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by batista 14y ago
> Can you imagine if they loaded 1000lbs of lead onto an airplane before they took off, just to see if the plane takes off with the headroom filled? "Oh crap, the plane is falling, let's dump the lead." They actually do this kind of st
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by batista 14y ago
> Fullscreen Mode will still only allow you to use a single physical screen. Oh, the humanity! How about using NON fullscreen mode then? Like, say, _maximize_? Complaining about the full screen feature "being broken in multi screen mod
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by batista 14y ago
Well, I for one, like it. And I have been using OS X since 10.2
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by batista 14y ago
> I sat watching a directory copy to our office NAS today saying "About 5 seconds remaining" for around 45 minutes. Something is definitely broken there. Before that it said "10 seconds" for ~20 minutes and "1 minute" for ~30 minutes. I
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by batista 14y ago
The reality is that flaws like that are seldom skin deep, and can bite you in other parts of the language, even where you don't expect them. Lack of type safety in a dynamic language is one thing, but awful type coercion is a different beas
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by batista 14y ago
If the string only had base 36 digits (ie not a space as above), then it wouldn't be a problem, it would a perfectly fine conversion from base36 string to base10 number.
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by batista 14y ago
Of those, I've seen spotlight needing re-indexing after an upgrade. But it's something so minor and easily fixed that I don't even consider it a fault of the OS (actually, it could have as well been DESIGNED to do that, e.g to update the in
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by batista 14y ago
> Uk Judges are separate from the govenment. And how did that work out for the Guildford four for example? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Four_and_Maguire_Seve...
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by batista 14y ago
RTFA
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, the comparison is not about some era (what each company did at the same specified time) but about the methodology (how each company handled a specific transition to a different OS).
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by batista 14y ago
OTOH i'm happy someone is advancing the state of peripherals and laptop construction (retina, thunderbolt, shedding dvd drive, etc). If we left it to OEM hw we would still have unmovable beasts of machines with RS232 ports...
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by batista 14y ago
Ok, setiously guys, what are you doing wrong? I have updated 3 personal Macs to Lion. Some upgraded, some a clean install. Didnt have a problem with any of them. What broke for you? Drivers for exotic hardware? (on that front, I use Wacom t
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by batista 14y ago
> Nope the poster was comparing Apple Developing Macs with Ms developing NT when MS started with NT Apple was on OS9 and stayed that way for years. Nope, the poster was comparing MS from _one era_ (when they developed NT) to Apple from
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by batista 14y ago
DHH, the creator of Rails, and the team at 37 Signals (the company behind it), install Rails on their development machines, (with Pow: http://pow.cx/ ).
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by batista 14y ago
> You are installing something that by it's nature requires a bit more understanding that just clicking on a .exe. I don't think it inherently require anything like that for _installing_. There is essential complexity (e.g the complexi
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by batista 14y ago
> 1. Editorialized headline And we should care because? The article is fine, the headline is correct (even if editorialized), and it can potentially save new users some time.
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by batista 14y ago
> I don't know of any programming language that will auto-correct typos for you. I know of many compilers that will point them out to you, and IDEs that will offer to auto-correct them (Eclipse, XCode and Visual Studio for example). &#
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by batista 14y ago
Was ClojureScript really used? For what?
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by batista 14y ago
> Making the YC interview is like making nationals - you're the fastest sprinter across several states, and you were born to do it. But at the nationals, so is everyone else there. You can do better than your best and still lose. That d
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by batista 14y ago
> Why do you prefer native code ? For me, because I don't want to install the JVM, or force users of my stuff to install the JVM. I also don't care about JVM libs. > What do you even mean by native code ? The JVM does produce nativ
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by batista 14y ago
> I'm Chinese. Please do not seek to describe my own culture back to me with Wikipedia. Well, Americans e.g. are pointed to Wikipedia (or other sources) for falsehoods they believe about America all the time. And most of the time, Wiki
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by batista 14y ago
> Dude, if success or failure actually hung on rhetoric (word-choice), there would be millions more start-ups "succeeding" today. Truer words were never spoken!
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, stealing tons of people's money is very boring. Unlike the Kardashians...
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by batista 14y ago
Thought the exact same thing! I clicked to read about new developments funded for Clang the compiler and was wondering why I haven't heard of the fundraising effort...
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by batista 14y ago
Well, its the first one hat offered it, isnt it?
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by batista 14y ago
6502 is also not for "these days". That said, its a tutorial about _learning_ it, not redesigning it to be modern and easier.
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by batista 14y ago
> Religion was ex-post-facto applied to marriage, not vice versa. Wrong, marriage was a religious ceremony all along. Maybe you have "mating" in mind, not marriage. Check anthropological accounts. Actually religion predates most forms
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by batista 14y ago
> And what do you do with all the coders like me who would refuse to change their habits? Reformat their code. As for "per language consistency", Go does it just fine...
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by batista 14y ago
really? add: floating point everywhere, objects that act like hashes but not exactly, fucked up scoping rules including global by default, the braindead Dom API, a severiously limited standard library, and brain damage coersions to the list
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by batista 14y ago
And I've added you to the list of guys that think they are "the shit" because they have hiring abillities (in some shitty company) and need to tell it on the intertubes.

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