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by huxley 13y ago
Close, but not exactly, Andrew Godwin, the creator of South, has added support for migrations into the dev branch of Django, to be part of the Django 1.7 release. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/m
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by huxley 13y ago
Not comparable, I would say that a computer is a broader term than telephone. Nowadays, telephony is just another application not a device, so an iPhone is a computer that does telephony as one of its primary tasks and your desktop is a com
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by huxley 13y ago
And it isn't impossible to write code: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/codea/id439571171?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/python-programming-language/...
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by huxley 13y ago
Not meaningless, the term has become broader.
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by huxley 13y ago
You might be interested in reading about The Iron Law of Oligarchy (an influential "social law" that was proposed in 1911 by Robert Michels) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy It is a pretty d
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by huxley 13y ago
I think that's pretty much out of date, as far as I can find only a total 17 million Commodore 64s were ever sold (even the most unrealistic estimates put it at 30 million), Apple sells about 15 million iPads per quarter, with models
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by huxley 13y ago
On a positive note, Safari 7.0.1 does better, it seems to only lack session ticket support (rating is "Your SSL client is Improvable")
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by huxley 13y ago
One thing I noticed was that the article incorrectly claims that the RCA COSMAC CDP 1802 was used in Voyager and Viking missions, but it wasn't used until Galileo
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by huxley 13y ago
I can't imagine the Big Six publishers are eager to cross Amazon after the last run-in with the DoJ
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I read it as saying that, after optimizing the DCT (lossy) compression as much as he could, he focused on the Huffman (lossless) encoding phase which gave him further optimization opportunities.
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by huxley 13y ago
You're probably thinking of Stac Electronics v Microsoft Corporation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics#Microsoft_laws...
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by huxley 13y ago
Pypy has a (currently, software) transactional memory branch that is trying to remove the python GIL without changing the semantics http://pypy.org/tmdonate.html (has the best executive summary of what the branch intends to
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by huxley 13y ago
The menu patent is for translucent menus "large, lower rectangle that conveys the impression of a translucent/transparent surface"
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by huxley 13y ago
Not in the movie, in the book ('Make Room! Make Room!') by Harry Harrison which inspired the movie
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by huxley 13y ago
Did Google open source Google Play Services when I wasn't looking?
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by huxley 13y ago
You may want to look instead at six which let's you write code that works with both py2 and py3: http://pythonhosted.org/six/
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by huxley 13y ago
That shortfall was predicted by one analyst and it never occurred: http://www.mondaynote.com/2013/12/15/shameless-carriers/ http://www.verizon.com/investor/secfiling.htm
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by huxley 13y ago
You can relive the memories by reading the 1993 NY Times review: http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/18/business/the-executive-com...
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by huxley 13y ago
Depends on the age, I grew up with lots of poor kids that thought they'd be able to live their dreams, then had reality harshly shoved in their faces. My family was temporarily poor, we had resources that few of my friends had. Both of
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by huxley 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman If you don't include Samsung, then you are ignoring the Android market leader.
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> Does it say anything about the state of a technology when the design becomes a purchasing factor in addition to just the functionality? That it's become mainstream like an automobile? Or a house?
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by huxley 13y ago
Global Issues has an interesting article with some good linked resources on how much money is spent and by whom. http://www.globalissues.org/article/74/the-arms-trade-is-big...
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by huxley 13y ago
> Is it just me or something gives me the creeps about running an OS off an external drive... The parent was talking about having your assets on externals if you had high storage requirements, the OS can live perfectly fine with any numb
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by huxley 13y ago
Back in 1995, Toy Story was rendered with a server farm of 87 dual-processor 100MHz SPARCStations w/ 192MB of RAM and 30 quad-processor 100MHz SPARCStations w/ 384MB RAM. I used to do professional digital video editing on Media 10
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by huxley 13y ago
I seem to recall that Kantar does consumer surveys to generate their marketshare estimate, so it wouldn't be a direct measure of sales and there might be distortions depending on their methodology.
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by huxley 13y ago
Nokia has done a great job of building marketshare on the back of extremely-low-margin phones like the 52x series, but I would hesitate to declare it a victory for Microsoft/Nokia just yet, it might just be a dead-cat bounce.
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by huxley 13y ago
Will no one learn the lesson of the Palm Pre Creepy Woman ads? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3OfYkJbyLw
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I know you don't think Apple invented it but ... Brad Cox and Tom Love did, their company Productivity Products International (PPI) developed Objective-C way back in the early 1980s. PPI became Stepstone, their biggest customer NeXT li
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When I bought mine similarly decked out (with a GCC PLP printer) the computer sales guy asked me "What are you doing with that much RAM? CAD for NASA?" We kept it for 9 years but it developed a quirk where the monitor wouldn'
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by huxley 13y ago
That's an interesting coincidence since the "translator" Gary Gagliardi doesn't either. His theories of translation are quite unique. From an interview ( http://www.sonshi.com/gagliardi.html ) that was d

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