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The Hardware Culture, or: What They Build, Works Can We Say the Same? (2009)(loper-os.org)
1 points by spatulon 14y ago|0 comments
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by spatulon 14y ago
Visual C++ is a C compiler - it compiles C90. The issue is that they still haven't added support for C99. You can compile your C code as C++, but then you're restricted to the common subset of C and C++.
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by spatulon 14y ago
There are other Chrome developers commenting on the linked post, and they deny Nelson's role.
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by spatulon 14y ago
Once you reach a certain karma threshold, you gain the ability to change the colour of the orange bar at the top of HN pages. The setting is labelled 'topcolor'.
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Gatekeeper and the rise of the Total Apple Consumer(molleindustria.org)
2 points by spatulon 14y ago|0 comments
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You Should Probably Send More Email Than You Do(kalzumeus.com)
191 points by spatulon 14y ago|78 comments
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by spatulon 15y ago
HN uses bcrypt: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3099563
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by spatulon 15y ago
Bret Victor has a longer essay from 2006 on user interface design, called "Magic Ink." It's similarly insightful and interesting. http://worrydream.com/#!/MagicInk I've submitted a HN story for it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=321
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by spatulon 15y ago
I recently discovered this five-year old essay by Bret Victor who, coincidentally, has another article on the front page right now ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3212949 ). It discusses how to improve user interfaces by focusing less
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Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface (2006)(worrydream.com)
4 points by spatulon 15y ago|1 comments
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by spatulon 15y ago
The white plastic Macbook has screws that appear to be purely decorative, on the left side of the case . The story goes that Jobs insisted on them being there, to achieve symmetry with the functional screws on the right hand side.
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by spatulon 15y ago
That 4 byte lookup's useful. I needed to do it recently and had assumed it wasn't possible. If memory serves, CodeWarrior for Mac (and possibly other classic Mac compilers) had syntactic sugar mapping single-quoted four-character strings to
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by spatulon 15y ago
It's not a matter of hoping Twitter are feeling kind because they haven't taken any technical measures -- at least not yet -- to stop new third-party clients being developed. They own and control what I assume to be the most popular clients
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by spatulon 15y ago
This is usually known as bogosort. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort
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by spatulon 15y ago
You can't tag people on Facebook in a photo uploaded from Instagram, or at least I never found a way. Facebook's own photo app will be a first-class citizen in that regard.
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by spatulon 15y ago
He's suggesting that the only qualification Accenture required of prospective new employees was having the correct number of heads.
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by spatulon 15y ago
The Joint Strike Fighter software is written in C++. Meanwhile, the EuroFighter project is still using Ada.
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by spatulon 15y ago
The last I heard, Google were being sued due to the use of Courgette allegedly infringing a patent and, as a result, they had stopped using Courgette to distribute Chrome updates. Does anyone know the result of that case? Are they now using
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by spatulon 15y ago
Yes. Brichter wrote Tweetie, which became the official Twitter client for iOS and Mac. With the iOS version he invented the intuitive and widely copied "pull to update" mechanism.
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by spatulon 15y ago
The point of Design Within Reach is not to sell well-designed products at low prices, but to sell well-designed products (mainly furniture) that would otherwise be impossible to buy through normal retail channels. "Within reach" refers to a
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by spatulon 15y ago
This also means that Twitter could now have, if it chooses, an official branded client that runs on Windows. When they announced Twitter for Mac, they said: "We acquired atebits with a focus on launching our own Twitter iPhone application.
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by spatulon 16y ago
Another source of confusion is the meaning of the word "brackets": +----+-----------------+-------------+ | | [] | () | +----+-----------------+-------------+ | US | brackets | parentheses | | UK
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by spatulon 16y ago
The customers in your first list are individual consumers, and the customers in your second list are businesses. You're right about the triteness of those Ask HN examples, but let's not go so far as to suggest that we should all be building
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by spatulon 16y ago
http://yfrog.com/f/h6usmp/ That's the new logo that I saw posted on another forum by a Chrome engineer.
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by spatulon 16y ago
That re-downloads the file from the server, whereas the Adobe plugin keeps a cache of the file and saves it straight to disk. Most of the time there's no difference, but if the PDF came from a single-use URL provided by your bank to view a
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by spatulon 16y ago
They could have done that when IE6 stagnated, but they didn't. Not in anything like large enough numbers anyway.
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by spatulon 16y ago
Your initial reaction to Obj-C is not at all uncommon amongst developers used to C++/Java/C#. My impression is that most of them quite like it once they get past the novelty.
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by spatulon 16y ago
Inevitably, hackers visit a site aimed at hackers and want to start building their own stuff to tweak it to their needs. How many of these tools/apps/sites really add any value, though? For the most part the site is already good enough. Sea
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by spatulon 16y ago
Only because he hasn't posted recently. He'd be in 7th place if he started posting again.
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by spatulon 16y ago
The British entrepreneur and investor Peter Jones also worried about that problem and decided to double any money his children earned for themselves.

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