chaosphere2112

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by chaosphere2112 13y ago
Thanks! I had found a link to just the video, getting the context is much more interesting.
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by chaosphere2112 13y ago
Hm. Looks pretty nice; I'll be interested to see how it runs on my (rather old) desktop; the version of GNOME (I think 3.0) that came with Fedora (15, I think) ran terribly slowly. I can't seem to find any good info on the perform
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by chaosphere2112 13y ago
From great-grandparent: > Actual slavery is when human beings are legally owned by others. He's not saying that sex slaves aren't by definition slaves; he's saying that legal ownership is irrelevant, because sex slaves are
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by chaosphere2112 13y ago
IDE's are used for more than just building the code; they provide UIs for debugging capabilities, code completion, syntax highlighting, refactoring support, VCS integrations, and much, much more. That said, I do my python development i
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by chaosphere2112 13y ago
I suspect that he meant that the skill of your team has nothing to do with being able to do a rewrite from scratch.
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World's Largest Laser Triples Previous Neutron Yield Record for Fusion(llnl.gov)
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by chaosphere2112 13y ago
ci := make(chan int) go func(ci) <-ci
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by chaosphere2112 13y ago
He spent 2 hours and created a sound that causes entire rooms of people to pat their pockets; I'm pretty sure it would have actually taken longer to try out samples by hand (and evaluate each one as you go).
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Release candidates for Wayland 1.2 out(lists.freedesktop.org)
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by chaosphere2112 13y ago
This should be pointed at http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/metaclasses.shtm...
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by chaosphere2112 13y ago
The point of this article isn't about open source-- it's about open standards. In fact, it doesn't mention open source or free software at all. He actually says "The bigger problem is that they’ve abandoned interoperabil
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by chaosphere2112 13y ago
To be fair, their smart tv's motion controls were pretty tetchy when I tried to use it (at a Best Buy, so clearly not the intended scenario, but at least a foreseeable one).
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by chaosphere2112 13y ago
Not that odd, given that the icon for their "Mice and Keyboards" section is the magic trackpad. http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/mac_accessori... http://store.apple.com
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by chaosphere2112 13y ago
They were a little choppy on my iPad mini.
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by chaosphere2112 13y ago
I'm under the impression that this is a British/US thing. I've always associated use of IT to include software in general with British authors.
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by chaosphere2112 14y ago
It was an exceptionally shitty router, yeah. One of my roommates wanted to be in charge of the internet connection; she went with the lowest end AT&T plan, and she had the router that they had given her in her last apartment. On top of
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by chaosphere2112 14y ago
My last apartment had <1mbps with AT&T. I was working remotely for a company that required VPN+VNC into a linux server on their intranet to get anything done. Any time my roommates tried to watch something on hulu/netflix (frequentl
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by chaosphere2112 14y ago
Russ Cox, in response to a regex benchmark vs. Python/Ruby. "You assume the benchmark is worth something. First of all, Ruby and Python are using C implementations of the regexp search, so Go is being beat by C, not by Ruby. Second, Go is u
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by chaosphere2112 14y ago
To quote my wife (Biostatistics grad student), "The confidence intervals for cancer deaths are wussy."
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by chaosphere2112 14y ago
Fortunately, OS X now has Services This feature originates in NeXTSTEP, and I'm fairly certain it has been in OS X since the beginning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Services_menu