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by hansjorg 13y ago
> public sector incentives are just as bad That's not true. The amount of funds which goes in to this kind of lobbying matters. With a private prison system you get not just the funds from prison worker's unions, but also those
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by hansjorg 13y ago
Canonical has been working on making 3.x default for Ubuntu for a while. From https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/3 > It is a release goal for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to have only Python 3 on the desktop CD images. Also, we won
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by hansjorg 13y ago
My last few Python projects have started out as Python 3, but ended up as 2 due to missing library support. Would it be at all feasible to enable Python 3 to import Python 2 code? I imagine this could be done without making Python 3 fully b
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Transcripts can be found here: http://subtitles.media.ccc.de/
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That article suggests enabling automatic trim with the discard option, but that's not recommended any longer. A more up to date article: http://askubuntu.com/questions/18903/how-to-enable-trim
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They can still be self-hosted, but you're not able to install just by clicking on them. You have to download the crx file and then drag it into the extensions window.
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It's Wikipedia, so you're free to remove it if you think it doesn't belong.
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I recently stumbled upon an excellent, but slightly dark, browser game which explores these kind of themes. You play the role of a military drone pilot going about his everyday menial tasks. Unmanned: http://unmanned.molleindustr
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by hansjorg 13y ago
Wayland is missing the driver support right now. It's also one abstraction down from what game developers should worry about. I imagine Valve are going to focus on SDL. Sam Latinga, the original SDL dev, is employed by them now (was wi
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Except that between the two, only the JVM is truly cross platform, Mono notwithstanding.
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For any one else wondering: >The result of package build functions is cached in the file system, in a special directory called the store (see The Store). Each package is installed in a directory of its own, in the store—by default under
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NOWHERE - Crowdfunding Trailer 2013(youtube.com)
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Why would you place any amount of trust in a closed source privacy solution from a company with a history such as Microsoft's?
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Going from Motorola 68k to x86 with few preconceptions in the nineties was quite a shock after slowly having been convinced that the grass actually was greener. On the x86 side I was surprised to find an unnecessarily cryptic assembly langu
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by hansjorg 13y ago
The Norwegian dictionary is very stable [1], so that shouldn't be the source of your problem. 1: http://språkrådet.no/Politikk-Fakta/Spraakpolitikk/
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Silverlight?
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From what I understand, asm.js is using JavaScript as a kind of portable assembly language which means there is no VM.
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It was way beyond in multimedia capabilities at a point, but that edge was quickly eaten away by the raw power provided by the 486, and later the Pentium, combined with the modular PC architecture. The Motorola 68k-family were beautiful pro
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by hansjorg 13y ago
An interesting article about the Dow Jones Industrial Average by Adam Davidson: Why Do We Still Care About the Dow? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/magazine/dow-jones-problem...
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It isn't: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/03/05/173515767/the-dow-...
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It's just business. Conflict is extremely profitable. Unfortunately, 164 people is a drop in a bucket in an ocean.
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Very cool. Another option for working with shaders directly in the browser is Shadertoy, a kind of jsfiddle for shaders: https://www.shadertoy.com/
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I suspect this might be for political, not technical reasons.
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Does that have ads?
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I wonder how clicking this article, and others like it, gets you tagged with the relevant authorities.
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> What sense could it possibly make? -You have some property and you're letting someone use it for a fee This is the extraordinarily naive libertarian position. Most people would not welcome a brothel as their closest neighbor for e
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by hansjorg 13y ago
Not all PR efforts are aimed at increasing visibility.
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A project which does exactly that: http://www.martiansoftware.com/nailgun/
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That's amazing. It just goes on and on with beautiful plots. About halfway down, there's a section on understanding the Riemann sphere: > From what I can tell, one of the settings used to deal with division by 0 is the so-calle
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by hansjorg 13y ago
Very cool how it's almost instantaneous. The sound is a bit raspy though, especially with many notes playing at once (FF 27 on Linux).

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