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by bonzoesc 14y ago
You get them from equipment rental companies; they're not expensive.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
As a professional computer user, I'd much rather buy the computer with the RAM and not worry about upgrading it later. Professional truck operators buy the truck already customized for the job they need it to do, and don't just walk on to t
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
It's also included in the cost of the machine. One of the reasons to buy a Mac (or some other pre-assembled computer) is that the price includes services like assembly, testing, and customer support.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Have you looked at Ice Cream Sandwich at all?
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
The first thing that jumps out at me there is the use of the vertical scroll bar and back button, instead of hardware scrollers and back buttons.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Am I? The language doesn't need to make affordances for bad code, bad code needs to be refactored into better code.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Can you be specific instead of "to some?"
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
> You wrote a poor DNS server. Read the spec, study BIND's or NSD's source to understand the years of work that went into this before you, and understand the problems I've pointed out. Why? xip.io exists and works. If he had to read hun
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
> How does that add value? Imagine 'x' is '(int)(aRec[RecIndex(p->handle)]->itemCountRef)' That's a gnarly code smell and a Law of Demeter[1] violation. I suspect you could find a better way to express that operation without req
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
If they do switch where xip.io points, they could see what you're doing with your dev server if your local DNS lets the resolution expire. That said, I do trust them :)
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Ports are a pain in the ass compared to persistent names.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
> Cortex A15 and Mali T658 will have shared cache between CPU and GPU, which should be a lot more efficient than anything Intel or even AMD has today regarding GPU compute. Intel's had cache (last level cache, LLC in the diagram below)
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Pow in production is also a case of doing it wrong; it's a web server designed to allow you to run multiple Rack applications that talk to each other in one OS without dicking around with IP addresses or port numbers.
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37signals Pow no longer automatically supports RVM(github.com)
14 points by bonzoesc 14y ago|8 comments
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Not at the moment, it's June.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
This is computers, not the Highlander. There's no "vs." except for individual purchasers' decisions.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
It means "package vacation" which for lots of people means "Caribbean island and it doesn't really matter which one."
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it." -Publilius Syrus It's textbook price discrimination[1]. If somebody's not willing to pay much for texting, they can pay nothing and ask that it be disabled. If somebody cares very
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
> Turns out they really were just sitting on their laurels, and Apple really could walk in and eat their lunch. Not really, Apple had been struggling for a few years to learn how to make a decent phone too, they just didn't release the
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
When you've got hundreds of millions of shares, you can sell tens of millions without losing ownership. At the same time you also insulate yourself from the risk of you or somebody who works for you fucking everything up.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
You can blame people for taking and performing a job that requires unethical behavior, and if they don't perform it in accordance with the laws about unsolicited commercial email, it's also their fault.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Not really; it's linked here, not copied wholesale here.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
All you need to do is jam some images from the first page of a google search in there and it's an Atwood post.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Corporations don't have to worry about a clear conscience. They have to worry about support costs and customer happiness affecting repeat business. When Apple ships a charger that makes iPhone touchscreens work poorly, customers get irritat
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
Simple last-write-wins can be configured per-bucket, so client libs can be naïve: http://wiki.basho.com/HTTP-Set-Bucket-Properties.html
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
I'd put money on this being from a backdoored spam tool.
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by bonzoesc 14y ago
I think the point is that flourishes like rounded corners and smooth transitions are objectively better, in the same sense that fonts with subpixel rendering and progress bars for long operations (as opposed to a looping animation) are obje
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Only if you try and claim the warranty for something you broke c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson-Moss_Warranty_Act
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Because a huge hard drive is presumably cheaper than the Garry Newman time spent deciding to remove games instead of working on fun projects. It's the same reason I simply archive every email instead of deciding what to keep and what to tra
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> Lack of SSD surprises me, one would think Gary Newman (creator of Garry's Mod) had need. I don't know if a quality SSD would play well with the size of modern games.

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