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by kevbin 17y ago
Back then, people didn't know any better than to trust the scripted talking head coming-out of the magic box across from the bed. I've never understood why newsreaders have been afforded any gravitas. Cronkite was much more of a reporter an
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by kevbin 17y ago
It seems like it would worthwhile to improve K-12 education before swelling community college enrollments by 50%.
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by kevbin 17y ago
see also: http://reason.com/news/show/134723.html
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by kevbin 17y ago
That depends on what incentives you could wring out of the state and local governments. If you're a large company, you were once a small company and there's been no place better than silicon valley to grow-up as a young company. I think thi
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by kevbin 17y ago
That's a good point. It's been a good place to "raise kids"--if your kids are little companies because there are lots of great people to work with, impedance is low because of shared norms, and outsiders are aware of the importance of this
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by kevbin 17y ago
NaCL is a really interesting project, but it's x86-specific. A jitted NaCL based on LLVM makes more sense for native Chrome/ChromeOS apps.
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by kevbin 17y ago
I think Osirix should be on the list. http://www.osirix-viewer.com/
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by kevbin 17y ago
One of the potential upsides of global warming that gets little attention is the opportunity for great waves over the formerly-urban reefs along the edges of the risen oceans.
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by kevbin 17y ago
The New York Times sure is ticked at Apple for leaking Jobs' liver story to the WSJ. Guess we know which is the paper of record, eh?
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by kevbin 17y ago
The PHP trap is worse than any SQL trap.
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by kevbin 17y ago
Seems to work for Windows.
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Just wait until the Chrysler and GM reincarnations reach federal court.
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Maybe OS X 10.7 will ship with XMonad's tiling integrated into WindowServer :)
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by kevbin 17y ago
"The content of sessions is under NDA, so I can’t tell you what it was about." Without knowing the content, I'm reluctant to criticize the decision not to take questions since I remember one WWDC session where one developer (let's call him
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by kevbin 17y ago
More LLVM can't be a bad thing.
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by kevbin 17y ago
It's a different kind of work. I've purchased several typefaces with beautiful letterforms that are useless for coding on my mac because they are not hinted or hinted poorly. A couple more have really bad metrics that the "height"/"width" s
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by kevbin 17y ago
I think Droid and Liberation are siblings, from the same designer & foundry. Liberation has more variations (italic, bold italic) and more "flourishes" (like in the uppercase Q, lowercase a and what not).
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by kevbin 17y ago
I haven't seen Prelude in person, but it looks very nice in screen shots. How is the Pre rendering text?
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by kevbin 17y ago
"Just a tweak" minimizes the work necessary to make typefaces (especially monospaced typefaces) produce good results. The hinting in Menlo seems to produce really good on-screen results on my Mac; preferable to Consolas, Liberation, BVSM, P
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by kevbin 17y ago
Menlo is nice. I use it as the default in Xcode, Terminal, and Safari under 10.6. It looks to have been tweaked from Bitstream Vera Sans for Quartz's anti-aliasing—like Consolas was tweaked from TheSansMono for Cleartype. The letter forms i