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by i80and 13y ago
"Additional platforms" is listed as a stretch goal. Linux might be a big bet in a year or two with SteamOS, but right now, wrangling Unreal 4's third-tier PC OS support is probably not the best time investment for a small st
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by i80and 14y ago
Both, given that programming languages shouldn't be a horse race. They're different languages that fit differing niches: both address concurrency and parallelism at the language level, yes, but at least from my perspective, Rust is oriente
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by i80and 14y ago
Wrong question; they're working on different levels of abstraction. Ninja is designed to be a very fast and lightweight tool for doing work based on a dependency graph: actually knowing how to build anything on its own is an explicit non-g
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by i80and 15y ago
Works fine here: Arch x86_64, Chromium 18.0.1025.142, Radeon 4850 w/ xf86-video-ati.
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by i80and 16y ago
This is the first stable release in the 2.5 line. Yes you could use the new UI before now with pre-releases, but that's been true for a long long time.
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by i80and 16y ago
It's definitely still in use to some extent--anecdotally, my feed still bustles with life. It has always been a rather niche community.
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by i80and 16y ago
I first tried Xfce 4.2 way back in the day: I hated it. Xfce 4.4 came out, and for a long long time I was convinced that it was the best thing since sliced bread. I've since moved on to tiling window managers, but Xfce will always be spec
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by i80and 16y ago
Haiku... has font smoothing? In fact, they just recently activated hinting. Icons are anti-aliased too. I guess I'm unclear on what you're saying.
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by i80and 16y ago
Pre-Atom Eee 900, Linux, Chrome 6, the Flash side is almost unplayably sluggish, while the HTML5 side zips along.
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by i80and 16y ago
There is nothing wrong with this comment. The objections he raises are perfectly valid. Yes, it could have gone dreadfully wrong. In this instance, it didn't, and it is a credit to the engineer's skill that it worked. For many other peo
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by i80and 16y ago
While I find the parent overly optimistic (the day IE9 ships WebM is the day that I take a flight on Hog Airlines), I think this is also missing the point. Hypothetically were IE to ship with WebM support, Apple doesn't have the market shar
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by i80and 16y ago
I just looked through the comments again, and... I can't find anybody who says that stealing is OK. The issue at hand is that the response is often grossly out of proportion and just destructive to both parties.
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by i80and 16y ago
I see "Abortion issues: Pro-life", so that has been accounted for somehow. I would be interested in knowing how it decides which version to show. There does seem to be a bias towards evaluating as true as much as possible in that bullet p
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by i80and 16y ago
It's easy to get a platformer wrong; this is exactly right. The controls are snappy, the gun actually shoots properly, the jumping physics feel satisfying, and the baddies don't just stupidly trawl a preplanned path. Also, the performance
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by i80and 16y ago
Um. Mind-numbingly boring and unnecessary animation; annoying and flat synth voices; nonsensical strawman argument. This video really has it all. Seriously. I dislike fanboys as much as the next guy, and NoSQL is probably overhyped, but
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by i80and 16y ago
Judging an article without reading it is also not Hacker News.
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by i80and 16y ago
Mostly I just took issue with your usage of "scripting language" (which has more to do with a REPL and no discrete compilation step than anything else). The edit clarifies things a bit too; I confess to not following the original iOS app d
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by i80and 16y ago
Is this meant as irony? Java is not by any stretch of the imagination a scripting language (static, bytecode-distributed, etc.), Objective-C is directly translated into C before being compiled, and C#/.NET is probably one of the better thi
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by i80and 16y ago
Bizarre instances of real-world recursion are always relevant.
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by i80and 16y ago
Then, one day, boom--stack overflow. Civilization collapses in a cosmic recursion-induced segfault.
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by i80and 16y ago
Because graphics designers usually are not the target audience. Usability testing outside of a clique isn't always a bad idea.
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by i80and 16y ago
The open drivers support 3D IF you're using R600 or below. Which is a pretty big if. Once the new Gallium3D driver is merged in Mesa 8.0, we'll talk.
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by i80and 16y ago
The problem isn't that they're not inventing stuff; that R&D money isn't just spent on paperclips, and a lot of interesting stuff comes out as a result. The problem is that the inventions get squished, not released.
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by i80and 16y ago
PEP-318 ( http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0318/ ) refers to a decorated functions as a having a decoration . Counter-edit: My response was in jest. I deliberately misinterpreted the term for humorous purposes.
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by i80and 16y ago
On the contrary, it has had decorators since Python 2.4.
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by i80and 16y ago
GNU is an operating system. I believe that you're reaching for the GPL. Also, the EFF is not suing people; gpl-violations.org is. To the best of my knowledge (and Wikipedia's), they aren't associated. Perhaps you could explain the conne
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by i80and 16y ago
It isn't? http://www.scribd.com/doc/31797838/Untitled?secret_password=... Also seems to have a download link.
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by i80and 16y ago
A lot of web-safe fonts get sloppy when large. Smaller fonts, at least in theory, look better at the cost of lower readability. That's what I've been told, anyhow.
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by i80and 16y ago
"Vast majority" and "never" are extremely strong qualifiers. It must be nice living in a world where everything is constant and optimum. Granted, nobody is made to drive an iCar. But every so often, you are probably going to need a real
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by i80and 17y ago
They're interested in compilers because, unfortunately, GCC has never really had any emphasis on Objective-C support. What would be their motivation for restricting down to a single compiler? They had a (silly) reason to lock people into O

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