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by logic 16y ago
I posted this only on it's own merits. I'll admit he's abrasive (as the rest of that thread, and the one you linked to, shows), but he does make a few solid points amongst the vitriol.
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Sencha Touch is a bizarre mish-mash(groups.google.com)
13 points by logic 16y ago|9 comments
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by logic 16y ago
I'm exceedingly curious about this little gadget. Looking at one of the error messages that popped up, it certainly resembles Android, but looking at the full-screen browsing experience, it looks much closer to ChromeOS than Android. I'd re
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by logic 16y ago
If you're not familiar with re2, you may be familiar with a couple of other little projects that the author, Russ Cox, is involved with: Go ( http://golang.org/ ) and Plan 9 ( http://swtch.com/plan9port/ ). Also, here's a great bit of techn
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by logic 16y ago
My experience with iOS4 mirrors this. Being jailbroken, I have a few tools at hand to help avoid the "reboot once a day" approach a few other folks I know have resorted to, but I'm still finding the hardware significantly less usable than t
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by logic 16y ago
You don't understand, yet feel qualified to attribute his problem to a character flaw. Interesting. It appears you may have the same problem as the original poster.
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by logic 16y ago
Around here, that would be Frys; they carry most popular items from the NTE catalog. I might hate their inventory control methods, but they're the only brick and mortar location I can go to get components anymore, aside from basics that Rad
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by logic 16y ago
Also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1536210
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by logic 16y ago
Reddit amuses me: 200 OK Connection: close Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:56:19 GMT Server: '; DROP TABLE servertypes; --
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by logic 16y ago
I assume it refers to the AMD/Intel settlement from last year: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/technology/companies/13chi...
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by logic 16y ago
I pirated an enormous amount of software (mostly games) as a kid for the Apple //e; there was a thriving gift culture around that kind of thing back then, and it seemed "normal". I grew out of that, but now I use open source software almost
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by logic 16y ago
My parents had childhood pictures of me, developed through the local grocery store, completely naked aside from a few layers of mud and a huge grin on my face. My teenage self might not have appreciated the opportunity to grandstand in such
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by logic 16y ago
ECU (engine control unit) hacking is a hobby of mine; I'd like to point out that those of us with keyboards are actually starting to replace the grease-monkeys, or at least supplement them. (But there will always be a need to get your han
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by logic 16y ago
More details from BurstNet's CTO: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20010923-261.html
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by logic 16y ago
This jives with an interview I did with a Google SRE a couple of years ago. He basically took me down a path of increasingly esoteric concepts, until we hit a point at which I couldn't recall the answer off the top of my head. He asked how
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by logic 16y ago
Your point about the system watching what you do and doing something useful with that information reminded me of some work a few years back by Nat Friedman on "Dashboard" that had me pretty excited at the time: http://nat.org/dashboard/ I
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by logic 16y ago
As an FYI: Gnome 3 is on the feature list[1] for Fedora 14, scheduled for release near the end of October[2]. [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/FeatureList [2]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14
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by logic 16y ago
That depends entirely on the goals of the original author (Matt and the Wordpress team, in this case). Judging from Matt's reaction, I suspect the LGPL would have produced the opposite result they were looking for.
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by logic 16y ago
On my jailbroken 3G, I use the SBSettings processes option to forcefully kill off processes running in the background (yes, I foolishly enabled multitasking, thinking it would behave sanely; Backgrounder, another jailbroken app, provided th
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by logic 16y ago
The gevent author wrote up an article regarding what led him to writing it after working on eventlet for a while: http://blog.gevent.org/2010/02/27/why-gevent/
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by logic 16y ago
I maintain an account there purely as an identity placeholder, with an explanation of such in my description (with all other privacy choices set to "only me"). I'm not adding new friends (but I haven't mass de-friended anyone, to ensure the
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by logic 16y ago
Quite right. Also, the much more interesting half, so I'm not exactly upset about it. :)
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by logic 16y ago
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/07/third-place-chat-beta-...
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by logic 16y ago
I'm right in the middle of a project that needs something like this; I assumed I'd be rolling support for it myself. This should save me a quite bit of time, although it only implements half of what I need (the other half being merging loca
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by logic 16y ago
The kill-switch URL isn't exactly secret: https://iphone-services.apple.com/clbl/unauthorizedApps Note the lack of any applications being listed there. Seriously, this is an easy one to verify; a reporter wouldn't even need to call Apple
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by logic 16y ago
They're actually pretty much required to do this; Boies Schiller signed an agreement with SCO to cap legal expenses way back in 2004, thinking they'd be able to litigate this quickly. Bad bet on their part; they're still on the hook to fait
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Your advertising makes me think you hate me.(esm.logic.net)
3 points by logic 16y ago|1 comments
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by logic 16y ago
I'll second this; it's a fantastic rush, and a good place to get started. However, you'll want to quickly graduate to HPDE's and other "big boy" forms of racing, once you've gotten your first fix. (Dare I suggest Rally? :) Look to SCCA ( ht
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by logic 16y ago
Details on Fedora's policy on packaging Ruby-related items: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Ruby
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by logic 16y ago
RAM being cheap is a relative thing. It's cheap and easy to upgrade your laptop from 2GB to 4GB. It can be expensive to upgrade your laptop from 4GB to 8GB, no matter how cheap the RAM itself is, because you might have to buy a new laptop t

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