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Val, a high-level systems programming language(val-lang.dev)
423 points by cpeterso 3y ago|277 comments
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by cpeterso 3y ago
AFAIK, Firefox Developer Edition is currently just a repackaging of Firefox Beta and doesn’t have different devtools. It used to be a rebranding of Firefox Aurora (an alpha release channel between Firefox Nightly and Beta, now retired) with
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by cpeterso 3y ago
For example, Mozilla compiles Firefox’s official macOS and Windows builds on Linux because cross-compilation is faster and cheaper than compiling on macOS or Windows in the cloud.
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Apple’s New Vision Group Reflects Shift Away from Steve Jobs Approach(bloomberg.com)
6 points by cpeterso 3y ago|2 comments
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by cpeterso 3y ago
btw, the source code for Flash Player 4 is available on the Internet Archive. That was before my time at Macromedia, but I heard that Macromedia either open sourced the code (and then changed their mind for Flash Player 5 when they started
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I also recommend “The Rock-afire Explosion”, a 2008 documentary about the rise and fall of Showbiz Pizza and the fate of The Rock-afire Explosion, ShowBiz Pizza’s animatronic band. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1327599&#x2
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Entertainment is his middle name.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
> Are you telling me that there was a Flash Player equivalent of Mac OS Copland[2]'s development at some point? Yes, though these projects focused on “sidecar” JITs that would live alongside the legacy ActionScript VM inside the sam
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Dangerzone: Convert potentially dangerous PDFs and office documents to safe PDFs(dangerzone.rocks)
1 points by cpeterso 3y ago|0 comments
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Along those lines, I wish the 1990s web designs with bold web-safe colors, like HotWired, would make a comeback. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotWired
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I was a software developer of the Flash Player team at Macromedia and Adobe, specifically on the team porting it to Windows CE/PocketPC and then Android. What you describe is correct as far as I can remember, though I hadn’t heard the
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Instant Messenger History: Lessons for the Threads Era of Social Media(tedium.co)
72 points by cpeterso 3y ago|76 comments
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Busta Rhymes, Lil Yachty and Lando Norris Star in Google Chrome Campaign(adweek.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
“Vale is Fast: Vale is AOT compiled to LLVM, statically-typed, and uses the new generational references technique for memory safety with speed and flexibility, and will soon have region borrow checking to make it even faster.” https:/
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by cpeterso 3y ago
And because conda wasn’t enough, there are mamba and micromamba rewrites of conda in C++.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I’m not sure which is more frustrating: adventure games where you have to find the right command phrasing or games where you have to find the one magic pixel. The limited grammar of these early adventure games had such a strong impact on me
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by cpeterso 3y ago
"Barcelona" is the code name of the Threads project. The Threads Android app is called "com.instagram.barcelona".
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by cpeterso 3y ago
> or ‘put can in bag’ versus ‘put can in bag’ (the latter of which actually worked if I recall correctly Both commands above say “put can in bag”. :) What was the correct command?
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by cpeterso 3y ago
For people who haven’t read the linked release notes: Mozilla is not dropping support for Windows 7-8.1 or macOS 10.12-10.14 at this time. Those users will be migrated to Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release, an LTS branch) that will recei
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H. G. Wells‘ World Brain(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by cpeterso 3y ago|0 comments
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by cpeterso 3y ago
The original “where in the world?” location guessing game is GeoGuesser from 2013. There are competitions and some pro competitors can pinpoint locations within feet, though some rules allow the player to browse Google Maps in a separate wi
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I wish there was a plug-and-play cloud gaming box I could just plug into my TV. I’m willing to pay a monthly subscription but not hundreds of dollars to buy into a console ecosystem. Stadia seemed perfect for a casual gamer like me, but it
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Microsoft's gaming chief: “We are like Polaroid” (2019)(twitter.com)
2 points by cpeterso 3y ago|0 comments
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For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words(longform.asmartbear.com)
17 points by cpeterso 3y ago|3 comments
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Tony Dowler’s “How to Host a Dungeon” is a similar solo tabletop game about a dungeon evolving as people and monsters come and go over the ages. It was originally published in 2008, but there is 2020 second edition. More info and a free PDF
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Does your password manager require an account to sync between multiple machines?
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Maintenance is development, unless the system is being kept on life support. If pros build V1, will non-pros be capable of building V2?
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South Koreans become younger overnight after country scraps ‘Korean age’(cnn.com)
1 points by cpeterso 3y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud(theverge.com)
15 points by cpeterso 3y ago|6 comments
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Google is now testing YouTube Playables, before Stadia's corpse is cold(appleinsider.com)
36 points by cpeterso 3y ago|22 comments

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