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by glurgh 13y ago
Not to detract anything from Neukirchen's and Karp's perfectly laudable efforts and achievements but the Woz/Jobs comparisons (including those in Marco Arment's recent blog post) are facile and specious. Woz's design was strikingly cheaper
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by glurgh 13y ago
Let's just take that as a given, but Apple's tax status in other countries is not why their CEO gets called to testify before the US Senate - my questions were specifically about that. Not that we're going to get much further in this, thoug
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by glurgh 13y ago
Sure but WAL in SQLite is 3 years old. Wordpress is 10 years old. MySQL with MyISAM is a lot older than that. I personally happen to think almost everything about Wordpress is wrong. It's just hard to blame them they didn't start or subsequ
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by glurgh 13y ago
as far as IRS is concerned, Apple Inc. is barely breaking even therefore is not paying its fair tax share. Is this really true, though? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-23/apple-tax-rate-igno... Among various other points it says A
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by glurgh 13y ago
I think one naive answer is that US citizens living abroad get credits or deductions for local taxes they may have paid. A more general one is that we already accept the idea that corporations and individuals are governed by different tax l
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by glurgh 13y ago
Apple's argument seems to be - They pay taxes in the US on US profits (along with payroll taxes, etc) They pay local taxes on profits earned overseas. Then they gather up those profits in an Irish subsidiary, where they get the most most fa
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by glurgh 13y ago
It's very deep - seems to have something to do with subduction, take a look at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000h4jh#... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadati%E2%80%93Benioff_zone Looks like they can be felt very
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by glurgh 13y ago
OS X's/Cocoa's text handling figures out you're using a character from that range and automatically uses a font that has the emoji characters defined - Apple Color Emoji for that one character. I'm guessing this does or does not show up dep
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by glurgh 13y ago
These are to support emoji symbols in Unicode. There's a lot in there beside pizza - party poppers, wedding chapels, game console controllers, "information desk person" and the ever mysterious "Japanese goblin". PDF chart at http://www.uni
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by glurgh 13y ago
I hope I've completely forgotten any details of the convoluted locking behaviours and tuning options of MyISAM (which, in my head at least, is read as 'miasma') but they were there to at least attempt to support certain types of concurrency
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by glurgh 13y ago
It doesn't seem inconceivable that wearing shoes takes you out of the path of least resistance as compared to some other path, say, the metal-framed shelving you are standing next to. I don't think wearing shoes is any kind of practical way
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by glurgh 13y ago
The trouble is that there are many, many Wordpress sites out there that are not an average Wordpress install. People (disturbingly) write e-commerce sites on top of Wordpress. SQLite is not the right tool for the sort of things Wordpress d
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by glurgh 13y ago
The theoretical answer is because SQLite is not the right tool for the sort of things Wordpress does. SQLite supports more concurrency than one might expect from an embedded db - it's still an embedded db, though. Writing, for instance invo
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by glurgh 13y ago
http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/SQLite-3-7-17-preview-2x... Seems like one where they had trouble was OpenBSD.
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by glurgh 13y ago
It's just a poorly titled mis-link, clicking through describes in more detail why it's not entirely a 'no brainer': http://www.sqlite.org/mmap.html tl;dr is "Improves performance in some cases with certain caveats/risks, is disabled by de
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by glurgh 13y ago
You're right, it's described in 3.5 of http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/compiler.html It seems like it was contemporaneous with the proposed c90 extension and also supported the = except optionally. But it was definitely something in th
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by glurgh 13y ago
That's right, it's a designated initializer, except the standard c99 way requires an =. gcc didn't/doesn't but that's nonstandard. So it is an extension, just not a plan9 one - a gcc-ism. clang's error/warning, as usual, is very helpful so
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by glurgh 13y ago
Your leg is being pulled, a little. Mach-o is the mach object file format, Brian Kernighan's C 'hello world' program is being used as source for, I think, a test. It's checked into the go tree with version history all the way back to its pr
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by glurgh 13y ago
Dude! I was just browsing and upvoted this for the talk of onion-parody-level sense of entitlement and the all-caps reminder the OP is not, in fact, Gavroche. Edited for butchery!
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by glurgh 13y ago
There's a presentation of hers from what looks like last year that describes the hoops she's jumped through to try to get ROM dumps http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/attachments/2097... There are videos of it around, it seems, f
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by glurgh 13y ago
The internet Tesla mythology is indeed unfortunate ('unknown genius' - for a man familiar to every physics student and with an SI unit named after him) and he was certainly an eccentric, self-promoter and not free of obviously misplaced ide
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by glurgh 13y ago
Is it? Gmail reads and uses all mail and this doesn't seem to have generated a great outburst of controversy.
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by glurgh 13y ago
I think it's partially a cultural thing and partially, the fact that one is an editor and the other one a bit closer to a lifestyle choice. Even if you just google them and read the snippets - vim will tell you that it's a vi clone and look
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by glurgh 13y ago
I don't think it's nitpicky at all - it would be different if Skype, Microsoft or anyone else had actually made a promise that messages that pass through their service are unreadable to them. While it's technically possible it's not the nor
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by glurgh 13y ago
Consider the absolutely insane energies involved - the report says "The 40 kg meteoroid measuring 0.3 to 0.4 meters wide hit the Moon traveling 56,000 mph." That's a thing roughly half the size of a fridge. Traveling at a speed of about 25
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by glurgh 13y ago
One thing that jumped out - "Travel restrictions on Soviet private citizens stayed in place, enforced by the Departments of State and Justice, until the Kennedy administration unilaterally lifted them in 1962 as a symbol of the openness of
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by glurgh 13y ago
Lots of nuclear sites, all with very wide swaths of coverage - Hanford, Savannah River, big chunk of New Mexico and surroundings, Nevada. I'm guessing places in Colorado and the Dakotas that a little later became various bits of SAC/NORAD/e
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by glurgh 13y ago
But that's not, strictly speaking, SWA's theory in entirety. SWA's policies and customer service are typically better than those of many of their larger competitors. You might be inclined to take the budget flight you were promised in excha
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by glurgh 13y ago
That seems wildly unlikely given that the thing is an app designed to run on a pricey smartphone.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Hah, you are right. I thought the switch to C++ was in tech5 but nooo. Although there is still a fair bit of straight C in there. Again, link to the relevant Fabien Sanglard architecture review: http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php

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