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991.
by contextfree 16y ago
Somebody needs to take a stand at some point. The C-style equality and assignment operator conventions are awful things.
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by contextfree 16y ago
and game console CPUs (PS3)
993.
by contextfree 16y ago
Northern Europe?
994.
by contextfree 16y ago
My understanding is that IE9 does have a new JS runtime, but it doesn't use the CLR/DLR at all.
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by contextfree 16y ago
The paper actually brings this up. "The use of UV ink may be of less consolation to those patients who associate tattoos with their use as involuntary identifiers. In the holocaust, identification tattoos reminded prisoners no longer contr
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by contextfree 16y ago
They both are. I think he may have meant that under the conjecture that Apple intends to selectively enforce this, they might be less inclined to exclude Monotouch apps in practice.
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by contextfree 17y ago
How fast technology moves depends on how you look at it ...
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by contextfree 17y ago
The big one he doesn't cover is LINQ query syntax. There's a post on my blog ( http://contextfree.livejournal.com ) where I explain why it works this way ...
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by contextfree 17y ago
This is a wonderful book!
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by contextfree 17y ago
I suspect the real reason was just that Apple thinks there are already enough clocks in the App Store, and even if this one is better than some of the existing clocks, booting one of them to make way for it isn't feasible. In other words,
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by contextfree 17y ago
When you realize that 1. C64 was designed to connect to a TV 2. That hasn't been feasible for a while since monitors have been so much higher-res than TV 3. But now we have HDTV it does kinda make sense.
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by contextfree 17y ago
? Are you suggesting that the Office Web App clients are being built on top of Sharepoint and Outlook web clients ?
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by contextfree 17y ago
I can see the VR fad returning thanks to the 20-year nostalgia cycle! More seriously, I do think the standard arguments against 3D UI will carry less force in the not too distant future (i.e. over the next 10 to 15 years), because of new(is
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by contextfree 17y ago
? The Web Apps hosted on Microsoft's servers are free (or rather ad-supported). If you want to host them on your own servers, you need to buy various things. I thought Google Docs was the same way?
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by contextfree 17y ago
yeah, this is sort of amusingly ironic coming from an analytic philosopher.
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by contextfree 17y ago
er sorta. it has more to do with the fact that most of the IE team (along with the GDI and USER teams) was moved into the WPF team after the release of IE6. by that time they weren't really trying to tie the web to Windows anymore, they th
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by contextfree 17y ago
What if I want to use another language precisely because I'm passionate about programming and therefore have strong opinions about which languages and tools are best? For example, there's a long thread at Lambda the Ultimate ( http://lambd
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by contextfree 17y ago
I've heard that Gates last wrote production code sometime in the mid-eighties, though he wrote gradually less and less before then.
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by contextfree 17y ago
Quantitative increases in hardware capabilities are boring. (Qualitatively) new software capabilities enabled by those hardware improvements are not. If those aren't forthcoming, it's because software creators (or the creators of their to
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by contextfree 17y ago
Which is easy on any modern OS (including Windows) ... provided the app doesn't need to interact with others (by giving them a way to handle its file format, for example). At which point it you have the same problems which need to be dealt