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by cmsj 11y ago
The best stuff that we're not going to get, is everything above the STL, but I doubt anyone is expecting that Foundation/Cocoa are going to get open sourced any time soon :)
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by cmsj 11y ago
Bradley is pretty extreme :) It's not necessarily a bad thing to have sentinels out on the fringes, like RMS and Bradley, to remind us not to get lost. We don't have to go where they are, but we can at least navigate by them. Havi
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by cmsj 11y ago
Well that was pretty miserable. I sort of feel like the author has entirely surrendered to the ennui he describes, but he doesn't have to. He doesn't have to tend to his Vine profile, he doesn't have to accept the implicit de
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by cmsj 11y ago
Thunderbolt 1&2 connectors have active electronics in the connectors, and that seems likely to stay in 3, so yes, the cables will be different.
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by cmsj 11y ago
FWIW, one reason would be that they'd needed to have somehow worked a USB connection into the mix, for pure DisplayPort ports, otherwise you have no way to control the brightness, use the camera, or the audio output.
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by cmsj 11y ago
I don't think we have enough detail about Thunderbolt 3 yet to know whether devices will be able to detect that they are connected to a USB port and not a Thunderbolt port. If they can detect that, they may well be able to choose to de
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by cmsj 11y ago
This sort of thing seems like it has interesting uses, but I doubt it will become mainstream. Assuming your mobile device has adequate horsepower to run your desktop, the marginal cost of adding equivalent CPU, RAM and storage to the monito
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by cmsj 11y ago
On a long enough timescale, he's right every time :)
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by cmsj 11y ago
That seems overly simplistic, given the diverse claims as to the nature of God/Gods. To pick one, the Judaeo-Christian god seems to be unwilling to allow proof of its existence. This seems to be intentional, to place the acceptance&#x2
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by cmsj 11y ago
hmm, apparently I can't find the thing I thought I'd read about that, so I retract. I guess the IPO is on!
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by cmsj 11y ago
This story is from last week and Mark subsequently clarified to say that he's not taking the company public.
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by cmsj 11y ago
This is a pretty butchered version of the original 9to5mac post (which others have linked to). Even then, the original 9to5mac post is very very unclear about some of these purported features, especially Trusted WiFi.
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by cmsj 11y ago
Nice, I had fun listening to Robo Sagan recite some of the Pale Blue Dot speech, with some fruity additions ;)
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by cmsj 11y ago
" I should prioritize my own over the rest of the world" It feels like you're suggesting that a job such as SpaceX is automatically beneficial to the rest of the world. I suggest that you are assuming too much. Could SpaceX u
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by cmsj 11y ago
You might not care, RMS might not care, but please don't assume that "no one else cares". I don't know you, and I don't know RMS, but he doesn't seem like the most emotionally intelligent person, perhaps you
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by cmsj 12y ago
Hammerspoon - crazy powerful desktop automation for OS X. https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon We get a few hundred downloads of each release, but I like to think that the market for people who want to program th
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by cmsj 12y ago
If you're doing all of those things at once, you want a MacBook Pro
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by cmsj 12y ago
As a maintainer of a Mjolnir fork (Hammerspoon), I take your point that there are very many options in this space, but IMO that can be a good thing - lots of exploring in different directions can help us figure out what works well for peopl
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by cmsj 12y ago
(Rosetta Stone is software for learning human languages. Apple's tech for runtime binary architecture translation was called Rosetta. It was written and supplied by a UK company called Transitive, which was acquired by IBM to bring for
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by cmsj 12y ago
(Assuming Adobe isn't using lots of x86 assembly in its low level image/video code)
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by cmsj 12y ago
FWIW, there are ARM instructions for virtualisation. Linux's KVM hypervisor supports them.
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by cmsj 12y ago
In general: If you're an outcast and you don't ostracise yourself from a community that has grown large, you are not really an outcast. In detail: Hackers can't complain that their movement has grown and developed facets they
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by cmsj 12y ago
I think we got an amazing world :) We democratised technology. We built a global IP network-of-networks and used it to connect a UNIX-like kernel in everyone's pocket, in a way that serves and delights them. I distinctly remember a lar
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by cmsj 12y ago
I think it's substantially different if that subculture operates in an open environment that encourages participation. If you want to have a private, invite-only community that has strict rules of abrasive (or other) behaviour, that is
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by cmsj 12y ago
We wanted to make tech be ever more awesome, we told everyone we knew how cool it is, regardless of whether they were interested. We asked for this, whether we like it or not :)
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by cmsj 12y ago
weird, I can open Google Authenticator (the only app we have in common from that list) just fine
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by cmsj 12y ago
Sensible projects have a community code of conduct, and are prepared to enforce it. We're not all infantile and rude :) (edit: but to be clear, yes, toxic communities do exist and are a terrible blight on the wider universe of open sou
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by cmsj 12y ago
So, the fork-me-on-github banner has always kinda rubbed me the wrong way. I don't want to actively encourage forks, I want to encourage people to collaborate on the main repo. Forks can lead to that, if they're just temporary t
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by cmsj 12y ago
In the context of a sundial (Edit: in the northern hemisphere), it makes more sense. The right-to-left bits are mostly happening at night :)
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by cmsj 12y ago
There was an earlier post. You need to clone the code and deploy it yourself on heroku. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9112444

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