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by inklesspen 17y ago
Sure. Plenty of people thought of it earlier. Just not in the West. In China, they used wooden movable type as early as 1040 CE. Shortly thereafter, they developed ceramic movable type. In 1234, Korea developed metal type through a variant
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by inklesspen 17y ago
At its most basic, you need a couple of alphabets worth of letters and a rack to set them on. These can be carved out of wood -- they'll need replacing fairly often, but if you get a couple of apprentices to carve out more, you can get a de
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by inklesspen 17y ago
Like you, I'm concerned for the future of Cappuccino. I realize that 280 North has to make rent somehow, but dividing the platform into a free software component and a commercial proprietary component necessarily gives them incentive to foc
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by inklesspen 17y ago
You are aware that Algol predates C, yes? This would make it hard for Algol to "just [be] C with some features tacked on", according to any reasonable interpretation of those words.
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Go and Brand X: A language comparison(cowlark.com)
79 points by inklesspen 17y ago|20 comments
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by inklesspen 17y ago
About a year ago; I'm no longer with the company. It was http://chi.mp/
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by inklesspen 17y ago
I used to work for a social network that wanted to let users get their own photos out of Facebook and into our network. We built a Facebook app that expressly served this purpose; users only enabled it after knowing what it would do and des
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by inklesspen 17y ago
I don't think it's reasonable to construe a software default as a conscious choice. Yes, people ought to know enough about technology to know what these defaults are. But the world is large and busy, and people don't have time for every pos
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by inklesspen 17y ago
Presumably because gemcutter was doing a better job?
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by inklesspen 17y ago
The Kindle DRM is trivially broken. Kindle ebooks are basically just Mobipocket ebooks.
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by inklesspen 17y ago
Does Microsoft take liability for any of their software? The Windows XP EULA states "Except for any refund elected by Microsoft, YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, if the Software does n
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by inklesspen 17y ago
Like you, I also read PG's list of startups he'd like to fund. The "dating" item ends with this: "So if you want to do a dating startup, don't focus on the novel take on dating that you're going to offer. That's the easy half. Focus on nove
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by inklesspen 17y ago
Was your MySQL installation configured to store data in any of the excluded directories? http://shiftedbits.org/2007/10/31/time-machine-exclusions/
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by inklesspen 17y ago
Ah, my mistake; I saw the reference to Django templates and assumed Python. <troll>Try switching to a language that doesn't suck, okay?</troll>
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by inklesspen 17y ago
I am 99% sure you can do all of this with Mako templates: http://www.makotemplates.org/
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by inklesspen 17y ago
How about the mental health effects on the soon-to-be-deceased? Plenty of people want to be able to control the timing of their death to preserve whatever dignity they can; witness Terry Pratchett's statement on the matter, for instance.
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by inklesspen 17y ago
This sounds disturbingly like the complaint that "crime should not happen in places where people like ME like to go". I doubt you intended that to be a racist or classist comment, but safety shouldn't be a luxury given only to people who ca
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by inklesspen 17y ago
Well, last I heard from her (which was earlier today), she's still looking for a job, but she's more looking for a sysadmin position than a booth babe gig.
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J: The World's Most Mind-Bending Language Has the Best Development Environment(prog21.dadgum.com)
16 points by inklesspen 17y ago|1 comments
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by inklesspen 17y ago
I've heard that Pre's implementation of multi-touch is the source of one of the legal battles between Apple and Palm.
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by inklesspen 17y ago
I'm actually a fan of reverse-proxying to a production-ready appserver like paste.httpserver.
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by inklesspen 17y ago
Games are still hard to do properly in the browser. Eventually, they might add OpenGL support to javascript, as well as full audio control. But I don't think that'll be happening for a while yet, so any app which does heavy 3D work or audio
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by inklesspen 17y ago
Doesn't that destroy history, though?
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by inklesspen 17y ago
I used skype over EVDO frequently at my last job. Worked just fine.
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by inklesspen 17y ago
I think there's an excluded middle here. You can be successful without devoting every waking moment to work. If your family means that little to you, why bother having them?
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by inklesspen 17y ago
There's always Uplink: http://www.introversion.co.uk/uplink/2/ It's got UI and plot issues and could be improved upon. (For instance, it's sometimes quite hard to let the game know you did the mission.)
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by inklesspen 17y ago
You can override the ambient light sensor easily. It's just a handy default.
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by inklesspen 17y ago
Not standard practice at all.
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by inklesspen 17y ago
Somehow a dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=332278
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by inklesspen 17y ago
Mis-encoded messages don't mean anything. You have to know what encoding some text is in for it to be meaningful.

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