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by dubya 15y ago
I don't understand the Brazil part. It sounds like Apple just didn't want to go through the certification process for every iOS game. Do Android games somehow avoid the process? Or do only paid games have to be certified?
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by dubya 15y ago
It sounds like it hurts fishing expeditions. They can always get a warrant and hide a tiny video recorder somewhere pointed at the screen, or install a key logger to capture the password (maybe not on a notebook?), or work with the *-baron
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by dubya 15y ago
I don't know if it killed Safari or not, but after a couple of minutes of the beach ball I killed it.
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by dubya 15y ago
On my unibody MacBook, Flash can peg the CPU pretty easily if I'm not running FlashBlock. It may be more that I leave many tabs open. I used to just use Chrome when I really needed to see a Flash-heavy site, but recent releases have much
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by dubya 15y ago
Sort of, depending on what you mean by random. The article seems to imply the uniform distribution on all 52! orders, which 7 shuffles won't get you. For example, you can't reverse a deck with 7 shuffles. There are bets you can put on a
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by dubya 15y ago
Interesting, but this part is pretty weasily: "...told by parents and teachers that intelligent people didn't use drugs. Turns out, the adults _may_ have been wrong." As an unqualified statement, it is definitely wrong, and was demonstra
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by dubya 15y ago
CR definitely does have an affect on the market for some things, but maybe not such a large effect for phones and computers. Try ordering their top-pick refrigerator or washing machine about a month after the review comes out to see.
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by dubya 15y ago
OTOH, if you do need to write your own code, you could use the existing test suites to make it a lot easier. I think the GPL would allow this.
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by dubya 15y ago
Replying to myself :( The mode was called PC relative addressing, and resulted in smaller, faster code on the 68000, but things had to be written in 32k chunks. I seem to recall that it was required for the original Macintosh before they
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by dubya 15y ago
"Pearls of functional algorithm design" by Richard Bird is a fabulous book along these lines. It's not exactly light reading, but the chapters are short, and some of the results are surprising, like the faster implementation of nub (unique
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by dubya 15y ago
The enormity of 64-bit pointers is something Don Knuth has complained about because it wastes a lot of memory for programs that don't need that much address space. And it actually matters for some of the stuff he writes. The old Motorola
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by dubya 15y ago
I use Java only when I have to, like helping students with projects, or sometimes a quick visualization in Processing. So my disclaimer is that I'm not super familiar with the language. The other day I was reading triangle mesh data into P
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by dubya 15y ago
There's been an attempt to measure paper quality using the "impact factor", but as with seemingly every measure, it's led to shenanigans. Some publishers encourage authors to cite papers from their journals, and some editors write survey p
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by dubya 15y ago
My biggest annoyance with Go is that Google, a search company, gave their language a completely un-Google-able name. I'm pretty sure the term "Go" invokes special handling.
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by dubya 15y ago
I don't hate Bill Gates though I'm no fan of MS of the 1990s, and I thought that the PC industry was a lot more interesting before Windows took off. I am though really uncomfortable with the fact that his massive funds are totally warping
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by dubya 15y ago
Well, if you multiply by zero it's undefined... (this is nothing to do with Linus or the quote)
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by dubya 15y ago
I'm a bit wary of this, but it really does seem like a decent model for most things in the App store. It's pretty clear there needs to be some exception mechanism, since Xcode and Lion won't run in a sandbox, but there were already restric
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by dubya 15y ago
This is pretty off-topic, but is there some secret google setting that makes scrolling on a touchpad scroll instead of zooming? I'm sort of resigned to it in maps, but this thing has it too.
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by dubya 15y ago
The planned obsolescence part of the argument makes sense but is applicable to pretty much every aspect of the economy. The market segmentation doesn't at all. GM with its enormous array of options looks a lot more like modern Dell than l
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by dubya 15y ago
Or maybe he just wasn't comfortable talking about these things with his biographer. Reflection on one's life can be an internal process; it doesn't have to look like an episode of Oprah.
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by dubya 15y ago
This is nice, except the grey navigation box obscures part of the image (Is that a komodo dragon?)
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by dubya 15y ago
Client-side encryption or a self-hosted version could be useful. I'm pretty sure I'm violating a privacy law somewhere when I keep student grades in a Dropbox folder.
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by dubya 15y ago
Yep, WebGL is enabled. I don't get the unsupported browser message, just the same spinning circle that the other browsers have, except this one doesn't go away.
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by dubya 15y ago
Nice (in Chrome and Firefox)! Any idea why this doesn't work in Safari? I just get a spinning circle.
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by dubya 15y ago
What is Reshaper in slide 35? Google suggests ReSharper, which seems more likely, since searching just for reshaper finds a pretty goofy product.