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by chancho 17y ago
Stop it. You're going to summon Jon Harrop. HN is so pleasant without him.
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by chancho 17y ago
If you use Wine with Silverlight 3 there are many Linux boards that would welcome your howto. right-ctrl-f is easy enough, but it doesn't change the monitor resolution as windows sees it. Unless you were already running vbox at native resol
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by chancho 17y ago
They both wear pajamas to work.
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by chancho 17y ago
There is also commercial application compatibility. Windows is king, but OS X is still light years ahead of linux. Netflix and iTunes are two apps that come to mind. I want to use them, but not bad enough to boot Windows. Hacking OS X to wo
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by chancho 17y ago
He was being dramatic when he said "every classroom in America." I never saw any serious deployment of asymmetric desks before college. Rather just a handful of them mixed in with a Frankenstein-like assortment of worn-out furniture spannin
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by chancho 17y ago
Your logic is sound, but reasonable people can disagree. No operating system is designed to crash, certainly not advertised as doing so, yet all operating systems crash and these crashes sometimes result in serious monetary loss. But no one
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by chancho 17y ago
Yeah rsync.net by far looks like the best functionality, but they are almost 10x more expensive than Amazon or Rackspace, $1.20/Gb/Mo vs. $0.15/Gb/Mo. For 20-30 gigs of photos and movies, that starts to add up.
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by chancho 17y ago
To be fair, no language lets you just "write code" and have it run anywhere near optimally. The programmer always has to be aware of what the compiler is going to do and work with it. I've written a fair amount of Haskell, and done a lot of
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by chancho 17y ago
Hah I actually signed up for jungle disk after this happened. I like it so far but I don't think it solves the alias/hardlink problem, so you'd just get one or two good snapshots before it got to be really expensive. The great feature of ti
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by chancho 17y ago
I just checked Windows and OS X licenses and there is specific language disclaiming liability for damages. Apple's license in particular disclaims liability for loss of data, in explicit terms. So your state or country would need laws speci
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by chancho 17y ago
I'm becoming less and less comfortable with hard drives as long-term backup media. The other day I plugged in my external to back up some family photos, but the drive wasn't coming up and while I was investigating (this was Linux so it coul
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by chancho 17y ago
(disclaimer: I'm not a .NET programmer so maybe I'm talking out of my ass. Feel free to correct.) One major difference between .NET thread pools and GCD is that the former are used in a high-level, garbage collected language, while the latt
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by chancho 17y ago
Your argument refutes itself handedly because 32bit processes are limited to 4GB of address space. You've maxed out 1Gb now, how long before you max out 4Gb? Memory concerns are clearly the reason to go 64bit, the stuff about registers is i
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by chancho 17y ago
This tired, false Microsoft / Linux dichotomy completely misses the point. Microsoft's customers are computer users. Linux doesn't really have "customers" in any normal sense of the word, but if it did, they would be developers, and the pro
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by chancho 17y ago
I think the important part is that it's half-toned (little dots of varying radii according to color and intensity) rather than just making each pixel into one big square. So really its a misnomer. Should be halftonabator or ditherbator, if
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by chancho 17y ago
No, it's not needed here. Metafilter predates the digg/reddit style of user moderation. Anyone there can post directly to the front page, and only mods can remove posts. And I think there's only like 3 mods.
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by chancho 17y ago
Orbit your own satellite? Isn't that a bit like eating your own mouth?
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by chancho 17y ago
I think you're absolutely right about fortran's legacy advantage (that, and it's really not a terrible language for numerical work) but the distinction between 'supercomputer' and cluster of commodity PC's is all but history. Virtually all
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by chancho 17y ago
Does anyone know if these kind of libraries (pygame, pyglet, gosu, etc) are good for networked multiplayer games? I can't find a whole lot on the subject, nor any examples, but I haven't looked too hard.
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by chancho 17y ago
English: Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
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by chancho 17y ago
> 200lbs to be vacuum sealed & delivered at your doorstep! You're making me hungry.
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by chancho 17y ago
Oh I'm all about eating meat, just not exclusively. Both of those links advocate grazing livestock, which I 100% support and think it also tastes better. Better than the grain-fed meat that is so cheap and plentiful in the US (I think that'
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by chancho 17y ago
Putting \c and \C in the search pattern can also be used to turn case sensitivity off or on, respectively, for just that pattern.
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by chancho 17y ago
Ditto for "hacking." I mean, good on you thras for losing the weight but it seems to me that what you're really hacking here is the global food economy. An all meat-and-horticulture diet is completely economically infeasible for a great num
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by chancho 17y ago
Is not most energy consumed in places that are not dry and sunny? On account of the correlation between clouds, rain, irrigation and people. This was T. Boone's mistake: overestimating the portability of electricity.
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by chancho 17y ago
See DarkShikari's comment for details on what goes wrong when a compiler tries to be all things to all architectures. -------- I should clarify. I agree with what you said below, these days GCC is an excellent compiler for x86. It's just th
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by chancho 17y ago
Commercially, C++ is already on life support: it's no longer a general applications language but rather a niche language. Microsoft supports it in Visual Studio for the game industry and Intel supports it for the same as well as the HPC mar
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by chancho 17y ago
It's not supposed to be night vision. All I want out of a digital camera is the ability to take hi-res indoor photographs without flash. Consumer-level cameras have modestly-sized CCDs that can't gather enough light fast enough indoors, so
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by chancho 17y ago
Some VMs (LLVM and Parrot, that I know of) give you an arbitrary number of virtual registers, which are then mapped to physical registers by the compiler, so allocation is a not an issue.
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by chancho 17y ago
When complaining about "the effect" on a news aggregation site it's customary to refer to it by the name of said site. So here it is called "The HN effect." Nevermind the absurdity of this name, on account of HN's (thankfully) small communi

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