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by jfb 11y ago
But that's not the sense that "native GUI" has ever had. Widgets are only part of the picture, regardless -- a GUI is defined by the layout, behavior, interaction model, and widgets.
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by jfb 11y ago
I'm sorry, but that reading is in clear contravention of the well understood meaning of "native" in the context of a UI.
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by jfb 11y ago
The most commonly used functions in Emacs are assigned to the shortest key bindings.
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by jfb 11y ago
I would have switched off of Emacs for some things ages ago if not for the broken behavior of the TAB key when editing text in what seems like every other editor . No, I do not ever want to insert a \t literal. Never. Ever. And if I do, I
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by jfb 11y ago
It's not even remotely a bad CS idea, however. It's taking long established praxis with a sound theoretical background and applying it to a problem that that practice was intended to solve.
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by jfb 11y ago
This is silly. If you make a reasoned decision, taking into account your specific circumstances and the projected changes to come over the midterm, and you decide to do this, well, why not? Should Google not have built go? Should Jane Str
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by jfb 11y ago
They got almost 10 years out of it. Even with accumulating technical debt, that reads like a success to me.
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by jfb 11y ago
Too, pedantry about splitting infinitives is agrammatical and dumb.
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by jfb 11y ago
You're overthinking this. They're simply not that Machivellian.
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by jfb 11y ago
Thank you for this, it was fascinating.
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by jfb 11y ago
Container formats are much, much, much simpler and demand much less CPU than sample data formats. One could (and I have) write a perfectly useable ISO parser in emacs lisp , of all things. The reason that they tend to be written in C is be
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by jfb 11y ago
Because BSD vs SysV just doesn't have that frisson of '80s nerdwar any longer?
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by jfb 11y ago
I don't think the comparison holds. It's not like there're thousands of generations of face recognition fighting against a wrong-headed prohibition; this sort of panopticon garbage is a clear violation of societal norms. I do
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by jfb 11y ago
It really has it all, doesn't it?
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by jfb 11y ago
The shell has always been awful. It is underpowered and overfeatured with a deeply crappy API. It is more like Windows 3.1 than any sane development environment.
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by jfb 11y ago
Blackberry will be out of business soon regardless of what they do.
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by jfb 11y ago
Other than Apple, no, not really. It's a commodity business and those are tough.
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by jfb 11y ago
RIM was a super-efficient machine for selling a story to CTOs, and that story required a device for people to carry around. That market is insignificantly small in comparison to the larger market of human beings; when Apple started selling
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by jfb 11y ago
You're giving up a lot of performance for that battery life, however, and I think it's probably premature to even think about ARM Macintosh for three years at the least, if ever.
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by jfb 11y ago
It's only a security nightmare if the threat model assumes hostile user access and a passive main user, which, as it's not multiuser, and most definitely not a consumer OS, doesn't seem too bad to me.
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by jfb 11y ago
I get my music recommendations from music blogs or my local record store, and I always always always find them more relevant than anything an algorithm poops out. Finding a way to scale that up would be interesting, but I also don't
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by jfb 11y ago
The problem is that it is very expensive for Pandora to onboard new content, as compared to a pure recommendation engine approach. They'll never have the depth of catalog to make it anything more than a curiosity.
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by jfb 11y ago
Except that those recommendations are really poor. And it's not clear to me at all that there's any way to scale the incoming dataset large enough to get useful results from it. Netflix might have good algorithms but they are hand
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by jfb 11y ago
Hayward, I think. This is an interesting definition of "reality", and hyperloop is a deeply unserious Elon Musk Gedankenexperiment that's only given column inches because of the deeply unserious nature of what passes for jo
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by jfb 11y ago
I like Latin as much as the next would-be classicist, but sic semper tyrannis is a bit spoiled, given who gave it its fullest voice.
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by jfb 11y ago
The point is that in saying that Samsung derives benefit from market share, you have to acknowledge that that benefit is reduced because there's no good way for Samsung to use that market share advantage to keep people attached to thei
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by jfb 11y ago
Why would market share numbers be interesting when the switching costs are so low? You live by the commodity market, you die by the commodity market.
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by jfb 11y ago
None of this contraindicates the parsimonious explanation: that UBL was killed as described.
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by jfb 11y ago
Careful with that [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog_Eats_His_Shoe
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by jfb 11y ago
The video and imaging pipeline on OS X is light years beyond anything you could roll yourself in a reasonable timeframe. It's really good stuff.

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