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by glhaynes 12y ago
I've come to prefer the look of it compared to Mavericks on my non-retina desktop display, but only slightly; and when I switch back to Mavericks there are things that are nicer about it. But on my retina MacBook display, wow, there&#x
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by glhaynes 12y ago
This comments section has lots of people saying " x was when things got really bad" followed by people saying "actually x was the pinnacle." (And some then following up with "it was actually y when it got bad.&
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by glhaynes 12y ago
4th gen was iPad with Retina Display. Edit: to everybody responding that the 3rd gen ("The new iPad") had a retina display, I was pointing out the marketing name for the 4th gen.
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by glhaynes 12y ago
Perfect, thanks for being more observant than I was!
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by glhaynes 12y ago
Attempted to change my password; tried using Safari's suggested random alphanumeric/hyphenated password; was rejected as invalid. :(
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by glhaynes 12y ago
The core problem is that the article is shitty and has a linkbait title. The headline causes discussion to naturally go to the idea that they're going to "shut down" the service rather than transition the service and its exis
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by glhaynes 12y ago
Apple execs have repeatedly publicly praised the Beats Music service since the acquisition. There's absolutely no way that their plan is to just throw it away.
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by glhaynes 12y ago
I'm not sure I fully agree with the earlier poster, but it's an interesting and useful perspective and I can't see a clear reason for it to be downvoted. Certainly not just because it "bring[s] social justice theory into
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Andrew Kay, founder of Kaypro, dies at 95(utsandiego.com)
52 points by glhaynes 12y ago|6 comments
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by glhaynes 12y ago
I don't think I've ever seen a single thing at anandtech that would qualify as "controversial". I can think of very few other journalistic endeavors for which that's true.
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by glhaynes 12y ago
although the GameBoy CPU really uses a mix of i8080 and z80 instructions, the mnemonics are all z80. I'd love to hear more about this if anybody knows and feels like telling about it...
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by glhaynes 12y ago
"Object-oriented programming is great. It's what's enabled developers to create the vast world of amazing applications available today. But there's an impedance mismatch between OOP and relational databases. That's
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by glhaynes 12y ago
I don't really have an opinion on your question, but I'd point out that the relevant question to your business isn't whether it's reasonable for people to cover their camera, but whether you can convince people it's
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by glhaynes 12y ago
Likewise the Sega Master System used a Z80 as its CPU; later, Sega used it for the Genesis / Mega Drive's sound management processor (plus a Yamaha synthesizer). If you plugged in the Power Base Converter, the Z80 would become the
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by glhaynes 12y ago
WebKit has long been known for having a good set of automated performance tests and has a "zero-tolerance policy for performance regressions": http://www.webkit.org/projects/performance/
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by glhaynes 12y ago
With regard to Objective-C's ability for weirdness? Its dynamic nature could easily lead to really weird/surprising process flow. It seems like lots of developing Obj-C programmers know about method swizzling but I wouldn't n
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by glhaynes 12y ago
The Objective-C community also has a language that allows all sorts of weirdness and also (perhaps in part because of that freedom) has a uniquely pervasive emphasis on convention. Wacky stuff is tolerated and even appreciated in the approp
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by glhaynes 12y ago
Are you sure? My Mac has "Ask websites not to track me" set to off and my iOS devices have "Do Not Track" set to off, too. I don't believe I changed them.
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by glhaynes 12y ago
I wish there were an option to change the speed of the crossfade. The 2.5 second crossfade is nice but it'd be fun to try it at about 0.25 seconds, too.
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by glhaynes 12y ago
You get to make that case to the project lead. :)
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by glhaynes 12y ago
Anybody got a quick explanation for why desktop APIs have such trouble with lots of drawcalls? What is it that Mantle, Metal, etc. do differently that saves so much time? (And how much of that is a problem with just OpenGL vs. how much does
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by glhaynes 12y ago
I'm not sure -- the game runs with a good frame rate in nearly all places (IIRC), so it doesn't seem like they needed the power that'd be freed up by better culling. Maybe they just didn't (prematurely?) optimize there a
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by glhaynes 12y ago
On the user's devices.
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by glhaynes 12y ago
One of those ideas that seems obvious in retrospect. Nice work!
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by glhaynes 12y ago
I don't mean this snarkily: how would you know if a truly stunning game had passed you by? If it'd been out for a long time before you heard about it? That wouldn't seem to account for the possibility of really great stuff
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by glhaynes 12y ago
Fantastic video. Even just the sound of Theseus's operation is fun to hear. "This is a bank of relays: telephone relays." On a tangential note: just the other day I was having a conversation with a friend who felt that &quo
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by glhaynes 12y ago
If the emscriptened code does the right thing, then its output is object code, no more in need of by-hand maintenance than the object code from a compiler, right? Anyway, I'd be interested to see how much faster you are (at comparable
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by glhaynes 13y ago
That's why we trust mathematicians' say-so on the topic. :) (Well, and because they can justify it, of course.)
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by glhaynes 13y ago
UPDATE (Friday 14 March): Maybe they’re reading Pocket Tactics in Cupertino? Andrew Mulholland just wrote in to say that Apple re-reviewed the game and have reversed their decision without Hunted Cow Studios having to make any changes. Com
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by glhaynes 13y ago
But any money you're giving can only be given once.

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