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by rhubarbquid 10y ago
This site is pretty CPU heavy for something reminding us to respect our users' resources...
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by rhubarbquid 11y ago
In hindsight, this was probably a candidate for the basis of OS X before they decided to buy NeXT and go with that
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by rhubarbquid 11y ago
I read it as "The Marco" at first too
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by rhubarbquid 11y ago
That was my first too. What's listening for this? Good luck getting me to grant random apps permission to use my mic. It could be a "Smart" TV though, listening for your phone/tablet/laptop, or a device installed in
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by rhubarbquid 11y ago
I'm no lawyer, but encouraging registered developers to violate their contract with Apple could be pretty shaky ground, legally speaking.
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by rhubarbquid 11y ago
I've been doing contract work for a company that uses Python and Stripe, so I found that surprising too.
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by rhubarbquid 11y ago
Terrible recommendations for my neighborhood in Oakland... the top 3 recommended places are the 3 of the most popular and crowded restaurants and bars in the area. The top one being the restaurant that's so busy it's generally har
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by rhubarbquid 11y ago
> It's really interesting how OS X is the one that has a terminal emulator with the most features out there. In my experience, the vast majority of web developers use OS X. Those of us doing server side and devops work spend a lot o
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by rhubarbquid 12y ago
This error pops up for me: This site or app is sending too much traffic to rawgit.com. Please contact its owner and ask them to use cdn.rawgit.com instead, which has no traffic limit.
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by rhubarbquid 12y ago
The sound quality of land line voice connections is terrible for anything but speech. IIRC it's something like 8 bit 3 KHz
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by rhubarbquid 12y ago
Seconded. Get your legal advice from lawyers not from HN (or any other web forum).
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by rhubarbquid 12y ago
Because they didn't show any new hardware.
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by rhubarbquid 12y ago
Didn't they just announce they were going to stop doing that?
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by rhubarbquid 12y ago
> Choosing a development platform is more than just a technical decision—it’s a career decision. That's not a great argument to convince me to adopt a brand new platform
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by rhubarbquid 12y ago
> I wish we were Apple and had $159 billion in cash reserves. Apple went from near bankruptcy to that $159 billion by sweating the details. (and, I suspect, a certain amount of luck)
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by rhubarbquid 12y ago
DuckDuckGo and Blekko seem to think so.
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by rhubarbquid 12y ago
I assumed they wanted to limit the amount of feedback/bug reports they got to a level they could usefully cope with. Any new release is potentially going to have tons of issues with real world situations that never happened for develop
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by rhubarbquid 12y ago
Reporting on rumors doesn't preclude journalistic integrity.
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by rhubarbquid 12y ago
ARM didn't "come out of nowhere", it's been used in embedded and mobile systems as a low power CPU for decades now. The earliest mobile use I can find is the Apple Newton in 1993. DEC was marketing their StrongARM produ
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by rhubarbquid 12y ago
That was exactly the conclusion of the paper. The US is effectively an oligarchy.
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by rhubarbquid 13y ago
It appears to be a lamp, but other than that, I'm clueless too.
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by rhubarbquid 13y ago
a16z is almost certainly doesn't own a majority of GitHub, so it's not entirely their decision. I think it's about trying to take the question of acquisition off the table completely. The people who put money in to a16z'
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by rhubarbquid 13y ago
Sure it's likely good for the FOSS community, but he's addressing the question of if it's good for the investor. On the face of it, an open source package management system doesn't have an obvious profit model, so it&#x2
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by rhubarbquid 13y ago
> I feel this takes a way a lot of the fun. Agreed. Building the kit by the instructions was only about 1/10th of the fun. The real fun was building new stuff out of the pieces from all the sets you have.
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by rhubarbquid 13y ago
No for profit company is your friend.
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by rhubarbquid 13y ago
I assume you mean "Soylent"... though drinking solvent would probably also make you give up food
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by rhubarbquid 13y ago
In older PCs the FPU was a separate chip.
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by rhubarbquid 13y ago
Most text inputs in Mac OS support at least C-a and C-e too.
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by rhubarbquid 13y ago
Cute but nauseating.
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by rhubarbquid 13y ago
> Is this Python upgrade unusually difficult/ambitious? Yes. > Or is the Python community just very reluctant to jump on new things? In my experience no. Lots of features have been added over the years, and they seem to be adopte

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