nknight

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901.
by nknight 15y ago
Late 2008 MacBook? You have an Intel GMA GPU, expect strange, inconsistent, or simply useless performance in 3D rendering. It's probable the browser makers have paid little attention to performance on such chips.
902.
by nknight 15y ago
Relying on absolute cursor position out to the very edges/corners of the window is a bad idea, it's too easy to go outside and lose control while trying to get to the extreme positions necessary.
903.
by nknight 15y ago
Forest for the trees. This isn't about technical details, it's a question of psychology. Screaming platitudes at people and being a jerk when they ask "Why?" will not result in them following your advice , regardless of its correctness.
904.
by nknight 15y ago
I didn't say it was wrong, I said it was useless. Screaming "use bcrypt" is no more helpful than screaming "don't use goto", and being an ass when someone tries to figure out what the actual problem is just turns them off to your "wisdom".
905.
by nknight 15y ago
Which is exactly the point. He may or may not be "right", but he serves absolutely no one's interests by being a jerk about it.
906.
by nknight 15y ago
Things that get the "best practices" label slapped on them are not inherently "best". At best, they reflect conventional wisdom in a particular field. Unfortunately, conventional wisdom is often wrong, and rarely challenged. Eventually, thi
907.
by nknight 15y ago
If my first exposure to the world of cryptography and information security had involved someone like that, I'd have written them all off as arrogant quacks to be ignored.
908.
by nknight 15y ago
Great, but... Ive only does industrial design, as far as I know. The other side of the coin is the software, and if that declines, Ive's going to be creating very well-designed paperweights. So who does Apple's software design?
909.
by nknight 15y ago
> worse time complexity, but lower memory usage While the time complexity is worse, absolute performance might be superior, due to both skipping the hashing arithmetic, and (due to that lower memory usage) fitting more data in the CPU
910.
by nknight 15y ago
That's pretty mind-numbingly self-evident, isn't it? The kernel kills Redis and the site is down.
911.
by nknight 15y ago
I'm confused. Why would existing users be pissed? Their existing Kindles aren't going to stop working, new books will still be available for them, they just won't have some of the shiny new features, some of which may be of questionable val
912.
by nknight 15y ago
I feel truly sorry for you. That's not normal, and it's sad that you think it is. It's also generally illegal, both in the US and Canada, if you're doing it for one employer and not getting time and a half. Good employers insist you not wor
913.
by nknight 15y ago
Who said it was good? An honest examination of the current state of reality is not a value judgement.
914.
by nknight 15y ago
> $750 a year to cover your end of basic coverage That might as well be free. I pay almost $7,000/year in California for good (by US standards) medical coverage. That includes some prescription coverage, but not vision or dental. I'm
915.
by nknight 15y ago
As a fairly young person whose health isn't that great, I find your assertion that 54 hours/week is "not too much to ask" to be disturbing, to say the least, particularly for that kind of crap pay. I'm lucky when I can do a full 40, and I m
916.
by nknight 15y ago
Fork-only might be more appropriate, since you're quite free to write to your copy.
917.
by nknight 15y ago
I'm surprised they didn't specifically seek out a receiver that implemented the rule correctly. Since it's an "and", not an "or", a proper receiver should have kicked back in by the time it reached apogee.
918.
by nknight 15y ago
The Darwin source is still being released if you want it (following the periodic code dump model), it just doesn't get much attention. For most people, it doesn't really offer a compelling case over Linux or its *BSD cousins.
919.
by nknight 15y ago
On the other hand, they don't ducking cause any ducking typos!
920.
by nknight 15y ago
My laptop works fine for gaming. It helps to get enjoyment from quality gameplay instead of bragging about how many frames per second your system can render at the highest possible resolution and graphics settings.
921.
by nknight 15y ago
Rewrite iOS? Huh? Anyone who builds a modern OS tied to a single architecture needs their head examined. We already know Apple isn't that stupid, for two reasons: 1) OS X ran on both PowerPC and x86 from the moment it was born. They know ho
922.
by nknight 15y ago
The word "ballistics" is not a synonym for "weapons". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver
923.
by nknight 15y ago
I'm guessing you're either a very young savvy nerd, or you've forgotten about boot sector viruses. This has been a problem for 25+ years.
924.
by nknight 15y ago
I wonder what Samsung's long-extant mobile division thought of Samsung's silicon division getting in bed with a competitor?
925.
by nknight 15y ago
I'm not clear what you're pointing to on that first page. It mentions only the UK as recognizing copyright in typefaces. The other countries mentioned are Germany, where there are design patents only, Japan, where there is explicitly no pro
926.
by nknight 15y ago
(Edit: Comment I responded to initially made reference to an entity holding "the rights" to Helvetica.) What rights are those, exactly? Typefaces are not copyrightable under US law. You can get design patents, but Helvetica was developed in
927.
by nknight 15y ago
I have a better question: Does anyone care? Seriously? The debate has degenerated to whether Google is ripping off Apple's choice of font ? WTF?
928.
by nknight 15y ago
And then you leap from the frying pan into the fire: Too many old people relative to the number of young people. As far as I can tell, "health" isn't keeping up with "life", so we are screwed, just the other way around. But now we also ha
929.
by nknight 15y ago
It says "by 2015". If they mean it, that's more like 3 years. These kinds of reviews move at a snail's pace. Worse, I wouldn't even be sure they can economically mass-produce it yet, and the ramp-up could be a major PITA. The final trial wa
930.
by nknight 15y ago
There are always going to be Darwin Award candidates, and they're always going to take any form of risk mitigation as an invitation to engage in riskier behavior, whether it's a vaccine or an air bag.

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