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by daniel02216 14y ago
> while it may seem that live evaluating a compiled language like C is far off, I believe that given the motivation someone will find a way I wonder how close Cling[1] is to this ideal. [1] http://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/what-cling
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by daniel02216 14y ago
It's possible to get iTunes to change its idea of where the music files are. I've done a similar amount of iTunes library moving, and it's been quite amazingly reliable through all that upheaval. A combination of consolidating and setting
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How intellectual property laws affect software: What Colour are your bits?(ansuz.sooke.bc.ca)
2 points by daniel02216 15y ago|0 comments
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by daniel02216 15y ago
This interesting article ("What Colour are your bits?") goes in depth on some of the reasons that different licenses on the same bits can happen: http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
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by daniel02216 15y ago
You can redownload: music, apps, books, TV shows. Movies aren't in that list. Also, you might not be able to redownload something if it's been taken off the store. http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/
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by daniel02216 15y ago
I'm not sure I see the difference between a log-structured file system and what they have proposed for their robust disk update strategy, especially when you add integrity streams into the picture. Anyone with more filesystems knowledge th
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Dear Google, Please Stop Hitting Yourself(codeshal.tumblr.com)
2 points by daniel02216 15y ago|0 comments
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by daniel02216 15y ago
You can get this sort of navigation with ctags ( http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ ) and a plugin like this one: https://github.com/SublimeText/CTags I also use cscope: https://github.com/ameyp/CscopeSublime
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by daniel02216 15y ago
Notepad++ doesn't have the 'runs on non-Windows platforms' feature, which is a bit of a dealbreaker.
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Using process descriptors instead of PIDs in FreeBSD's Capsicum(lackingrhoticity.blogspot.com)
2 points by daniel02216 15y ago|0 comments
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by daniel02216 15y ago
If you want the security guys at Apple to hear about the issue, you should file a bug directly with them: http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/ Then add it in here for the benefit of others: http://openradar.appspot.com
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by daniel02216 15y ago
If you find yourself sshing into the same machine all the time, or a set of machines with the same properties (i.e. *.example.com), then you can set up an SSH config file with the following contents to do the port forwarding for you, so you
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by daniel02216 15y ago
You can get send as if you use Google Sync (gmail over exchange instead of imap) and enable the send as setting in their control panel. You can also do it over IMAP by copying and pasting a comma into the account field and adding another em
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by daniel02216 15y ago
On the blog post, check out the image labeled 'Swipe right to view labels'. Also, it's Facebook for iPhone's profile picture: https://www.facebook.com/iphone
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Greedy Register Allocation in LLVM 3.0(blog.llvm.org)
155 points by daniel02216 15y ago|9 comments
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How Hollywood is about to repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the music industry(slate.com)
2 points by daniel02216 15y ago|0 comments
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by daniel02216 15y ago
I've found my iPad to be pretty good at dealing with academic PDFs, but there are still some difficulties that make it annoying. I started taking it to my discussion classes instead of printing the day's paper out, and it worked great. Th
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by daniel02216 15y ago
There is a time slider in Google Earth which lets you see older satellite imagery. It's a pretty fun distraction.
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by daniel02216 15y ago
Gmail calling uses Google's own plugin, not Flash. And they just open sourced it and intend for browser makers to integrate it into their browsers. Hopefully it will be possible to do video calling in HTML soon.
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Sony: The Company That Kicked the Hornet's Nest(businessweek.com)
124 points by daniel02216 15y ago|79 comments
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by daniel02216 15y ago
They show a history of updates to their status blog and to the herokustatus Twitter account since April 21, what do you mean by 'they weren't communicating'?
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by daniel02216 15y ago
What do these points actually represent? Mine shows a tremendous number of points in the regions where I've lived and been, but no points within about 1/4 mile of where I actually live and I have definitely used the GPS there. Also it sho
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by daniel02216 15y ago
OS X does come with curl, doesn't it?
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by daniel02216 16y ago
...yeah. :) Speaking of the UK, I'm really liking the Hitchhiker's Guide references sprinkled in the article. (reading via the PDF link above)
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by daniel02216 16y ago
It's bad enough that the ACM charges $25 for papers that can be legally found by Googling the name of the paper, but they also can't keep their website alive during a Hacker Newsing at 3AM. Is there a cached copy somewhere else? Google doe
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What Could Apple Do to react to Honeycomb?(waffle.wootest.net)
1 points by daniel02216 16y ago|0 comments
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by daniel02216 16y ago
It uses the same construct as VLOG above does, which allows you to << an error string into CRASH_UNLESS and VLOG. The weirdness comes in when you want to conditionalize the log stream, which isn't implemented in the stubs here. The
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Why Fukushima made me pro nukes(smh.com.au)
70 points by daniel02216 16y ago|106 comments
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by daniel02216 16y ago
Weren't some engineers already killed during the explosion?
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by daniel02216 16y ago
I'm surprised Stonebraker is still around deliberately misinterpreting how MapReduce works in order to sell more of his expensive database software. Some of his blog entries about MR vs databases a few years ago are laughably wrong: http:

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