Rexxar

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961.
by Rexxar 15y ago
It's interesting how Apple try to have more control and more knowledge of the fabrication process at each step. It could be seen as a "relocalisation" strategy.
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Apple Moves Production to Sharp for TV Debut(businessweek.com)
2 points by Rexxar 15y ago|1 comments
963.
by Rexxar 15y ago
May be I'm missing something, but this way of computing a percentage seems completely meaningless to me.
964.
by Rexxar 15y ago
The best is when you mix filename expansion and brace expansion : > ls *.{png,jpg,bmp,gif} But this gives error if there is no jpg files. In bash, you can activate the extglob mode with "shopt -s extglob" and do this : >
965.
by Rexxar 15y ago
I think droz mean "You don't need competition to do a good job" rather than "It's better to have competition when you want buy something of quality". But in either case, sometimes, competition lowers at the same time the price and the quali
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by Rexxar 15y ago
I don't understand why they chose to kill it instead of improve it.
967.
Yet another senior exec leaves Apple; VP of global security departs(venturebeat.com)
3 points by Rexxar 15y ago|0 comments
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Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles"(ted.com)
1 points by Rexxar 15y ago|0 comments
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Shader Toy(iquilezles.org)
2 points by Rexxar 15y ago|0 comments
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Some commonalities in how Pixar, Valve and Blizzard are run as organizations(quora.com)
3 points by Rexxar 15y ago|0 comments
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"Software Foundations" course(cis.upenn.edu)
2 points by Rexxar 15y ago|0 comments
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Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives(ted.com)
1 points by Rexxar 15y ago|0 comments
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by Rexxar 15y ago
Is it common to just leave out diacritics when dealing with foreign vocabulary in the English language ? I don't know for English, but in French, we completely translate the name of some German cities : - Freiburg im Breisgau =
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by Rexxar 15y ago
Concerning "Prediction #4": I have the impression that the author of the article look at the global Java market share whereas Steve Yegge speaks of the market share of java on the jvm .
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Google Native Client 0.5 : released with stable ABI(code.google.com)
66 points by Rexxar 15y ago|18 comments
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Jonathan Blow: Do you believe social games are evil? “Yes. Absolutely.”(pcgamer.com)
2 points by Rexxar 15y ago|0 comments
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World Science Festival 2009: The Power of the Pentatonic Scale (Bobby McFerrin)(youtube.com)
2 points by Rexxar 15y ago|0 comments
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by Rexxar 15y ago
They should try to make something syntactically compatible with C++ lambdas. It's annoying that the two languages are more and more incompatible for cosmetic reasons.
979.
by Rexxar 15y ago
Because when you are eighty years old and you become progressively blind, it's difficult to learn a completely new 'tactile' language.
980.
by Rexxar 15y ago
Sorry, I missed the end of the article. I should have been more attentive.
981.
by Rexxar 15y ago
Why counting Martinique as a country ? If we do this for every French departments, Swiss canton or German landers etc. , we will probably have a lot of "countries" with higher ratios.
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by Rexxar 15y ago
It's really not such a big deal if you use "new" parsimoniously and use containers and RAII as much as you can. I can count on my hands the number of new and delete I have written in my code in the last three years.
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by Rexxar 15y ago
We could add a "+0" vote in addition of +1 and -1 votes to solve this problem.
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by Rexxar 15y ago
I thought that news.ycombinator.com detects duplicates. It's the same URL, character to character.
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Inside The Deal That Made Bill Gates $350,000,000 [1986](features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)
48 points by Rexxar 15y ago|14 comments
986.
by Rexxar 15y ago
Ecole Polytechnique is not an university, it's a separate system. There are a lot of engineering schools in France which are independent from universities. These schools are very small compared to universities.
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How Lodsys action could jeopardize the entire mobile apps ecosystem(fosspatents.blogspot.com)
2 points by Rexxar 15y ago|0 comments
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Assuming the Best(ericsink.com)
1 points by Rexxar 15y ago|0 comments
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The Cool Cam(thedailywtf.com)
2 points by Rexxar 15y ago|0 comments
990.
by Rexxar 16y ago
That remembers me the history of Angry Birds creators: Should they have stop after 6 years without a huge success ? http://thestartupfoundry.com/2011/03/11/angry-birds-overnigh... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2314532

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