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by cypher543 12y ago
I despise CMake's syntax. But it is by far the best build system to use if you like IDEs and don't want to manage separate project files.
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by cypher543 13y ago
While I agree that a 2D API doesn't sound like something that needs to be in the standard library, it sounds to me like they're just basing the API on Cairo's and not necessarily forcing everyone to use Cairo bindings. Indivi
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by cypher543 13y ago
Unless you're working on ancient software or writing an OO programming language that translates to C, you really shouldn't need to worry about OOP in C. I suggest learning as much as you can about C and then graduate to C++. Java
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by cypher543 13y ago
Indeed. I really don't find the wide array of screen sizes to be that big of a problem. Of course, it is a little scary if you're used to designing apps with fixed-size bitmaps. But with Android's XML drawables, fragments, an
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by cypher543 13y ago
Curiosity definitely has an OS (VxWorks). But I asked one of the developers about releasing some code after Curiosity landed and was told that they couldn't. So I doubt an accurate Curiosity emulator will ever be possible unless JPL re
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by cypher543 13y ago
I don't really have an opinion one way or the other. I was just posting the link. :)
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by cypher543 13y ago
http://www.wired.com/business/2008/10/google-ceo-call/
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by cypher543 13y ago
Is this supposed to be funny or something?
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by cypher543 13y ago
I still have an original Kindle, but would like to upgrade to the Paperwhite at some point. Normally I would say that a full tablet like a Nexus 7 or Nexus 10 is more worthwhile, since Android has a perfectly capable Kindle app. But in my c
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by cypher543 13y ago
I don't work for Coin and I don't have any idea if they can pull off chip card support or not. I simply said that they claim it's under development.
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by cypher543 13y ago
I could be wrong, but I don't think Amazon actually designs or manufactures anything under the AmazonBasics brand. It's like buying a "white box" PC from a company like MSI and reselling it under your own brand name.
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by cypher543 13y ago
Their FAQ says that future versions will support chip cards. https://onlycoin.com/support/faq/
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by cypher543 13y ago
> One is this has been done before, exact same approach, and it did not work out because the card issuers didn't buy in The card issuers don't have to buy in to anything. You program the Coin yourself using your existing cards.
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by cypher543 13y ago
It's essentially a home automation controller that bridges the many different monitoring and control protocols together with spatial awareness.
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by cypher543 13y ago
Yep! There was also GoonieTown, which didn't last very long and eventually became VR Dimension. Flatland Rover was another, but it used its own 3DML engine instead of Blaxxun Contact and VRML. Good times!
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by cypher543 13y ago
I love the Wayback Machine (and all of Archive.org, really). I recently used it to reminisce about some old VRML-based chat communities that I frequented about 10 years ago. It had a record for every single of them.
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by cypher543 13y ago
I thought being ridiculously over-the-top was the whole point of Saints Row. If that's not the kind of game you enjoy, fine. But that doesn't mean that Saints Row doesn't work.
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by cypher543 13y ago
No details = no sign-up.
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by cypher543 13y ago
I'm not a typography expert, so this looks like a hundred other fonts I've seen. Why does every OS need its own custom font?
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by cypher543 13y ago
The simple answer is: "No." Why was an entire article needed for this?
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by cypher543 13y ago
There was an article posted on HN a while ago about certain Xerox scanners that would change numbers on scanned documents (turn 6's into 8's, for example). So this is just a follow-up.
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by cypher543 13y ago
The code is open source and only 72 lines long (with comments and whitespace).
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by cypher543 13y ago
You can't write a kernel completely in Go. But that's the case with every language except assembly (and, with a GCC-specific x86 extension, C). If you were to implement the core runtime in assembly, there'd be nothing to st
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by cypher543 13y ago
I wasn't trying to be rude. I was genuinely curious, since I've seen that phrasing so often.
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by cypher543 13y ago
Serious question: Is this proper English? > Where the name dockerlite comes from? I keep seeing that sort of arrangement in headings like "How it works?" where I expect it to say "How does it work?" and I'm start
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by cypher543 13y ago
It's a well-known issue in Chrome for Windows. The latest version of Chrome's rendering library (Skia) now supports DirectWrite and they intend to include it in their Blink engine. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692
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by cypher543 13y ago
It's an excellent platform for learning about high voltage components, deep vacuums, particle physics, and monitoring and control systems.
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by cypher543 13y ago
I use a custom-built PC (AMD Phenom II X4 955, 8GB RAM, nVidia GeForce GTX 650 Ti) for working (and gaming) at home and a Google Nexus 10 for working on-the-go.
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by cypher543 13y ago
You may want to do a bit of proofreading. It's difficult for me to take the content of this article seriously with so many spelling mistakes; especially since you misspelled "probability", which is the focus of the entire thing.
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by cypher543 13y ago
I boot into Windows on my primary desktop and use it most of the time, but I've been turning to a Linux Mint virtual machine for more and more of my programming projects. It just seems a lot easier to get up and running quickly in a Unix en

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