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by batista 14y ago
Really? That must be why when they switched to Intel they touted the compatibility, and why the even offer a utility called "BootCamp" to easily run Windows on your Mac, with automatic re-partitioning, hw drivers, et al.
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by batista 14y ago
You must have missed the eighties. PC, the acronym, then stood for "IBM PC compatible", not personal computer in general. You must also have missed 3 years of "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC" ads...
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by batista 14y ago
Well, theoretically they DO get viruses --but practically they don't. All those past false alarms, touted to high heavens, were trojans. And they aren't even that many, at that. The one genuine virus like thing --which still wasn't a virus
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by batista 14y ago
> Well, few do then. Few? It was the prevalent player on Mac even before the iPod and the store. And with hundreds of millions of people using it, I don't hear many complaints. Mainly stuff about how it "does too many things", as if I
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by batista 14y ago
> Nobody really likes iTunes as a player, it's only notable because of the store and the device lock-in. I very much like it as a player. Used to use WinAmp back in the 2.0 days, and jumped to iTunes (on Windows) even before I had an i
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by batista 14y ago
>* In other words, this kind of stunt can only be done in a language that allows this kind of code-that-writes-code.* On the other hand, this kind of stunt will still be a stunt, not a common use case of the language.
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by batista 14y ago
The it isn't actually word+empty-space+word but word+line-down-below+word so your eyes go zig-zag from the taller glyphs of the word to the low glyph of the underscore (vertical zig zag motion), instead of jumping to the next world (horizon
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by batista 14y ago
> The whole cycle of evolution is visible in a very small and isolated location. In Galapagos? Who would have thought!
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by batista 14y ago
How do you define the sorting key in a static language? With reflection? e.g if anArray is a Java array of Employee objects, and you want to sort on their salary attribute, how do you specify it? anArray.sortBy(???); In a dynamic language i
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by batista 14y ago
In your sense, you don't need them for 100% of the code. Lambdas are NEVER required, as tons of other syntactic features are never required. They are nice to have though, because they make the code more concise and reduce bugs but reducing
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by batista 14y ago
No, the options when you need to add something more are arcane. Plus the above wont even work as is, since $(date) contains spaces.
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, and C doesn't have most things other languages have. That doesn't mean I will use Ruby for my next real time embedded project.
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by batista 14y ago
> I don't know what you mean by "sorting key" in this context. He means the item by which you sort. The "by" in your "SortBy" example.
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by batista 14y ago
> Iphone apps on the other hand are starting to look like just mashups of each other all with the same generic looking animations and U X elements. Yes, if you do that you are "just mashups of each other", if you don't you are "inconsi
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by batista 14y ago
Because the "inefficiency" is negligible and "premature optimization" is the root of all evil. Because the time it would take them to check the arcane shell syntax would dwarf the time it takes for them to throw a Ruby script together. Beca
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by batista 14y ago
> For whatever reason, pale skin is highly coveted by many Asian cultures and some will avoid the sun almost entirely to avoid darkening their skin. Isn't the opposite also true in Western cultures? In Europe, where I live, people want
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by batista 14y ago
> Relinquishing such control makes some designers quake in their boots, but the beauty and advantage of the Web as medium is that readers are able to adjust their reading environment to suit their own needs. I've seen idiotic users use
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by batista 14y ago
> Calling the things we carry in our pockets today "phones" is nothing more than an artifact of history. (In fact, my iPhone is a terrible phone.) Really? In what other way except "battery life"? Sound reviews found it had excellent so
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by batista 14y ago
> They're all shite. A really big "jump to conclusions". First of all, all of those are marvels of technology, a state of the art unbelievable even 10 years ago, and would be considered pure Star Trek level technology 20 years ago. Sec
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by batista 14y ago
> This is why the last few months I just stopped commenting here on HN, and quit a lot of other forums/communities. My communication skills just don't seem to be solid enough to help me avoid unintended conflict. What the fuck do you m
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by batista 14y ago
Yes, I can see how using more secure functions is a step backwards, because some company not involved in the standard has also used functions by that name...
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by batista 14y ago
"most" is the key here. For all its faults, Apple is not some sleazy strapped for cash operation that neds to sell their customer data to marketers... Consider all the potential damage if that happened and was brought to light, and for what
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by batista 14y ago
Of course they do not. Malaysians for example are dark colored, as are Indonesians etc. Also Indians are far from pale.
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by batista 14y ago
While you "begged to differ", your answer is full of caveats and little assurances...
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by batista 14y ago
>Stuff like that defies parody. You mean the mentioning-his-actual-feelings part? Should he have lied to seem more "deep" and "above all that"? Or is mere fashion and consumerism absent from the general public at large, so that a jour
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by batista 14y ago
> It's common sense that Nokia was not going to have a use for Qt or anyone involved with it once they moved to a MS strategy. The radical perspective is that they have a "MS strategy" and that that "MS strategy" will do them any good.
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by batista 14y ago
Noticed how your comment doesn't mention any actual complaints with the presentation?
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by batista 14y ago
Relying on a brain damaged non documented edge case was unanticipated, not the change --which had also been in beta before release. What kind of programmer passes "" and null on a function such as this and expects ....zero in return? And wh
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by batista 14y ago
> Here's how I read it: We have this public API that we're not exactly sure how it works version to version, and, oh, we've just changed our parsing code Really? You read it wrong. It is "he have a public API that had a bug --that only
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by batista 14y ago
Not really. Printf is all about "formatted printing". What you think the "f" at the end stands for and has stood for since C? If anything, its the opposite of what you say, ie the "fmt" package name is not measleading but redundant!

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