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by docmach 17y ago
How is this related to Duff's device?
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by docmach 17y ago
I use SubEthaEdit or TextWrangler depending on what I'm writing. SubEthaEdit has better syntax highlighting for some things, including Go, but TextWrangler acts more like I want it to.
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by docmach 17y ago
I've also been using it for a few months and I tried a restore. What I found out is that the large zip files they create don't work. They warn you about creating zip files over a certain size, but I tried it anyway. I couldn't get it to
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by docmach 17y ago
It is and there is no tax on people who don't have road crossing insurance. It's a risk that you can choose to take. If you choose to not have medical insurance and you can't pay for medical care then you might die, but it should be up to
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by docmach 17y ago
Health insurance is optional. My parents never had health insurance and were always able to pay for medical expenses, even with six kids. I also don't have health insurance and so far I've also had no problems paying for medical care. I
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by docmach 17y ago
How does Coke have the better product? Maybe Coke's dominance is due to choosing the right logo and sticking with it instead of constantly changing their visual identity.
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by docmach 17y ago
How would this work? Spammers aren't going to use a web browser with this feature, so it would only bother real people.
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by docmach 17y ago
How is forcing companies to give services away for free a good idea? What if most people decide that 1Mb is good enough and don't pay for anything? It seems like this is bad for the people who are willing to pay. Where people live has a h
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by docmach 17y ago
Why would icc help more?
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by docmach 17y ago
That is exactly what ZFS does.
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by docmach 17y ago
I don't know if it would be cheaper or not, but since they don't need to be written to they could just use read-only solid state memory instead. I think it could easily more durable and convenient and I'm surprised this hasn't happened yet
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by docmach 17y ago
How writing a compiler not cool? Just because someone uses a book and targets the JVM, which is a great target platform for a lot several reasons, doesn't mean they aren't doing it just because it's fun.
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by docmach 17y ago
I'm pretty sure Sun isn't worried about Backblaze as competition in the enterprise storage market. Building cheap storage boxes is much different than building what Sun provides.
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by docmach 17y ago
Why?
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by docmach 17y ago
That's because Apple provides new API features in new releases of the OS and software developers take advantage of them. It's not that hard to write software that runs on many versions of OS X, but it does limit the features you can take ad
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by docmach 17y ago
Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) offers feature 4.
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by docmach 18y ago
I'm not saying piracy is ok, I'm just saying that piracy is not the same as robbery and that taking credit for something that you didn't create is separate from piracy. The creators should have some control over their creations, but they d
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by docmach 18y ago
The net result is not the same. Revenue may be taken from the creator, but credit is not.
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by docmach 18y ago
Those are very imperative concepts and while imperative programming is good for some things, a language that teaches and allows for higher-level programming is probably a good idea. Languages like Python and Ruby allow functional and objec
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by docmach 18y ago
Being a superset of JavaScript doesn't mean it can do more, it just means that all valid JavaScript is valid Objective-J.
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by docmach 18y ago
I disagree with your assumption that no serious programmer would use camel case. Apple's APIs use it and I don't think I've ever seen any program that uses them without using camel case. I find it very easy to read and prefer it to hyphen
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by docmach 19y ago
What don't you like about their version of Solaris?
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by docmach 19y ago
One problem I have with Lisp is that there are a lot more fanatics than in other languages' communities. They are easily upset by even the mention of other languages and seem to see Lisp as the ultimate language with no room for any others
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by docmach 19y ago
Do you still want to program for the 486 or are you looking to program using a more modern environment? If you are going to program for a modern platform, which one would you like to target? No matter which platform you choose you will pr
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by docmach 19y ago
UTF-8 can represent any Unicode character.