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by vitd 12y ago
Hmm… my paddle kept getting stuck. I'd hit the arrow buttons and nothing would happen. Then it would unstick for no reason and work (after losing a point, of course). Very frustrating.
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by vitd 12y ago
I don't want to disparage the author's hard work, as it was quite beautiful to look at, but as someone who already understands what he's talking about, I felt this was a terrible way to present it. (Like I say, it looked grea
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by vitd 12y ago
Is this another case of using the generic term "API" to only refer to APIs related to accessing web data? I do some API-related work, but it has nothing to do with the network. However, I'm always interested in learning more
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by vitd 12y ago
I don't find this convincing at all. I'm a classically trained pianist and cellist. I studied music at the undergraduate level, and am a former part-time working musician, and a current computer programmer. I grew up with computer
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by vitd 12y ago
Actually, it was both content and quality. They used to advertise that a cable signal was clearer than one from an antenna and stood up to weather, etc.
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by vitd 12y ago
I find this logic bizarre: "The US should also learn a lesson here. Because of the current, non-sensical immigration laws, Americans lost sixteen jobs." I don't see the connection. You wanted to hire someone on a visa - not a
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by vitd 12y ago
Keep in mind that the choice you have with Netflix is not "DRM" or "No DRM". It's "Microsoft's old unsupported (or soon-to-be unsupported?) Silverlight" or "Something new that will be maintained
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by vitd 12y ago
It's likely we were using the same browser. I'm not sure about Flash Player versions. Even if we weren't, why should that matter? I doubt we were too far off in the version numbers we used. Does YouTube do some sort of cachin
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by vitd 12y ago
I believe so. She probably wouldn't know how to change her DNS settings, and I don't think I would have changed either hers or my own from the default. I do recall turning off my ISP's auto-redirect on bad DNS spam. (It would
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by vitd 12y ago
Sure, and there are lots of companies that don't have any policies against hiring women. It's just that everyone who does hire, happens to hire from their fraternity, or their best friend's recommendations (which are from his
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by vitd 12y ago
That's great that you feel that way and that your team may not discriminate. So why can't Google post those numbers, too? It would make them look great!
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by vitd 12y ago
Oddly my wife used to see this on her laptop in our apartment in Los Angeles. I would play a video, and it would be fine at HD. I'd ping her the link, and she would attempt to play it and it would be stuttery and crappy. I'm not s
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by vitd 12y ago
Interesting! I had no idea. Thanks for the info!
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by vitd 12y ago
I get no catpcha - just "Missing PlugIn". So not very useful for a human.
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by vitd 12y ago
Am I misunderstanding, or did the article gloss over the cost of keeping up your car as a driver? They talk about how renting a cab costs a certain amount up-front, plus insurance, plus some other stuff. Then they sort of hand-wave that an
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by vitd 12y ago
Not to mention how obtuse it is to learn. Even without the backwards compatibility issues (which are very real), the entire mental model of how OpenGL works is completely messed up. Things like having a texture ID, which you then bind to a
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by vitd 12y ago
Yeah, if I called someone and heard an ad, I would never ever call that person again. I don't need anymore ads in my life, thanks.
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by vitd 12y ago
I think this is a beautiful example of the power of the public domain.
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by vitd 12y ago
Yeah, I pretty much immediately close any web page that has an auto play video on it. If I get a link from a friend and a video plays before it, I just close it. No interest in that stuff, especially when I'm browsing at work.
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by vitd 12y ago
Yeah, but this happens with any change. It's the same with the minimum wage, for example. The argument is, "Well, if my business is required to pay a living wage, I'll go out of business because people won't pay more for
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by vitd 12y ago
And how does that affect her ability to do things like get a password reset? My wife used to do a little of that, though not to the extent of your mother. (Mostly just putting in that she was 120 years old on forms with ages, and stuff.) At
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by vitd 12y ago
You can choose "Show Path" from the "View" menu in the Finder. At least it isn't as hard to understand as "Enable origin chip in Omnibox".
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by vitd 12y ago
As someone who hasn't used Chrome, I couldn't even make sense of this phrase: "Enable origin chip in Omnibox". WTF does that mean? No non-technical user is going understand that gibberish. I think it speaks volumes about
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by vitd 12y ago
I used to live near a road that was designed similar to the "Continuous flow" model. It wasn't quite that elaborate, but Palatine Rd. just north of Chicago has "local" and "express" lanes. (Or was it Dunde
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by vitd 12y ago
Not at all! I lived in Atlanta for a while just before the 1996 Olympics. I was paying somewhere in the $300-500 (~200-300 Euros) per month range for a 1 bedroom. It was one of the cheapest big cities in the states. I moved to Chicago that
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by vitd 13y ago
Can you describe what things Xcode lacks that you miss from Delphi? I'd be interested in learning more about such features.
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by vitd 13y ago
Why? Apple doesn't DRM any of the music on iTunes. It must DRM the video, just like all other video services because it's mandated by the copyright holders (like Sony). Parts for Apple computers going back many years are readily a
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by vitd 13y ago
I'm confused by the title of this article. The copyright in the PDF is 1999, not 1997, and it says it's about imperative programming in C, not functional programming. It says it's for people who learned functional programming
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by vitd 13y ago
Oh man, this is the one that cheeses me off so much. These web sites where you have to give them your email to get info about a product, or whatever. Forget it. Not going to touch it with a 10-foot pole. If you can't be honest and open
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by vitd 13y ago
Another hater I run into: The criticism hater. (And I don't mean to imply that the author of the blog post is one of them.) Point out real flaws in technologies that other people like (such as git, OpenGL, etc.) and you'll get a f

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