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by schrototo 15y ago
Lodsys shares an "office" (a nondescript door in a corridor of empty rooms) with one of Intellectual Ventures' known shell companies. I'm sure it's just a coincidence...
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by schrototo 15y ago
> But, what significant inventions can we credit to Microsoft? They put a computer in every home.
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by schrototo 15y ago
It's a nice piece of documentation, but what exactly does this make on the front page of HN? What's there to discuss?
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Aaron Seigo talks about the KDE SC 5.0 - and more(derstandard.at)
1 points by schrototo 15y ago|0 comments
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by schrototo 15y ago
The Daily Mail? Seriously?
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by schrototo 15y ago
That's pretty neat, but returning the undo operation puts the responsibility of actually keeping track of undo operations on the caller side. I think it'd be better having each function push it's corresponding undo operation onto some globa
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by schrototo 15y ago
I thought most of webOS was built on somewhat high-level web technologies like node.js? Why would they use something like that in embedded systems?
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by schrototo 15y ago
I really like the detailed analysis, but I'm not sure about the changes he proposes. For example, those 32 pixel toolbar buttons in his example look... off.
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by schrototo 15y ago
Well, the in-call double-height status bar is documented behavior. Of course you have to account for that possibility. But a different aspect ratio altogether? On other platforms different screen sizes aren't a problem since that's been the
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by schrototo 15y ago
So Carl Friedrich Gauss could have patented his FFT algorithm, since it would take 160 years for the next guys to come up with it on their own?
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by schrototo 15y ago
If Apple brings out an new device with different physical characteristics (Apple TV, iPad 3 w/ retina display), you'll have to port your apps to that device anyway . Using iPhone apps on an iPad (or non-retina apps on a retina display) suc
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by schrototo 15y ago
Why oh why does profanity ever need to be filtered out?
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by schrototo 15y ago
As a developer, I would much rather write a more expensive high-quality app than some bargain bin POS.
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by schrototo 15y ago
From the website: The draft versions of the license currently published are practically unreadable. An updated and vastly simplified draft will be published within the next couple weeks. And at the bottom: Last Modified on April 27 200
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by schrototo 15y ago
M$ This right here disqualifies any legitimate point you might have made in your post.
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by schrototo 15y ago
Direct links to the four parts of the video, in MP4 format: http://stream.hpi.uni-potsdam.de:8080/download/podcast/HPIK_... http://stream.hpi.uni-potsdam.de:8080/download/podcast/HPIK_... http://stream.hpi.uni-potsdam.de:8080/download/
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by schrototo 15y ago
If I remember correctly from this and last years WWDC, large parts (if not all by now) of iOS and OS X Lion are built with Clang/LLVM and have been for some time. I'd say Clang's been ready for a while!
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by schrototo 15y ago
Kris Rudin, Senior Developer and Associate Partner at digital marketing agency Ascentium says, "One 'lost skill' that I see all the time with new developers -- how to debug without an integrated debugger. When I started programming (in 198
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Detecting and Escaping Infinite Loops with Jolt(people.csail.mit.edu)
1 points by schrototo 15y ago|0 comments
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by schrototo 15y ago
While I thought Our Choice was a pretty snazzy product, and I think it's a shame that they're discontinuing work on their publishing platform, they did have a somewhat conservative approach to ebooks. No selectable text, "interactivity" t
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by schrototo 15y ago
I agree with that, but I don't understand how e.g. hiding the Library folder puts too much of a burden on those few who really need to access it. They're probably at home on the command line anyway. Sure, simplifications can go too far so
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by schrototo 15y ago
Seems like a pretty half-assed product. "Vodafone 555 Blue", really, that's what you're gonna call it? Anyone remember the Motorola ROKR? Yeah, exactly...
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by schrototo 15y ago
Just for comparison's sake, here's the version in everyone's favorite bastard child of Smalltalk and C, Objective-C: valid = [self baseBottomBetween:[self ligatureBottom]+[self height] and:[self base]];
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by schrototo 15y ago
I think every wannabe-hacker wants to "hack" the CIA and Arizona's racist laws have been covered extensively on comedy programs like The Daily Show which I'd imagine are popular with anti-authoritarian internet-savvy youths worldwide.
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by schrototo 15y ago
Not face recognition, face detection . The new APIs [1] make it possible to detect if an image contains faces and returns position data of various face features (eyes and mouth). There is no way to recognize which person a face belongs
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by schrototo 15y ago
Aside from the fact that no Apple product will ever have a Blu-ray drive (Jobs: "a bag of hurt"), it wouldn't make sense to phase out optical media on their computers but give the displays built-in drives. The future is digital distribution
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by schrototo 15y ago
This is horrible. Why can't I scroll? Why do I have to use the sidebar to go through the sections? Why do I have to click the tiny arrow thing at the bottom to get to the next page?
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by schrototo 15y ago
It's a physical address [1] and in the radio show they actually visit it. They describe the location as being a little eerie: The office was in a corridor where all the other doors looked exactly the same —locked, nameplates over the door,
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by schrototo 15y ago
There are new APIs in Lion that enable the system to automatically quit applications if they're not needed at the moment. Pretty much like iOS.
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by schrototo 15y ago
> and it’s taken them this long to learn how to quit an app, as opposed to simply closing its windows. Well that's the whole point: they shouldn't need to know the difference. The system should take care of that and beginning with Lio

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