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by itafroma 13y ago
> this finally opens the doors for indie game developers to write games for the big screen Sony has had extensive and widely-used support for indie game development for the PlayStation platforms for quite some time.[1] Microsoft has has
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by itafroma 13y ago
The full text of the proposition was: > Section I. Title > This measure shall be known and may be cited as the "California Marriage Protection Act." > Section 2. Article I. Section 7.5 is added to the California Constitut
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by itafroma 13y ago
The data for the top 10 countries are being pulled from the Census Bureau's International Database. Here's the US data: http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/regi... There, yo
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by itafroma 13y ago
A similar service called Delivered Dish uses the same fax conceit to provide delivery service in the Portland, OR; Denver; and San Diego areas: http://d-dish.com . You can even order from bakeries (at least in the Portland area).
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by itafroma 13y ago
> I am baffled as to why you'd build your castle atop a crumbling foundation. > I have wondered why FB didn't use a proper language with proper typing to begin with. I would suggest watching Keith Adams's talk, "Ta
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by itafroma 13y ago
When I look at the page now, I see a number of leading, loaded talking points that—to me—are anything but balanced: - The Winter Olympics is inherently elitist - seatbelt fines are a joke - people should be responsible for their own safety
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by itafroma 13y ago
I see that when I log into Kickstarter, there's a banner that recommends changing my password. That's pretty good, but why not take it a step further by invalidating all the passwords and forcing a password change when someone log
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by itafroma 13y ago
> It is interesting to see that the gaming circle has decreased considerably in size over the years from 1984 to 2013 and has almost disappeared now. >What could be probable reasons for the same? The circles for each year are generate
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by itafroma 13y ago
> 25 men. 3 women. 2 machines. Not that it's significantly better, but there are 5 women, not 3: April Greiman, Jane Metcalfe, Noemi Trainor, Es Devlin, and Dr. Pardis Sabeti. However, they did choose Rosetto instead of Metcalfe for
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by itafroma 13y ago
The first 20 seconds of the ad features John Maeda, who is a programmer, and there are a number of other programmers featured in the ad and on the timeline: Theodore Gray, John Knoll, Craig Hickman, Rand Miller, Philip Jackson, Nicholas Fel
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by itafroma 13y ago
Here's the list of people and things featured: - 1984, original Macintosh - 1985, Jon Appleton, pioneer in electro-acoustical music and key figure in the development of the digital synthesizer - 1986, April Greiman, seminal figure in
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by itafroma 13y ago
> who are those people behind the various macs? If you scroll past the video to the timeline, then click on any of the sections, it'll expand and say who the person is and what they did.
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Why I Leaked the XB1M13 Agreement(reconxbl.blogspot.co.uk)
5 points by itafroma 13y ago|1 comments
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by itafroma 13y ago
It shouldn't: name.github.io → example.com is a 301 redirect. However, https://github.com/name/name.github.io/blog/master/* and https://github.com/name/name.github.io/tree&
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by itafroma 13y ago
I tried looking for something by way of an official announcement or release (preview or otherwise), but as Keith Adams joked, it's impossible it Google it, and the http://hacklang.org URL he referenced is not correct. Someo
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by itafroma 13y ago
> And for hosting, Github pages (Jekyll rocks!) do a great job. Using GitHub pages to auto-build your Jekyll site is great if and only if you have no need to customize your Jekyll build or website environment: - You must use the versions
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by itafroma 13y ago
> Web application development. I don't know if I'd make that distinction. Routing certainly gets a lot of use in web application development, but routing at the application level is not web-specific: examples of the pattern c
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by itafroma 13y ago
> If they would only first explain what the heck is "routing in PHP"... "Routing" is a common and well-understood term in application development: I'm sure you can appreciate the act of writing documentation for
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Grouping posts by a front-matter key in Jekyll(marktrapp.com)
1 points by itafroma 13y ago|0 comments
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by itafroma 13y ago
To be fair, it took about as long for PHP 5 to gain traction. PHP 5.0 was released in 2004, but it wasn't until PHP 5.2's release in 2006 that PHP 5 really became viable and PHP 4's EOL in 2008 that people started pushing for
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by itafroma 13y ago
> They are not successful though, are they? There is a low-budget snow-white based TV series that run a year ago (Once Upon A Time) Once Upon a Time is a (still active) series produced by ABC Studios, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary o
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by itafroma 13y ago
Note the original source of the screenshot was posted to Hacker News a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6919216 It has since spread like wildfire. This appears to be simple blogspam (tumblrspam?) of that.
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by itafroma 13y ago
Interesting: so it's not just Soylent. I wonder why liquid supplements aren't affected by the 100mg limit.
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by itafroma 13y ago
Per serving/dose/pill. The pills I've seen usually contain about 400-500mg of inactive ingredients (about the same ratio Soylent uses), so the pills are ~500-600mg, which is fairly large. To equal just one serving of Soylent,
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by itafroma 13y ago
The amount of potassium in Soylent is interesting. I noticed a while ago that I wasn't getting enough potassium in my diet, went searching for a supplement, and found that you can't buy an OTC supplement that contains more than 10
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by itafroma 13y ago
I couldn't find any explicit statement by Noordhuis that could be characterized as what Cantrill called an "insistence that pronouns should in fact be gendered". I took that to be something Cantrill thought was implied by the
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by itafroma 13y ago
Yeah, sorry about that; I just caught that mistake myself. Fixed.
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The original issue was a pull request[1] made to the libuv code base to change "him" to "them". It was rejected[2] by one of the committers, Ben Noordhuis, as being too trivial. That decision was reversed by Isaac Schlue
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by itafroma 13y ago
Most of the new guidelines[1] are technical, but the one relevant the events of the last day or two is on line 78: +* When documenting APIs and/or source code, don't make assumptions or make + implications about race, g
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by itafroma 13y ago
Here's the announcement blog post for the containing project: > http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=2106 The license author goes into the reason for the license and his thoughts on RMS in a comment on that blog po

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