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by angusgr 16y ago
... although, I suppose, the best thing Adobe can strategically do is aim for a raft of popular Flash-based apps in the App Store, thereby creating a barrier to any further anti-Flash restrictions.
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by angusgr 16y ago
Apple still call the tune here, and can bring in further anti-Flash restrictions at any time they choose, retrospectively if they want. However, it's completely worth Adobe's while to react immediately in this fashion. That seems scary to m
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by angusgr 16y ago
with Google is that they seem to have left their balls at the door. From what I've heard from Google, I think with Android they're already sensitive about the perception that they're the "500 pound gorilla in the room" and they're keen to
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by angusgr 16y ago
I got the impression that the "drab packaging" options were only intended for distribution to internet resellers, not for all-purpose use. Which I suspect is one of the reasons why this is slow to catch on. I've heard that one of the reason
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by angusgr 16y ago
I've been watching Harald Welte's tweets about attending a court hearing over this: Today I learned in court that removing a module using 'rmmod' has nothing to do with the #linux #kernel ;) lol. [1] but AFAIK noone yet knows the specific
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by angusgr 16y ago
I actually just ditched my iPhone for a phone only marginally more sophisticated than this[1], but with the same standby time. I thought about trying to find an F3 instead, the only thing that put me off was the apparently very crummy text
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by angusgr 16y ago
One comment I've read from photography tech types is that the correct term for this is "tone mapping" not "high dynamic range". I don't think it's ever caught on outside of pedant circles, though. :)
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My no-iPhone no-smartphone experiment(projectgus.com)
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by angusgr 16y ago
I'm not the one who downvoted you, so I thought I'd reply. Cos you kind of have a point. But I'd argue that a psychiatrist is a medical specialist in the same way that a cardiologist or a urologist is. Everyone needs to be aware of their ca
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by angusgr 16y ago
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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by angusgr 16y ago
I think I see what you're getting at here, and I agree that unstigmatizing mental illness is important. But does "everyone" really need "help" from the psychiatric profession?
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by angusgr 16y ago
Will be interesting to see what variant of AutoCAD is released. My Dad is an architect, very long-term AutoCAD veteran, long term disliker of Windows. IIRC the previous cross-platform AutoCAD was the stripped down LT (is that right?) versio
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by angusgr 16y ago
>Nor can I see how a flush toilet would need a change in posture. You're definitely correct. South East Asia (at the minimum) has millions of flushable porcelain squat toilets. :)
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by angusgr 16y ago
Same. After lots of awkward silences from "I'm a software developer", I just say "I'm in IT" and then judge from the person's reaction if there's any point elaborating. Some people switch off immediately, so you know you need to find someth
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by angusgr 16y ago
Hopefully someone (or many people) will offer hosted versions. I think this is the thing. I also like the idea of techy types (like us) being able to host our own servers for small groups of our less techy friends.
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by angusgr 16y ago
I don't think the criticism was for prettiness, but just for aping existing social network look, feel and functionality. Which the FAQ says up-front is one of their aims: By default, we think it'll ship with a plugin to offer functionality
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by angusgr 16y ago
Although I understand it will be harder to get, it'd be interesting to see these stats "per commit" instead of "per repository."
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by angusgr 16y ago
+1. A few months ago I transitioned from OS X to Linux at home, without expecting that it would make my iPhone 3GS so much less nice to own. It's being replaced with an Android phone as soon as it comes out of contract. There's nothing wron
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by angusgr 16y ago
I wouldn't want my community to be the first to test it At the levels they are talking about, it seems like there are communities who for decades or longer have been "testing" drinking water with the proposed levels of lithium. Of course,
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by angusgr 16y ago
I use the lightweight emacs alternative 'zile' a lot, I have it installed on both my desktop machines (alongside emacs) and also on some tiny machines like OpenWRT routers where I don't want an emacs install. It loads totally instantly wher
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by angusgr 16y ago
I think one way of doing what you suggested is M-x name-last-kbd-macro which will bind the last macro you defined into a named function for the rest of the session.
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by angusgr 16y ago
(Despite this, I still <3 books.)
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by angusgr 16y ago
I mean this in the nicest possible way, but: do you actually read tech books? and which kinds? Speaking for myself, I've found that I make nearly zero use of technical reference books. K&R is about the only counterexample that I can thi
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by angusgr 16y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Any chance you could elaborate at all?
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by angusgr 16y ago
I'm pretty much entirely lost in a vanilla emacs installation. This is actually one of the things which stops me from going too crazy with my emacs customizations. I have a lot (and long ago disabled toolbars, menus, etc.) but occasionall
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by angusgr 16y ago
This actually almost the opposite experience to what I thought most people had with emacs. After all, emacs comes out of the box with menus, a toolbar, normal keybinds, to set people at ease if they are used to "normal" text editors like No
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by angusgr 16y ago
It's a shame Dawa D7s seem to sell for around $220 online. I thought the OEM version might be a good opportunity for those not in the US.
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by angusgr 16y ago
Thanks for the great research, I was waiting for people to start digging into this a bit more. It looks like there's an official Linux BSP out there somewhere, possibly public, for the TCC8900 (telechips site wouldn't load for me, but cache
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by angusgr 16y ago
As far as I know, sheet music is usually licensed under traditional copyright and remixing/sampling is usually licensed under fairly complicated closed licensing terms, for the cases where samples & remixes are cleared legitimately. Cre
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by angusgr 16y ago
The doubly great thing about this article is that maybe Steve Yegge will start blogging again. :)

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