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by Tloewald 11y ago
In a sense the OP is making a point about which paths are paved in most OOP languages. That said, one of the problems I often see in user interfaces is "runaway metaphors". The "objects" and "messages" in ques
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Armor of all kinds doesn't behave as well when hit a second time in the exact same spot.
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We have a party in the US that thinks "running a country" means cutting taxes and increasing corporate welfare until the government goes bankrupt.
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Apple and IBM competed for similar users (VisiCalc started on the Apple ][), Commodore was competing against consoles and crappier computers. Commodore was eventually killed by PC clones -- IBM PCs were FAR too expensive for families to buy
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As I understand it, bad government is the reason; the drought just turned it into a crisis. The chief reasons are artificially low pricing (it's almost free, so people have no incentive to conserve power, and the utilities are starved
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He didn't realize the other guy hadn't committed code in two years? He simply didn't care enough to do a good job. My guess is that this fellow felt like his having set aside his leadership position in a role should simultane
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Tried and found difficult or thought difficult and left untried? Building up soft power is something anyone should do if they care about their work. Building big things means collaborating, and collaborating means persuading other people wh
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by Tloewald 11y ago
My big problem with what the writer says is that he assumes power comes from position. Most power, and the most useful power, is soft power. In those cases he cites, such as the startup store, where he thinks he could have made a difference
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by Tloewald 11y ago
The Sinclair Cambridge ZX-80 (sold here as the Timex computer or somesuch) shipped with 1kB of RAM. That said, it wasn't really usable for much beyond programmable calculator kinds of stuff. With a 16kB expansion it was pretty awesome.
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Thanks for the link. Very informative.
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True but they are kind of a pain. This will be a proper substitute for Safari as an everyday browser. Also, this seems to point to is decoupling safari releases more and more from OS releases, and that's a good thing.
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What really bugs me is that the browser keeps failing to step up to the plate. Despite everything, browsers still don't come close to supporting a first class user interface Why can't web apps have proper (native) toolbars, menus,
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This is just another example illustrating Joel's "Strategy Letter V": http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html Facebook is an application / services company, so it wants its compe
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There's a certain group of people who seem determined to see some Machiavellian motives behind Apple defending the security of its (and everybody's) encryption. It's not just about making money. It's not just a marketing
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The general "Safari is the new IE" meme comes down to Apple having different priorities than other browser vendors (notably Google) when adding features. Right now the complaints tend to center on Service Workers and WebGL, but th
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Non deprecation also imposes debt. So does stagnation. So you pick your poison.
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I don't know why Apple didn't do something similar for phones without 3D Touch.
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Although 3D touch is not widely supported (even by Apple's apps) the "trackpad" on the keyboard alone is worth it.
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We're going through a wild west phase of UI ("UX") design where motion is being integrated into user interfaces in wild and crazy ways. Eventually a consensus will emerge (in the past, this has usually been driven by Apple ei
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But that wasn't relying on the All Writs Act. I.e. "because the court wants you to do X and there's no specific rule that says whether you can force someone to do X"
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You can write crappy games in assembler if you like. There are plenty of horribly performing Unity games simply because it sets a lower bar for developers. Also, rather ironically, developers using the less expensive license are forced to s
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by Tloewald 11y ago
It's pretty but the demo doesn't have a hint of motion in it, and such organic objects as there are (plant leaves) are very plasticky. The HDR bloom is lovely, but presumably being faked just as it would be with any other render p
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Even harder and more common problem -- given code, give a plain English description of what it is intended to do, and describe any shortcomings of the implementation.
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Apple showed the Chinese its source code so they could verify that it had not been back doored (per Snowden's accusations). Since this did not entail revealing their signing keys, it's a completely irrelevant comparison (in fact,
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_laundering Having money in an account is useless as long as it can be traced to the fraudulent transfer. So you move the money through a casino or any other large scale cash flow,
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You could select the disk and then "Eject". Dragging to the trash was a shortcut to unmount and eject. As for Macs not having the problem, this doesn't require qualification. Not only did Macs not have the problem, they treat
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Chile today is not Chile in 1980 say. And Chile did not suffer massive economic embargos arranged by the US for 20 years nor was it bombed by a superpower for a decade. (The US dropped more bombs in Laos -- which wasn't even technicall
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South Vietnamese ex-pats are not an especially unbiased source. (Consider the Cuban ex pat population, which again tends to be descended from people who backed the anti Castro forces. Not saying Cuba or Vietnam are perfect, but the people w
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Bear in mind that Jerry Pournelle is a very right wing guy and was right wing at the time of the Vietnam war, so he looks for confirmation of his own pro war views. The big problem we had in vietnam is that we backed the wrong side from the
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'North' Vietnamese? The partition is a colonial construct. And what "battle" did the US win? As a military exercise it was a debacle from start to finish (much like our more recent efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan). Wrong

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