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by rryyan 16y ago
Could anyone explain what the "mouse ahead" feature of X is? It's mentioned in the article and it piqued my curiosity -- googling has been unhelpful.
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by rryyan 16y ago
The internet is also relatively young. Is it not unreasonable that the pace of change might stabilize over time, and a few long-term players will emerge? What I'm saying is -- I don't think the internet itself is old enough that there enoug
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by rryyan 16y ago
Just because it's interesting -- The University of Illinois has a cluster of 768 G5 Xserves: http://www.cse.illinois.edu/turing/ . It doesn't appear to actually run OS X though (Fedora instead).
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by rryyan 16y ago
But if he had gotten into a car, and accidentally driven into a pedestrian, he would be called a drunk driver and he would face punishment for his actions. What I'm saying is, there are limits to "losing control".
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by rryyan 16y ago
CSS inheritance order seems to be a common source of confusion/frustration among those new to CSS. The relevant section of the actual specification document is actually a nice, short reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#cascad
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by rryyan 16y ago
He mentions that the task is a small, specific code change (I imagine planned in advance), and that another developer sits with the new hire for the whole day. I didn't get the impression that it's a "trial by fire" kind of scenario. Overal
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by rryyan 16y ago
I don't think Apple is deliberately treating non-US customers as second-class customers. If it wasn't for the Energy Policy Act of 2005 [1], the US would have changed their clocks yesterday as well. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_
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Introduction to tmux (alternative to GNU screen)(blog.hawkhost.com)
75 points by rryyan 16y ago|23 comments
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by rryyan 16y ago
I'd say this is a characteristic that's fairly common among Windows applications (especially less-reputable software) but uncommon among Mac applications. My anecdotal evidence from helping friends and family is that Macs don't suffer from
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by rryyan 16y ago
Jobs and Ellison are buddies -- I would find it surprising if Oracle went after Apple over some Java legal issue. My bet is on shoddy UI, plus the time invested vs. payoff balance.
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by rryyan 16y ago
It's worth mentioning that AIR apps do not use native UI widgets. (and in my opinion: the Flex widgets kind of suck)
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by rryyan 16y ago
The article in question: http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1285659877.html
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Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers(prog21.dadgum.com)
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by rryyan 16y ago
Microsoft also removed the UAC prompts in some cases in Windows 7: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/02/the-curious-ta...
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by rryyan 16y ago
It sounds like we need a nice, harmless, amorphous name like "Web 2.0" that the press can use to describe the new wave of next-generation websites. How about: "Web 3.0"
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by rryyan 16y ago
An acquisition sounds really out there to me -- the product lines & culture don't seem to match up well, and it's hard to imagine Microsoft running Adobe as some sort of separate entity. More likely: a partnership with Adobe involving F
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by rryyan 16y ago
A related issue here is what happens when a user deletes a photo -- there is a lag time between the delete action and the CDN being updated. Deleted photos are still available via the direct image URL while the CDN is out of sync. As of Jul
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by rryyan 16y ago
I'm curious about this and Googling failed me, do you have a link?
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by rryyan 16y ago
downforeveryoneorjustme was throwing errors when I tried it: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com
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by rryyan 16y ago
Gruber linked to a developer who doubled the iPhone 4's framerate (to 45 FPS) with a simple optimization: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/09/20/not-so-fast Looks like the improved version erases just the previous frame's ball, inste
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by rryyan 16y ago
There is an interesting comment: "Looks like the new policy would allow to have VM included in the app itself. Why not focus instead on the VM instead of this as3 to native code conversion (sure the innovation in one can already help the o
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by rryyan 16y ago
I think it's been doomed for a few years now, really. Steve even neglected to mention MySpace in his presentation -- he compared Ping to Facebook and Twitter. Maybe it's just me, but I've almost completely forgotten about MySpace when I thi
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by rryyan 16y ago
What does this code do?
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by rryyan 16y ago
Take a look at the comments on Motorola's Facebook page to see (relatively) mainstream users caring about the version of Android their phones are running: http://www.facebook.com/motorola . The complaints about un-updated phones are relent
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by rryyan 16y ago
Agreed. The problem is, I don't think phone manufacturers are adding enough value in their enhancements for customers to care. As it stands now, the new features that Google adds in every update to Android are much more desirable than whate
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by rryyan 16y ago
I think this was the original idea. But now Apple is a direct competitor (iAds), and clearly not shy about blocking competitors from their platform. Microsoft (or whoever) could do the same as well. It makes sense for Google to control and
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by rryyan 16y ago
I agree. For example, many people view the "Mac and PC" ads as being about uncool vs. cool -- I think the actual marketing message is more about technology-that-does-what-I-want vs. technology-that-doesn't-do-what-I-want[1]. The Mac in the
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by rryyan 16y ago
There was some news from a few weeks ago that Google is testing out this functionality: http://lifehacker.com/5578666/google-apps-vs-google-accounts...
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by rryyan 16y ago
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, the GNU project, and original author of emacs and gcc ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman , http://stallman.org/ )
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by rryyan 16y ago
As an aside: I thought this quote from an Apple spokesperson was interesting, given Microsoft's plan to encourage employees to develop Windows Phone apps "in their spare time" [1]: "Apple’s policy allows for employees to have apps on the A

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