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by vault_ 15y ago
They're extending existing users time until June 2012, at which point it will be shut down as all of its features are in iCloud.
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by vault_ 15y ago
There's a complete list of new features here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html To address the concerns of re-installation, they're including a partition with the system install disk on it (which can get to Time Machine
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by vault_ 15y ago
One thing that graphing calculators are really useful for is simple number crunching. In academic settings you frequently need to take down numbers and then compute statistics about them. Tables and matrices are probably the 2 most useful t
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by vault_ 15y ago
The coolest hidden feature of OS X is probably the text input system. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html
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The Cocoa Text System(hcs.harvard.edu)
2 points by vault_ 15y ago|0 comments
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by vault_ 16y ago
This. (is he gone yet?)
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by vault_ 16y ago
The only PHP devs using git are all super professional with the patience of saints?
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by vault_ 16y ago
As a college student using a free prime subscription, it's kind of lame that it's paid only (I understand their reasoning though). My only other concern is how they're delivering the videos. Is it just flash? Or is it some crazy Silverlight
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by vault_ 16y ago
Xmonad is nice, but Awesome's tags beat it IMO. You don't really have multiple desktops, you have multiple tags. Each window can have multiple tags and there can be multiple tags visible on the screen at any moment. So what you end up seein
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by vault_ 16y ago
Well, nothing really compares to Awesome's tagging system (and I say that after only managing to survive a few days in Awesome, I need a bit more structure by default). I'm not really sure why, but Spaces just feels inferior to basically ev
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by vault_ 16y ago
If you think that VLC is a good Quicktime alternative you should try out mplayer. There's an awesome Mac gui for it called MPlayer OSX Extended ( http://www.mplayerosx.ch/ ). It's a lot more streamlined and will play at least everything tha
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by vault_ 16y ago
It doesn't even take prolonged periods (for me at least). I was participating in an obfuscated code contest a while back (making a simple command line multi-function calculator), and since I knew I couldn't compete on line noise I decided t
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by vault_ 16y ago
I'm using Chrome on Linux and I have to hold both of the shift buttons for it to work. It would be utterly impossible if I wasn't using a trackpad.
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by vault_ 16y ago
That would be the 'cmath' module.
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by vault_ 16y ago
I'm not really sure of the accuracy of any of its claims, but it certainly looks interesting.
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by vault_ 16y ago
I've been writing some code for people working in bioinformatics recently. It's pretty similar.
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by vault_ 16y ago
See also: working computer made inside of Dwarf Fortress ( http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/15/colossal-turing-mach.ht... )
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by vault_ 16y ago
Backdoors for the government into all encrypted services required by law? I don't see what could possibly go wrong.
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by vault_ 16y ago
Forward and backward buttons can actually be extremely handy, when not used for that purpose. If you map them to something else (say... modifier keys), you can do all sorts of useful things. Like hold down one of the buttons and click on fi
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by vault_ 16y ago
I do this all the time. A couple of interesting ones came up while volunteering recently. Assembly line style processes are just like shell pipes. I get data, process it, another step. The same project I also got to act as an accumulation b
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by vault_ 16y ago
It seems to be AGPL licensed. I'm wondering how that will affect adoption.
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by vault_ 16y ago
Also good are nymph, zephyr, and syzygy.
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HTML5 video accessibility (ironically inaccessibly illustrated)(wearehugh.com)
27 points by vault_ 16y ago|5 comments
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What the HTTP is CouchApp(wiki.couchapp.org)
70 points by vault_ 16y ago|23 comments
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by vault_ 16y ago
For you vim-lovers out there, DrawIt accomplishes most of the same things: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=40
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by vault_ 16y ago
I guess I'm in a minority here. I rarely have more than 5 tabs open. I can honestly not fathom ever needing to use more than 50. To the people who use gigantic numbers of tabs, what does your browsing workflow look like where you end up wit
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by vault_ 16y ago
I don't even think it was one-sided. Most of Python's strengths had a "retort" afterwards explaining how that feature was in PHP 5. A good number of those even had 'counter-retorts'!
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by vault_ 16y ago
I remember reading about how LLVM would be better able to interface with IDEs than gcc because it was library based rather than a giant monolithic system. It's interesting to see how this has been applied.
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by vault_ 16y ago
It seems to me that the logic behind the problem solving going on in Mongrel2 has been 'how can I make this into a problem that's already been solved?' I think that seems like a pretty good methodology in a lot of cases actually.
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by vault_ 16y ago
There are significantly more package managers than apt and rpm. If languages each have their own package manager and library installer, it's only one thing for the writer of the library to deal with. If it was left up to the OS's package ma

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