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by adsr 14y ago
From a usability standpoint yes, but there are more to it than that. If a purely aesthetic design choice enhance sales or just tailor to the target customers taste it can it self be seen as providing a function.
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by adsr 14y ago
They've been maintaining and updating the safe browsing database for some time now. It shows a warning in supported browsers for potentially malicious web pages. There's also a web diagnostics page available btw, here testing hacker news:
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by adsr 14y ago
I prefer strcpy to strncpy, and make sure that the string will fit before the call. I use strncpy if I want to copy n characters from s2 to s1, strncpy can give a false sense of security imo since it may not add a terminating zero, for exam
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by adsr 14y ago
It solves some real world problems, but is it really closer to real world behavior? If I for example flip through a photo album and reach the last page, it wont bounce back. There are other cues to that, such as the thickness of the page or
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by adsr 14y ago
Why would you need bounce back at all? It's one of those things that gives iOS it's personallity, you could definately make a touch based user interface without bounce back.
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by adsr 14y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this fully. There are compromises made in software as a result of lacking resources, with these resources now available some of these compromises can be avoided. For example, lets keep more resources in memory at a
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by adsr 14y ago
Yes, yes I did. But I also noticed that the table leaves out other licenses like Apache, MIT and BSD so it doesnt tell you what you think it does. Of the examples I gave, only one uses Apple's APSL license. Never mind.
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by adsr 14y ago
They move from GPL, how and why does that make their open source use "a huge meaningless joke"?
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by adsr 14y ago
Sure, but what I'm missing is a support for these claims. Using != supporting is true by it self, but to what extent is that practiced in Apple's case specifically? It's still just a claim with no supportive argument at all. Some projects t
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by adsr 14y ago
Why, because you say so?
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by adsr 14y ago
Here is one example: http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
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by adsr 14y ago
Instead of real hardware, I wonder if a mock up virtual device acting as it's making use of memristors could work for experiments on how this could affect software.
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by adsr 14y ago
I've been under the impression that NAND will someday be replaced with something like MRam. Not sure how far of that is or how it's progressing, would be interested in knowing if someone knows more about this.
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by adsr 14y ago
They have been heavily involved in OpenCL for a while though, which is not tied to any specific graphics card manufacturer, or graphics cards specifically. There are some pretty nice OpenCL tutorials here btw: http://www.macresearch.org/op
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by adsr 14y ago
In theory yes, but how many references do you need to claim random access.
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by adsr 14y ago
A regular linked list doesn't have random access to elements, typically a head node is inserted into a function that iterates the list.
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by adsr 15y ago
Flagged in Safari as well and at Google Safe Browsing diagnostics page: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=arstechni...
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by adsr 15y ago
I get a "Warning: Suspected phishing site" alert in Safari. Edit: I just checked Google's Safe Browsing diagnostics page and it's also flagging arstechnica.com http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=arstechni...
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by adsr 15y ago
What is considered a hacking tool? Does it only affect highly automated, single purpose tools which can not be used in any legitimate way, or does it affect things like hexdump or nc? Also, who makes the distinction? Is it eveluated on a ca
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by adsr 15y ago
I hope Apple relaxes it's policy in regards to the sandbox. I do think it's great to have a sandbox provided by the OS, but IMO the default rule should be: "no access", then the developer could tick all legitimate uses for the application,
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by adsr 15y ago
I suppose he meant, as opposed to standard compliant libraries. For hash tables there's search.h for example. But there might obviously be other reasons like feature set and so on to pick a different library.
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by adsr 15y ago
I agree with this, what is left is one guys opinion, which makes it to hacker news front page. Next up: vim vs emacs.
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by adsr 15y ago
I believe Fink provides binaries.
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by adsr 15y ago
Some bash examples contains Linuxisms that is not UNIX-03 compliant which OS X is in full, might be that as well.
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by adsr 15y ago
On the other hand, the intent of the Java code is a lot more clear.
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by adsr 15y ago
The only concern I have with this is the impact this may have on the eco system that is hard or impossible to predict. I guess that it's very hard to impossible to go back after the fact.
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by adsr 15y ago
Wasn't the turning point when the IBM PC spec was reverse engineered which allowed for clones?
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by adsr 15y ago
They killed XServe because it belonged in a market where Apple was insignificant, they weren't selling any. Java now has to be installed separately like on all other platforms. Logic was last updated in August.
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by adsr 15y ago
I'm not sure what your point is, I gave my opinion of when a system of this kind could be said to have AI.
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by adsr 15y ago
I'm afraid I can't provide a definitive definition, I'm not even sure if there are one that everybody would readily agree upon. But what I had in mind was an understanding of intentions or meaning from context rather than having to explicit

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