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by reedlaw 12y ago
After mapping Ctrl to CapsLk, how do you manage the right Ctrl key? I try to avoid using the same hand to key chord.
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by reedlaw 12y ago
After reading about AdBlock Plus's effect on memory usage in Firefox[1] I immediately disabled it. Seeing that this is also based on the ABP codebase, I wonder if it will run into the same issue. 1. https://blog.mozilla.org&
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by reedlaw 12y ago
Exactly. I mean an engine that's optimized to render vector polygons with 2D animation. Maybe OpenGL is all you'd need, but it seems like there could be libraries that let you focus on the animation rather than the low level detai
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by reedlaw 12y ago
This is good news because it renders PDFs a lot faster and better than pdf.js that Firefox uses. Also, I would have to install this binary blob to get Chromium to render PDFs. It seems Chromium could easily adopt this, but I'm not sure
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by reedlaw 12y ago
I remember the Amiga version would flash a light in the direction you were supposed to go, or in the case of the sword, make the sword glow. It was enough of a clue to get through many scenes, but often required too quick of a reaction to p
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by reedlaw 12y ago
A polygon-based game engine still sounds like a great idea. Are there any similar, modern examples?
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by reedlaw 12y ago
Really? I had it for Amiga too and I can't remember it looking polygon-like. I recall there were multiple disks and the frame rate was very low. The resolution was only 368x567i.
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by reedlaw 12y ago
781 million registered games sounds like this is the total number of purchased games.
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by reedlaw 12y ago
When I first read that, I assumed he was teaching the class. But after checking Wikipedia I found that he received his bachelor of science degree in 1960. Now I'm astonished.
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by reedlaw 12y ago
I had that fear under Ubuntu because a new dist upgrade is usually especially unstable. Now that I use Arch I don't fear upgrades. I do perform them fairly often though, because massive upgrades in general can be problematic.
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by reedlaw 12y ago
True, there are application-specific mappings in Linux. But what gets me is the Mac keyboard layout is asymmetrical. The right-hand side does not include a Meta (Alt) key. That makes efficient keyboarding extremely inconvenient.
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by reedlaw 12y ago
"Doing stuff" for developers often includes installing and running packages such as databases, programming languages, editors, etc. On OS X, there is only an App Store built-in. You have to choose one of many package managers[1].
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by reedlaw 12y ago
I still can't understand why so many hackers/developers use OS X. Where I work doing web development, Linux machines account for less than 10% of the workstations, and the vast majority use OS X. When I tried OS X at one point I f
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by reedlaw 12y ago
Why not encourage people to pay for services they use and enjoy? The ad-supported services have mixed motives at best and tend to compromise on privacy when it affects their bottom-line. Also, there are other reasons for blocking ads beside
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by reedlaw 12y ago
I think GNU gets it right: SaaS would be more aptly termed Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS).[1] The Creative Suite used to work fine before they turned it into a cloud "service". There is no good reason to make software th
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by reedlaw 12y ago
You're right. There's a number "2" after the name of the TV in Chinese. Maybe the Chinese site is the second generation Mi TV.
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by reedlaw 12y ago
xdg-open works for me with the GNOME-configured default application.
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by reedlaw 12y ago
It's clear from the Chinese version of the site that it's 4K: http://www.mi.com/mitv
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by reedlaw 12y ago
Why not offer to host the email accounts of those you contact most frequently? Probably most of them couldn't host their own email server, and if you've already gone to the effort to do so, you can help them increase their privacy
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Test Induced Design Damage?(blog.8thlight.com)
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by reedlaw 12y ago
Yes, in fact you can use TDD to test the database itself: http://dbfit.github.io/dbfit/index.html
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by reedlaw 12y ago
Yes it is too slow. After having taking the time to build a decoupled Rails application I can tell you that having tests run in under 2 seconds has been a great help in refactoring and allowing us to quickly add new features. I can't i
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by reedlaw 12y ago
The discipline of writing tests tends to tease out design requirements fairly quickly. Because as soon as someone takes the time to think carefully about the implications of what the product owner wants, it usually results in a feedback loo
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by reedlaw 12y ago
I've never seen a project fail because of too much testing. Maybe because of an over-emphasis on process, but not because of writing too many useful tests. On the contrary, projects I've worked on fail or approach failure because
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by reedlaw 12y ago
I think what Uncle Bob is referring to are things like layout, color, and so on. Of course you can automate browser interactions with Selenium, but you can't easily catch layout changes, broken UI elements, or regressions. The only met
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by reedlaw 13y ago
It seems more likely that there's no such thing as "computer-identifiable human intelligence". Human intelligence is easily discerned by other humans.
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by reedlaw 13y ago
The headling should be "...without writing any code". Zero lines of code implies there is no generated code at all. That would be truly amazing.
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by reedlaw 13y ago
This looks nice, but I would be more excited by a startup offering affordable walking workstations. I've put together a couple of these with the cheapest one costing only $80. The price largely depends on the local availability of used
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by reedlaw 13y ago
That sounds like a good process for smaller projects. For larger projects, or projects where developer attention is a precious resource, not so much. For example, look at the detail provided by the issue submitter to the nouveau (open sourc
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by reedlaw 13y ago
Why do you think Bloomberg was any more thorough in its Heartbleed investigation than Newsweek was in outing Dorian Nakamoto as the author of Bitcoin?

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