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by herokusaki 13y ago
Interestingly, this business model incentivizes subscribing to every such website's mailing list you see on the off chance you might need the photos later.
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Does Unity have its equivalent (however immature) of Apache Flex?
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Run ownCloud.
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, which is essentially a stripped down Windows XP SP3, will be supported with security updates until 2019. Realistically, as an individual you can't buy it but as far as I can tell you can use the evalu
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by herokusaki 13y ago
There's a lot to like about Lua, especially when you compare its speed to that of reference Python or Ruby, but the weak typing makes me reluctant to try it for a larger project. I almost wish there was a TypeScript for Lua.
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Ask HN: How viable is F# on Mono for real-life web apps?
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by herokusaki 13y ago
>Exercise, nutrition, and (probably) drugs can slow the decline You seem well acquainted with aging research so I feel it appropriate to ask, what about the role of genetics?
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by herokusaki 13y ago
What you consider in your comment echoes Bertrand Russell's famous essay In Praise of Idleness. Russell, however, goes farther and outright states that >Leisure is essential to civilization [...] http://www.zpub.com/
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Slightly off-topic but why don't more companies have 5 character ticker symbols? They'd probably be easier to recognize.
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Honest question: why is it a slap in the face to developers?
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by herokusaki 13y ago
How does MOAI compare to LÖVE in terms of "batteries", codebase maturity and libraries written by the community ?
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Great idea for an app! I sleep with earplugs occasionally and I can see myself using your app in that situation. That said, I've been wondering lately if using earplugs often is a healthy thing to do in the long run. I couldn't f
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Interesting how so far the comments on this story overwhelmingly agree with the article that it's not worth it to lie. Regardless of how true this point is I have to wonder whether such unanimity in the discussion might be in part beca
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by herokusaki 13y ago
>With VM's hardware support gets less important for some use cases. Speaking of, I wish jail-based FreeBSD VPSs were more widely available and cheaper. Where I've seen them the price is such that their use is hard to justify c
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Is there a HyperCard clone for the mobile?
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by herokusaki 13y ago
If that is the case then why doesn't Python do it? I mean this as a real question; I genuinely don't know.
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by herokusaki 13y ago
In your experience, is Debian less prone to breakage when upgrading from stable to stable than Ubuntu with its release upgrades? I've run Debian but I have never been patient enough to stay with a stable release and find out.
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Great idea! I'm not sure something good would come out of it but another type of news that follows a predictable pattern and could be made machine-readable is celebrity gossip.
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Based on your experience is it stable enough to upgrade to already? Previously some final betas were.
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Posts like this always make me want to play with a layout engine trying to implement various features. Is there a toy layout engine made specifically for (self-) education? I couldn't find one. If there isn't, what is otherwise t
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by herokusaki 13y ago
That office suite looks nice, much like most of Microsoft's web presence. I'm tempted to use it. I can't help but wonder, however, how would you expect Office Online to compare to Google Docs in terms of privacy (including i
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by herokusaki 13y ago
What company is offering that? The offer sounds enticing and I'd like to find out more but you have no link to it here or in your profile.
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Is Dropbox not having a $5/month plan a decision based on storage pricing?
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by herokusaki 13y ago
>Then write the system to keep them in sync. Then add versioning. Are there any ready-to-deploy solutions for this?
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Is this a viable suggestion, though? Correct me if I'm wrong but I imagine that developing the entirety of your video game in Forth for anything but desktop operating systems would mean writing your own tooling and API bindings, if not
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by herokusaki 13y ago
What is a good embeddable Forth for a game?
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Pretty cool. One question comes to mind, though: if I ever want to contribute to FreeDOS or LibreOffice should I refrain from reading this code?
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Have you tried incentivizing yourself with money penalties using, e.g., Beeminder?
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Is there anything wrong in principle with writing about optimising our lives for happiness, integrity, and success?
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by herokusaki 13y ago
Why doesn't the developer's post address the possibility of visualizing the CPU rather than emulating it?

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