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by tdicola 13y ago
I agree with you, I would personally stick with a wrapper class unless there was some ungodly number of resources to wrap. There are very likely other operations on a window object which will benefit from being able to wrap it in a class w
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by tdicola 13y ago
I don't think Chrome Remote Desktop lets you share a Linux desktop. I tried a few months ago and found it's a long standing (year plus!) request to Google on their support group. Kind of sad that Google can't or won't
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by tdicola 13y ago
Neat effect--I'm definitely interested in trying this app. Would be cool to see them go further and try to turn highlights in the out of focus areas into nice octagons or other shapes caused by the the aperature blades in a real camer
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by tdicola 13y ago
Very polished kickstarter but I'm left wondering, do I really need an $80-$200 charger? The MacBook air charger is already pretty small and my phone lasts all day without the need to recharge. Although the tech inside it might be nov
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by tdicola 13y ago
I installed the 14.04 LTS beta on a laptop to kick the tires last week. Overall it seems really nice. I was happy to see GCC 4.8 is the default compiler. The only major glitch I had was hitting this bug where external debs (like Chrome, D
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by tdicola 13y ago
Sometimes the fastest solution to a problem is to get everyone in a room with a whiteboard and deal with it. There are ways to collaborate online, but none are as efficient as person to person. Also not everyone has a good internet connec
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by tdicola 13y ago
"Better Place failed because swappable batteries don't make sense." Did we read the same article? It seemed pretty clear there were incredible management missteps like burning $500k/day with only a few hundred cars bei
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by tdicola 13y ago
Awesome--anyone have any more must see talk recommendations? PyCon always has really high quality talks.
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by tdicola 13y ago
Same here, felt like scrolling through molasses.
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by tdicola 13y ago
Nice project--I like the code, it's very clean and well structured. You should check out the subversion trunk of pocketsphinx, it has support for keyword spotting built in so you can do things like instantly recognize the persona keyw
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by tdicola 13y ago
I've played with implementing both SSE and websockets on embedded hardware, and SSE is nice because of the simplicity--no need to do a handshake or other setup like with websockets. If you're primarily sending data from the serve
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by tdicola 13y ago
Yep I agree. I've tried lots of to do lists, apps, etc. and always keep coming back to the pen and paper stuck to the refrigerator. Siri adding stuff to notes through voice rec worked pretty well, but it's a gigantic hassle to b
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by tdicola 13y ago
Ouch, I wonder if the fix will be to pull the feature. Kind of a bummer but I can understand there's probably a huge liability issue when it comes to smoke alarms.
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by tdicola 13y ago
I don't agree that he was bullied out of his position. He held a belief that wasn't in line with what the Mozilla organization believes is in their best interests. The most logical thing would be for him to not represent the com
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by tdicola 13y ago
Yeah I couldn't believe the last interview he did where he basically hand waved the whole controversy away and effectively said if people make a big deal it will just hurt Firefox.
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by tdicola 13y ago
What kind of patents do they have on the compiler tech, and is there any guarantee they won't go after you for using it? edit: Ah nice, Apache 2 license explicitly calls out a patent license is granted for use. I wonder how much cajol
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by tdicola 13y ago
I thought WPF was killed during the whole mess of killing Silverlight, etc. a few years back?
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by tdicola 13y ago
"keyboard analytics show the z key is hardly used and should be removed, perhaps available to power users" LOL, too true. Let's replace Z with a '.com' key since the data tells us people are constantly typing &#x27
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by tdicola 13y ago
Yeah I don't understand the need to get rid of a .NET framework dependency though. This only supports building Windows store apps, which only run on devices that have the .NET framework right now...
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by tdicola 13y ago
Sure, but ngen solved that problem years ago: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6t9t5wcf(v=vs.110).a...
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by tdicola 13y ago
I'm kind of scratching my head here, can someone explain what problem this solves? There's already a CLR and already a way to build native apps for Win 8, etc. This is a new CLR that can run new 'native' apps?
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by tdicola 13y ago
WinRT lets you write native Win 8 apps in C++, however it doesn't use LLVM or .NET bytecode. If universal binaries are supposed to be supported across different architectures (like x86, ARM, etc.) I don't know of any other way to
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by tdicola 13y ago
Yes I'm aware of that, but can universal apps be written in native code? I don't see any mention of it in their announcement.
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by tdicola 13y ago
One thing I don't see mentioned, do universal apps support C++11? I can understand why it's not as easy to support native code across platforms (i.e. need to do some kind of fat binary thing), but think it's a little sad to
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by tdicola 13y ago
There's even a text editor that runs on all those platforms!
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by tdicola 13y ago
Also very annoying to be thrown out of your app when you just want to run a calculator or something small. Even more annoying when that calculator has to run full screen (or you have to waste time snapping it to some side).
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by tdicola 13y ago
I'm fascinated that they still keep the Building Windows 8 blog up these days. You can go back and read their justifications on why they made the major changes that are now being backed out of win 8, for example start menu: http:&#x2
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by tdicola 13y ago
How is this really different from what exists today? You can write in C# for pretty much every MS platform already. If you're smart you're already writing your business logic with as little dependencies as possible on view speci
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by tdicola 13y ago
Weird, I don't see anything on their homepage yet: http://ipython.org/ There is of course a link to the 2.0 version in development--perhaps you just stumbled on the current in development 2.0 bits on pypi?
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by tdicola 13y ago
Good luck using .NET micro framework for anything serious. It runs as an interpreted language which is not good when you only have a few kilobytes of memory and a handful of mhz processor speed. There are big problems doing stuff like gen

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