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by jcl 17y ago
The 17-pointed star is on the left side of the Braunschweiger memorial (an unpopular side to photograph, it seems): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Braunschweig_Gauss-Denkma... http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Braunschweig_Gauss-Den
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by jcl 17y ago
I've been thinking along similar lines, and there are pros and cons. On the one hand, you get cross-platform portability; once you have an iPhone app written to comply with 3.3.1, there's nothing Apple can do about you porting it elsewhere
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by jcl 17y ago
Here is the website of the company they bought out, whose products they are presumably open-sourcing: http://www.geebroadcast.co.uk/LWKS/lwks_product.htm The Lightworks Softworks brochure lists Windows XP Pro as a minimum system requirem
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by jcl 17y ago
As written, though, isn't this limited to only multiplication and addition? If you wanted to include, for example, a function call in your anonymous function, wouldn't that require a pile of Var<>-based function overloads?
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by jcl 17y ago
However, implying that "anti-glare" is better makes it easier to justify charging an extra $50 (for something that used to come standard on all devices... grr).
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by jcl 17y ago
More details here: http://www.editshare.com/index.php?option=com_content&ta... Summary: It's not out yet. No mention of the open-source license to be used, or whether they will be pursuing a "MySQL" model of charging commercial user
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by jcl 17y ago
This reminds me of a chapter from an HTML5 e-book that was recently posted: http://diveintohtml5.org/past.html If there's any consistent theme to the history of web standards, it's that all the successful standards start as someone's pro
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by jcl 17y ago
No, the website has your implicit permission to distribute copies of your comment, which is not the same as owning its copyright.
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by jcl 17y ago
I don't understand how that could be... Could you explain? If a portion of your app is written in Lua, how can you claim that the app is "originally written" in a C derivative?
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by jcl 17y ago
I'm not so sure. They were content to let the whole iPhone NDA thing fester for months.
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by jcl 17y ago
My impression was that Apple lost the PC war mainly on price. Who were the "right developers" that they pissed off?
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by jcl 17y ago
The least cynical explanation -- and thus the one most likely to be put forward by Apple -- is that by banning cross-platform compatibility layers, developers are forced to focus expressly on the iPad/iPhone platform, which reduces the like
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by jcl 17y ago
Apparently it was not homebrew; here are a couple articles saying that he rented the equipment from the phone company. So the dial-a-joke thing might have been entirely legit. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.09/woz.html http://www.
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by jcl 17y ago
Heh... A one "Andrew Wander"? Not to pre-judge, but I'm not sure his opinion is representative of the Islamic world. :) http://www.reprieve.org.uk/andrewwander
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by jcl 17y ago
I'm not sure you can qualify this as a strictly non-western perspective, given that the article is based mainly on the opinions of an Apple employee, a Utahan consumer psychology professor, and a guy who wrote the books "Cult of Mac" and "C
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by jcl 17y ago
On the other hand, he's greatly limiting his freedom while providing the means for others to increase their freedom: All the money will go into his microcredit charity, which offers small loans and advice to self-employed people in El Salv
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by jcl 17y ago
If someone could show that they could extract personally identifiable information from the aggregated database that isn't immediately obvious from browsing the site, I'd expect Facebook could make the case that distributing the database cou
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by jcl 17y ago
I could see that happening, particularly because -- as Scott points out -- when you are sitting around being happy, you aren't doing anything particularly productive. Cultures with a particular set of rules regarding button-pushing would b
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by jcl 17y ago
Creative thinking in the bathroom is probably less an effect of being naked as it is being in a private space with nothing better to think about. Otherwise, you could write another article about all the ideas people have on the toilet, tit
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by jcl 17y ago
Have you tried the new Blender 2.5 (now in alpha)? The interface is a major improvement... It's much easier to find things in menus and figure out what various options do. And you can edit the camera movement keys to match other 3D app
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by jcl 17y ago
Really? As I recall, the iPhone had roughly a two-year lead before anything similar came out. In the case of the iPad, we're seeing clones coming out before the iPad itself. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1235399
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by jcl 17y ago
On the other hand, he is contributing both a news filter and summaries. Perhaps there is value in the summaries, even if the filter mirrored the front page directly (sort of like Slashdot?).
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by jcl 17y ago
Agreed, especially since it's something normal people can easily relate to. But, barring a public relations stunt by Facebook, I suppose this is going to be quietly settled like the RIM patent suit mentioned in the article (another promisi
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by jcl 17y ago
I expect we'll soon see a news story where a 13 year old makes a game that Apple refuses to put in the App Store because it's too violent for kids.
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by jcl 17y ago
I suppose if we had a space elevator, we could just run a pipeline alongside it. :)
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by jcl 17y ago
And the Tauntaun sleeping bag in 2009, apparently: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tauntaun/index.html
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by jcl 17y ago
Granted, but having seen it, I'm sure there are at least a couple people who are going to build the thing themselves.
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by jcl 17y ago
The non-English text is not Chinese. Something from the Middle East, perhaps?
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by jcl 17y ago
FWIW, they're already doing solar: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-5749586-7.html http://www.jasonmorrison.net/content/2009/touring-googles-so...
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by jcl 17y ago
The point I'm confused about is how a VPS would have helped the original poster. Couldn't the hacker just request a password reset from the (obliging) tech support guys?

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