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by sspiff 12y ago
This has been posted time and time again. Please note that the last commit was in Jan 2012 (perhaps add [2012] to the title?), and I believe it is far from usable in its current state.
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by sspiff 12y ago
Kind of annoying every tile becomes a Flash object when you hover over it. This makes it much harder for people without Flash to access (like me) to get the color codes. Even the people with Flash can't see the color code until they pa
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by sspiff 12y ago
Sounds similar to what caused the shutdown of some nuclear reactors in Belgium earlier this year and late last year. As a result we're facing power shortages in the coming winter.
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by sspiff 12y ago
At first, this dissuaded me from buying the Moto G. I had a Moto Droid 4 before (also 1GB memory) and feared it wouldn't be much of an upgrade. Haven't had a lot of trouble with the Moto G though, everything runs super-smooth, and
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by sspiff 12y ago
What makes you think down/upvotes are related to political beliefs? It could be that people think you are making a good/bullshit argument, regardless of their political inclination.
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by sspiff 12y ago
I just tried it for a few simple operations on a 1.3GHz laptop from 2006 (which is running and IDE that's indexing in the background), and this app was still instantly responsive. Very nice work indeed.
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by sspiff 12y ago
I think he means free software as defined by the FSF, which has different definitions for free-of-cost, open source and free/libre software.
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by sspiff 12y ago
You know, for an article filled with satire, people seem to be taking the first part seriously. I took it all as satirical, and I enjoyed it.
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by sspiff 12y ago
Exactly, most people were never fond of engaging with random strangers beyond utilitarian communication. This is unrelated to smartphones.
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by sspiff 12y ago
I had considered doing something similar (to avoid roaming charges). I'm very happy someone else did it for me!
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by sspiff 12y ago
My brother had a demo of Grim Fandango in a ZIP archive, and it didn't include the Lua DLL. When we reran it years later, we first had to recompile Lua (3.1?) before the game would run. That's how I learned it was using Lua. I bel
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by sspiff 12y ago
The also bought Rare (I loved their games on Nintendo 64). And they have had Microsoft Game Studios which published PC games for a long time. The also bought Digital Anvil, which made Wing Commander, Privateer, and Freelancer, the latter al
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by sspiff 12y ago
JetBrains has said that it might show turn up as an IntelliJ plugin for Ultimate subscribers, but they're focusing on making it a great stand-alone product, and they're not promising any plugin version. Similarly, AppCode is n
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by sspiff 12y ago
I think the crusades weren't as bad for Islamic development as we like to believe. The Mongol invasions which happened around the time of the last serious Crusades in the Middle East probably did more lasting damage. The cultured Islam
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by sspiff 12y ago
I find that floating point story hard to swallow. It looks like they went "huh, this CPU benchmarks roughly as fast as the others, but we find it slow in practice. Only floating point benchmarks lag behind the competition, so that must
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by sspiff 12y ago
I find it weird that they're critizing the CPU for being old, as if age itself is a bad thing. I find it hard to believe an OMAP3 at 1GHz would be insufficient to power a smartwatch. Perhaps something is wrong with the software, they&#
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by sspiff 12y ago
It's telling me to install Flash, so I'd say, Flash?
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by sspiff 12y ago
You can't just take a Swift app for iOS and compile it for Android, sure. But this could be useful for people who enjoy Swift, and want to reuse blocks of logic from their iOS app to an Android port. I'm wondering though, I though
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by sspiff 12y ago
Agreed. Their lacking graphics hardware (and drivers) are probably the main reason why they focus on boutiques, bingo machines and other coin-ops. No clue if they improved their graphics as well for this iteration. They really should have a
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by sspiff 12y ago
It depends. OCaml is great for compilers, but having the compiler of a language in that same language lowers the barrier of entry for contributors and could lead to more innovation down the road.
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by sspiff 12y ago
For the previous three generations (Via C3, C7 and Nano), I was always impressed with what the underdog did - on paper. They never seemed to get out there in the consumer market space. I'm hoping - but not hopeful - this time will be d
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by sspiff 12y ago
"If your app doesn’t offer much functionality or content, or only applies to a small niche market, it may not be approved." I realize they have this rule to filter out the fart buttons or temporary internet phenomena cash-ins, but
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by sspiff 12y ago
Interesting link, I can't read it right now, but I'll be sure to check it out later. Thanks!
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by sspiff 12y ago
> Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan this month urged the government to directly transfer cash to the poor instead of offering them public services That sounds like a terrible idea. This opens up the door for further extortion
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by sspiff 12y ago
I understand, and as I said earlier, it's a great summary, especially considering how much you managed to cram into it while keeping it easy to digest.
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by sspiff 12y ago
The Roman culture was - for a very significant part - a carbon copy of the Greek. So in a sense, the Romans continued the Greek culture as much as they succeeded it. I realize that the there are significant differences in the ancient Greek
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by sspiff 12y ago
A great summary, but I find it annoying people always only mention the Eastern Roman Empire in passing or as a footnote. It was a continuation of the Roman Empire in every way. They were called "the Roman empire" or "romans&q
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by sspiff 12y ago
Some other great resources: 1. Mike Duncan's "history of Rome" covers the first 1000 years ( http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/ ) 2. Robin Pierson's "history of Byzantium" covers the final 1000
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by sspiff 12y ago
Some remarks: 1. Mercator projection gives Russian empires an unfair advantage. 2. The Romans ruled over arguably the best lands in the known world at that time, and a much larger part of the world population. Russia ruled/rules over v
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by sspiff 12y ago
This made me think, at what scale is this project happening? I'm guessing a lot of companies would be willing to give you discounts or perhaps even free machines (buy one, get one free?) to get the positive PR by being associated with

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