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by Niten 16y ago
Not at all. Given that they're both dynamic programming languages with runtime dispatch, there's really little impedance mismatch between Ruby and Objective-C. Thus MacRuby, a Ruby implementation that encapsulates Objective-C objects and
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by Niten 16y ago
So? Apple didn't control GCC, either, when they built OS X on top of it.
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by Niten 16y ago
Yes, they did have to blanket-ban it to begin with. If they're to make an exception for this, then in the interest of avoiding fragmentation they won't be making an exception for the Ruby language in the abstract; rather they'll be making
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by Niten 16y ago
Thanks for posting this. I registered with Amazon for email notifications when this was to be released, but they didn't send me anything. It works great on my HTC Incredible so far, including Whispersync with my Kindle 2. I wish it suppor
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by Niten 16y ago
I just hope they don't start caching and displaying obfuscated links, since JavaScript obfuscation is how I currently manage to display a working mailto: link on my personal web page while simultaneously giving myself nominal protection fro
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by Niten 16y ago
What I don't get is why we need another Linux-based mobile OS. Why not just use Android? People flocked to iOS because it was unique and innovative when it was new, and because it runs on great hardware from Apple. People are flocking to
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by Niten 16y ago
Certainly not their first major recall -- I remember my iBook's battery being recalled as part of that exploding battery debacle. There was something with poor soldering of motherboard components, too, that affected the generation of iBook
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by Niten 16y ago
Every book I've purchased on the Kindle shows up in exactly the same font, and likewise for any documents that I email to my Kindle. If the Kindle hardware supports multiple font faces (aside from italic or bold face variants), I haven't se
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by Niten 16y ago
I'm not privy to any statistics on the matter, but simply as an Android user I can tell you that Android applications can't dial numbers, send SMS, etc., unless you explicitly grant them permission to do so -- and Android will tell you, pla
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by Niten 16y ago
I realize the iPad is great for PDFs -- in fact I recommended it to my sister over the Kindle for that very purpose. But this isn't really relevant to whether the Kindle or the iPad is the better device for reading eBooks from the Kindle b
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by Niten 16y ago
In response to that quote, I'm sure the iPad is in many respects a great eBook reader. But I like to read on the go, particularly outside in the sun, so for me the iPad can't compare to my Kindle's battery life and e-ink display, not to men
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by Niten 16y ago
You'll have to take that up with Apple, unfortunately.
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by Niten 16y ago
On a side note: I'm glad you mentioned that there's an HP-48 emulator available for Android, because somehow I'd never thought to look for one and now I'm in nerd heaven. If by "my handy hp-48 emulator" you mean to say you're the one who wr
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by Niten 16y ago
My vote is for ARP Networks. http://www.arpnetworks.com/ They officially support FreeBSD and OpenBSD as well as various Linux distributions, and since their VPSs are KVM rather than Xen-based you don't have to worry about building or runn
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by Niten 16y ago
Even if Windows is your primary OS, there's no reason for the typical user to have to run Adobe Reader on a regular basis. Just use a nice lightweight viewer like PDF-XChange, Sumatra, or Foxit instead. Windows is my primary OS, and I do
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by Niten 16y ago
Yeah, but at least most other browser vendors merely distort the truth; here Microsoft purports to do an HTML5 feature comparison, and they don't even get around to mentioning <canvas>! That's flat-out lying about what it means t
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by Niten 16y ago
You're wrong on both counts. Even back in 2007, NIST deemed 1024-bit RSA too weak: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-57/sp800-57-P... And BitLocker's trusted boot path does defend against the evil maid attack: http://thei
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by Niten 16y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing against OpenBSD's superiority here in the slightest. In fact, except for my FreeBSD VPS, my general rule is that none of my Internet-facing machines run anything but OpenBSD. I'm just saying that if Micr
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by Niten 16y ago
> OS X equivalent is encrypted disk images and FileVault Calling FileVault an "equivalent" of BitLocker is too generous. BitLocker provides several important things currently lacking from OS X's built in disk encryption facilities: * S
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by Niten 16y ago
However, this only helps if you're a typical desktop user whose primary threat is a random virus or other malware attack. If you're like Google, on the other hand, you have to worry about highly developed targeted attacks -- to stretch the
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by Niten 16y ago
This is true. However, I'll settle for Microsoft following OpenBSD's lead and implementing ASLR and DEP in the world's most widely used desktop operating system.
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by Niten 16y ago
Yes, it does. Recent versions of Windows (Vista and especially 7) have had security track records at least on par with OS X and desktop Linux. Mac OS X hasn't been doing terribly well lately, and Apple is notoriously slow to patch known s
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by Niten 16y ago
> All I have left to do is complete the new battery pack, which should boost the battery life to around 8 - 10 hours. I'm hoping to have that done in the next couple of weeks.
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by Niten 16y ago
So what? U.S. government free speech policies allow citizens to say most whatever they like, including things that cannot legally be said in Islamic theocracies. When a U.S. resident inevitably exercises his freedom of speech in a way that
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by Niten 16y ago
> You people (over 30) are not real users. Please understand this. Baseless generalization. There's some age correlation there, no doubt, but I know people over 30 who use Facebook as enthusiastically as the most social of high-schoole
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by Niten 16y ago
If history is any indication, history isn't any indication. (E.g., Apple is always the niche player, right?) Just because the previous top social network eventually faded away doesn't mean we should expect the current one to do the same in
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by Niten 16y ago
If you want to be picky, you might even say this doesn't really implement Church numerals in C++ (it implements them in the C++ compiler ), since the conversion between integers and Church numerals takes place in compile time template expa
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by Niten 17y ago
False. (Or at least willfully misleading.) It is true that Hussein did use chemical weapons, with a wink and a nod from the Reagan administration, against Kurdish civilians in the Iran-Iraq war. However, in this context, the question of w
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by Niten 17y ago
Except that, apparently, it turned out not to be so simple in practice: In each and every case we discovered devils in the details and realized "Well, we can't." We could make a TCL-like language that could run many simple TCL programs but
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by Niten 17y ago
The same stories are also here: http://www.ashidakim.com/zenkoans/zenindex.html Did one of these sites copy the other? Or does it even matter?

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