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by cpr 11y ago
Good ol' Frank. He kindly mentions me in relation to the assembler manual...
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by cpr 11y ago
Great interview. (Happen to agree with BE entirely. ;-) I like the image at the end of a bunch of little bangs instead of one big (failing) bang. Maybe even if they're synchronized nicely you can get the same effect as an internal comb
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by cpr 11y ago
Sure, but if users want developers to stay in business, the latter need recurring revenue from ongoing investment. "Extorting money to fix their technical debt". Really?
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by cpr 11y ago
Yeah, by no action I mean no substantial action that would seriously increase developer revenues like: trial versions without hacky in-app purchases; paid upgrades; actual working app discovery; etc.
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by cpr 11y ago
Seems like this is a lost cause. With nearly no action after 7+ years, Apple's not going to change the app store fundamentals. But, boy was it exciting at the start! Shed a few tears and move on...
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by cpr 11y ago
Do you have a source for this? Just curious.
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by cpr 11y ago
GKC is little-remembered today among the general public, but when he died in 1936, all of England mourned. An incredible and gifted man, and a paradox himself. (The paradox was his favorite writing tool; it makes extended reading of his non
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by cpr 11y ago
Gosh, all that to save one byte? ;-)
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by cpr 11y ago
Slack works extraordinarily well for us (4-man distributed team), and we tried HipChat before that, and Campfire before that.
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by cpr 11y ago
Fracking is fairly efficient at extraction from shale.
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by cpr 11y ago
Same as for .pyc -- caches the result of parsing and translating the parse tree into bytecodes.
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by cpr 11y ago
Yep, I use the 34" ultra wide and it's great.
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by cpr 11y ago
As long as you have (and keep updating to) the devices in question to test on, you'll have full performance info.
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by cpr 11y ago
That's what Craig showed in the iOS 9 walk through.
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by cpr 11y ago
http://www.apple.com/osx/elcapitan-preview/ is the right link.
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by cpr 11y ago
One imagines it'll be liberally licensed like LLVM, which Chris Lattner also BDFLs. And they said it would be the compiler and the runtime for OS X, iOS, and (surprisingly) Linux.
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by cpr 11y ago
I disagree--Craig F announced it, and he was clearly moved.
648.
by cpr 11y ago
Nice to see that Chris (Lattner) got his way. I chatted with him last WWDC right after the main Swift technical session, and he expressed the desire to open source it, but had no idea if he could get it through the powers that be. Supportin
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by cpr 11y ago
Apparently, they use them for fishing in some areas, which causes a lot of environmental damage given the insecticide-laden netting. You just can't win.
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by cpr 11y ago
So, IIUC, Polymer and FB React are competing visions of how to build web components. Does anyone have direct experience with both, and can compare them from a real-world usage viewpoint? Thanks!
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by cpr 11y ago
Newspeak's UI paradigm is one of the most interesting things I've seen in years. The Hopscotch video from 2009 at http://www.newspeaklanguage.org/podcasts-and-talks covers some of it.
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by cpr 11y ago
I'm going to plead guilty to being in the publishing (and thus font) business for 35 years, so these things matter to me.
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by cpr 11y ago
No, I'm unhappy with its style, which is clunky and clumsy.
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by cpr 11y ago
Is it OK to say the emperor has no clothes? I think this is an ugly, clumsy typeface, designed primarily for legibility in a particular small application (the watch). Now it's now rumored to be destined as the system font in 10.11. Goi
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by cpr 11y ago
I'm as big a capitalist as anyone, but, boy, reading that made me want to go out and buy a bunch of trailer parks just to lower the rent and lessen the squeeze on these poor folks. Sad!
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by cpr 11y ago
The simplest answer is that if the Fed starts jacking up interest rates, it will bankrupt the US government due to its inability to service its debt.
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by cpr 11y ago
This is probably off-topic, but in my experience a generation ago at Harvard, what they did right was have massive space . Dozens of large buildings with libraries, nooks, sitting areas, auditoria with unlocked pipe organs (at Radcliffe),
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by cpr 11y ago
You can use tools like SelfControl (Mac OS, for example) which help remove the temptation for N hours at a time. Once you set the time, then you can just forget about the time wasters and focus on work. At first, it can be a bit scary when
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by cpr 11y ago
Does anyone know how this relates to Ricardo Semler's efforts with Semco? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Semler )
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by cpr 11y ago
I'm no gamer, and I love the IBM travel mice for its handy size and scroll wheel "feel." I tend to buy them in big batches and spread them around. Sometimes you can find batches of 10 on eBay quite cheaply. http://

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