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by tl 14y ago
Until you find such a display, I recommend you look into platform's accessibility options and invert the colors instead of messing with brightness. Google "black on white" for Mac or "invert colors" for Windows / Linux instructions.
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by tl 14y ago
Looking at the comments, his last non-dead comment was 22 days ago. I don't see anything particular worthy of a ban though.
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by tl 14y ago
I was going to give a point-by-point on why this article is just plain wrong, but then I came across this gem: > It’s a corner case. Corner cases exist, and if you’re in one, don’t use Core Data. The problem here with Core Data is that
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by tl 14y ago
Actually, I had to turn off my gray text on a black background function (Ctrl+Alt+Cmd+8 on a Mac), because it caused a double inversion with this site and I was blinded by the awesomeness.
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by tl 14y ago
>While that is historically true, it's not really the case for the new MBP: the 16GB RAM update costs $200, 2x8GB sticks cost ~150 at crucial. Meh. 2x8GB is ~$150. 2x4GB is ~$50[1]. Apple is charging $200 for a $100 bump in component co
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by tl 14y ago
For HIB 4, I did the same thing you did. But this time I think they're doing a good job at selection (and I like the EFF), so I went default split.
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by tl 14y ago
Are the new AWS features posted from accounts that are 2 hours old? blog.parse.com has an rss feed for those who are interested; I'm personally tired of the spam.
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You, Too, Can Be on the Cutting Edge of Functional Programming Research(prog21.dadgum.com)
112 points by tl 14y ago|31 comments
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by tl 14y ago
I'm impressed that your account is a whole 5 minutes older than your post. I'd be even more impressed if Parse was open source instead of yet another walled-garden PaaS hyped by shills.
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What Happened To WWDC 2012?(appadvice.com)
2 points by tl 14y ago|0 comments
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TSA baggage inspector accused of stealing iPads from luggage in Dallas(foxnews.com)
1 points by tl 15y ago|0 comments
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by tl 15y ago
$10b of anything that is locked to Apple-only devices (distributed through iBooks or some other app) would likely help Apple sell more hardware. It's harder to say than it would sell enough hardware to be a profitable decision.
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Solving the Wrong Problem(prog21.dadgum.com)
13 points by tl 15y ago|3 comments
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by tl 15y ago
Half of the reason Netscape and Borland died was because of their own mistakes. The other half was that Microsoft had competing products and proceeded to crush them. If Microsoft had taken graphics editing more seriously by creating a Pho
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by tl 15y ago
It looks site your main site is still linking to the old forum: HN -> http://forum.dlang.org/ -> http://dlang.org/overview.html -> http://digitalmars.com/NewsGroup.html
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by tl 15y ago
Why not? Humans (hopefully) have a much longer lifespan than phones. This should stay true even if Apple merely retains their current market share.
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by tl 15y ago
One thing that I'm trying to figure out: if you block all potential "timewasting sites" and only get your information from 1-2 hard news sources, where do you learn about the existence of the tools listed? If you rely on being around "shar
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by tl 15y ago
Bluetooth has the property of not being an option whatsoever because of the way Apple supports it. Instead we get custom libraries limited to one controller hacked over the audio jack.
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by tl 15y ago
Short-term: Maximize shareholder value. Long-term: If you're an executive and you haven't taken your compensation and moved to greener pastures, bribe the government to crush your better serving competition before they get the customers and
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by tl 15y ago
> The Ubermedia team wants developers to build Java-based iOS apps. There are a few ways you could explain this sentence, but its existence makes me distrust the article's premise of scouring Indeed's listings for "valued" skills as a w
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by tl 15y ago
Be careful, we do that by default and we get a lot of "commit", "commit", "commit $date", "merge commit" messages from some programmers. Either a programmer accepts that a meaningful message is important on commits, or they don't. It's a
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by tl 15y ago
Actually, a lot of us (or at least, me) are opposed to Apple's lawsuits as well. The fanboy crowd (of any group) tends to make a lot more noise than the majority.
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by tl 15y ago
This trend worries me. We're starting to see a collection of "sealed apps" that only explicitly support specific cloud-based services instead of connecting to the local machine's operating system or managing services. Facebook becomes popul
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by tl 15y ago
We keep our main repository in under dev/$PROJECT and backup repositories under user/$USERNAME/$PROJECT. Then we set a post-commit hook to push to the backup server on commit. Setting up the backup and creating the hook is done by a shell
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by tl 15y ago
Yeah, I got stuck with this when I started out. Cost of living is low where I live and tech jobs were few. The worst part is that companies will use your salary history against you while you're climbing out of this hole.
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by tl 15y ago
Well, you could buy a MacBook Air. Actually, I'd like to see an external GPU over Thunderbolt possibly built into the next line of cinema displays, which would remove the need for the GPU in the Pro line.
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The Great American Bubble Machine(rollingstone.com)
1 points by tl 15y ago|0 comments
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by tl 15y ago
I think it is "show icon preview" considering that "use as default" that he also mentions is right below it.
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Viacom tells appeals court YouTube profited from infringement, so no Safe Harbor(arstechnica.com)
2 points by tl 15y ago|0 comments
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by tl 15y ago
So, let me get this straight. You: 1. You and your girlfriend were making more money individually than the 2009 median household income [1], and you had been doing so since 1999. 2. You ended up on the good side of a stock market that r

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