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by pietro 15y ago
It's not an error to divide by zero per the IEEE floating point specification, and you'll find the same behavior in most modern languages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero#In_computer_ar...
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by pietro 15y ago
Just change the layout. The 'play' button and execution results are equally logically placed under the code. That should give you enough space for snippets of any size.
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by pietro 15y ago
This is an insult to actual slaves.
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by pietro 15y ago
On the other hand, it seems pretty common for techheads to misunderstand what "design" is. I'd say Steve Jobs designed the iPad the same way Frank Gehry designs his buildings: by conceptualizing it and sketching the overall design, leaving
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by pietro 15y ago
You rarely even know if they store it in plan text.
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by pietro 15y ago
How old are you?
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by pietro 15y ago
For what it's wortjh, I used to be able to read small fonts comfortably when I was 37. Not that I'm 44, I can't. I read Hacker News with Ctrl-+, and I'm happy that Chrome remembers my zoom setting between visits, or I probably wouldn't have
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by pietro 15y ago
Handwritten in machine code , according to this article: http://apple2history.org/history/ah16/#03
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by pietro 15y ago
The iPad won't give you a headache. That might be a good enough reason to buy it.
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by pietro 15y ago
ActionScript has changed a lot. ActionScript 3 shares a core with JavaScript, and it still supports closures and prototype-based inheritance. If you insist. But the thing is, nobody uses those features anymore. Class-based inheritance and e
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by pietro 15y ago
He used the lack of standardized ways of inserting headers and footers as a example of the ineffectiveness of the W3C, not as part of his critique of JavaScript.
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by pietro 15y ago
Dropbox would keep the old versions.
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by pietro 15y ago
He might be an economist, but he doesn't know anything about monetary history: The economic assumptions underpinning the Bitcoin ecosystem are laughable, and ignore hundreds of years of accumulated understanding of how currencies work with
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by pietro 15y ago
Because it's easier to correct something that's almost correct than to start over, and because it would help you determine if the username or the password was at fault.
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by pietro 15y ago
It might even be the other way round. I have a (slightly) harder time teaching first-year students how to use the for loop in JavaScript than how to use anonymous functions in jQuery. I think it's a better match for how the brain works.
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by pietro 16y ago
My laptop is running the demo at 65% CPU. I'm pretty sure my iPad or phone wouldn't be able to run it for any meaningful definition of "run".
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by pietro 16y ago
That would be a ~43% surcharge, actually. Quite a lot.
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by pietro 16y ago
'gawker' and 'gizmodo' seem like pretty safe passwords, considering the context.
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by pietro 16y ago
In Scandinavia, language is a non-issue. Everyone speaks English, and many tech shops use English for all written communication.
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by pietro 16y ago
You can pick it up in a store in Denmark. No waiting lists anywhere.
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by pietro 16y ago
Maps for iOS has a native implementation of Google Street View. It's much better than the desktop version, so I don't even use Flash for that.
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by pietro 16y ago
Yes. English is used everywhere and by everyone.
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by pietro 16y ago
5. Create your own hardware for the dock connector, including a card reader and additional memory.
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by pietro 17y ago
More like, pay for the distribution. That's a pretty sweet deal for anyone.
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by pietro 17y ago
You're missing that in order to use touch, just about every Flash game out there would have to be rewritten. Flash and its event model are quite flexible, and there's no reason why you shouldn't be able write games for a touch based system
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by pietro 17y ago
I landed there too after a couple of hours surfing prompted by the Newsweek article.
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by pietro 17y ago
Chrome is exceptionally fast, apparently.
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by pietro 17y ago
It's the same story on Windows. I'm closing my account over the next few weeks after having used it for a year. It's simply not stable enough, and I've lost patience.
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by pietro 17y ago
Type "bing.com" in the address bar, hit Tab instead of Enter and search for anything. Open Options from the tool menu. On the Basic tab, locate "Default search" and click the Manage button. In the list of "Other search engines", select bing
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by pietro 17y ago
Of course they can , but they don't want to. It's a basic distinction, really.

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