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by pzone 8y ago
"Indexing isn't counting" is not a fact; it is a language implementation choice inherited from C. It may be a useful choice for systems programming but it is not necessarily the best choice for every language.
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by pzone 8y ago
That ceases to be the case once you start taking money from outside investors. You don't own the company anymore: the shareholders do.
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by pzone 8y ago
What's the #1 objection?
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by pzone 8y ago
Photoshop doesn't require a beefy workstation unless you give it a particulatly heavy workload. (8k resolution, 500px brush radius, dozens of layers) For basic manipulation like color adjustment and retouching, an iPad is perfectly cap
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by pzone 8y ago
That is awesome to hear. It's hard to believe KDE does as much as it does with such a small budget - almost entirely volunteer based.
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by pzone 8y ago
Well you're damn lucky then. This is a case of public policy where the typical upper middle class guy who drinks a glass of red wine every night with dinner is not helpful in understanding the problem. I've seen people's live
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by pzone 8y ago
Venerable is correct here.
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by pzone 8y ago
What a terrible disease.
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by pzone 8y ago
Depends on your use case, but the more common paradigm for reusable and procedural image compositing is the idea of a node graph. Prople prefer to work this way for the interactive visualization. This kind of functionality is found in Natro
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by pzone 8y ago
That helps America's adversaries as much as anyone else.
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by pzone 8y ago
> It's just the short sellers who could bankrupt Tesla. But that's their job. Let's be clear that the thing that the only thing that could actually cause Tesla to go bankrupt would be failing to produce and deliver product
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by pzone 8y ago
Suppose an American buys a beautiful old property in the middle of Havana for $1M USD. Your claim is that this is harmful to Cubans because renovating this property will cause it to lose some of its charm. But you're forgetting about h
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by pzone 8y ago
Which is more or less the strategy in the Emacs codebase - the intention is to incrementally port to lexical binding on a per-file basis. (This is seen through the annotation - - lexical-binding:t - - at the top of many .el files.)
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by pzone 8y ago
The reason for this organization is that many of the key components of the VFX platform are open source, but not open governance. They live inside Dreamworks, Disney, etc. but without any sort of public collaboration model. You can't c
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by pzone 8y ago
There are all kinds of quirks and questionable decisions in this presentation. It's good data but I found myself doing a double take every other chart.
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by pzone 8y ago
And do your calculations include subsidies? In that case it's not necessarily "saving cash" but "taking a transfer payment from taxpayers."
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by pzone 8y ago
This is super cool! Nobody else seems to be writing about Wayland in a luicid and straightforward way.
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by pzone 8y ago
Well, I used it to make a donation to Krita that comes with free automatic desktop updates.
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by pzone 8y ago
Comparing stock variables (Pension liability shortfall) vs. flow variables (GDP, a rate of annual output) is a mistake that peeves me to no end. That said, the pension shortfall is a disaster playing out in slow motion. We're just wait
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by pzone 8y ago
It is my personal choice for a KDE distribution. It is hard to find a combo of "solid and reliable" and "runs KDE" within the Red Hat and Debian distro families.
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by pzone 8y ago
Of course the only reason we use the term "American" is because of the USA! It's a natural term for residents of the USA, and has become ingrained in English by virtue of America being the largest English speaking country for
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by pzone 8y ago
No, Dodd-Frank is in fact bureaucratically onerous. The cost of paperwork has nothing to do with whether or not the documents are actually on paper.
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by pzone 8y ago
You can write a ray tracer in a weekend. http://in1weekend.blogspot.com/2016/01/ray-tracing-in-one-we... Improvements to commercial render engines today are often these days about adding new features and improving
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by pzone 8y ago
$1400/24 is not a very fair comparison. Just to start, I bet these guys have to sleep significantly more than 8 hours per day, and that's no different from any other job involving strenuous labor. Also, living in a cramped pod doe
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by pzone 8y ago
A few times, but so far GNU has held on.
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by pzone 8y ago
Dismissing large sums of money like that in terms of percentages can really get you into trouble. Sure, it's "only" 5% more for a $1.5M property. Another way to think of it is as a 30 thousand dollar roadblock facing anyone w
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by pzone 8y ago
Compilers and IDEs are resource intensive pieces of software and VS is over twenty years old. I can imagine innumerable opportunities over the years to increase performance by assuming the size of certain variables in memory. That kind of s
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by pzone 8y ago
And OneNote would be happily qualified as a database project even without the truism. The whole point of the thing is to quickly and consistently synchronize multimedia notes across computers.
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by pzone 8y ago
Places like Marin county are nice to live in. More people would be very happy to move there. This could happen if Marin county built more housing, but the residents who currently live there can vote against it. The YIMBY movement identifies
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by pzone 8y ago
Regarding the latter point: one of the goals of modernizing the system is that it should give the IRS the capability to implement a modern fraud detection system, or calculate your taxes for you (if Intuit ever lets that happen.)

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