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   by sid0 16y ago

   No, it's not just marketshare, it's the first derivative of the marketshare too. Nokia and RIM are slipping, while PC gaming is growing and console gaming is shrinking. And remember that since PC game sales are mostly digital now, the amoun
2. 272.▲
   by sid0 16y ago

   So consoles are basically killing off PC gaming The whole "PC gaming is dead" adage has been repeated for years now, but is simply not true. These are figures for the US, where console gaming is bigger than everywhere except Japan: http:
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   by sid0 16y ago

   > The "DNF" header can't be a serious proposal since it doesn't follow the convention of other HTTP headers. Why do you say that? The Do Not Track header (which is of course quite serious) is "DNT".
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   by sid0 16y ago

   Thanks. That's somewhat disappointing, I guess.
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   by sid0 16y ago

   The person was talking about Rice's theorem [1], I believe. (It follows rather quickly from the unsolvability of the halting problem.) Proofs of program correctness might be exact for some programs, but Rice's theorem implies that you will
6. 276.▲
   by sid0 16y ago

   Is there a record of the experiment online somewhere?
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   by sid0 16y ago

   I think the Khan academy has a solution to this particular problem. Salman in his TED talk proposed that students view the videos in their own time for the basics, then engage in problem solving in class so that the teacher can devote much
8. 278.▲
   by sid0 16y ago

   Yes, that should work.
9. 279.▲
   by sid0 16y ago

   You should set your page's charset to UTF-8.
10. 280.▲
    by sid0 16y ago

    Mine is. We have IPv6 enabled (so it works within the intranet), but it isn't actually routed to the external internet. Last I checked the network admins were waiting for an IPv6-capable firewall to be installed before enabling the routes.
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    by sid0 16y ago

    Thanks for the tip!
12. 282.▲
    by sid0 16y ago

    Crude scoping (eg "var s = 'foo'" in an inner loop will have that defined outside of that). I'm curious why you didn't mention this as a problem with Python.
13. 283.▲
    by sid0 16y ago

    Thankfully both the most widely used desktop OSes in the world don't have case sensitivity.
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    by sid0 16y ago

    All you need to do is update to newer drivers. You can also force enable stuff via about:config if you wish, and at your own risk. The blacklisting is simply risk aversion -- I'm sure you're familiar with the concept. A slow browser's bette
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    by sid0 16y ago

    Flux on Windows unfortunately has trouble with a few games.
16. 286.▲
    by sid0 16y ago

    Then Google should control the Android trademark. Firefox is open-source, yet the trademark is strictly controlled.
17. 287.▲
    by sid0 16y ago

    Old graphics drivers usually have severe stability issues, so Mozilla blacklists them. You need to update to more recent ones -- anything after around June 2010 should do. Check out about:support for more information. (Note that if you're o
18. 288.▲
    by sid0 16y ago

    Maximize as in what your OS allows you to do. edit: Oh, Windows XP. You'll have to disable the menu bar to get it to work there, I think.
19. 289.▲
    by sid0 16y ago

    Session restore saves your tab groups.
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    by sid0 16y ago

    It is invaluable when I'm doing research or development and I want to "swap out" something that I'm working on to focus on something else. Since that takes up the vast majority of my time -- yeah, I use it a lot.
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    by sid0 16y ago

    Yes, just install it to a different folder. The only thing you need to make sure is to use different profiles for 3 and 4. You should edit the 3 shortcut to point to a dedicated web dev profile.
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    by sid0 16y ago

    Historically major updates have been offered only after a minor release or two.
23. 293.▲
    by sid0 16y ago

    I meant less convoluted for the user. :) It really sucks that there's no way to do native extensions in Chrome other than the NPAPI hack. Even an equivalent to Firefox's js-ctypes would be awesome.
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    by sid0 16y ago

    Further into the comments, it is acknowledged that HTML + CSS is, in fact, not Turing Complete and that the original premise was incorrect. There is some discussion over what Turing complete means (including a guy confusing complexity wit
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    by sid0 16y ago

    Why is this here? To show the hidden complexity behind such a seemingly simple operation, I presume. To also show what sort of effects leaky abstractions can cause. I found the cache-dependent cases particularly interesting in that regard
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    by sid0 16y ago

    Wow, the way you're doing it seems really convoluted. I wonder if using an NPAPI plugin would be easier? I know this would be tons easier as a Firefox extension.
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    by sid0 16y ago

    While it is simple and trite, how is it profound? All human activity is change by that definition.
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    by sid0 16y ago

    Firefox uses NSS for SSL on all platforms, including Windows -- are you referring to something else? edit: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Server_Name_I... seems to indicate that Firefox supports it on all platforms.
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    by sid0 16y ago

    Prelude> 5 `div` 2 2 Haskell's doing the right thing here by having a separate function for integer division. It makes no sense to overload / to mean both regular and integer division.
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    by sid0 16y ago

    Where exactly were you mixing integers and floats? In my experience it doesn't come up too often, and if it does (e.g. writing area = 2 * pi * r) you'd be better served changing the 2 to 2.0.