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by rsfinn 8y ago
We also have to be up by 6:45am to get our son to school, but after he's on the bus at 7:30 we typically go back to bed for an hour and a half. Would that not work for you?
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by rsfinn 9y ago
You can certainly change the meaning of well understood words in English by capitalizing them: polish != Polish, windows != Windows, etc. Furthermore, adding a hyphen to convert a noun phrase to an adjective seems to me to be a common and n
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by rsfinn 9y ago
"Fee waivers for other countries will be added as they become available." https://developer.apple.com/support/membership-fee-waiver/
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by rsfinn 9y ago
My first job out of college was porting the interpreter from Macintosh Pascal (the predecessor to Lightspeed/THINK Pascal, sold by Apple) from the Macintosh back to the Apple II (as "Apple II Instant Pascal", also sold by A
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by rsfinn 9y ago
Eeny, meeny, miney, mo, Is deterministic, so Make the outcome more elastic With a rhyme that's more stochastic. (You're welcome.)
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by rsfinn 9y ago
If you're curious (as I was), this bug does not occur in clang, as you can demonstrate for yourself by following the link to wandbox.org in the original story and changing the compiler.
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by rsfinn 10y ago
In general I don't like questions like this either, but this particular one seems designed to test your wits if not your memory: if you don't happen to remember the formula, you can quickly derive it. I bet if you said out loud &
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by rsfinn 10y ago
Perhaps because it wouldn't "look like" a traffic light and so would be potentially confusing ("Wait, do I have to stop for that, or can I just turn?").
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by rsfinn 10y ago
On the other hand, the letter O in the older American Morse was relatively short because it contained an "long" internal gap: "dit-dit" (as opposed to I being "didit" and the "word" EE being "dit
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by rsfinn 10y ago
I strongly suspect that the weight of the battery that fills the volume of the DVD-RW drive is much greater than the weight of the drive, which would violate your initial condition. So which constraint do you break to satisfy your requireme
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by rsfinn 10y ago
Oh, lord, I hate to be That Guy, but it looks like Bogdan has included an older version of Gus Mueller's FMDB library < https://github.com/ccgus/fmdb> but has failed to include a copy of the MIT License that
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by rsfinn 10y ago
The job listings on your web site don't suggest that remote work positions are available. If that's really the case, then I respectfully suggest updating the text. (I really appreciate the effort Realm has put into supporting the
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by rsfinn 10y ago
"The entire runtime " is about 6 MB, and its inclusion in your app is completely transparent. (Admittedly I'm on the Mac, and there's undoubtedly more of an impact on iOS.)
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by rsfinn 10y ago
15.10 was the latest when Swift was originally open sourced. My guess is they were a little busy over the summer to update to 16.04. :-)
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by rsfinn 10y ago
Perhaps the App Store has been upgraded in the last 10 hours, but I too simply typed "essentials" into the search bar and it worked fine (on both iOS and Mac, as well as iTunes). Didn't even need to put it in quotes. Perhaps
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by rsfinn 10y ago
> want to eject a disk? drag it to the trash can...? This is the appendix of the Mac UI. Gather round, kids, and listen to Grandpa tell you a story of the days when Macs had only one floppy disk drive. When you wanted to copy a file from
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by rsfinn 10y ago
> Want to see your notifications? Two-finger swipe to the left, starting from the edge of the touchpad. Or, y'know, you could just click the notifications icon in the menubar (the one that looks like a list of notifications)?
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by rsfinn 10y ago
Have you tried using the "Report a Problem" feature? The last few times I did so, I got pleasantly quick responses (well, quick by huge company standards, i.e. a week or so).
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by rsfinn 10y ago
There is also a github mirror at https://github.com/vadz/libtiff .
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by rsfinn 10y ago
Since the Macintosh predates Windows and Linux, it's arguably the Macintosh that set the standard and the others that are anti-establishment. :-) Seriously, Apple is very unlikely to change the keyboard defaults to match Windows, sinc
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by rsfinn 10y ago
TIL: In the year 2016, twenty-two years after the publication of "The UNIX-HATERS Handbook"[1], sendmail still finds it necessary, upon discovering the word "from" at the beginning of a line in the body of a mail message
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by rsfinn 10y ago
Perhaps you haven't heard about Pythonista, which is a full Python programming environment available on the App Store. Now there's also Playgrounds, which is a Swift programming environment that comes with the iOS 10 beta and run
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by rsfinn 10y ago
Apple the "originator of evil"? Perhaps you're too young to remember when Microsoft named a whole windows-based user interface "Windows"? At least Apple had the decency to put the letter "i" in front of
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by rsfinn 10y ago
No way ... except, perhaps, by reading TFA: "Alex said his first breakthrough was buying a collection of 50 Apple computers — enough to fill a 26-foot-long U-Haul — with $2,000 he had saved from mowing lawns." "Alex described
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by rsfinn 10y ago
Well, yes; it's called type annotation (as noted in comments both here and at the original article). Telling the compiler it's "just a String" (or more precisely a dictionary containing strings) cuts the compile time to
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by rsfinn 11y ago
It's discussed explicitly in the fourth paragraph from the end. (Well, it doesn't name the poem used for the lyrics, but that's not really the point of the article.)
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by rsfinn 11y ago
Obligatory "buy refurbished equipment from Apple" comment (full manufacturer's warranty; I've never had any problems). The refurbished Airport Extreme is $129, which seems like a pretty good deal. Try poking around under
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by rsfinn 11y ago
Does it bother anyone else that there is no page element that displays this person's name (if you didn't happen to know it already)? I mean, I guess he's supposed to be a big shot and everything... Oh, I see, if I scroll dow
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by rsfinn 11y ago
Right-click in the window's toolbar (or title bar), choose "Customize Toolbar...", and drag the "Smaller"/"Bigger" pair of control into the toolbar. I agree this is not very discoverable compared to t
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by rsfinn 11y ago
In formal debate all remarks are supposed to be addressed to the president of the deliberative body. In this case "Mr. President" may well be the President of the Senate, not the President of the United States. (Disclaimer: I have

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