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by nfg 16y ago
Speak for yourself...
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by nfg 16y ago
What are you talking about?
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by nfg 16y ago
True, I was mostly responding to the notion that: > Producing indigenous firms which don't serve niche markets is still beyond us It certainly isn't "beyond us", but as you say it's not happening as much as one would hope.
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by nfg 16y ago
> Producing indigenous firms which don't serve niche markets is still beyond us. I'm not sure about that, I've been in Havok ( http://www.havok.com/ ) for several years now, very successful Irish startup in the Games/Entertainment space
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by nfg 16y ago
> Yes, Python was going to be my counterexample - it's very easy to embed yet much bigger than 100k lines. He's not talking about lines of code – the lua interpreter/runtime is only approximately 150kB in size.
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by nfg 16y ago
Could be a sign of a shift to a darker tone in OSX Lion as as been rumoured in the past.
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by nfg 16y ago
The probe in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS
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by nfg 16y ago
Some sort of axis-aligned bounding box collision checking is the usual approach for a first preliminary pass.
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by nfg 16y ago
> I'm in the same boat (still am). I hardly ever back up my data. How much data are we talking about here? <10 Gigabytes? Solutions like Dropbox are just so simple for data in that range that you'd be crazy not to use them.
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by nfg 16y ago
> - There is a § key at the top-left of my MacBook Pro keyboard. It has been there for years, in all the different models (Powerbook, iMac, etc.), and this is the first time in over several months that I've actually touched that key. An
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by nfg 16y ago
Link that works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines
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by nfg 16y ago
> Requires extra hardware Are you sure? For comparison the iPhone uses a Broadcom BCM4325 http://www.broadcom.com/products/Bluetooth/Bluetooth-RF-Sili... for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, this chip also can also do FM Rx. Of course that functi
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Using the original Symbolics Keyboard with the Mac(lispm.dyndns.org)
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by nfg 16y ago
Aha sure enough! That's actually quite elegant, thanks very much.
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by nfg 16y ago
> The status bar has been replaced with the addon bar. Is there some alternate way to check where a link is pointing with a mouseover?
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by nfg 16y ago
Does your "we" include the people of, for example, Bangladesh?
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by nfg 16y ago
An mp3 player and a calendar are not operating systems. If your contention is that C is terrible for actual OS development you'll need a better argument.
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by nfg 16y ago
You probably realise this, but using spring-loaded folders Finder does allow you to navigate while dragging and dropping. See http://kb.iu.edu/data/aehp.html
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by nfg 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation
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by nfg 16y ago
There are experiments currently underway to detect gravitational waves, see for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave_detector#Spe...
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by nfg 16y ago
It's also available natively on iPhone and is a lot of fun to play around with.
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by nfg 16y ago
> "niggle" is troubling and slightly outdated, especially if you look up it's etymology. Could you expand on this? I can't find anything other than it dating to the 1500/1600s, probably from Norwegian "Nigla" (to be penurious) or cognat
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by nfg 16y ago
> (note: I don't know if the toolbar hides on the iPad, it does on the iPhones). It doesn't.
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by nfg 16y ago
FWIW I don't think this originated on reddit, I've seen it on fark and metafilter also (although it's pretty derided on metafilter if not followed by some sort of substantive response).
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by nfg 16y ago
And of course for standard moving around: ←/→ move left or right one character. ⌥ + ←/→ move left or right one word. ⌘ + ←/→ move to start or end of line
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by nfg 16y ago
How so?
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by nfg 16y ago
This is a fantastic idea, I often come across an old blog that I want to read through chronologically. Edit: Something like this build into Google Reader would be great.
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by nfg 16y ago
A bit of a side-note, but Dan Reetz (the MeFite in question here) released a great album a few years back, it's free to download and well worth a listen: http://www.fakeproject.com/you_are_not_dead/ I'd also say that for anyone here that'
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by nfg 16y ago
So couldn't they have taken their cue from the PC comment and said: "To date, support for hardware accelerated H.264 video playback in Flash Player has only been possible on Windows PCs and Windows -based netbooks"
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by nfg 16y ago
> Women have different goals than men and their salaries reflect that. Cite please that definitively links the pay gap between men and women to "different goals". > > Women are still expected to shoulder the bulk of the work for

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