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by tjl 12y ago
Considering that Swift is built on LLVM, it's not surprising that a comment was made there. It's also probably where an announcement of it being open source would be made (and now probably the Swift blog). I've heard from var
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by tjl 12y ago
I find this quite intriguing, but Optimal Layout, http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/ basically has most of my needs covered.
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by tjl 12y ago
It's Mac, not MAC. I don't use Windows so I can't comment on that, but OS X has a lot of support for disabled users. First, VoiceOver is a built-in screen reader and there are a variety of other options to adjust the contrast
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by tjl 13y ago
See this Ars Technica article, http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/report-after-pate...
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by tjl 13y ago
True they're open source. One of the lead developers on Mach was Avie Tevanian who went to work at NeXT after he left CMU. It was later that components from FreeBSD were included.
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by tjl 13y ago
LGPL. But, it's still a core Apple technology. WebKit is far more popular than KHTML.
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by tjl 13y ago
Darwin was based on NeXT, which as far as I can recall, wasn't open source before Apple opened it. While a number of the userland tools were (and are) open source, I don't recall the kernel being open. There's also things lik
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by tjl 13y ago
The Darwin Streaming Server for one. There's also the Apple Lossless Codec. Plus, they're heavily involved in work on LLVM and have been for quite some time. Lastly, There's Grand Central Dispatch (libdispatch). Plus, WebKit
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by tjl 13y ago
It's my understanding that the original plan for how FaceTime worked was derailed thanks to Apple losing a patent lawsuit.
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Apple has made Darwin open source. That, WebKit, and LLVM are pretty core technologies. A good portion of their technology is open. So, it's not just using free software and not giving back.
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by tjl 13y ago
Only part of the business of a university is to teach. For most universities far more time is allocated to research than teaching. At my university, professors split time between teaching, research, and service (where service is things like
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by tjl 13y ago
I backed an animated Grimm Fairy Tales pilot on Kickstarter and our digital download was an MP4 without DRM. So, there are people doing it.
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by tjl 13y ago
They don't run them at a loss. They're the most profitable retail stores in the US (on a per square foot basis). At least they were in 2012. Since sales haven't really gone down much, that's probably still true as Tiffan
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by tjl 13y ago
Why do you think Apple runs their stores at a loss? In 2012, they were nearly double the profit/square foot that Tiffany's had (I haven't found more recent data on the profit/sq.ft metric) at around $6,000/square fo
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by tjl 13y ago
The problem with equation-heavy fields is that slides don't allow for many equations on a single slide. This is a problem for derivations when you need to refer back to something.
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by tjl 13y ago
It's quite easy to have slow tests that aren't integration tests. For instance, there's some tests in Sympy that are only a few lines of code that run very slow because the calculation is difficult. Sometimes (but not always)
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by tjl 13y ago
Arthur C. Clarke's "The Fountains of Paradise" is about building a space elevator. It's probably one of the first science fiction books to include it. There's also Heinlein's "Friday" and Kim Stanley