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by swift 10y ago
I believe the .DS_Store files are just a fallback so if you are accessing files on a network share or on a file system that doesn't support extended attributes like FAT32, those features can still work. The native implementation on HFS
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by swift 10y ago
I get what you're saying, but that's definitely not what good writing means in the context of, say, poetry, or literary fiction. Programming is best compared to technical writing or cookbooks, I think. I realize this is one of tho
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by swift 10y ago
I'd love more data on this too, but I do think it's worth pointing out that it's pretty uncontroversial that the more control flow paths you have, the harder your code is to reason about. That's the basic assumption of t
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by swift 10y ago
Wow; very cool! I've been hoping for something like this ever since I read Bret Victor's essay "Learnable Programming": http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
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by swift 10y ago
How do you know their IQs? I don't think I've ever heard anyone discuss their IQ in real life. I don't mean this as an attack; I'm just curious where the "130+ IQ" qualifier comes from.
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by swift 10y ago
They almost all do, yes. Android offers volatile ranges, OS X offers purgable pages, Windows offers MEM_RESET/MEM_RESET_UNDO. To my knowledge Linux is the only exception, because last time I checked they haven't merged Android&#x2
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by swift 11y ago
This is a serious question: what about enjoying memes, and humor in general, indicates a lack of "special ability"? I won't disagree that the stuff people have posted in that issue isn't funny. But honestly, I'd rat
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by swift 11y ago
Moom ( http://manytricks.com/moom ) is what I use to get some of the tiling experience on OS X.
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by swift 11y ago
Firefox Desktop is indeed the web browser on PC. It sounds to me like you can definitely use fxpay to bill to credit cards on desktop. I'm not sure about the cell phone bill thing, though.
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by swift 11y ago
I agree with pretty much everything you said, but I do think it goes too far to say that dogs aren't conscious. The evidence I have for dog consciousness is about as good as the evidence I have for human consciousness, as far as I&#x27
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by swift 12y ago
SVG images support media queries, which handles this use case pretty well. See here: http://blog.cloudfour.com/media-queries-in-svg-images/
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by swift 12y ago
It's still extremely buggy in Firefox, I'm afraid. See here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366324
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by swift 12y ago
I realize this probably isn't quite what you want, but have you looked at using MIDI? A lot of modern MIDI gear is quite cheap, connects to your computer over USB, and with the appropriate software can be used to control anything on yo
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by swift 12y ago
The phenomenon of being "in the zone" is considered real by most psychologists, as far as I'm aware. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_%28psychology%29 FWIW while I think interruptions are a re
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by swift 12y ago
Cache granularity absolutely matters regardless of your cache TTL, because as I mentioned in my other reply in this thread, by bundling rarely accessed and frequently accessed resources together you are pushing other frequently accessed res
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by swift 12y ago
HTTP2 supports server push, which should serve your needs for preloading just fine. (And there are other approaches as well; that's just one example.) Browsers generally use the GPU for compositing web pages, but the CPU still generall
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by swift 12y ago
This is 100% right. One additional point about the importance of granularity to effective cache management: if you bundle rarely accessed resources together with frequently accessed resources in the same cache entry, those rarely accessed r
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by swift 12y ago
It's true that images may compress more efficiently in some cases when combined into a sprite sheet, but in my experience the scenario described by the article is very likely: your sprite sheets will end up containing images that the c
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by swift 12y ago
> IBM was the only firm in the world at the time that were able to integrate a working computer. I don't understand what you mean by this. A variety of personal computers were already on the market when the IBM PC came out, includi
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by swift 12y ago
I'm not saying this isn't true, as I have no idea what you look like, but food for thought: when I switched to contacts, I had a similar feeling, that I looked strange without glasses and that I was better off wearing them. Howeve
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by swift 12y ago
The 'm' is a type variable. This is a consequence of a difference in how Java interfaces and Haskell typeclasses are defined. (I'm continuing wyager's analogy between Java interfaces and Haskell typeclasses here.) Here&#
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by swift 12y ago
I don't think asm.js is a very good fit for garbage collected languages. You really want to integrate with the browser's existing, native GC instead of implementing your own GC on top of a huge typed buffer in JavaScript.
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by swift 12y ago
I wonder's what's been used in real world code more, quaternions or Peano naturals. =)
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by swift 12y ago
I might be mistaken, but my impression was that the "web apps only" thing was real and not a temporary compromise. They may have spun it that way retroactively, though.
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by swift 12y ago
Which add-ons did you have installed?
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by swift 12y ago
High hats and crashes are exactly the thing I noticed improved when switching my music from MP3 to FLAC many years ago. The difference is very obvious to me; I really don't think it's placebo. That said, I've heard that AAC
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by swift 12y ago
If you use pixel units for drawing your UI, you have essentially two alternatives: (1) Leave it to developers to make sure that their code correctly handles different DPIs. This results in every app having to produce its own solution for so
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Cable TV boxes become 2nd biggest energy users in many homes(latimes.com)
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by swift 12y ago
Where the cost comes in is if you want to support multiple monitors (which, as someone who plays keyboard, I wouldn't trust to a cheap keyboard stand even if they could fit) and especially if you want to do it at a height that is comfo
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by swift 12y ago
The web platform is a lot more complicated than any ISA. The right comparison is having the same operating system version as the user, and anyone that develops native apps does have to care about that.

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