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   by sid0 16y ago

   I ignored the title and read the actual content (you generally need to tell me to RTFT, not RTFA :) ). I see what you mean now. About the virus plague -- yes, I was hit by Blaster on XP too, but MS seems to have really started getting secur
2. 572.▲
   by sid0 16y ago

   "Old-skool"? Does Mac OS X do sub-pixel positioning yet?
3. 573.▲
   by sid0 16y ago

   I downvoted his post because I found his argument to be completely off-topic. "I hate Microsoft" has just about nothing to do with a post describing what is new in C#.
4. 574.▲
   by sid0 16y ago

   Because static typing is really, really useful?
5. 575.▲
   by sid0 16y ago

   You need sleep or hibernate. It'll be faster than any sort of bootup. My laptop wakes up from sleep in less than a second.
6. 576.▲
   by sid0 16y ago

   Widows? Seriously? I thought we're above juvenile name-calling here. Also, startup time simply isn't a big deal. It's a big deal for people who dual-boot, but I think dual-booting is just stupid when virtualization is so easy.
7. 577.▲
   by sid0 17y ago

   Discrete , not discreet . I had a lot of trouble parsing that sentence (oh, so the status bar application has flashy graphics by default and OS X somehow forces it to have less flashy graphics?) before I realized what the title meant.
8. 578.▲
   by sid0 17y ago

   > Webkit has used Quartz on OS X to do accelerated drawing for a long time, and Apple's port to Windows had basic hardware compositing Quartz Compositor, as the name suggests, can only do compositing. This isn't just compositing. Wind
9. 579.▲
   by sid0 17y ago

   Nice, though I don't see a speed difference between the examples.
10. 580.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    Yeah, it's pretty slow with Chrome. There's no "input lag" with hardware-accelerated Firefox though.
11. 581.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    Could the person who downvoted me elaborate on why he downvoted me? The newest Firefox nightly has Direct2D. If WebKit is "soundly ... beating" Gecko on every front, then one of those fronts would be hardware acceleration. When did WebKit
12. 582.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    > considering how soundly Webkit is beating Gecko on every front When did WebKit get support for Direct2D?
13. 583.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    Wait, is the proposal for all pornographic sites to be necessarily limited to .xxx? If it is, then I agree that it's a matter of concern. If it isn't, then I don't see your point.
14. 584.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    So what's the harm in that?
15. 585.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    > For breaking the terms of the app store and including representations of public figures (without consent?) in the app. So for satire?
16. 586.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    And Little Wheel, good as it is, is nothing compared to the likes of Machinarium (which is $20 for PC, and worth every penny). Guess what Machinarium is written in? Flash .
17. 587.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    I'm guessing invokeinterface is a synonym for invokevirtual.
18. 588.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    > Insisting on using fixed swap partitions made sense twenty years ago, but it sure as hell doesn't today as long as you do GC. The main advantage of using fixed swap partitions is that you don't have to go through the file system to ac
19. 589.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    I think they're tacking on features to iTunes instead of creating a separate application because iTunes already works on Windows. edit: well, for some definition of work anyway.
20. 590.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    Positive in what sense? Positive in the sense of greatest good of the greatest number? That sounds awfully like utilitarianism, where the definition of moral and your definition of good would roughly coincide. It seems like you're unable to
21. 591.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    > Not that it's right and good, but wholly fair and justifiable and moral. Typically "good" in this context is equated with "moral", so I'm a little confused with your statement. Could you please elaborate?
22. 592.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    I'm sort of disappointed the graph isn't connected.
23. 593.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    His comment about ORM is interesting. I'm about to start a small database project for my class, and we've chosen web.py to work with. To us web.py seems like the right level of abstraction -- it allows us to do simple things with a nice pyt
24. 594.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    Yeah, and then please take a theory of computation course before attempting to parse something like HTML using regexes. :)
25. 595.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    What does the open letter to hobbyists have to do with open source?
26. 596.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Developer_Guide/Coding_Styl... I'm pretty sure exceptions aren't used because - enabling exceptions has an effect on performance - A lot of Mozilla code is XPCOM, and if you're familiar with COM and friend
27. 597.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    Surely if stdint is all that's missing, http://code.google.com/p/msinttypes/ will work?
28. 598.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    Because the author of the blog post works for Mozilla? Oh, and OP, it isn't "rain drop", it's Raindrop.
29. 599.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    Glancing at the patch, it looks like it should work on both POSIX and Win32.
30. 600.▲
    by sid0 17y ago

    Well, looks like I have egg on my face. Your comment prompted me to download the latest version of IntelliJ and try it out, and the rendering has improved tremendously. It is now indistinguishable from ClearType (it probably is ClearType)