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721.
by sounds 12y ago
Just wild guesses here but anyone who has played Kerbal Space Program knows that while docking is no piece of cake, it happens slowly and you can back off and try again until you run out of fuel. Landing on a moving target shouldn't be
722.
by sounds 12y ago
I think if you asked most game makers of that time, they would simply say, "You're crazy. You're planning to exploit the exact CGA chips and the exact mux and the exact nature of the monitor's response to the horizontal
723.
by sounds 12y ago
So who wants to sell a patch for the now unsupported users of OS X 10.9, 10.8, ...? It could be as simple as changing the permissions on System Preferences so that now you must enter your password before running them (so that they always ru
724.
by sounds 12y ago
I think a more correct assessment would be: If you think you haven't been hacked, you probably have (or you are so small that you may have only been probed by bots). If you haven't actually been hacked yet, it is only a matter of
725.
by sounds 12y ago
That's definitely shorter, but I would hope that isn't considered the most shining example of non-obfuscated code. :) (For code golf, though, it's just fine.)
726.
by sounds 12y ago
I can echo your sentiment.
727.
by sounds 12y ago
A supernova-created natural nuclear bomb in asteroid form. Acting just like a human or alien nuke, but completely arising from natural processes. Or did I miss something? :)
728.
by sounds 12y ago
Do you think -- since the XBox One and PS4 both use an AMD GPU -- that the developer tools will improve on Desktop PCs?
729.
by sounds 12y ago
I've spent a fair bit of time in the open source radeon and nouveau drivers and I never noticed any workarounds in place solely to fix a broken client. Open source driver developers don't have the time or resources to pull off a s
730.
by sounds 12y ago
Looking at your subreddit +/- 2 months of the May "all your YouTube are belong to G+" announcement, there doesn't seem to be any screenshot. Can you post a link?
731.
by sounds 12y ago
That edit is the part I wish had been your thesis. (Because now I feel like I have to write the following:) There _is_ a unifying theme to the trends TechCrunch is writing about, but it's not what TechCrunch says it is. TechCrunch: &qu
732.
by sounds 12y ago
As someone who has worked a LOT with drones of all form factors (quad copters, propeller drones, battery and dead dinosaur-fueled), when drones can do this, drones will be cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eakKfY5aHmY C
733.
by sounds 12y ago
I think you mean "do no evil"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9013374
734.
by sounds 12y ago
Take a look at the BeagleBone Black. It has pretty decent I/O. The big gaping missing piece, of course, is better video output, but that's sort of in the same bucket as open source GPUs: missing in action.
735.
by sounds 12y ago
In addition to sspiff's good info, take a look at the I/O options: https://www.96boards.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/HiKey_Us... This will likely limit how useful the board can be, because th
736.
by sounds 12y ago
The article seems to offer a hint: the earliest publicly discussed major GPL violation was by NeXT computing when Steve Jobs attempted and failed (thanks to RMS' GPL enforcement work) to make the Objective C front-end to GCC
737.
by sounds 12y ago
Great argument. One point, though: it's "Don't be evil." Are you able to say you "do no evil"?
738.
by sounds 12y ago
Except he did. They declined. Maybe if he knew somebody higher up at Sullins?
739.
by sounds 12y ago
Hopefully it is obvious that without DRM "protecting people from themselves" is still better served; with DRM the only winner is the company who locks out everyone else. Example of how it might work without DRM: Farmer A hesitates
740.
by sounds 12y ago
Put this in a blog post and it should rise to the top of HN tomorrow. Thanks for posting it!
741.
by sounds 12y ago
I unfortunately had to downvote your comment because this is not the conversation about DRM, Google Services, etc. I'm as passionate as anyone about fighting the walled gardens out there. But it's not germane to the current thread
742.
by sounds 12y ago
To be fair, the micro-optimizations are nice, and being able to just throw a switch and turn them on is nice. Of course you're right that a compiler is "never" (boy, prove me wrong, then shut up and take my money!) going to c
743.
by sounds 12y ago
I hesitate to chime in, but in the interest of completeness: The Odroids all use Mali graphics. Mali isn't particularly worse than the Pi's VideoCore IV, but it's not particularly better either... And the BeagleBone vs Pi com
744.
by sounds 12y ago
I fortunately (or unfortunately) was the target of one of the "extended survey" forms in the last US Census. I ignored the mail. A Census worker came to my address and I would not let him in, multiple times (the first time, he was
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Clumsy: an utility for simulating broken network for Windows(jagt.github.io)
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746.
by sounds 12y ago
I think that argument needs to be retired. Here are some recent examples of a revenue model that competes just fine with walled gardens, proprietary software, and proprietary/compromised hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com
747.
by sounds 12y ago
I used to hold shares in a similar "too big to fail" company. I sold them. A few years later I shorted the company (note: this company is not IBM). Perhaps it's time to consider shorting IBM.
748.
by sounds 12y ago
Whether I use Chrome or Firefox individually, the fact that two major browsers already support it is very, very good for the internet as a whole. It means it is likely to be supported by all the major browsers eventually. It means I can ass
749.
by sounds 12y ago
tl;dr Ron Conway posted these tweets: https://twitter.com/RonConway/status/542383330193190913 https://twitter.com/RonConway/status/542404171865927681 Most stories about politics, or crim
750.
by sounds 12y ago
Another part of what makes debugging painful for a lot of people working in big enterprise ("small cog in a big machine") stems from bad management. Bad management -> bad design decision and poor resource allocation -> blame

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