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by dottrap 14y ago
Add Pong jokes below.
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by dottrap 14y ago
The other Microsoft number we all want to know: How much time has Steve Ballmer spent actually using Windows 8 desktop.
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by dottrap 14y ago
Yes. No/don't care. Hire expensive lawyers and accountants.
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by dottrap 14y ago
Meanwhile as Android continues to gain marketshare and developers, more and more Java developers will have to ignore Java 7 and Java 8 features, to maximize chances of code reuse since Android is indefinitely stuck on Java 6.
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by dottrap 14y ago
Not disputing understaffed possibly being true, and not arguing with you guys, but it's a poor excuse for Microsoft being one of the richest, most powerful companies in the world, while willing and continuing to lose billions on things like
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by dottrap 14y ago
I would argue Steve Jobs is a "hacker" more than most people here. He knew how to add circuits to modify games when he worked at Atari. Most people here can't do that, let alone design and ship a classic game like Breakout. http://classicg
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by dottrap 14y ago
Not sure if still the case, but SourceForge required you to select/declare a license from a list when you created a repository.
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by dottrap 14y ago
If they are good, yes I want to hire them regardless of age. Experience is a valuable asset as well.
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by dottrap 14y ago
After years of being the butt of jokes about 'Start'-ing your computer to shut it off, Microsoft wanted to vindicate its decision by showing it is indeed possible to do something even dumber.
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by dottrap 14y ago
This is a great list. Little surprised Space Quest didn't make the cut.
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by dottrap 14y ago
Huh? So 2/3 of pre-selected "Creative People" (not defined) effectively said no. What does that mean about the other 1/3? And what about "Non-Creative People"? Maybe 2/3 of productive people also don't have time and would say no? Assume not
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by dottrap 14y ago
Alternatively, you can look at using X.509 certificates. Most of the major and commercial dedicated email clients support this (even the one on iPhone). Though you are SOL if you use GMail's web browser interface. You may need to pay for ce
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by dottrap 14y ago
Many people work in office settings with co-workers sometimes looking at their screen (Pair programming, getting help.) Masking passwords by default is a good thing. Also, don't forget sight-impaired accessibility features. OS features like
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by dottrap 14y ago
LuaJIT is being used in various commercial games. You may not see that real world code, but it is out there. Watch the YouTube video of the Wikipedia presentation linked elsewhere in this discussion. From the video, they picked Lua also bec
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by dottrap 14y ago
Ironic title. The parallels people are trying to draw are not from Apple, but from NeXT. But Canonical would be wise to notice that even NeXT found specific markets to target to become profitable.
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by dottrap 14y ago
Lua IS a register based machine. The white paper done by the Lua authors is the reason most of the industry has moved to register based machines. (Apple SquirrelFish for Safari was the first to read it and implement it and everybody followe
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by dottrap 14y ago
71. Become a graphic design company and dominate your niche the way Sun and Silicon Graphics do. Er, that worked out great for those two.
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by dottrap 14y ago
Or get a Mac. No need to install 3rd party software. Built in Preview and PDFKit handle PDF needs. Run Safari with the iPad User Agent string and most websites figure out what to do without Flash. Java can still be a stumbling block.
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by dottrap 14y ago
Again... (2004) http://www.filmbuffonline.com/News/2003-2004/DisneyClosesStu...
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by dottrap 14y ago
Sounds reasonable. And with that, it's hard to extrapolate useful and fair conclusions. Since Humble Bundle purchases can't work towards iOS unlike Android, that ignores a huge market segment.
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by dottrap 14y ago
Too much cherry picking and revisionist history in this article. Some examples: Google Desktop: You sure it wasn't Apple who asked that question way back in 2004 and introduced Spotlight in OS X 10.4, way before Google Desktop? Smart People
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by dottrap 14y ago
The limits reached are very real. The technical problems are quite fundamental and serious, but possibly fixable. But the political problems make it impossible to solve these technical ones. See Chandler Carruth's talk "Clang: Defending C++
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by dottrap 14y ago
No. I am an Apple dev. At least publicly, this never happened. But Intel did have a presence at WWDC when the Intel switch announcement was made. Intel was trying to sell developers licenses to the Intel compiler (as they should).
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by dottrap 14y ago
Sad. They didn't do their homework. They basically had the exact same requirements of the commercial video game industry which uses C/C++ and Lua to solve this problem. Lua had already long asserted its dominance by 2006 so it wasn't a secr
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by dottrap 14y ago
This date format is great for sorting. No need to chop up strings or break into components.
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by dottrap 14y ago
Did not like them. Opened up free checking with them. A year later, they started high fees for small balances per month. Nickel and dimed me for every little thing too. Went to HSBC. Had problems with them (clerical BS). Don't really like t
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by dottrap 14y ago
Here's more ammo from Linus (2010). He explicitly articulates that communication is the most important thing and that C is "a largely context-free language" which is a huge boon for large projects like the kernel. http://www.realworldtech.
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by dottrap 14y ago
However, having two brands confuses consumers. Doesn't hold true. "Microsoft" had no problems with users being confused by "Windows". People went out of their way to make sure to buy PCs installed with Windows from Dell, HP, etc.
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by dottrap 14y ago
Terrible idea. Nowhere does this explain how Apple would profit from such an acquisition. Apple doesn't know anything about games. They would have to rely on Nintendo to figure that out, but Nintendo is losing lots of money right now so Nin
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by dottrap 14y ago
Trey and Matt, please oh please do an encore to "Jackin' It in San Diego" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbSJET3DiX8 Don't forget the fireworks debacle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvulaROLsfg

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