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by watmough 15y ago
Fantastic. If I understand correctly, they've switched from the teeny board (or is that a model A?) to a larger board that will be shrunk to credit card size in production, with expanded I/O, USB, HDMI, SD, 10BaseT. Really looking forward t
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by watmough 15y ago
Can you add the Sony PS2 on there too? 150 million units!
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by watmough 15y ago
Ahhhh, glad I had the CDROM version. The biggest floppy software I installed more than once was the 23 disk Microsoft Access which came out around that time. I wonder how many floppies it would take for the current version? Of course, I'd j
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by watmough 15y ago
In this case the weasel words are "has not been shown to" which of course is not the same as doesn't.
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by watmough 15y ago
Looks cool, but you might want to move your signup bar up over the twitter line, which would put all the important stuff above the fold on an iPad.
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by watmough 15y ago
This is also somewhat dated, although it does make it as far as the Pentium, and it is a brilliant read. Graphics Programming Black Book - Michael Abrash http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/reference/programmin...
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by watmough 15y ago
I'm totally not complaining at all. Bringing up a young child from a few weeks old when mom went back to work is quite a big deal for a guy in the US, and just a huge privilege that I've been lucky to experience. My daughter 'reading' and b
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by watmough 15y ago
Yes, it was an amazing time. I started with the Yggdrasil distribution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X which ran (I think) pretty happily on a Dell Dimension 486DX2 with a fairly small drive, 300 MB or so. Even then, wi
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by watmough 15y ago
Yes, and those of us who look after children during the day, and write code from 10pm - 3am, then get up a few hours later to do it all again...
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by watmough 15y ago
This is awesome. Kinda related, I've been thinking for ages about whether one could now do encrypted chat between users in the browser, with the encryption happening at either end and the server never seeing plain-text. Back in the real Wor
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by watmough 15y ago
The interesting thing is, that Delicious is actually better now, because it's so much faster. As far as I can tell, it does all the same stuff it used to, just quicker.
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by watmough 15y ago
Here I Am!
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by watmough 15y ago
Also, QuickTime player has a feature right on the file menu to do a screen recording. http://i.imgur.com/JvmiM.png I know there are other tools, but it's hard to beat built-in. Regarding font rending, there's an old article by Joel: http
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by watmough 15y ago
Your point is pretty reasonable, considering the meme sprang to popular awareness in it's 'Slashdotted' form, doubtless melting many servers down prior to appearing in the MSM.
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by watmough 15y ago
Yes, same experience here, but doing a search popped it right up. This should be a direct link to it. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/github-issues/id453833494?mt=...
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by watmough 15y ago
Yes, the article seemed pretty clear that 1. disappearing an application is at Lion's discretion, and 2. that the behavior changes over time. Perhaps if you really think about it, it's deterministic, but it's 'casually non-deterministic'. S
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by watmough 15y ago
Just for kicks, they showed my 17" MBP SR C2D 2.4GHz at $492. Hahahahaha.
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by watmough 15y ago
This just yet another reason that I haven't switched to Lion yet. I don't WANT to think about this stuff. I want to think about editing some text, then getting back to XCode. Don't add some non-deterministic 'feature' that messes up my mode
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by watmough 15y ago
Exactly. It would be quite some job that would pay your salary and knowingly allow you to learn multiple non-business task required languages for 'personal development'. patio11's comment was a LOT more on target, and much more in the spiri
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by watmough 15y ago
Remember that there are various cross-platform development environments, and other 'lite' systems, that will let you develop for mobile using just HTML5 and Javascript. One such is Phonegap http://www.phonegap.com/ Good luck!
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by watmough 15y ago
Yes, the eighties austerity, cuts, unemployment and we had riots then too. Local council budgets are being cut. Libraries and swimming pools, after school activities, policing. All being eroded. From what I see of the news, it's somehow dif
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by watmough 15y ago
I have an external 1280x1024 screen, and I've switched it to portrait. I wish I'd done it long ago, as it's perfect for Xcode help docs, and for reading PDFs generally. It also runs the iPad simulator without scrollbars, but sadly only when
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by watmough 15y ago
You could duct building hvac systems at street level and use waste heat / energy that way.
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by watmough 15y ago
I spent a week there, and truthfully it didn't seem any worse than Houston or New York. Not really all that much traffic, and what seem like drivers who are used to the locale. Down near the harbor, I never saw a car run a light in all the
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by watmough 15y ago
Haha, thanks so much! People always say you should write about what you know, and I've spent far too long on the not completing work side of the equation.
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by watmough 15y ago
Judging by the number of uncompleted projects littering my hard-drive, this idea obviously has a wider application. I think Mayer's real point is that, unless you finish something, you don't gain the benefit of the experience of completing
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by watmough 15y ago
I once questioned the food our church sends out to the homeless, but it turns out that sunny-d and vienna sausages are, seriously, pretty much the only thing they'll accept. With a taste like that in food, I'm not surprised your latte and (
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by watmough 15y ago
World GDP in a country with fast-growing economies and slow-growing economies, is not that useful a measure. As an example, Brazil, China, India have actually been growing at rates that would be miraculous in the US, because they have labor
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by watmough 15y ago
If you define recovery as a return to the pre-recession peak income less transfer payments, we've never actually recovered. http://cr4re.com/charts/charts.html?GDP#category=GDP&cha... I suspect this would resonate with a majority of A
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by watmough 15y ago
It's more than a hypothesis. Paul O'Neill, Teasury Sec under President George W. Bush describes the plans to parcel out the Iraqi oil-fields, already created in 2000/2001. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-01-11-oneill-ir... &#

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