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by defroost 16y ago
Git, MacRuby, self-contained one window for xcode and IB, what's not to like about xcode 4?
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by defroost 16y ago
Debian? debian.org is a million times more modern, with RSS feeds, translations in around 30 languages, decent looking markup, etc. I was just making an observation about the 90's style source code, and said nothing about slickness, or pre
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by defroost 16y ago
From the FAQ: "10. What is Commodore OS? Our new Commodore operating system, will be a unique Commodore and AMIGA centric Linux distribution, that will grow over time into something far greater. Commodore OS will not be your run of the mil
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by defroost 16y ago
Coincidentally, I am furiously trying to read HN before my MacBook's battery runs out, as my "elegant" white connector is frayed, making it useless. As this is the second cord I'm buying, while the black industrial cords are ugly, I'll take
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by defroost 16y ago
Really? A play on the politically-incorrect, downright offense word "retard", doesn't sound worse than "fanboy"? Wow, I guess it is all about perspective.
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by defroost 16y ago
"Freetard"? What are you twelve? A corporate troll or a Windows user? I will be so happy when this "*-tard" meme goes away, it is truly irksome.
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by defroost 16y ago
As someone who dabbles in tradition "wet" darkroom film processes for medium and large-format photography, and enjoys digital photography with a DSLR, I have a few observations: There are some fantastic digital filters available that try to
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by defroost 16y ago
How is the app "not hurting anyone"? The implication of the app in question is that if you are gay you are some kind of diseased freak that can be "cured". Churches have been trying these kinds of "pray away the gay treatments" for homosexu
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by defroost 16y ago
Soon you are not going to know if anyone that you interact with online is who they say they are. The Pentagon has awarded a contract to a Silicon Valley company to develop software that creates fake personas that can then influence the "co
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by defroost 16y ago
> It's just plain disingenuous to claim that Obama is less in favor of openness than Dick Cheney. If you want to prosecute to Julian Assange, you are not for openness in Government. If you put Bradley Manning not in jail, but under the
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by defroost 16y ago
I agree with you re: whole-steps and half-steps. When you teach "what makes a scale major?" in reference to the scales whole and half step pattern, it is then much easier to introduce minor, and scale modes (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian). Bas
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by defroost 16y ago
With the underscores, Wax looks a bit like PyObjC or RubyCocoa. Lua is a fun language, so I will certainly give it a try. I would love to see a Framework in MacRuby, as I think Ruby, as a true Object Oriented language, may be better suited
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by defroost 16y ago
Man, you would think that almost ghoulish imagery in the URL you posted would keep people from buying cigarettes, but I imagine people still buy them in droves nonetheless. I like that at least the Australian government doesn't cave to the
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by defroost 16y ago
All tech companies, companies really have the tendency to become evil after the become successful. Flattening the opposition or anyone perceived as a treat to their business model, really their bottom-line, will get "flattened". This can i
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by defroost 16y ago
Oh my god, if you don't like the way rubber in implemented, either don't use it, or submit some patches to fix areas that you dislike, but give the guy a break.
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by defroost 16y ago
I second that. His awesome quirkiness and creativity are not easily replaced. His Seeing MetaClasses Clearly is one of my favorite Ruby metaprogramming ever.
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by defroost 16y ago
Works perfectly in Safari 5. Excellent job. Beautiful to look at and works great, just like the Apple keyboard itself. The only way it could be better is if the focus (the cursor) is automatically loaded and placed on the first line of the
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by defroost 16y ago
> You could comfortably stuff that in any decent database (SQL Server for example, I'm sure PostgreSQL would work too). You may have noticed that the OP's requirements were: * a REST interface * sharding The costs of SQL Server are un
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by defroost 16y ago
> Force projects to include a good README As much as we would like to believe code can be self-documenting, in most cases it is not. Having no README file can make your project more opaque. I probably shouldn't mention this in these p
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by defroost 16y ago
Why do Microsoft have such a difficult time, to this day, developing a decent web-browser? With their near infinite financial resources, surely it is no accident that IE has so many issues, uses tons of proprietary code, and doesn't support
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by defroost 16y ago
If they did learn anything, it has been a slow process. The <canvas> tag for example, was introduced in Safari 1.3 and has been supported in Firefox since 1.5, Opera since version 9, and in all versions of Chrome. Contrast that wi
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by defroost 16y ago
Yes. http://scri.ch/12c It is not easy to draw, but fun nonetheless.
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by defroost 16y ago
Yours drawing is excellent. With my trackpad or even my mouse it is not easy to control to draw properly. You did an excellent job. Linux rocks.
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by defroost 16y ago
> I'm not holding my breath on Hollywood. If movies have hope, it's from the indy scene doing interesting things on small budgets. Yes, and foreign films from some of the worlds great directors like Pedro Almodovar, Michael Haneke, Clai
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by defroost 16y ago
Who didn't see that coming after the embarrassing fiasco with Anonymous? I've been following this story pretty closely via Salon.com and the excellent series at Ars Technica and it seemed to be only a matter of time for Barr to make an exi
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by defroost 16y ago
This is actually something that I would use. I always need dummy images to use as placeholders for layouts. Sometimes I'll use some of my digital images, but then I'm dealing with 300 DPI 15 megapixel images that need to resized in Photos
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by defroost 16y ago
> It's sort of like trying to explain why one would use a I IV V chord progression, or why a major triad sounds good. That's exactly the point. When people hear a chord progression or see a painting where the subject is placed accordin
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by defroost 16y ago
>I do have a problem with defroost's position, which seems to be that using things like grids and golden ratios are somehow inherently "right" and if any of us don't agree then we just don't understand. That's not my position, and again
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by defroost 16y ago
I don't have the energy now to debate the merits of grid based designs. I was just responding to the guy above who called the OP's use of grid "rubbish" and "tricks". No a grid is not right for every design. > Why not a 3:2 ratio in e
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by defroost 16y ago
Another great read by Brian Ford. I mainly use MRI 1.9, but I have been experimenting with Rubinius of late. And it is getting better and better. Not only is the way Ruby in implemented cool, but the VM upon which languages like Fancy ar

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