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by mrpippy 11y ago
As the site shows, Free File Fillable Forms is available to everyone, but it's not as easy as the step-by-step wizards of TurboTax and TaxAct. There's manual arithmetic involved, following the PDF instructions, looking through tax
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by mrpippy 11y ago
Putting the project name/author in the title would probably draw more attention (i.e. "Google's Ion: cross-platform C++ OpenGL application framework")
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Disabling Classic MacOS PowerBook Password Security(bslabs.net)
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I would bet $$$ that they compile and run the whole OS on ARM, much easier than PPC since so much is shared with iOS
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By geohot
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I remember doing this to install Gentoo on a RedHat 7 (not RHEL 7, but RHL 7) machine ~12 years ago.
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by mrpippy 11y ago
> There's no 32-bit runtime for Swift. When that requirement is lifted... You probably don't know/can't say, but is there going to be a 32-bit Mac runtime? Apple has spent zero resources improving the 32-bit ObjC runt
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by mrpippy 11y ago
I think of this like sticking with RHEL 5 (still supported/updated but barely) and expecting to have full support for modern hardware--don't count on it, and don't expect it to work forever.
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by mrpippy 11y ago
I believe the problem isn't the CPU itself, but drivers for the rest of the platform. Windows 7 doesn't have support for USB 3, I2C, secure boot, I2S audio, and lots of other new technologies. Keeping drivers and BIOS maintained (
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by mrpippy 11y ago
That is true, however the only 3rd party apps allowed on CarPlay right now are music apps (using a very basic hierarchical/tree API). The lack of CarPlay support isn't Google/Waze's fault. It's also worth noting tha
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by mrpippy 11y ago
> do itself a lot of favors by avoiding this kind of tone Honestly, I'm impressed that Tavis keeps the tone as professional as he does. This vulnerability and the AVG one from last month ( https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by mrpippy 11y ago
Although if GVT-d gives the GPU fully over to the VM, which GPU will OS X itself be using? In the high-end 15" MBP, I suppose OS X could switch to the discrete GPU and let the VM use Iris Pro, but it's not a great solution and wou
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Makes me think that there could be a business in making a snap-in case for the 12" MacBook to add an optical drive, extra battery, Ethernet, etc.
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by mrpippy 11y ago
Here's a developer introduction to Magic Cap from 1995: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.11/11.05/MakingM...
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by mrpippy 11y ago
These are all good points. Google clearly wants to build and maintain an internal hardware development team, and it might be easier to ship this not-ideal device rather than risk a mass exodus of the hardware team they've been building
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Fascinating story, and explains why the product is so odd and rushed. It raises the question: why did this ship at all? Why waste marketing dollars, muddle your overall branding/product lines (Nexus vs. Pixel), and compete with your ow
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by mrpippy 11y ago
There is virtually no Verizon wireline presence (i.e. ex-GTE territory) in San Diego County, SD never had any chance of getting FiOS. See the map: ftp://ftp.cpuc.ca.gov/Telco/ILEC%20Territories%20in%20CA%202008.pdf I&#x2
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by mrpippy 11y ago
I'm surprised that would be the case, at least by A/UX 3 the Sound Manager routines were re-routed to call into special A/UX implementations (which I assume wouldn't be disabling interrupts).
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by mrpippy 11y ago
The project depends on reverse-engineering proprietary (if archaic) Apple hardware/software. Do you think Microsoft would/should allow their employees to contribute to Wine? Or Nintendo employees working on open-source emulators?
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The author comments here at HN pretty often: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kabdib
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It would be fascinating to see a MacBook powered by the A9X rather than Core-M. Based on the benchmarks, point 2 would be solved. Point 1 is an unknown but the iPad Pro battery is barely smaller than the MacBook's, it'll be inte
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by mrpippy 11y ago
I don't know if outdated "RISC vs. CISC" thinking is what motivated Gruber's statement, but I think there are much more convincing ways to justify it. If I could change Gruber's statement, I would say that "The
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by mrpippy 11y ago
Perforce client (P4V). Consider yourself lucky you don't recognize it.
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by mrpippy 11y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if Porsche customized the throttle mapping and/or transmission programming. ECU remapping would be a bigger job though
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Ah the HP 88780, my cubicle-mate for a summer job 15 years ago
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by mrpippy 11y ago
They put deprecation warnings in the headers starting with 10.7, and I'm pretty sure there was a WWDC talk (hopefully still available) mentioning it. These two links roughly explain the issues/reasoning: http://rentzsch
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by mrpippy 11y ago
There was also a commercial Mac-Toolbox-on-UNIX layer created: Quorum Latitude. Adobe used it to bring Photoshop 3, Illustrator 5.5, and Premiere to SGI IRIX. They were later purchased by Metrowerks, and saw an opportunity to be a porting l
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by mrpippy 11y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10300461
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by mrpippy 11y ago
The last time Microsoft made an ARM version of interactive/desktop Windows (Windows RT for the Surface/Surface 2), it didn't support legacy Win32 apps (native or x86 emulated). It was a huge flop; Win32 apps are still the ove
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by mrpippy 11y ago
There was also MacMach ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacMach ), a port of Mach 2.5 (and later 3.0) to the Mac II, and experimental support for running System 7 as a Mach task. Unfortunately the code hasn't been av

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