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by vault_ 16y ago
I think there are two big reasons that Ruby isn't on the iPhone. For one, MacRuby is still in development and isn't stable yet. For another, the Objective-C GC isn't running on the iPhone, which is what MacRuby uses. As the project matures
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by vault_ 16y ago
You'd think so, but when I was doing some quick testing with just one window and multiple tabs it only refreshed the current tab. Doing some more tests now with multiple windows, it seems to only refresh the active tab of the back-most wind
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by vault_ 16y ago
If you're on Linux and use a different browser you can do the same using xdotool. autocmd BufWriteCmd *.html,*.css,*.haml :call Refresh_browser() function()! Refresh_browser() if &modified write
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by vault_ 16y ago
Assuming you could convince everyone that this was a good idea and that anonymity/neutrality wouldn't be an issue, the federal government is the last group of people I'd trust designing this scheme to.
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by vault_ 16y ago
I've gotta say, this was both informative and amusing to read. I wish I got to read articles like this more often.
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Everything you need to know about the internet(guardian.co.uk)
10 points by vault_ 16y ago|1 comments
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by vault_ 16y ago
It looks a lot like Markaby or Haml.
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by vault_ 16y ago
Everyone seems so concerned about the Linux desktop. I don't see the problem with Linux as being the dekstop itself. Coming from using only OS X, think that the problem is the applications available to run on the desktop. In my experience,
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by vault_ 16y ago
If you're using Youtube's html5 beta(and are on a supporting browser) the video uses webm. That's the first I've seen it out in the wild.
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by vault_ 16y ago
The lack of sharp edges are what make it safe for everyday users!
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by vault_ 16y ago
I think more interesting than this article are the self-enumerating pangrams described in the one linked to it.
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by vault_ 16y ago
First thought: having it fade in like that is rather distracting and annoying. Second thought: so I'll be able to turn this off tomorrow right?
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by vault_ 16y ago
In theory, EFI is supposed to have a shell available, which could make diagnosing low-level problems easier. This is of course assuming that the manufacturers can be arsed to include it alongside their 'point and click guis'.
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by vault_ 16y ago
Well, I can't get the initial installation to work right, because access is denied to a zip file it tries to download off of AWS (I don't know why it's necessary or denied). I do think, however, that this is a step in the right direction. I
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by vault_ 16y ago
Wow, that's extremely cool. I remember checking Twilio out before, but I didn't quite get what the use case might be for it. This example has managed to flick on a light switch in my head, and I see that with a platform like this you could
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by vault_ 16y ago
I'm a fan of Learn You a Haskell for Great Good ( http://learnyouahaskell.com/ ). It's not quite done (a couple of advanced topics are absent at the moment) but it's a good introduction to the language, and is somewhat less dry to read than
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by vault_ 16y ago
I wouldn't say that it's the holy grail, but there are several reasons why it's good to know, and also many why we'll probably start seeing a lot more of it. The biggest reason that its' a good thing to learn a functional language is a lot
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by vault_ 16y ago
You can also hit 'space' after cmd+shift+4 to get a little camera icon that takes a screenshot of only the window you click on. It works for any window, the desktop, the menu bar, any menu, and interestingly enough: all of the icons sitting
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by vault_ 16y ago
I just finished a 2 year course on Physics from a high school that was algebra based. I'll attest that algebra based Physics is the biggest waste of time ever. The worst part, if you know some calculus, is that you can glimpse what is happe
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by vault_ 16y ago
Interestingly, to make a decision like that for which single programming language you'd have to learn, you'd have to know enough about each language in question to make a good choice. Here's my revised method of picking: * make a list
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by vault_ 16y ago
The remark about most people being afraid of computers is dead on. Lots of people, even people growing up around computers see them as big baroque systems of buttons and menus that they don't really understand. My mom uses an iMac, and for
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by vault_ 16y ago
There were a couple of things that I noticed that I don't think are correct. I thought it was fine up through the first 3, more or less. One issue that kind of bugged me was that it seemed to imply that spaces cannot be curved. The video I
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by vault_ 16y ago
It's not even that hard: while [ true ]; do curl www.google.com done
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by vault_ 16y ago
What bugs me is that his last post from about a year ago says that there are still three more. I've found all of his writings very interesting, and am kind of sad that there probably won't be any more.
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by vault_ 16y ago
Can anyone explain what they mean by "disabling outputs"? Perhaps I'm just not computing this right at the moment, but what exactly is this article saying is being done?
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by vault_ 16y ago
I don't even think that what they're doing is particularly novel. Blizzard has been distributing World of Warcraft via bittorrent for a while now, and other games I've downloaded have essentially had their own front-end on a torrent client.
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by vault_ 17y ago
In my experience, using Word for that hasn't been a whole lot more pleasant.
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by vault_ 17y ago
I use this all the time in my chemistry class when I don't feel like exerting the effort to open my book. It's superbly helpful.
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by vault_ 17y ago
It's a problem for anyone whose work is based on offering services. My dad is a contractor, and my mom is an interior designer. Family members, people from church, and random people alike assume that means that they can come fix whatever li
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by vault_ 17y ago
A good reminder that people overreacting is often just as much of a problem as whatever they're trying to solve. One issue I had with the article though, is the overuse of hyperbole. There is no indication of how much of it was fact, and ho

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