
How much money do these new office layouts save? Office space in Santa Clara County is about $34/sq. ft./year, though it's been increasing at a rate of 16% per year. The article says offices have, on average, about 150 sq. ft
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by DerekL 9y ago
They were announced back in June: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-imac-pro-space-gray-key...
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by DerekL 9y ago
This is called a “pull quote”. It's widely used in print magazines. I don't know when it started, but I've seen it since around 1980. The first known use of the term is 1978. https://www.merriam-webster.com/di
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by DerekL 9y ago
> Using a rather Windows-like, icon-based interface (impressive in the mid-80s), you moved a cursor around the screen to select from database categories like Geographical, History, Medical, Military, PsiLink, and SciTech. From the screen
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by DerekL 9y ago
That reminds me of a line from Apple's response to an ITC complaint from HTC: > Apple denies that its correct name is Apple, Inc. The correct name of Respondent is Apple Inc. http://www.fosspatents.com/2011/11&#
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by DerekL 9y ago
What's ”WST“? Did you mean WSJ (Wall Street Journal)?
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by DerekL 9y ago
Chick-fil-A is much smaller than Google, but they were funding think tanks and lobbyists, until boycotts convinced them to stop.
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by DerekL 9y ago
What I'd really like to see is Mac Pros that use Core i5 and i7, starting around $1500 or a bit more, compared to the Xeon models starting at $3000. These new machines would be called the Mac Tower and the Mac Tower Pro. Then Apple cou

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