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by earcar 16y ago
Hilarious "Translation From Apple’s Unique Dialect of PR-Speak to English" by John Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/translation_iphone_4
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by earcar 16y ago
I agree, but I think that most problems have to be from the real world to keep non-geek kids interested. This method is actually being experimented by a math teacher named Dan Meyer. Here it's his TED talk http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meye
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by earcar 16y ago
I think we are getting to (what I think is) the point: You will be recognized only if your work excites your users so much.
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by earcar 16y ago
Official press release from Apple https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/06/07safari.html
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by earcar 16y ago
This press release seems believable, so I think it's a kind of PR failure and it will be out soon. But I'll stick with https://www.apple.com/pr/ for the official word.
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by earcar 16y ago
It's actually based on already existing open standards, see http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/06/apple-...
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by earcar 16y ago
I don't think that people who use ad-blockers will hurt profit so much, because people like that are probably geeks and they generally don't pay attention to ads unless they are really interested in their content. So if your audience is gee
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by earcar 16y ago
I'm sorry I haven't noticed. But I do have noticed http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1387630 because it points to the page I was posting, the homepage. Too bad it hasn't became very popular
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Smokescreen - a Flash player written in Javascript and HTML5 (smokescreen.us)
177 points by earcar 16y ago|63 comments
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Google, please add NumPy to App Engine(code.google.com)
32 points by earcar 16y ago|4 comments
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by earcar 16y ago
I agree, I don't see it either. The whole point of my previous comment was to show that OS X ships with so many things that you don't have to install anything to start programming in PHP, Python or Ruby. "Until you have to compile something
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by earcar 16y ago
You don't even have to grab MAMP or Xcode, since Apache, PHP, Ruby, Python, emacs and vim come preinstalled with OS X. So you just have to get the database server. Until you have to compile something.
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Clang++ Builds Boost(blog.llvm.org)
165 points by earcar 16y ago|5 comments
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by earcar 16y ago
It depends on how aggressively you optimize. In the worst case scenario (the compiler just copies the code that the interpreter would run) you end up with the same performance as the interpreter.
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by earcar 16y ago
Just updated rvm and can confirm 1.0.0 it's there.
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by earcar 16y ago
Off the top of my head: internals, neat optimization tricks, updates on development, how to hack.
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Keeping 1000 devs focused: new Debian leader speaks(itwire.com)
3 points by earcar 16y ago|1 comments
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by earcar 16y ago
What about Komodo Edit? http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/
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Debian Project elects Stefano Zacchiroli as next Project Leader(debian.org)
2 points by earcar 16y ago|0 comments
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Maximum Compression: File compressors benchmarks and comparisons(maximumcompression.com)
1 points by earcar 16y ago|0 comments
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by earcar 17y ago
The iPad now has a screen rotation lock switch.
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by earcar 17y ago
The normal page is still there: http://www.kernel.org/index-normal.shtml Or click "Normalize Page".
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by earcar 17y ago
It's interesting how two identical comments are at the top and the bottom at the same time.