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by rsfinn 12y ago
Let's posit "middle-aged" means "in their 40s". She's a junior in college, so let's say 20 or so. So you're suggesting that objecting to getting pickup lines from people literally old enough to be h
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by rsfinn 12y ago
Famously, from the definition of "drool-proof" ( http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/drool-proof-paper.html ): "Do not expose your LaserWriter to open fire or flame." The closest actual source
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by rsfinn 12y ago
Well, I don't like to say I told you so, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6148415 (No, I didn't actually nominate it; I'm too lazy. But I'm delighted it won, even though it beat Saga to do so.)
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by rsfinn 12y ago
Hey, I had that about twenty years ago. The only symptom I had was that I would wake up with a headache for no apparent reason (not a migraine, but frequently nausea-inducing). My ophthalmologist detected it during a regular examination an
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by rsfinn 12y ago
He did say he was going to write a series of articles about Swift. Give him time. :-) The main "aha" point of this article for me was the way optional values eliminate a whole class of programming errors that are pervasive in th
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by rsfinn 12y ago
I agree with the bulk of your statement, which is why the last three Apple computers I've bought with my own money have been refurbs. However, people that walk into an Apple store to buy a computer don't want to buy a "used&q
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by rsfinn 12y ago
Kara Swisher reports[1] that his intent in selling stock was to raise money to donate to medical research: There was, in fact, a question at a recent “tea time” — bi-weekly employee meetings with top execs — about Rowghani’s large sale of
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by rsfinn 12y ago
I've been getting books by Jonathan Swift. What's in your search history? :-)
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by rsfinn 12y ago
Actually: 1. Buy a Mac mini for $600, which doesn't strike me as particularly expensive. 2. There is no step 2. 3. Download Xcode from the Mac App Store for free.
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by rsfinn 13y ago
Yes, but RFC 2549 was actually implemented in Norway, successfully sending a ping and receiving responses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers#Real-li...
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by rsfinn 13y ago
It's unlikely that they'll announce a new iPhone at WWDC, since (as others have pointed out) it's been years since they've done new hardware announcements (apart from the Mac Pro in 2008 and again last year.) However, it
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by rsfinn 13y ago
> (By the way, the course on web applications is now the main project-based course on software engineering at MIT, and it is now taught in Ruby.) Which one is that? As far as I can tell, the "new" 6.170 (6.S197) uses Python (or
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by rsfinn 13y ago
Which is fine, but in my experience flaws like this are often introduced via automated merges that could as easily have resulted in: if (...) { goto fail; } if (...) { goto fail; } goto fail; if (...) { goto fail
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by rsfinn 13y ago
Possibly because you haven't moved to Python 3?
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by rsfinn 13y ago
What do you do when someone reports a bug on a device you don't have, and you can't reproduce it on one of the devices you do have? Genuinely curious (I'm a software developer but not on Android).
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by rsfinn 13y ago
How long? How about, when Apple controls 95% of the smartphone OS market? When Apple gets a license fee for every smartphone shipped, regardless of whether it runs that Apple OS? Seriously, I get that a lot of people here don't like no
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by rsfinn 13y ago
The original article is confusing. Boot Camp is of course free, but only permits rebooting a Mac into Windows. For $70 one could purchase VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop, and run Windows side by side with OS X. The author of the Washingt
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by rsfinn 13y ago
All right, that does it. If I see ONE MORE CAT on the Internet, I'm leaving. I mean it. Don't push me. Edit: Oh, they're adoptable? Well, all right then; I'm for that.
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by rsfinn 13y ago
He apparently had the bad luck to own the most recently made model of Macintosh that will not run Mountain Lion; virtually every other Mac from 2008 is OK. The business case for supporting older computers is very different for Microsoft (
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by rsfinn 13y ago
He must have the last plastic MacBook (4,1), which has a 32-bit EFI firmware and will not boot a 64-bit kernel; Mountain Lion only has a 64-bit kernel. So, even if one thinks it should run Mountain Lion, it can't run Mountain Lion
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by rsfinn 13y ago
I'm prepared to nominate this for a Hugo award. I just double-checked the categories to make sure it goes in "Best Graphic Story" and not "Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)".
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by rsfinn 13y ago
Well, first of all, OS X is based on BSD and not Linux, which would affect even simple command line utilities. (I'm not even sure the kernel ABI is compatible.) More to the point, there's the lack of Mac-specific frameworks (e.g.
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by rsfinn 14y ago
That's how it worked in Lion, but Mountain Lion behaves differently -- you get the duplicate with its file name selected, so you can rename it, but the original stays modified unless you think to immediately pick "Revert to last saved versi
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by rsfinn 15y ago
This is largely because of the GPL, not because of the App Store. In other words, it's not that the App Store says "you can't distribute software licensed under the GPL"; it's because the terms of the GPL (which the software's author chose
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by rsfinn 15y ago
They do it that way because that's the way they do it. :-) I've seen the use of "this Babbage" in contexts where e.g. the New York Times would say "this reporter". This would seem to acknowledge that there are multiple authors for these b
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by rsfinn 16y ago
Actually, it looks like Apple's approach is WebKit2 < http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2> , which will handle the UI/web process separation itself, allowing any client application to benefit (as opposed to Chromium's current approa