DerekL

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by DerekL 10y ago
The only way to get a screen shot was to use a camera or a VCR.
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by DerekL 10y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12530344
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by DerekL 10y ago
It started last year with Xcode 7.
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by DerekL 10y ago
Huh? There were updates to the MacBook Pro in March and May of 2015. Are you talking about the fact that the quad-core models are still using Haswell chips?
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by DerekL 10y ago
The Stanley Hotel inspired the novel, but it was not used in filming the movie.
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by DerekL 10y ago
The title is misspelled.
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by DerekL 10y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12354365
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by DerekL 10y ago
The URL seems to have an extra “z” at the end.
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by DerekL 10y ago
This was submitted 2 days ago with a different host name: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12222135
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by DerekL 10y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12213593
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by DerekL 10y ago
One of the icons is copied from the old iOS Game Center icon. Maybe they got it from this package: http://www.iconarchive.com/show/ios7-style-metro-ui-icons-by...
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by DerekL 10y ago
> My research resulted in this discovery that the Olympic rings are no longer under trademark protection (according to Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Olympic_Rings.svg Where does Wikipedia say that? I
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by DerekL 10y ago
They probably mean “It's a Small World (After All)”, from the Disneyland ride. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LeQogBE9oM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Small_World
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by DerekL 10y ago
I was curious if hoarding dollar coins would actually happen, so I did some research comparing the US and Canada. Very similar economies, and their respective dollars have roughly the same purchasing power. The estimated 2016 GDP of the US
735.
by DerekL 10y ago
Before The Last Starfighter was made, I once read a legend about the Defense Department using arcade games to recruit pilots for interplanetary combat. Omni magazine had asked readers to send in the best urban legends. I don't know wha
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by DerekL 10y ago
Also, Apple replaced the Magic Mouse with a new model with a built-in rechargeable battery.
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by DerekL 10y ago
> For it to be a golden ticket, someone has to hire them at a good salary. If the person went to 4th rate school and has no skills to compete in the job market, it's not really a golden ticket and not a drain on the economy as they
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by DerekL 10y ago
How is it misinformed? So New York is different. The article clearly says that the legality of noncompetes varies from state to state, and it doesn't mention New York State at all.
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by DerekL 10y ago
Link is broken. Here's a good one: https://blog.jonskeet.uk/2016/06/22/thoughts-on-privilege/
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by DerekL 10y ago
> And while Tim Cook just touted Apple's new Swift Playgrounds iPad app as "a powerful new way for kids to learn to code," the campers won't be eating Apple dogfood this summer. That's because the Swift Playgroun
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by DerekL 10y ago
> JPG … (also known as JPEG) No, the name of the standard is always “JPEG”. The letters “JPG” are sometimes used for the file extension, but that's not actually the name of the standard.
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by DerekL 10y ago
All of that is explained in the second paragraph of the article.
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by DerekL 10y ago
I looked at the post by Nuand, and it doesn't say “open source”, it just says “we are releasing the source”. Maybe they've fix the post not to say “open source”.
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by DerekL 10y ago
Do you want a 15" screen with 4k resolution, or a 20" screen with the same DPI as current MacBook Pros? With the current MacBook Pros, you have to sit about 16" away from the screen to see all of the detail. To see all of the
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by DerekL 10y ago
There's a proposal to add them to the C++ standard, but I don't know its current status. “A constexpr bitwise operations library for C++”: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers&#x2F
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by DerekL 10y ago
It worked for me just now, 20 Mbps.
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by DerekL 10y ago
Apple denies it: https://www.buzzfeed.com/brendanklinkenberg/no-apple-isnt-go...
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by DerekL 10y ago
I don't see why. The LED's on the side are set to the same intensity as the screens to the front.
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by DerekL 10y ago
Starting with OS X Yosemite, you can use JavaScript for writing Mac apps and scripts. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/Interap...
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by DerekL 11y ago
I'm happy to learn that VCF West (the original Vintage Computer Festival) is being held in August. I've attended many times, but the last time it was held was 2007.

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