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811.
by mcav 17y ago
Would if I could... I prefer Webkit though.
812.
by mcav 17y ago
Redirects to "Reverse Engineering". I assume you wanted this (google cached version): http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:mAp2zxYhBnoJ:en.wikipedi...
813.
Twilight of the GPU?(perilsofparallel.blogspot.com)
7 points by mcav 17y ago|5 comments
814.
by mcav 17y ago
From the title on the webpage, it looks like it was last updated in 1998. In 1998, using Javascript probably wasn't quite as appealing as it would be today.
815.
by mcav 18y ago
I didn't think this particular post was all that bad. He gave links to several products, described his experiences with them, and talked about something that we all deal with -- how to carry around our stuff. Nothing wrong with talking abou
816.
by mcav 18y ago
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/ui/UIRoundedImage.png They overlay that image on top.
817.
by mcav 18y ago
Sorry, haven't had much blog traffic before and hadn't checked to make sure WordPress caching was on. Should be up now.
818.
by mcav 18y ago
Yeah. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your position), users are often content with "good enough". The apps I mentioned (Adobe CS4, Firefox, MS Office) obviously haven't suffered in the marketplace. People complain, but enough bu
819.
The Cross-Platform Myth(marcuscavanaugh.com)
16 points by mcav 18y ago|11 comments
820.
by mcav 18y ago
Also check out unladen-swallow -- they aim to remove the GIL from Python (among other goals): http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan
821.
by mcav 18y ago
The primary difference is that Facebook's social network remains closed while Twitter's is open. Twitter's friend system is asymmetric while Facebook's is symmetric; I don't see how Facebook can really compete with Twitter except in friend-
822.
Microsoft Breaks Up Its Live Labs Group(paidcontent.org)
2 points by mcav 18y ago|0 comments
823.
Geeking with Greg: Leaving Microsoft(glinden.blogspot.com)
20 points by mcav 18y ago|0 comments
824.
by mcav 18y ago
> I wouldn't want my pacemaker running a garbage-collected language and yet most web apps are written with GC. I'd prefer GC over memory leaks...
825.
Wolfram Alpha: Our First Impressions(readwriteweb.com)
93 points by mcav 18y ago|24 comments
826.
by mcav 18y ago
If you have the inclination, I'm sure many people (myself included) would be interested to see your code, even if it's raw and unsupported. Cool solution.
827.
by mcav 18y ago
Is there a way to make Git choose one over the other rather than merging? --mine or --yours or something?
828.
IPhone OS 3.0 to feature voice control and feedback(arstechnica.com)
1 points by mcav 18y ago|0 comments
829.
by mcav 18y ago
From what I've heard, if URLs were clickable in posts, users would be tempted to do more "Ask HN"-style questions, whereas the preference would be for users to make long posts on their blogs instead and link to here.
830.
by mcav 18y ago
PC should probably be split into Windows and Free OSes, at a minimum. In popular culture it's okay for PCs to refer to windows, but here we'll just get a mix of linux/bsd/windows in that category. Unless you consider "other" to be non-Windo
831.
Adobe Flash secures set-top deal(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by mcav 18y ago|0 comments
832.
by mcav 18y ago
I rarely use str() and int() unless I'm doing conversion of user input (e.g. web apps). You'd have to be more specific about your usage. For instance, string formatting doesn't require casts -- just pretend everything's a string: &#62
833.
by mcav 18y ago
Before I got into programming, I made several graduation/wedding/memorial videos for people. It was an incredible mess. I had to scan each photo into a [slow, old] flatbed scanner, manually rotate them, and save them. Then, I would tediousl
834.
Ashton Kutcher first to reach 1 million in Twitter battle with CNN(cnn.com)
3 points by mcav 18y ago|2 comments
835.
by mcav 18y ago
I have ClickToFlash, which almost amounts to complete ad blocking nowadays. The rest I don't mind, though I don't often see an ad worth clicking on.
836.
by mcav 18y ago
How do skydivers do it?
837.
by mcav 18y ago
Sure, something's better than nothing. That's what brainstorming is all about -- creating ideas without having any expectation that any particular idea will succeed. Starting with something might spur an idea forward, or it might not. An in
838.
by mcav 18y ago
2.6 is a bridge to 3.0 -- it implemented some 3.0 things, but kept a lot of backward compatibility. If a project can't convert to 3.0, they could convert to 2.6, which would then make the eventual 3.0/3.1 migration easier.
839.
by mcav 18y ago
If the logo pictured therein represents the mockup he gave to the designer, I hope he'd be prepared to have it entirely modified or discarded. The logo is busy, repetitive, and difficult to digest. Designers, musicians, and others make a li
840.
by mcav 18y ago
The author seems to confuse push with polling: > Consider an application with just 10,000 users. It might service a million uses per day, assuming update checks every 15 minutes. More time-critical uses might demand checks every few mi

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