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by alayne 13y ago
Light years ahead in what sense? I think it's an anachronism from a theoretical standpoint. I'd like to see more people run with newer ideas from Plan 9 / Inferno / Hurd / all the other operating systems that aren&#
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by alayne 13y ago
On that page Guy Steele says "(3) RMS is responsible for the names “E” and “EMACS”. RMS still deserves 99% or 99.9% or 99.99% or 99.999% of the credit for taking a package of TECO macros and turning it into the most powerful editor on
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by alayne 13y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+did+walt+disney+die
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by alayne 13y ago
This article doesn't mention Oracle's cheating and penalties. Welcome to America, competitors!
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by alayne 13y ago
The "old white dudes" of course being many of the top type designers in the world including Hermann Zapf who dislikes Helvetica, Spiekermann, and many others.
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by alayne 13y ago
Adrian Frutiger's typefaces are very good. Univers and Avenir in particular have nice neutral designs.
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by alayne 13y ago
It looks like mjd is the author of the linked post.
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by alayne 13y ago
As a sometimes youtube troll, I worry that this will greatly reduce the entertainment value of youtube comments.
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by alayne 13y ago
The new screens are glued.
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by alayne 13y ago
That makes sense. I'm hoping the 64 bit simulator is good enough for now.
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by alayne 13y ago
I think it's also a good idea to wait a month or so after release. What's the rush? Let the first production runs go through and work out the kinks. So far I have heard some reports of screen issues on some 5s models. With a new
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by alayne 13y ago
It's exciting for some people. Technology is still changing relatively quickly in mobile. The improvements to hardware and software have been amazing over the past half decade. Apple only releases new phones once a year so the buzz get
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by alayne 13y ago
What's mistaken about it?
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by alayne 13y ago
There are two versions. Try installing the version from java.com http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/ask_toolbar.xml
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by alayne 13y ago
I read stats somewhere that Windows 7 is less than half of all Windows installs. XP is still very common.
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by alayne 13y ago
"Let's see where Microsoft is vs where Apple is in 3 years. Apple has 0 innovation going on. OS X and IOS are stale as anything. They are riding on earlier success and eventually will fizzle out." -puma1
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by alayne 13y ago
Some issues can be solved automatically in software, but that's like saying a sufficiently smart compiler can produce optimal machine code. It's true, but such software doesn't actually exist. There is still a lot of manual a
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by alayne 13y ago
There's a river starting on line two "sentences." through the period in "habit." and down through the space to the right of "set" 'anymore." and "practice."
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by alayne 13y ago
I think LaTeX is overprescribed. It's great for academic papers, but a lot of the output from canned styles I see is lacking. Don't expect to get perfect typography if you don't understand the desired proportions between type
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by alayne 13y ago
Google doesn't make any money off their Nexus devices. They sell them close to cost. Unless Apple is planning to convert itself into an advertising company (like Google), I don't think holding out the Nexus branded devices as an e
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by alayne 13y ago
Unless they've changed it, you'll have to use the FaceBook SDK to do anything more than post a URL. FB's intent support is bad.
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by alayne 13y ago
At this point there is JACK, AudioBus, and soon inter-app audio in iOS7.
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by alayne 13y ago
This must be the hardware analogy to not refactoring code.
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by alayne 13y ago
Data structures like ropes are really more for editing than concatenation.
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by alayne 13y ago
It says they are to be written to a file. That's like the textbook case for buffered I/O writes. Get rid of that silly concatenation, it's just increasing the amount of data copying.
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by alayne 13y ago
Why don't they build a web app if they want to iterate faster?
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by alayne 13y ago
The next version of Android is going to be called Lipitor.
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by alayne 13y ago
I have talked to older people. I'm sure the 1930s were really when kids were raised right and learned the value of a dollar! And in the 1910s kids contributed to society by doing agricultural work. And in the 1890s... I would absolutel
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by alayne 13y ago
Are you saying there weren't overprotective parents before? This thread is full of a lot of confirmation bias / society is going to hell in a hand basket type of discussion. Boy, kids these days, right? I'd like to see some f
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by alayne 13y ago
I'm sorry, but I'm going to call bullshit unless you can actually cite a reference showing some significant number of 14 year old ship captains in 1913.

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