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by ksherlock 10y ago
And the other problem is there are 23 kinds of bespoke artisanal ravioli and maybe it was handmade by a Michelin chef or maybe it's from a bootcamp graduate that spent two weeks learning how to blog, star things on pinterest, and requi
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by ksherlock 10y ago
Yes and that's true of any marketable language.
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by ksherlock 10y ago
As a developer type, I don't like AMP for a variety of reasons. As mobile browser user... Webmasters: you had your chance and you blew it. Your website is completely unusable on my phone. AMP exists because of your indifference and in
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by ksherlock 10y ago
Conceptually, it is: IMP tmp = objc_msg_lookup(object, selector); goto *tmp; but C can't handle that (and even with gcc computed gotos you need to preserve any argument registers and not screw up the stack). objc_msgSend h
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by ksherlock 10y ago
the objc_msgSend function doesn't know what it's return type is or how many arguments it has. It needs to lookup the actual function then jump to it without modifying the stack or any of the parameter registers. It simply doesn&#
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by ksherlock 10y ago
Don't tell that to the GCC Objective C runtime. With the NeXT/Apple runtime, [object selector: arguments...] is syntactic sugar for objc_msgSend(object, @selector(selector:), arguments) With the GCC runtime, tha
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by ksherlock 10y ago
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to rename it."
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by ksherlock 10y ago
$ touch true; chmod 777 true; ./true && echo Success Success
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by ksherlock 10y ago
As did I, for science. One of them was [correctly] recognized as a wine bottle. Note to self: never "Ok google, fetch me a bottle of wine."
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by ksherlock 10y ago
That sounds a lot like the US, before events like the Civil War, 16th Amendment, Great Depression, etc increased the size and scope of the federal government.
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by ksherlock 10y ago
Letting PC vendors do as they will sounds like a bad idea. Superfish will look like Little Nemo compared to the Candiru/Piranha hybrids that would follow.
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by ksherlock 10y ago
Xcode 4.0 (2010) was the last version to include gcc; it's been gone since 4.1 (2011)
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by ksherlock 10y ago
> JavaScriptCore, bash, bc, emacs, efax, gnudiff, gnuserv, gnutar, groff, gpatch, keymgr, libstdcxx, man, nano, screen, texinfo, and uucp. as of 10.12 (opensource.apple.com not yet updated): gnutar replaced by bsd tar keymgr gone? efex g
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by ksherlock 10y ago
It's based on ubuntu 14.4 trusty, which is 2.5 years old at this point. Apparently beta versions use 16.4 xenial so that will be updated at some point. However, it does not automatically update and the current recommendation is to s
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by ksherlock 10y ago
Apple no longer sells monitors.
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by ksherlock 10y ago
Apple paid $429 million for NeXT. Be was offered $125 million but wanted $300 million.
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by ksherlock 10y ago
still present in sierra.
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by ksherlock 10y ago
You know that Schrödinger guy? The one with the cat box? Well, he had a second box. What's in it? Nobody knows! But as long as you don't open it, it could be anything (dutch tulip bulbs, $1 billion flooz, rare beanie babies...
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by ksherlock 10y ago
Unicomp Model M. https://www.pckeyboard.com
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by ksherlock 10y ago
> Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick >I buy some Soylent and it will be good there for a while.
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by ksherlock 10y ago
Complement is a better word than compare. Do your mockups in sketch, copy-paste them into origami, then use origami to test user interactions.
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by ksherlock 10y ago
It is a dupe but there are also more follow up articles on it. When I was reimplementing the Classic MacOS Toolbox for a similar Macintosh Classic emulator, I encountered the same problem: documentation and knowledge is gone. And since the
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by ksherlock 10y ago
nesting can't be prevented in that case (at least with the current node require() design). It gets really bad if you have 10 packages that depend on c@1.0.0 and 10 packages that depend on c@2.0.0 -- one of them will install in the roo
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by ksherlock 10y ago
It's improved but it's not fixed. if a depends on c 1.0 and b depend on c 2.0, both versions of c need to be installed and one of them will be nested.
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by ksherlock 10y ago
I use Saitek Cessna pedals, Cessna yoke (comes with 3-level throttle), and Saitek Cessna trim wheel and don't have any complaints. Before I went all-in, I used a PS3 controller but don't recommend that (It's fine if you&#x27
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by ksherlock 10y ago
Verizon will pay $4.8 billion for the yahoo parts of yahoo. If you also include the $40 billon of Alibaba the total number is about the same (but Microsoft still dodged a bullet)
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by ksherlock 10y ago
The biggest beneficiaries of decriminalized marijuana are the people who are no longer criminals for smoking a joint.
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by ksherlock 10y ago
Today is the 30th birthday for Macintosh Programmer's Workshop. This is a re-implementation of the MPW Shell. Why? Well, a few years ago, I wrote an emulator/compatibility layer[1] to run MPW Tools on OS X. That works great exce
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Show HN: MPW Shell(github.com)
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by ksherlock 10y ago
I saw winfsp a few months back and thought it looked fantastic. But... 1. the license. 2. windows. Also, I suspect open source follows a pareto distribution (5% of the projects get 95% of the contributions). And no contributors is probably

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