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by glassx 14y ago
I believe in the case of apt-get it's the responsibility of the Debian project. It's the same with other tools (yum, brew, macports). Rails itself is normally installed via Rubygems (where it's updated directly by the Rails team), but the p
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by glassx 14y ago
Well, it can help OpenGL and other cross-platform frameworks become even stronger. Studios will have more incentive to make games portable from the get-go, instead of relying on Windows/Direct3D. Even mobile, console and OS X users could be
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Could Foxconn's factory in Brazil be a model for Apple production?(news.cnet.com)
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by glassx 15y ago
To be fair, the correct analogy would be that someone (Apple) who makes a third person (contractors) stop beating the wife is more laudable than someone (Nokia) who never had to do it in the first place.
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by glassx 15y ago
Well, yes, it is popular, and yes, it is popular today because Apple uses it, but still, people are using it in projects that don't have much to do with iOS/OS X, such as Web Frameworks (Frothkit, Bombax) and client-side MVC (Cappuccino). I
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by glassx 15y ago
There's Express: http://expressjs.com/ or https://github.com/visionmedia/express
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by glassx 15y ago
SQLAlchemy is "complex" in both #3 and #4, so it wins in #4.
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by glassx 15y ago
> I'm no sound engineer, but as far as I can tell, the main point of that paper is that some instruments produce harmonics at frequencies greater than 20kHz, not that these frequencies matter to humans. However, section X references oth
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by glassx 15y ago
> And when your oscillator is no longer one-dimensional, most harmonics aren't even close to integer multiples. The harmonics of bells, cymbals and drums are all over the place. That's what gives them their percussive sound. But those a
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by glassx 15y ago
> Harmonics are never exactly double, triple the fundamental. Those would be mostly inaudible. But you get the idea. Actually, they are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonics
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by glassx 15y ago
> Having said all that, I'd guess that the speakers will be the limiting factor in most sound systems, not the recording format. Yes. And DACs, which normally have filters too.
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by glassx 15y ago
> They don't want to talk about their "China problem" What else do you want Apple to say? It is common knowledge that they outsource manufacturing overseas, and it's common knowledge that they do it simply to maximize profits, however,
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by glassx 15y ago
You comment is correct, despite the downvotes. The hypermedia isn't there so AI or spiders can navigate, it is there to reduce coupling. -- A Rant follows. Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on the subject so feel free to correct me or anything.
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by glassx 15y ago
...or UAC on Windows Vista/Seven.
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by glassx 15y ago
Sorry, but you're being extremely biased here. Mistaking assertiveness for arrogance can happen with any outsider in a certain field. It's not related to gender at all, and your example doesn't even argue for it. The project leader could pe
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by glassx 15y ago
Maybe AtomPub? It respects HTTP methods, uses URIs to represent resources correctly, uses <links> to be discoverable (hypermedia), is self-descriptive, is stateful... It uses Atom/XML instead of JSON, but still... (but please correc
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by glassx 15y ago
Same here. I really like Sinatra's gem ecosystem, and with unobtrusive Javascript I don't have much framework-dependent code on the views, nor helpers like his link_to confirm example, in the presentation... I admit that sometimes I miss ge
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by glassx 15y ago
This one is an extreme case, but I agree with you. I live in Belo Horizonte, another large brazilian metropolis 580 kilometers away from Sao Paulo, and all the cabling is underground in the whole downtown area. And it's not just the looks,
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by glassx 15y ago
I don't know... Charging royalties would be a PR disaster that would cost much more than the licensing in the long term, and if the incentive for charging isn't financial, then it means don't really want other browsers to have Safari-compat
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by glassx 15y ago
You missed the point and should have kept reading. The author is arguing that even though there's prior art for most of those things, and some of those are just too archetipal today, the SII would be radically different without the iPhone,
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by glassx 15y ago
In an article [1] from a brazilian website, the "classification director" of the brazilian Ministry of Justice said in the video that "Apple sent representatives but backed off", due to "technical problems when embedding the [classification
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by glassx 15y ago
Your reply reminds me of Zed Shaw's presentation 'The ACL is dead'. Basically he said that if the law rules that you have to handle are turing complete, you're probably better off with a turing complete language: http://news.ycombinator.co
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by glassx 15y ago
The Apple II was released in 1977, and it was popular until it was killed in the eighties. Same with Amiga, Commodore, Atari, etc. And why was the company ignored by major titles later? Well, the company was a mess, and I could argue that A
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by glassx 15y ago
Here's what I see when I tell my browser to pretend it's an iPhone: http://imgur.com/QVpwz
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by glassx 15y ago
"Witness the disaster of Final Cut Pro X" But they responded to that by putting Final Cut Pro 7 back on the market. Sounds like they care a lot... Hanlon Razor makes sense here.
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by glassx 15y ago
Yeah, they also use it to sell OS X now...
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by glassx 15y ago
You and the other reply missed the part where even the iOS AppStore doesn't make as much money to warrant them running a whole ecosystem and shutting off musicians/producers/video editors/developers/hackers/enterprise users/people using Jav
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by glassx 15y ago
Except they repeatedly said they're just above cut-even on the iOS AppStore. It's strongly doubtful that they'd do something like that purely for financial reasons. I don't think they are that dumb, of course they know they would lose custo
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by glassx 15y ago
Actually, the real question is: what would Apple gain from killing 90% of the app ecosystem? There are some apps that can't be really sandboxed (Little Snitch, virtualization tools), some apps you can't sell on the AppStore (video/audio/pho
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by glassx 15y ago
By selling Kindles, Amazon can secure their place in the ebook market. Without it they'd be just another player. And they probably get better margins on ebooks, since distribution (bandwidth) is cheap.

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