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by EdiX 13y ago
A link to a version of the '68 demo easier to consume: http://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Adougengelba... And a link to the follow-up to the '68 demo that I explains how the text editor works better:
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by EdiX 13y ago
> I really like your argument but I remember how ubiquitous the SNES, Sega Genesis and PS1 were in the 90s. Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 sold more units in less time and haven't been discontinued yet. And they are competing with the intern
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by EdiX 13y ago
It doesn't matter, with the way IP works any reliable datagram protocol would contain an implementation of 90% of TCP. The more fragmented an IP packet gets along the way the less likely it is it will reach destination, so you have to
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by EdiX 13y ago
> Is it really a surprise sperm rates are lowering given the number of chemicals in our food, pollution and exposure to hazardous materials on a daily basis? Why would it affect sperm count but not longevity?
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by EdiX 13y ago
> There are people out there that very much want to cause regular citizens harm And what happens if the government becomes the one that wants to cause regular citizens harm? How do you protest a government that knows everything, monitors
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by EdiX 13y ago
> Should this same approach to literacy also be applied to the machines we drive around every day? Yes, and it is. You can drive your car anywhere you want. But it's so hard to hard to pick where to go, it's much simpler to pic
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by EdiX 13y ago
> if Nokia would adopt Android, they could probably even beat Samsung. It would've certainly been true if they did it a 2-3 years 2-3 years ago definitely, now: not a chance. They fired all their linux talent and burned their brand.
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by EdiX 13y ago
AFAIK 11km isn't far enough from the coast to be international waters.
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by EdiX 13y ago
Yes, of course, everyone who doesn't like a major UI overhaul is just an irrational luddite. New UI is always better UI. However you got one thing right: familiarity always trumps ease of learning, ie. the easiest thing to learn is wha
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by EdiX 13y ago
But google, facebook and microsoft all they never heard of PRISM and no such thing exist, why would there be a criminal probe about a work of fiction?
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by EdiX 13y ago
PSA: a Gap Buffer is a far simpler data structure than a rope that works just as well in most (but not all) circumstances.
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by EdiX 13y ago
A panic unrolls the stack until it's recovered from. If it's not recovered the entire server will go down. If the panic isn't recovered it will print a stack trace, if it is recovered you can get a stack trace with runtime.Caller(). Go's pa
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by EdiX 13y ago
They got the name from mysql's client library API. They just made a wrapper for it.
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by EdiX 13y ago
Granted, my cohort is too old for combat. No amount of training could put us in the kind of physical shape needed for that job. But we’re not too old to do many of the other jobs the military needs done. Military effectiveness is mor
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by EdiX 13y ago
Just a few more features to discard and Nautilus will finally reach feature parity with dfm.
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by EdiX 13y ago
> I love using zsh (in combination with oh-my-zsh) on OSX but the only thing I've noticed after using it a year is that it's becoming very very slow. As in, it usually takes me 5-10 seconds to login to a new session (locally) and be abl
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by EdiX 13y ago
Before 1996 (when 2.0 was released) Unicode was a 16bit fixed width encoding. And the first astral character allocations didn't happen until 3.1 was release in 2001.
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by EdiX 13y ago
Because orchestral music is high brow. The melody in orchestral music, for cultural, acoustic and agility reasons, is usually written in the soprano range, and therefore it is given either to violins or woodwinds in that range. Unlike woodw
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by EdiX 13y ago
There weren't all that many programmers 15 years ago, let alone 30. Things have changed.
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by EdiX 13y ago
I don't even understand where this myths come from. Linux "the kernel" switched 15 years ago from OSS to ALSA for drivers, ALSA has been backwards compatible with OSS since. Gnome and KDE used to have their own user space sound servers (cal
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by EdiX 13y ago
Am I the only one who sees Google Groups at risk? It could be seen as a competitor to Google Plus the update it's getting is awful and looks like something designed in 2009, the updated before that happened a decade ago, it's not very popul
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by EdiX 13y ago
git checkout -b a-topic-branch git checkout master then you reset master to the remote master, there is a command to do it but I do this kind of things with gitk.
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The shoemakers(thinkrelevance.com)
1 points by EdiX 13y ago|0 comments
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by EdiX 13y ago
> The software should have pattern hints. I think a better idea would be to scrap the datasheet concept completely. Make people use a dataflow programming language, it will give you: a) versioning of source code with standard tools b) s
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by EdiX 14y ago
I think his answer is useful. It does explain what's going on. If the performance characteristics of PCRE suit your problem better it's trivial to write a cgo wrapper for it. There's even one on github, though I don't know if it works.
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by EdiX 14y ago
> but do you know anything about how that worked? Surely in another language, the form of the lips while speaking is different It will be different but unless you read lips or pay close attention you won't notice it (too much). IIRC dub
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by EdiX 14y ago
> Have you seen Punch-Drunk Love? People who say "Adam Sandler Movie" usually think of movies produced / written by Adam Sandler.
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by EdiX 14y ago
Using panics for control flow or having panics cross library boundaries is strongly discouraged, otherwise they are fine. Go's own standard library uses them internally in several places. Even then discouraging panics is very different from
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by EdiX 14y ago
> Lack of exception handling is the biggest reason I haven't used Go for much. Go does exception handling with panic, recover and its reflection syntax.
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Followup on the guy who quit the Internet for a year(theverge.com)
1 points by EdiX 14y ago|0 comments

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