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by shimonamit 16y ago
In DirectX you will lose exclusive control of the screen and all rendering surfaces if your app loses focus. Retaining focus is not possible, unless by way of trickery. Game forums are riddled with developers trying to overcome this problem
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by shimonamit 16y ago
In such a case an IT admin remote controlling a PC, or an employee goofing off with Windows Player will prevent my app from gaining exclusivity. That does not solve the problem. Also, exclusive access to the screen does not guarantee your
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by shimonamit 16y ago
Unfortunately that is not the case. Things like NetMeeting and other remote desktop control apps do the same.
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by shimonamit 16y ago
Now, if they could only provide a way to disable previews...
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Newly Found Color Pics of San Francisco After 1906 Quake(sfist.com)
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by shimonamit 16y ago
Woz, you around? That gave me a good laugh! If it is of any interest, in the following video which was posted a while back on HN, Steve Wozniak tells how he co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs, and amongst other things, how he hackishly brou
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by shimonamit 16y ago
Hebrew
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by shimonamit 16y ago
On the contrary. As suggested by another commenter, it could be used to improve their algorithm. Greater number of exclusions would reduce their relevance.
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by shimonamit 16y ago
Maybe this could be implemented in the way of sticky search operators? So for example, I could define -site:efreedom.com as an operator to be applied silently for every search I make.
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Ruby on Windows – The Last Frontier(engineyard.com)
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by shimonamit 16y ago
Just to clarify, Wicket is not moving to Scala. This is a version of Wicket implemented in Scala, created by an independent developer. Also, the (friendly) author claims 100,077 loc in Scala in his rewrite (vs. current 137,791 loc in Java
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by shimonamit 16y ago
An "IE6 compatibility mode" for Chrome anyone? That would be the last hurdle for corporate adoption. Now that's what I call "low barrier of entry"!
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by shimonamit 16y ago
Corporate-land is still IE in the high percentages, including IE6. Hoping, wishing Chrome's new "ready for business" features will dent that...
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by shimonamit 16y ago
I'll remember that. Thanks!
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by shimonamit 16y ago
I'm still dreaming of a search engine that parses regular expressions. When that happens I'm there. Yesterday.
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by shimonamit 16y ago
The backdrop on this topic is the recent news of Debian's Ruby package maintainer quitting, mostly due to issues he has with the Ruby core community and the maintenance/release process. This post by Matz was supposedly submitted to debunk t
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by shimonamit 16y ago
Matz compiles. He doesn't use Debian's packaging.
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by shimonamit 16y ago
Yes, it was a sour-face moment when I saw that. In fact I came back to HN to see if anyone else saw it. The hidden majesty and serenity of nature, suddenly revealed, is defiled by our invasive devices.
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TechStars Boston Applications Are Heating Up(feld.com)
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JRuby Finally Installs ruby-debug Gem(blog.headius.com)
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by shimonamit 16y ago
I was 14 when I began tinkering with the BASIC code of the DOS 'Gorillas' and 'Nibbles' games. I loved changing the color schemes and making the bananas fly ridiculously fast.
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by shimonamit 16y ago
> er... think I'l stop before this looks like a post on Lifehacker or something :) Yea, let's lay low. We don't want gnosis thinking we're another gawker site or something.
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JSMentors.com: JavaScript Mentoring Mailing List(jsmentors.com)
1 points by shimonamit 16y ago|0 comments
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Step Function Growth(avc.com)
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by shimonamit 16y ago
Stanford puts their courses on YouTube. Here is the first session: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQzLHgls63E You can also see the syllabus and paraphernalia (including source code) here: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drup
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What Percentage of 2010 Seed Deals Won’t Raise The Next Round?(feld.com)
2 points by shimonamit 16y ago|0 comments
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by shimonamit 16y ago
I was once late to the airport (in Israel) where I was scheduled to pick up my mother. I parked the car and ran towards the gate. A guard was standing at the entrance with her hands crossed doing nothing by observing. When she saw me coming
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by shimonamit 16y ago
I remapped 'hjkl' to 'jkl;' and never looked back.
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by shimonamit 16y ago
Might I say, "the up and coming MacRuby platform Apple has designs for"? At least a couple of the committers are Apple employees. But I misattributed the project as being "theirs", which apparently isn't true.
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by shimonamit 16y ago
Speculative, but could this be an early preventative measure to keep JRuby from challenging their up and coming MacRuby platform?

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