fierarul

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1. 931.▲
   by fierarul 17y ago

   >Full disclosure; I'd like the iPad and it's ilk to die in a fire. Define ilk: all "tablets", all Apple products or all Apple touch-based gadgets. Because the iPad doesn't really have "an ilk" in my book.
2. 932.▲
   by fierarul 17y ago

   The nexus one should do better when it goes outside US.
3. 933.▲
   by fierarul 17y ago

   Still doesn't work for me.
4. 934.▲
   by fierarul 17y ago

   Kinda low quality and generic.
5. 935.▲
   by fierarul 17y ago

   Or just flag the link since it doesn't work.
6. 936.▲
   by fierarul 17y ago

   World government ?
7. 937.▲
   by fierarul 17y ago

   I was surprised the javascript code ran so fast it could change the lighting in what seemed real-time to me. I didn't expect to see video scripting inside a browser.
8. 938.▲
   by fierarul 17y ago

   I don't know any statistics but I would say that the number 1 problem here is Windows and the almost-mandatory need for an antivirus they are trying to enforce. So on one hand you have a widely-used but broken product (Windows) that needs a
9. 939.▲
   by fierarul 17y ago

   One of the few comment where I laughed in real-life. So, LOL :-)
10. 940.▲
    by fierarul 17y ago

    Interesting factoid ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieserl_Einstein )
11. 941.▲
    by fierarul 17y ago

    I have doubts that the guy would manage to single-handedly publish any piece of legislation. So while there is some economical talk, it's actually more towards a political fund gathering talk.
12. 942.▲
    by fierarul 17y ago

    I find it surprising that we have discussions about this in the public. To speak about ripples back in time in a non-SCI-FI context is a bit surreal. Although perhaps science is the new boogie-man. It's no longer the gods tearing down somet
13. 943.▲
    by fierarul 17y ago

    This looks kinda wrong to me: the "wiki" is on google sites. Not on google code as the rest of these kind of technical wikis are (ie. GWT, Android). Also, they use yahoo groups. Just seems odd somehow.
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    by fierarul 17y ago

    Absolutely no relation to Google so most likely their data is bogus.
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    by fierarul 17y ago

    I'm thinking about giving this a try too. What I would suggest is to get a desktop for this. Otherwise there will always be a blurry line if the laptop is always at hand when you are home.
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    by fierarul 17y ago

    Strangely I've started off computer usage by having a fear of breaking hardware and no fear of breaking software. I assume this is because I've always though I can "undo" software changes, but hardware was expensive and you couldn't "undo"
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    by fierarul 17y ago

    Still waiting for a proper AdBlock on Chrome/Mac (ie. one that doesn't just hide the ads) and I'll switch. "GWT developer plugin" for Chrome/Mac would also be nice although it's not that essential.
18. 948.▲
    by fierarul 17y ago

    >Your backup might fail if your computer's name contains apostrophes (which is default in Mac OS X). How hard could it be to fix this ? It looks like a sloppy script, not sure one should rely their backups on this.
19. 949.▲
    by fierarul 17y ago

    Because parents put much more pressure on the first born.
20. 950.▲
    by fierarul 17y ago

    Except that you are kinda forced to pay for the iPhone developer portal unless you want to jailbreak your iPhone since you need those certificates and provisioning profiles. But to develop for the Mac you just sign up for free and download
21. 951.▲
    by fierarul 17y ago

    So I guess Google's style of code-reviewing every commit should keep them safe from this...
22. 952.▲
    by fierarul 17y ago

    I would have also liked to see a fallback on soft rendering in that demo app (and the FPS number). But it would have most likely crashed the system if they would have started the app while the GPU was removed physically.
23. 953.▲
    by fierarul 17y ago

    The iPad isn't even launched and it's already doomed? Yeah right... it will sell like crazy.
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    by fierarul 17y ago

    >The survey, conducted by German IT industry lobby group BITKOM.
25. 955.▲
    by fierarul 17y ago

    Yeah, good luck getting that into fonts.
26. 956.▲
    by fierarul 17y ago

    Unsurprisingly, OSX or Linux and the old Plan9 text editor.
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    by fierarul 17y ago

    >(I have no horse in this race; living in Europe, the idea of a visa seems a bit anachronistic, really.) Heh, there are still people in EU countries (Romania, Bulgaria the least) that need visas to work in another EU country. So it's no
28. 958.▲
    by fierarul 17y ago

    Yes, but which great medium sized function app could we point people to ? So, on one side of the spectrum you have functional factorial and then towards the middle you have Emacs, and on the other side you have (arguably) Google with map-re
29. 959.▲
    by fierarul 17y ago

    I don't actually see why Google even bothered opening office in Italy. Italy is part of the EU so they could easily use their Ireland office for invoicing and everything else inside the EU. Just as I don't think they have official offices i
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    by fierarul 17y ago

    The best link in the whole article is actually this one from the comments: http://sroucheray.org/blog/2009/11/array-sort-should-not-be-... which discusses the javascript array sort.