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by jfb 13y ago
I've been living on a Retina MBP, which has a comparably 4x resolution, and I've come to exactly the opposite conclusion: if you work with text, you need a super-dense screen ASAP. I don't know how Windows handles it, but i
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by jfb 13y ago
Err ... color resolution was never really the problem with CRT technology.
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by jfb 13y ago
Exactly: the most interesting thing here isn't the 4k, but rather the 183.5ppi.
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by jfb 13y ago
30hz is not to me usable; nor is 39", and I'm used to Apple's build and picture quality, so I guess I should've prefaced my post with "IMHO."
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by jfb 13y ago
Amazon Ballistics. Coming in 2017.
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by jfb 13y ago
"Amazon Fulfillment Center Alpha Bravo Six Six Ten, you are cleared hot pickle -- repeat, cleared hot pickle. Good hunting."
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by jfb 13y ago
More to the point, if I'm asking you in an interview how to build a DOM parser, take it as given that, if you get the job, and we need a DOM parser, you will be actively encouraged to go use a library rather than build from scratch
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by jfb 13y ago
There's some price discrimination going on here, yes, but keep in mind that a) the PQ on that Seiki will be horrible; 2) at 39" it's way too large; and iii) as you note, it does not have a useful way to get a signal into it.
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by jfb 13y ago
It seems more to me to be an academic exercise in compiler complexity that has been wrapped in a shell of "lookit! Java++" as a play for industry acceptance. I haven't been working with it for long, but I feel that there&#x27
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by jfb 13y ago
Yeah, I think you can open your answer with, "well, I'd use libfoo, because there are a bunch of hairy edge cases", but then follow on immediately with a toy implementation to show you understand the problem domain. There&#
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by jfb 13y ago
Louis: Looking good, Billy Ray! Billy Ray: Feeling good, Louis!
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by jfb 13y ago
I hate what blogger is doing, but the project is very cool.
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by jfb 13y ago
The thing is, Mobile Safari and the Chrome on Android are perfectly good web browsers , and can render web pages pretty much exactly as can a desktop browser. Misfeatures like this are the result of pathetic platform envy. Yes, native appl
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by jfb 13y ago
I personally think that Google does things like this because they can; they are not under money pressure (yet?) to have to really try to extract maximum value from every bit served or watt consumed, and can thus spend energy on initiatives
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by jfb 13y ago
META-NOTE: I wouldn't worry overmuch about downvotes. I often fat-finger downvote when using my phone, for instance.
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by jfb 13y ago
"There is no moral of the story other than: failure does not mean that you didn't do well." While this lesson is pretty well internalized, I think there's some difficulty with the converse: just because you succeeded, do
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by jfb 13y ago
Yeah, it's typical of Ars these days. Not particularly artful rehashing of existing info.
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by jfb 13y ago
I think the problem is that the terrible shell semantics are inextricable from the larger semantics of using Unix. So you could replace sh with something less dumb-stupid, but you'd still be interacting with the garbage that is the she
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by jfb 13y ago
As the child of anthropologists, I think there's a lot of room for cultural analysis of technologies. Languages, for instance, have cultures as well as affordances, and a careful comparative analysis would be really interesting.
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by jfb 13y ago
I will take this opportunity, as I take even more tenuous ones, to pimp Mary McCarthy's review of Pale Fire (my favorite book), which is an act of the creative spirit almost as stunning as Nabokov's original: http://i
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by jfb 13y ago
Well, good for you. It's nifty.
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by jfb 13y ago
It's not much of an interactive shell, although it's perfectly cromulent for writing shell scripts.
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by jfb 13y ago
CREATE DOMAIN currency_code ...
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by jfb 13y ago
Yeah, me neither. The signal-to-noise ratio is just way too low, and I don't need another medium to monitor.
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Integer Undefined Behaviors in Open Source Crypto Libraries(blog.regehr.org)
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by jfb 13y ago
Does your back hurt from moving those goalposts?
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by jfb 13y ago
The advantages were ease of installation on Windows, and network effects.
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by jfb 13y ago
One thing that people often don't realize is that firing someone is miserable for the person doing the firing. That's a powerful disincentive to follow through, even if intellectually you know that the person needs to go. This i
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by jfb 13y ago
Nothing intrinsically, but there is value in consistency, and Google's decided on spaces. One of the rationales for these guides is to give the programmer a way to make a decision about questions where there is no single correct answer
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by jfb 13y ago
Any serious editor will read the #! line for syntax highlighting, which has the benefit of being much more likely to be correct than the user visible and modifiable file name.

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