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by ctstover 11y ago
A quick search puts 350k in 1976USD at about 1.5m 2015USD.
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by ctstover 11y ago
Exactly. Concepts like the women's suffrage movement, and resistance to sharia law are in most people's minds extremely removed from the sort of boutique activism one finds in the United States campuses today. Going a layer furthe
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by ctstover 11y ago
I support all efforts to promote agile hatred, so that part is great. Though, I also promote awareness that gray text on white background promotes illiteracy.
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by ctstover 11y ago
What would the schema be for storing compiler settings? Those would be of almost arbitrary complexity. Maybe if you combined the os/compiler name/compiler version/settings/deps versions, etc into a an alphabetized spaced
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by ctstover 11y ago
Whoever made this is a bad ass. Bravo!
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by ctstover 11y ago
Trying to be constructive, I would say this needs to zoom out a few layers and make a case for what concepts it is trying to address. The primary means to distribute open source software is via source code. Automagical technologies to assem
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by ctstover 11y ago
I'm sure others who have been around longer remember other examples, but in my life I have never before or since witnessed a media blitz for a "technical" standard as the coming out party for XML in the '90s. Almost over
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by ctstover 11y ago
well what ever the reasons, the font displays about 75% the size of the HN font. Plus the font itself just looks odd to me.
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by ctstover 11y ago
Native speaker agreeing with you that it is an almost instant headache on 13" mbpro[1]. It's all part of being "modern". Font sizes in pixels is one of the many fails of CSS and the web in general. [1]on iceweasel on deb
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by ctstover 11y ago
I liked the article. Slowly more and more reach that point on the on-line adoption curve to start realizing some sort of shark jump point exists. In my older age, I've learned its called "boredom", and it's a way of your
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by ctstover 11y ago
From the article: "Humanity has never before had to deal with global oceans quite like this." That's quite an um "extrapolation" given a data set back to 1877.* See, if you want stop people from claiming its all bul
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by ctstover 11y ago
well of course none can reach the level of god-like wizardry our current great leader has reach in this theatre
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by ctstover 11y ago
honestly this is just sad
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by ctstover 11y ago
I am the only one that has been thinking for months now that "modern" is the most over used, pointless, and almost negatively connotative word in this industry? Thought exercise: Imagine the ugliest flat and incomprehensible UI wi
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by ctstover 11y ago
If you consider that the entire point of Agile™ is evidently to reduce programmer efficiency by 40-60% over the "actually give them a few days in a row of uninterrupted time to work" technique, this makes sense. By letting 7 simul
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by ctstover 11y ago
If the supply of people willing to port win16 code to more maintainable technology is really so low that a critical system in a air port can not be fixed, then I think it is time market rates start to establish themselves. I'll gladly
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by ctstover 11y ago
memo to sci-fi designers: concept sketches for alternative time lines.
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by ctstover 11y ago
Do the eComstation people still have their distribution license?
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by ctstover 11y ago
tldr; too much mac universe; I'm assuming 10 bit means 10 bit per channel instead of 8, so what the rest of the world would call perhaps 30 bit over 24 bit?
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by ctstover 11y ago
While I appreciate humor, and I have a beard myself, this is article is utterly depressing. As if the in vogue trend towards increasingly revolting ways in which we Americans comport ourselves, facial hair and otherwise, is not dismal enoug
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by ctstover 11y ago
Terrifying! Is there a way to disable that?
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Ask HN: Is it time to fork Unicode?
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by ctstover 11y ago
This article actually helps support the use of this style. Read a different way, it essentially says a repository can become enormous before git starts to tap out. One obvious rule of thumb, is the linux kernel. If your code base is smaller
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by ctstover 11y ago
How will this impact the time table to reach the googleplex singularity godhead? ... Or maybe after all they're just some guys who made a profitable search at exactly the right time, then pigged out on an IPO?
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by ctstover 11y ago
I fucking hate roundabouts. There. I feel better now. Thanks. Wait, no the rage is coming back - multi-lanes!!! ahhh!! help!
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by ctstover 11y ago
I remember the announcements back in May, but I still don't see an offering on their site. Can one really get a Linux instance on Power by the hour / month in SL? Even better in my case would be just a VPS, as a build node does ne
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by ctstover 11y ago
Correct, normal globals no. There is a way to make some special values have this behavior though. It's been a long time, but I think the reason was to have some analog to the win16 behavior. In that shared-everything universe, there we
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by ctstover 11y ago
Shared libraries are mmap()ed share private. Imagine that one added library initialization code (load time) that mmap()ed a section as shared public for some values. That's the 'doz model. The win16 model is much more fascinating
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by ctstover 11y ago
Agreed that this notion of lost to time proprietary WINE-like layers is indeed an amazingly bizarre curiosity. I would love to see more about that. Regarding window focus, I use i3wm in which generally focus is switched with keyboard. Thoug
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by ctstover 11y ago
asciio has layers, which is orders more powerful

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