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by cwyers 7y ago
The Xbox One has had problems from a business perspective, but I think they have more to do with the Kinect inflating the launch price than they do the NT kernel.
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You can't run any Mac apps on iOS. I think Microsoft's big problem on mobile was if anything a first-mover disadvantage; they had Windows Mobile designed to compete with Blackberry and Java ME devices. The iPhone was able to basic
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> In short, literally none of this stuff is actually new. Indeed, as Oliver Traldi has pointed out, the entire contemporary debate around ‘free speech’ and ‘political correctness’ bears an uncanny likeness to 1990s controversies on thes
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by cwyers 7y ago
> Combining the two most growth-oriented segments of the digital economy – blockchain technology and travel, HoweyCoin is the newest and only coin offering that captures the magic of coin trading profits AND the excitement and guaranteed
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by cwyers 7y ago
The iPhone, via the App Store, and Slack, via the extension marketplace and APIs, are _incredibly_ configurable. Mindboggling so. (And many companies are using MDM along with the iPhone, so it's not like they don't think they need
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by cwyers 7y ago
I would feel a lot better about companies talking out of both sides of their mouths here if what they said in English wasn't already so compromised. Firing the broadcasters and banning the player shows which side of their mouth Blizzar
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by cwyers 7y ago
I'm struggling to think what of that couldn't be done with off the shelf software, honestly. Hell, most of it could be done with Outlook and Active Directory.
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by cwyers 7y ago
I know of exactly nobody who was happy with how the Perl 5 to Perl 6 transition went, or the Python 2 to Python 3 transition. I think not ever having a firm cutover like that was beneficial to R. EDIT: And yes, as citrate05 says, it's
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by cwyers 7y ago
I am not sure there is a language where the median user's code looks more different from 2012 to now than R's. RStudio and the tidyverse have basically created an all-new "standard" library for the language that has gott
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by cwyers 7y ago
I am not saying that the Affinity suite of apps is at full feature parity with Adobe, but they are certainly targeting the pro market with their offerings.
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by cwyers 7y ago
It looks like the intent of this language is something that can replace Lua as an embedded language in games and other applications that require scripting, without the overhead of requiring JIT compilation to be performant (which you can&#x
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by cwyers 7y ago
On a local network, you make the assumption that there are only authorized users.
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There are nontrivial programs that run on both Python 2 and Python 3.
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by cwyers 7y ago
The new Windows Terminal app is a massive improvement on the Windows Console, even while it's in beta. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-windo... I've found that between OpenSSH for Windo
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by cwyers 7y ago
It's a Windows game. People are asking him about the possibility of a Mac port.
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by cwyers 7y ago
I read one of the papers, and the channels listed with trackers were largely "long tail" garbage channels that 99.9% of Roku users wouldn't touch. Now, it only lists the ten worst channels, but it leaves it hard to figure out
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by cwyers 7y ago
The length of classes doesn't matter much is passing times between classes are short. My kid goes to school in a building with three floors.
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by cwyers 7y ago
https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/nathan-robinson “He is also the author of _The Man Who Accidentally Wore His Cravat to a Gymnasium_, a children's book about fashion and conformity.“ And he speaks with a B
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by cwyers 7y ago
And it's misleading -- the article and the article's headline say nothing about adding a backdoor. There's not enough detail in the article to say exactly how this decision will affect WhatsApp. (The headline on Bloomberg, &q
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by cwyers 7y ago
I think you misread the claim. > So what, then? A company just drifts in the void, with no strategy? > Not exactly. It's harder than that. What executives need to do is come up with organizational values that indirectly result in
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by cwyers 7y ago
It's actually probably worse, because if you get caught at the beginning you might stop. If you don't get caught at the beginning you can make things a lot worse.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Honestly I feel like reading that just leaves me confused. There have been some rough spots, but it seems like it's much less contentious than the relationship between Apple and Samsung, and Samsung still makes iPhone displays.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Red Hat bought out CentOS now. They own CentOS. There would be no trademark dillution from a legal standpoint if they used their own trademark for their free version of the distro.
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by cwyers 7y ago
Why on earth were you keeping $30,000 in the account you use to pay for groceries?
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by cwyers 7y ago
The BSD logo was created by one of Pixar's founders[1], and Disney now owns Pixar. Disney also has money. I'm sure deploying FreeBSD is well within their reach. 1) https://www.freebsd.org/copyright/daemon.html
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by cwyers 7y ago
> there are simple ways to avoid shooting yourself in the feet with those A cursory look at the CVE list for any C software in the wild indicates that no, there are not simple ways to avoid shooting yourself in the feet with manual memor
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by cwyers 7y ago
Plenty of people don't pay me money _all of the time._ Most of them aren't even making a decision to do this, it just never would occur to them to pay me money.
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A lot of them just need to be on the taskbar/notification area and not in a browser tab, honestly.
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There is such a thing as too much transparency in government. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/03/the-cas... TL;DR: It's hard to build consensus out in the open. Consensus requires
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> EasyOS is designed from scratch to support containers. Any app can run in a container, in fact an entire desktop can run in a container. Container management is by a simple GUI, no messing around on the commandline. The container mecha

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