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cdonnellytx
11y ago
Anyone else having trouble viewing this page? I'm on iOS and every time I go to the link it redirects me to a page claiming I "won" a "reward" with an alert box that I can't dismiss without tapping OK.
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cdonnellytx
11y ago
The problem is even _root_ can't add the missing /usr/local, because SIP prevents even root from touching /usr. SIP doesn't block /opt; if it did, MacPorts would also have broken, sudo or no sudo.
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cdonnellytx
13y ago
Interestingly it marks the infamous Zero Wing intro as grade 3 or 4, but considers the "correct" translation to be Grade 6 and complains about the "all of" they use. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zero
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cdonnellytx
13y ago
They even put the Decline button on the left, which goes against how virtually every other Windows installer (and wizards in general) are supposed to work.
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cdonnellytx
13y ago
The problem here is that "the West" is one of the regions "from which the West gathers intelligence". The NSA and GCHQ are both spying on even other Western countries like Germany, to say nothing of spying on their own
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cdonnellytx
13y ago
Looks like a clear case of the Scunthorpe problem: http://hashpix.herokuapp.com/s/scunthorpe (thanks @DjangoReinhardt!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem (EDIT: still can't for
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13y ago
Too bad they couldn't even tell him what set it off, since he clearly did not remember: "I can’t think of anything. What does it say is triggering the alarm?" I asked. "I’m not going to tell you! It’s right here o
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cdonnellytx
15y ago
Maybe instead of "going dark" that should be what the homepage redirects to for that day. That way it raises awareness and provides reading material.
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cdonnellytx
15y ago
Is this what you're referring to? http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=1329
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cdonnellytx
15y ago
Unfortunately, they will take note of it as "run the government like a business", which tends to be how supply-side economists would prefer the government to be run anyway.
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cdonnellytx
15y ago
One simple reason I switched back to old-style scrolling: I also use Windows, and would definitely have issues going back and forth with the different scrolling styles.
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cdonnellytx
15y ago
What makes it really bad is that there is also this bug in mobile WebKit from four years ago that nobody has ever gotten around to fixing: http://blog.johnmckerrell.com/2007/03/07/problems-with-safar... Basically if you are at or near 100
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cdonnellytx
16y ago
The annoying thing is that the mklink command in Windows uses the opposite order, so you have to do mklink link_to link_from EDIT: formatting.
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Devsugar: Farewell, UIGetScreenImage()
(tuaw.com)
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16y ago
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16y ago
Which is what makes it even worse: it's not that they can't do it on the iPhone, it's that they won't . And why not? It can't be a question of RAM: Java has had GC back when the average home computer had half the memory available in the
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cdonnellytx
16y ago
It is a sub-standard app based on a cross-platform layer of software (Carbon) that has not been updated to take advantage of platform enhancements (i.e., Windows 7). Granted, it's not third-party since Apple owns the Carbon layer and iTunes
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16y ago
I have, and it has some significant bugs that make it difficult to use: - There is a bug with the compiler not properly counting references when assigning a variable that needs a release to a property marked "retain". The property will in