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by Figs 12y ago
Their website doesn't work for me at all. It's just a blank purple with various navigation links that don't seem to do anything.
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by Figs 12y ago
Great... so what long standing piece of UI did they screw around with this time that'll make me want to tear out my hair for a week until I either force myself to get used to it or give in to installing more 3rd party plugin crap to re
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Google asks Supreme Court to decide Android copyright case(infoworld.com)
4 points by Figs 12y ago|0 comments
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by Figs 12y ago
A lot of routers, set-top boxes, and other embedded systems also use alternative libcs, but I think you're right for Linux desktop and server systems -- most of those either use glibc or a fork/variant like eglibc.
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by Figs 12y ago
Doesn't the University of Edinburgh teach Haskell to first year students? I've heard that from a few people at least. Not sure what their classes are like though.
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by Figs 12y ago
I think all they mean by "prebiotic" is that Titan is similar to models that scientists have proposed for what the Earth might have been like before there was life (assuming abiogenesis) -- i.e. it has weather, complex hydrocarbon
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by Figs 12y ago
They're talking about this kind of "die": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_%28integrated_circuit%29 ; "dyes" are substances used to color things. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by Figs 12y ago
Is there something else you'd rather they call it?
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by Figs 12y ago
figure out why some device in Windows Device Manager had a question mark next to it or what driver cocktail to install I did this just last week with a fresh Windows 7 installation because the drivers for the Ethernet adapter had to be ma
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by Figs 12y ago
That kind of system really hasn't worked out too well with things like the debt limit in recent years...
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by Figs 12y ago
California's ReadyReturn program does this already for state taxes. I wish federal taxes could be that easy...
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Albertsons parent Cerberus buys Safeway for more than $9 billion(latimes.com)
1 points by Figs 13y ago|0 comments
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by Figs 13y ago
> you realise a couple of block diagrams and a few short paragraphs could have made the process a lot less frustrating. "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter." -- attributed to Pascal.
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by Figs 13y ago
The framework source code is not the important part -- it's just dumb plumbing and glue. The tracking code (NITE) is what's important. It is not open source at all -- merely freely available. (All you can get are the compiled libr
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by Figs 13y ago
I read Agans's Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems back when I was in high school and still pretty new to programming. I learned a lot from it, and still recommend it.
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by Figs 13y ago
What will you do if your primary computer gets stolen?
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by Figs 13y ago
My biggest issue with web apps is that I don't have control of the software -- someone else can unilaterally decide to change the interface or functionality from day to day. (GMail is an example of a case that regularly irritates me by
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by Figs 13y ago
> I am fairly determined to use web based applications only That sounds really unpleasant to me. Why on earth would you want to do that?
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by Figs 13y ago
I meant -- has anyone tried to see if people who complain about headaches after eating at Chinese restaurants are just dehydrated from eating too much salt?
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by Figs 13y ago
Has anyone conducted a study to test if the headaches are actually just dehydration?
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by Figs 13y ago
Your post prompted me to get off my ass and upload my .WAV file writer to BitBucket. I wrote it almost two years ago to do exactly what you're talking about -- generate a waveform and learn how to design my own sounds. There are a lo
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by Figs 13y ago
Downloading 20 MB here and 20 MB there adds up pretty quickly if you're using a cellphone data connection like I am.
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by Figs 13y ago
3D graphics images aren't calculated left to right, top to bottom. They are calculated by drawing a bunch of triangles all over the image to represent 3D geometry. Triangles are often drawn on top of other triangles. Many modern games
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by Figs 13y ago
It seems to me that if everyone has an extra $500, the likely result is rent, etc. rises to compensate, and you wind up with essentially the same social situation just with all the prices offset slightly. If you give everyone $500 and then
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by Figs 13y ago
Wouldn't that just cause inflation?
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by Figs 13y ago
I have this plan. Had to call customer service to get them to honor it. Bit of a hassle, but they did it. It's not available in their regular plan settings; clearly they'd rather people buy the more expensive plan with unlimited m
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by Figs 13y ago
If all you've got is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail... The problem with US politics isn't that we need some magical way for assholes on the internet to bicker more efficiently; it's that political culture is
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by Figs 13y ago
> If the Russians are doing it, there must be some merit to the solution. That's like saying, "I saw my doctor smoking so it can't be that bad for you, right?" Maybe there's merit to the method, maybe not... bu
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by Figs 13y ago
A lot of embedded systems have web configuration interfaces written in C. For example, your wireless router's configuration page is probably written in C.
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by Figs 13y ago
Maybe it'd be more interesting to think of it like an FPGA that can run a Verilog JIT compiler and reprogram itself when damage occurs or new information changes priorities?

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