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by dottrap 9y ago
Lua was successful for good reasons. And Lua itself acknowledged Tcl, but didn't have the right trade offs for them. "In 1993, the only real contender was Tcl, which had been explicitly designed to be embedded into applications. H
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Apple Supplier Foxconn Confirms Plans to Build TV Display Factory in Wisconsin(macrumors.com)
1 points by dottrap 9y ago|0 comments
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Eurogamer hates it too: "Unity ports run much worse than older emulation, even on high-end devices" http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-21-sega-releases-c...
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by dottrap 9y ago
This needs to be paired with Scientific American: It's time to end the war on salt https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-t...
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by dottrap 9y ago
Here's another one if you don't already have it. Numb3rs shows Objective-C/UIKit code (UITableViewCell and NSArray *crayon) https://mtgap.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/objective-c-reference...
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by dottrap 9y ago
The TV show NCIS borrows from this philosophy. Gibbs always smacks the back of his underling's heads when they do something stupid. But if he doesn't, they worry he has given up on them. They also made it a point saying that smack
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by dottrap 9y ago
Even more odd is that San Jose is a larger city than San Francisco.
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by dottrap 10y ago
Judge Judy was a New York judge from 1982–1996, starting as a criminal court judge and then promoted to supervising family court judge in Manhattan, until her retirement (followed by tv show).
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by dottrap 10y ago
Most likely the data was wrong. The credit report industry has a 20% error rate. See the old 60 Minutes investigation on this. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/40-million-mistakes-is-your-cred...
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by dottrap 10y ago
Interesting that Apple was that much of their revenue. Reminds me a little of PortalPlayer from the iPod days, though it was much more dependent on Apple (90% of its revenue). But I remember the rumor mill echoed Apple was unhappy with them
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by dottrap 10y ago
Is the code in gravity_calculate_acceleration correct? I think 'j' will always be 0 in the inner-loop, which seems to defeat the purpose of having a j variable. void gravity_calculate_acceleration(int n_particles, double m[]
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by dottrap 10y ago
I'm surprised Intel made this bold claim so late. When I was in college in the late 90's, my computer architecture prof said the physics problems get really hard starting around 4 to 8 Ghz. He said it as it was common knowledge in
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by dottrap 10y ago
Tim Cook has performed well for share holders. He has led Apple to record shattering profits, huge cash surpluses, and even in years like this where they came in under target, they still dominated in profits relative to their peers. For sha
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by dottrap 10y ago
> he's not a tech guy Well, he kind of is, but not in a way that appeals to most tech geek crowds. He has a degree in Industrial Engineering which (defined by Wikipedia): "work to eliminate waste of time, money, materials, man-
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Los Angeles will be home to George Lucas' $1B museum(latimes.com)
3 points by dottrap 10y ago|0 comments
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by dottrap 10y ago
Lattner joined Apple in 2005. That's even longer than 5 years.
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10 Years Ago Today: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone(macrumors.com)
1 points by dottrap 10y ago|0 comments
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by dottrap 10y ago
I wonder, if you could train on just Disney movie scripts, would King – man + woman = Princess? Or maybe: King – man + woman = villain? (because of characters like Cruella, Maleficent, Ursula, etc.)
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by dottrap 10y ago
But something did change, at least where I went. When I was a kid, I remember the ball effortlessly glided off the launch ramp into the air for the holes. Sometimes I would roll as hard as I could just to see how high it would go (into the
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Lua historical source code converted to Git
4 points by dottrap 10y ago|1 comments
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by dottrap 10y ago
>> read the standard >> Casey Muratori, who's a better C programmer than me, is of the opinion that you should check your compiler's behavior rather than read standards. In Casey Muratori's case, he's the typ
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by dottrap 10y ago
Also, "PC" was never a specific company. You could infer things like Microsoft or Dell or HP or whatever, but they avoided specifically naming a company.
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by dottrap 10y ago
And in addition, why should Disney pay (especially at a premium) for what they are getting for free?
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by dottrap 10y ago
>>>Few years ago that was phones, > ObjC and Java To defend the parent's point, Objective-C is a pure superset of C. And there are quite a few frameworks on the Apple platforms that are pure C (not Obj-C), e.g. CoreGraphics
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by dottrap 10y ago
>> I've never owned a phone with more than 2GB of RAM and I'm not sure what I'm missing out on. > It's Linux under the hood which will always make use of more memory, Linux won't really be the beneficiary o
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by dottrap 10y ago
Sledge Hammer! 2 seasons. Ran against Cosby as the sacrificial lamb.
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by dottrap 10y ago
ALF was moved from Monday to Saturday and the ratings crashed. The show ended on the cliffhanger where ALF is caught by the military. Everybody assumed the show would be renewed, but it was cancelled. NBC exec Brandon Tartikoff later regret
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by dottrap 10y ago
Nope, not an urban legend. This is really happening. Just last week a home with 5 children was wrongly raided: http://www.denverpost.com/2016/09/14/swat-officers-raid-home... Wrong house with Grandmother and
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by dottrap 10y ago
I'm not sure if they are context-free, but talks about Parseable Expression Grammars, specifically Lua's LPeg, implies they might be. Conceptually, PEGs are to Context Free Grammars as RegEx is to Regular Expressions. You can find
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by dottrap 10y ago
Do you know how the popular ARM based chips fare in comparison?

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