reedlaw

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   by reedlaw 12y ago

   Apple can say they don't automatically copy over songs purchased in another region. Allowing you to "purchase" the songs again for free sounds like a workaround that the parent found. However you look at it it's not for
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   by reedlaw 12y ago

   > Normally, I have nightly backups to iCloud, but since they are (unfortunately) not as thorough, I made a full local backup to my MacBook, and restored it on the new iPad mini with Retina. Sounds like he made an effort to preserve his f
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   by reedlaw 12y ago

   It is Apple's fault because they could have easily defaulted to preserving all songs rather than deleting them. It took extra work for Apple programmers to add a function to iTunes that removes songs not purchased in the same region. W
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   by reedlaw 12y ago

   Maybe it has something to do with edX's Functional Programming 101 course[1]. 1. https://courses.edx.org/courses/DelftX/FP101x/3T2014/5074063...
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   by reedlaw 12y ago

   I would guess search on part numbers printed on the PCBs.
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   by reedlaw 12y ago

   I don't think it's the same. I've also noticed that nearly all apartment complex, villa, or furniture mall advertisements feature a style that could be described as Baroque. There are markets for traditional Chinese style fur
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   by reedlaw 12y ago

   Beats me. I've filed issues with both Firefox[1] and Gnome[2]. 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065236 2. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736669
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   by reedlaw 12y ago

   I get about 2-3 FPS on Firefox 33 for Linux. Could be the Nouveau driver. The Nvidia driver slows down Firefox so I can't switch back.
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   by reedlaw 12y ago

   I'm on 38.0.2125.104 64-bit Linux. The alert now says "WebGL is not supported on this device :(" so maybe it's a Linux thing.
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    Chromium: "WebGL is not supported" Firefox: laggy on UtlraLow settings I've wanted to get behind WebGL for so long but if it can't work as well as the OpenGL ES running on my phone then I will just have to wait and see i
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    There are watermarks on the images.
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    Would it run under Kona? [1] 1. https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    I suggest taking a look at Physically Based Rendering [1]. It goes through an advanced rendering system in a literate coding style. That is, the physical explanations are interspersed with the code of an open source renderer [2]. I'm n
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    All I get is: Specified "type" attribute of "video/mp4" is not supported. Load of media resource http://i.imgur.com/zvATqgs.mp4 failed.
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    You needn't be bothered about not sharing the same frustrations as others. Jonathan Blow is a game developer so the low-level memory management is very important. As a high-level programmer, you may never run into the same issues. That
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    Not so much if you work a normal 40 hour workweek. That leaves some productive energy for evenings and weekends.
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    Yes, Saturdays are not "required" work days for white collar workers, but overtime is the norm and often approaches 60 hours. For blue collar workers I've seen 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Yep, not a single day off despite
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    There is a downside to hacking-as-livelihood. Many workers are overworked. They hack for a living, but seldom have time to hack for fun. This is especially true among software developers. There are far fewer activities organized around prog
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    I think inflation has more of an effect on savings than earnings, but what you said about supporting a family 50 years ago rings true. I don't think today's salaries go as far as they did in the past few decades.
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    With iron there is scarcity and extraction costs. Free software displaces proprietary software which benefits just about everyone except the proprietary software companies.
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    Did you see the Economist article on the front page today?[1] It asserts that technology fails to boost wages and that over-education is a problem because of a failure to create enough suitable jobs. I don't know if that's all tru
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    My big question is how can software--particularly free software--create jobs? Take operating systems. With free alternatives the trend is towards commoditization and declining prices. Same goes for almost any category of desktop software. T
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    Heroku has its own issues. Maybe they will fix them quickly, maybe not. At least on your own server you are in charge.
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    I had a fake Lenovo power supply burn on me. Couldn't tell it was a fake except by the price being pretty low. I purchased "Toblerone" chocolate on Taobao and it came unboxed (just a foil wrapper) and didn't taste the sa
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    It's not so much about appearance as about safety. Do you want your replacement laptop power supply to burn up? Are you sure that chocolate was made to the same standards as those of the brand owner? Even for clothing, North Fakes are
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    While Taobao can be a treasure trove, an important warning is that around 90% of the brand-name items are fakes. As long as you're not after brand names, there are a lot of great bargains. If you want to buy geniune imported goods, bet
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    I still don't understand comparing Javascript to Clojurescript in terms of closeness to Common Lisp. Could someone explain what makes CL and Clojure so radically different?
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    Yes, clearly it's wrong, and I've had instances disappear myself. But it happens rarely enough, and some don't want the overhead of running another instance or ensuring an application has zero downtime. There is a large spect
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    That's true, but how many services get this right in practice? It's not easy to ensure all instances will perform well in case of failover. A lot of apps are running on a single instance and depend on Amazon's fairly good tra
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    by reedlaw 12y ago

    I feel the same way towards Macs. Macs "just work" out of the box until you try to customize anything or install up to date dev tools. Gnome 3 works out of the box (for me at least). Plus you have source code if you need to debug