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811.
by cpr 14y ago
MagSafe2 is just thinner, not electrically different.
812.
by cpr 14y ago
You'll eventually get better than 1920x1080 on your Retina MBP, because apps will adapt to the HiDPI APIs, and then you can scale all the critical parts (text views, graphics views, etc.) to be as tiny as you like and still get high-quality
813.
by cpr 14y ago
Except that Windows doesn't have the HiDPI concept, which makes all your UI truly tiny and useless.
814.
by cpr 14y ago
I think that's what I was trying to say, but apparently didn't make it clear.
815.
by cpr 14y ago
If you embrace the Smalltalk roots of Objective-C, you'll be a lot happier, and "all those braces" are completely comprehensible.
816.
by cpr 14y ago
Can you provide any base for this assertion? That's not working well in Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, etc.
817.
by cpr 14y ago
Looks nice! I wonder (judging from other comments) if people know the hack whereby you can start a d'n'd and then use command-tab to switch apps while dragging. Saves a lot of grief.
818.
by cpr 15y ago
John Gruber makes a quite decent living selling ads around his punditry--he doesn't need to sell t-shirts. His "telling" isn't about what he does, but what Apple does. So his "doing" is "telling." ;-) He also invented what's turned into the
819.
by cpr 15y ago
Or, to rephrase your point, the node community has built some nice pipeable abstractions in a way that's easier to use than Python (e.g.), and people are making good use of those abstractions. ;-)
820.
by cpr 15y ago
His third point is addressable by using LLVM as your target. Optimization can occur at compile time, at link time, and at runtime, if you decide to do the final LLVM-to-machine-language translation at the latter point. Inter-module optimiza
821.
by cpr 15y ago
Gosh, I hate to be that "old guy," but using bitmaps for mark & sweep GC dates from the early 70's. In particular, in GC implementations for Lisp and Lisp-like languages (such as the ECL implementation we used at Harvard in the mid-70's
822.
by cpr 15y ago
Yeah, the growing police state wants to keep that privilege for itself.
823.
by cpr 15y ago
Probably 30 years ago. ;-) Back then I worked for a laser printer start-up (lots of free printing available), and workstations (Sun, Apollo) were just appearing with larger screens.
824.
by cpr 15y ago
I guess I never use the arrow keys, being a 40-years-of-emacs oldster. Control/meta keys all the way. ;-)
825.
by cpr 15y ago
How about an Apple flat wireless keyboard using the built-in Keyboard Mapping preferences panel to map caps lock to control? Works great for me.
826.
by cpr 15y ago
Gosh, I always use the Terminal-based Emacs because it's the same whether I'm on my machine or on a remote machine. (Including being OS-agnostic, so it's the same whether under Lion or on a remote Linux server.)
827.
by cpr 15y ago
Sigh. Others have hinted at this, but I'll say it outright: I've been a pretty solid Mac user/developer for 25 years (with a 3-year interlude on Windows + ThinkPad towards the end of classic MacOS, when the lack of true multitasking and a "
828.
by cpr 15y ago
It looks like the two fingers have to come in from the right side of the scroll area (like pulling down on the top of the screen--the right side in this case), so it's distinct from the other meanings.
829.
by cpr 15y ago
Is the removal process automated, or are you relying on something like Amazon's Mechanical Turk?
830.
by cpr 15y ago
Very nice. Makes Lua finally palatable, to my eyes. I can't quite figure out why, though. Perhaps because I'm used to CoffeeScript?
831.
by cpr 15y ago
Funny, I think my first program did exactly the same on the same hardware, back in, oh, 1969 at Claremont High in San Diego (the campus used for the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High). Had entirely forgotten that episode...
832.
The War for the Internet has begun(thedailybell.com)
3 points by cpr 15y ago|0 comments
833.
by cpr 15y ago
Prob a reg exp so matches any char...
834.
Burt Rutan on Climate Change: An engineer looks at the evidence(rps3.com)
23 points by cpr 15y ago|21 comments
835.
by cpr 15y ago
There are plenty of MIF-file (Frame's XML vocabulary) translators out there, so it needn't have been lost as long as the source file was around.
836.
by cpr 15y ago
As soon as I saw "RPG" I no longer needed to know why they had problems...
837.
by cpr 15y ago
If this really works with reasonably low power, you can bet the big guys are lining up for a bidding war. This is the kind of feature which an Apple or a Samsung would want to have exclusively, at least for a while. E.g., Apple seems to hav
838.
by cpr 15y ago
And you think you can personally make a serious difference with one vote and some organizing? Whew. I agree that Google, Gates and Saudis are completely out of reach.
839.
by cpr 15y ago
Oh, do you think our government is truly accountable to everyone? I think just the opposite. The control we have over what happens at all levels of government (most specially federal and state) is so tenuous as to be essentially nil.
840.
by cpr 15y ago
Funny how the sub-text of this article is so clearly the pro-government bias of the reporter. "After all, we know that the only real way to effect social change is through government action" could summarize its message. Which is doubly funn

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