pifflesnort

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by pifflesnort 14y ago
Trying to turn native apps into template-styled web apps is just backwards; you're discarding the fine attention to detail, typography, pixel-positioning, scaling animations, etc, that can make native apps so great.
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
It still is a broken design that you can ever lose history or hose a repository in a tool that is designed to store history, forever. That's a sharp edge that should be exposed, and its not the only one in git.
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
Given that EA's Monopoly for the iPad has a built-in Prius to serve as one of the game pieces, I'd say not trusting them is wise.
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
> You can not set a homescreen secretly or in the background, and you can only have a single home screen set at any given time. A great many toolbars aren't "secret", they just engage in indirection to trick users into agreeing to ins
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
I'd call the inability for Facebook to usurp control over Apple's vertically integrated platform to be a market advantage, not a liability, as long as too many users don't start clamoring for a facebook-iphone. [edit] Remember browser too
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
I can share an anecdote from the reverse perspective. When traveling in Morocco, I didn't speak any local languages (eg, French or Arabic). I also was entirely unfamiliar with the city, the distances between points, or even how much somethi
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
Unregulated innovation often innovates fraud and crime when you're talking about unmarked, unregulated cars driven by unknown people, picking people up off the street. If you go anywhere in the world with less strict taxi regulation, you'll
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
> If the restaurant provides free bread (and a large portion of them do), I think it's entirely permissible to combine them. They provide bread under what most people understand to be the social contract: that you will order more than
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
> Your suggestion that my disclaimer only exists in an "upside down" universe suggests you don't agree with that assertion. No -- I don't agree with a social movement that induces you to lead with an apology for an innate traits such
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
The disclaimer made me cringe: "as a man writing about gender inequality, I acknowledge my privileged (and biased) viewpoint in this discussion." In what upside-down universe is it considered necessary to pre-emptive apologize for what you
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
> Interning at the same place twice yields diminishing returns: you'll be working with the same tech, not meeting new people and learning new tricks. Plus, you won't get to experience more company cultures, finding out where you fit.
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
On the subject of the bubble and April Fools, I have a great example of the Internet enabling great April Fools pranks. At a .bomb startup in the late 90s, our own company ran a stock ticker website. On April fools, someone got together wit
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
> Now that I think about it, a physical exhibit where they can recreate the hardware (even if only on a superficial level of aesthetics), and the rooms and settings where that hardware would have existed, and the software it ran would
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
> The problem i've had sometimes though is that whenever I try using some old software (which is mostly games as I was born in the 92), I often get stuck in making the game play nice with the current set up, regardless if I run it in c
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
Here here! I make an effort to buy old software on eBay when I come across it, archive it in a stable format scan the media, and then store the originals. It would be nice to see a project (would archive.org host it?) that applied standard
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
I'll leave freebsd-update aside, since Colin already touched on that. I too am old, and often extremely grumpy. That said, I think you might be having a "senior moment" regarding your recollection of administering SunOS systems, if you're c
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
It looks like your network is failing.
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
Wow. That's a totally awesome feature I was not aware of. There are tons of use-cases for being able to do things like run a real TCP/IP stack in userspace. Tools such a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slirp had to hack the BSD networking st
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
I'd start with: board [at] freebsdfoundation.org and/or cperciva [at] FreeBSD.org
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
There's honestly no harm in discussing it. FreeBSD/Xen is already of interest to base committers, there's existing work done. If those committers are interested in furthering it via funding -- something you can only establish by talking to
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
Agreed. Talking to cpercival would also be a good start. See his page on the subject: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/ Also: https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen I think that funding whatever is required here would be fantasti
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
Perhaps you could constructively expand on this? For the most part, I find managing FreeBSD to be painless, with one glaring exception I'll get to in a minute. I really love that the base system and the 3rd party packages are iterated separ
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
That's a bit ridiculously alarmist, isn't it? Heck, you could have lead with that, rather than waiting for me to reply -- you seem to already know what you wanted to say. Won't developers have access to PNaCL runtimes? How is this so differ
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
How did Apple developers ship working PPC/m68k binaries? Or PPC/x86 after that, later PPC/x86/x86-64, and armv6/armv7/armv7s on the iPhone?
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
> By my count Javascript is around 5 years older than amd64. If we had gone with native client back then we'd be stuck with pre-SSE x86 or maybe they'd have been forward-looking and gone with Alpha or Itanium with emulation for "legacy
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
rorr, you appear to be hellbanned. Here's your comment, since it seemed like a reasonable one: > Now, imagine I created a third benchmark that did something more complex, like executing a database query and serving the results using the
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
> I think the inverse is what we're talking about. Will we be able to browse NaCl sites in future browsers (possibly after an architecture change away from x86)? As it stands, we would probably be able to browse a 90's site on modern b
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
> Show me a counterexample, that's all I ask. I'd give all the rhetoric in the world for a single damned counterexample of a program format that's lasted since the 80s. That's what's at stake. ELF was defined in the late 80s/early 90s
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
NaCL is gated on PNaCL. NaCL can provide optimal performance, PNaCL can provide portability.
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by pifflesnort 14y ago
> ... there's sufficiently plausible technical and political resistance that we're probably never going to. Resistance that you contribute to with almost every article that touches on NaCL, yes. It's self-fulfilling prophesy and a cir

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