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by cpr 12y ago
My favorite "remote debugging" of all time was the caller who complained about the key in her old Subaru wagon not working sometimes. After some back and forth, one of the brothers said, "wait, wait--I'll bet you have a
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by cpr 12y ago
Under the upper-right menu there's a "@ Recent Mentions" item which might solve your para. 3 problem.
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by cpr 12y ago
Seems like a lot of wishful thinking and projection of current ideology, a la Margaret Mead in "Coming of Age in Samoa" of which she later admitted she fabricated much.
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by cpr 12y ago
Well, having a single wide monitor means I move my neck very little from side to side (maybe 15 degrees each side?). Even my old (60) eyes have no trouble viewing the edges.
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by cpr 12y ago
I've been using the LG 34UM95 for a month or so attached to a rMBP, and find the ultra-wide screen (3440) delightful. The 1440 height is the same as the current Apple T'bolt Cinema Display. I really don't need Retina-level re
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by cpr 12y ago
You mean Photoshop, not Illustrator, improved? The latter was Adobe's first app and lovingly crafted by Warnock and crew. (I know, because I saw them with my own eyes. ;-)
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by cpr 12y ago
Real butter is quite healthy in moderation. And already expensive enough!
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by cpr 12y ago
Guesses based on known properties of the (well-known, high-exposure) targets.
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by cpr 12y ago
Isn't this just a "spike" in common parlance?
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by cpr 12y ago
Hey, that's my old boss at Imagen, Luis! He was one of Knuth's fair-haired boys. (Hails from Argentina.) Luis and Les Earnest spun off Imagen as a start-up from the TeX project at Stanford around 1980, and I joined them soon after
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by cpr 12y ago
Isn't anyone else bothered by the lousy typography of both the logo (<apple>WATCH) and the typography on the screen? The fonts are too loosely spaced, and the screen layouts looked amateurish, no better than the Android-based wea
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Ikea Pitches Its 2015 Catalog as the Coolest Gadget Ever(adweek.com)
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by cpr 12y ago
Yes, our motor burned out after a couple of years, and then we had to chase all over kingdom come (about an hour's drive) to find a dealer who could fix it.
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by cpr 12y ago
No, very low-pile carpets and Orientals.
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by cpr 12y ago
Others have commented similarly, but I just have to say that we've tried various Dysons over the years, and they always start off brilliantly. E.g., we vacuumed a nominally clean bedroom with a new Dyson upright and it was like steam-c
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by cpr 12y ago
Why do you say Fed conspiracy theories when all he's saying is that the Fed can't keep up the zero-interest charade forever?
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by cpr 12y ago
Other answers have already stated the general idea, but my advice is to hew to the fairly clear, specific principle: Will my comment add some new non-trivial foreground or background information to the discussion that hasn't already be
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by cpr 12y ago
It's the evil twin of capitalism, crony capitalism, which is what we have in this country. (Technically, it should be called fascism, since it's the binding together (fasces) of government and business in an unholy union.)
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by cpr 12y ago
Apple's consumer apps do have image stabilization options. Wait, is iMovie still a thing?
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by cpr 12y ago
https://gist.github.com/staltz/868e7e9bc2a7b8c1f754 is an excellent introduction to reactive programming.
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by cpr 12y ago
Oh, I understand it's not hard to learn enough to use it with existing Cocoa APIs--it's just that that to learn it deeply would require a major investment. I've learned dozens of languages (starting with Lisp-like systems) in
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by cpr 12y ago
This is all quite interesting. I wonder if there are others in my boat, however, who were (in my case minor) iOS developers, and were initially excited by Swift. (I chatted with Chris Lattner at WWDC and thanked him for what looked in the f
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by cpr 12y ago
Nice work, thanks for documenting! We've been very happy with the HelloFax (YC W11) service for some time now. We pay $5/month for the once-every-few-months fax we get or send, but it still seems like a good deal for an official f
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by cpr 12y ago
The potential downfall of general measurements like this is large conferences like WWDC, where if there's a geek in every room, the whole-hotel performance is going to suffer unless they've provisioned massive peak bandwidth. (Thi
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by cpr 12y ago
(Unfortunately, "piles" sounds like a medical condition.)
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by cpr 12y ago
One gotcha is that Obj-C classes can't subclass Swift classes. Or at least that's what I got from the docs. So writing frameworks designed to be subclassed means you're probably stuck in Obj-C for quite some years.
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by cpr 12y ago
The real ergonomics of the LispM were due to the wonderful Microswitch keyboards, which have never been equalled since. To use one was a kind of revelation into the the apotheosis of keyboard use. (The old, original Tom Knight AI Lab keyb
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by cpr 12y ago
Yes, but don't forget the microcode level that runs the Lisp code. Some very small bits of the OS were written in microcode (as few as possible), IIRC. (It's been a long time since I was hanging around the AI Lab. ;-)
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by cpr 12y ago
Well, don't hesitate to give them feedback now. They're staying it's still quite in a fluid state and will change before release. Plus I'm sure they'd always be grateful for feedback, and if it improves the lot of m
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by cpr 12y ago
There's also a spaceship (not decaying) in our old town of Guilford, CT right near the beach: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/garden/13who.html

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