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by ekr 13y ago
I don't see what's the point of including hardware details into the W3C/HTML5/Javscript Specification. And secondly, the demo said my old T7300 dual core would have 3 core.
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by ekr 13y ago
99% of the time no music. When there is music, it's post-rock: If These Trees Could Talk Explosions in The Sky Mooncake Caspian
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by ekr 13y ago
Even with its new design, I find it surprisingly primitive. I don't have an account, but if i try to watch a set from some user as a slideshow, I have no option to scale the picture to my screen size (or at least no obvious way of doing it)
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by ekr 13y ago
In case this doesn't get deleted, here's a Bill Gates quotation: "A few billion people would have to die if we hadn't come up with fertilizer." Not just in this case but he's confusing the cause and effect. The last century's rise in human
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by ekr 13y ago
It has some kind of anti-spam bots (and other uses). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots
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by ekr 13y ago
The article is about an upgrade to the Freetype library, more specifically to the CFF rasterizer. It has nothing to do with TrueType fonts (most of them, probably). I've been using Arch Linux as my only OS for more than 5 years, and the onl
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by ekr 14y ago
In fact I don't think his conclusion is sound. If you're into algorithmic competitions you most likely don't need to change the language. If you devise a solution with a good enough complexity, the competition (if well designed) should allo
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by ekr 14y ago
Cars shouldn't be allowed inside cities at all, for obvious reasons (air polution, noise polution, overall well-being of all citizens). And secondly internal combustion engine is an inventian appropriate for 20th century, certainly not for
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by ekr 14y ago
This is one of the best pieces of writing in English I have ever read. While it doesn't completely qualify as a self-help book (it discusses mainly the philosophy of life), it is miles ahead anything available today.