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by DerekL 9y ago
It'd be really nice if the new Mac Pro is easily rack-mountable. Maybe Apple could just offer a rack mounted version. Also, it would be great if you didn't even need Mac hardware to run a build server. Maybe port the xcodebuild co
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by DerekL 9y ago
No, jet fuel does not contain lead. Only fuel for piston-driven aircraft contains lead. https://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=1... “Jet aircraft and turbine-powered, propeller aircraft do not
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by DerekL 9y ago
John Gruber, the blogger mentioned in the article, thought the same thing: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/07/27/video-footage-f...
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by DerekL 9y ago
That's in the App Store Review Guidelines, not the Apple Developer Program License Agreement. But that is a good point. However, Opera Mini has a “Mini mode”, where the parsing and JavaScript execution is done on Opera's server, w
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by DerekL 9y ago
Actually, 3rd party browsers are now allowed on the App Store, with a few restrictions. Previous, section 3.3.2 of the developer agreement prevented the downloading and running of any code, except for JavaScript running inside iOS's Ja
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by DerekL 9y ago
Nitpick: NBC Universal was a single company when Comcast bought it.
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by DerekL 9y ago
That was once true but no longer. Apps in the store can now run interpreted code from anywhere, downloaded, typed in, or bundled with the app. However, they can't implement their own app store outside of Apple's. I'm only goi
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by DerekL 9y ago
How could this change to patent law work? Wouldn't everyone who wants to use a patent without paying just lie and claim that they came up with it independently? How would a court find out the truth?
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by DerekL 9y ago
Plenty of people live all over the eastern half of the US. It's only the western half that is mostly empty except for the coast. Here's the population by time zone, in millions: Eastern: 150.2 (47.1%) Central: 92.3 (2
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by DerekL 9y ago
Apparently, the developer of Seaman is making a sequel. I don't know if it will be published by Sega or someone else. http://seaman.ai/ https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/25/15690876/new
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by DerekL 9y ago
The article mentions Guitar Center's $1.6 billion debt, but doesn't say why it has so much. The instrument market is flat, and online is taking a bite, but all of that debt is from a leveraged buyout by Bain Capital.
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by DerekL 9y ago
> Is it actually feasible to use AutoLayout in a larger-scale app without something like Cartography? You can now do this: addConstraint(button1.rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: button2.leftAnchor, constant: -12.0)) I think this is pr
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by DerekL 9y ago
Let me remind everyone that the current Atari isn't the company from the dawn of video gaming. Atari Corporation was shut down in 1996. Later, Infogrames bought Atari's trademark and other IP, and later changed their name to Atari
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by DerekL 9y ago
Cool! I'll have to take a look at his DOSBox debugger. I've been wanting to do the same thing, but with the 1993 Star Wars: X-Wing game. Eventually I want to build a cockpit with a wrap-around screen and a specialized control pane
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by DerekL 9y ago
> Of course Apple wouldn't be nearly as relevant overall in a world where they never produced the iPhone. I don't care about that. I see no reason why the Mac wouldn't be about as relevant in the personal computing space,
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by DerekL 9y ago
No, the article is correct. Wikipedia says, “A problem p in NP is NP-complete if every other problem in NP can be transformed (or reduced) into p in polynomial time.” They cite the paper “The complexity of theorem-proving procedures”, Steph
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by DerekL 9y ago
It looks like any app can use the new “FileProvider” framework and implement an “NSFileProviderExtension” to integrate with the “Files” app and other apps. I'm guessing that Dropbox, Google Drive, and the like are only supported by ins
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by DerekL 9y ago
That was actually true. Jobs was paid in stock options, perks (including a Gulfstream V jet), and the increasing value of the Apple stock he got in the NeXT acquisition, but no salary.
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by DerekL 9y ago
I rolled my eyes at the folks who can't walk more than five minute to their shuttle stop. But then, after I moved to the South Bay I was only 1.6 miles from my work, and during a whole year, I didn't walk it once.
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by DerekL 9y ago
> Responses From the Googleplex: . . . Many people will be incentivized to move out of SF unless there are several hubs close [to] the current stops. Oh no, don't move out of the City! Anything but that! One of the chief causes of t
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by DerekL 9y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14316091
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by DerekL 9y ago
I was surprised that this made a difference in doing a binary search. I figured that the cost of memory fetches would swamp the cost of index calculation. But then I saw that his benchmarks were done on an array of length 2048, so that the
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by DerekL 9y ago
So often when the Monty Hall Problem is posed, Monty's strategy is never fully explained, so there's no way to solve the problem. At least here, the second paragraph clearly states the rules.
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by DerekL 9y ago
It's called “Turn the Page”.
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by DerekL 9y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14220983 The previous item was a Medium URL that redirects to the hacker noon.com page.
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by DerekL 9y ago
No, the article is correct. This was before the merger with Enix, and the company was called “Square”, and sometimes used the name “Squaresoft”.
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by DerekL 9y ago
> I'm foggy on the details, but my understanding is that App Store submissions are required to be done in a way that provides LLVM or other IL/VM language code instead of machine code. This could land them in a spot where re-co
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by DerekL 9y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14237346
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by DerekL 9y ago
I think that it'll be a cut-down version of the old tower, not the entire huge thing. My prediction: 2 16x PCIe card slots: YES 2 4x PCIe card slots: NO, use Thunderbolt 3 instead. Every time Apple can push a device maker to switch fro
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by DerekL 10y ago
> Apple used Carbon for a lot of its own built-in apps, such as Finder, didn't it? (edit: and iTunes) iTunes needed to support both Mac OS 9 and X, so Carbon made much more sense than writing all of the UI code twice. Also, it start

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