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by zppx 17y ago
I'm really hating how tech discussions relating to Apple are turning in the Apple fanboys versus detractors of Apple.
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by zppx 17y ago
Here they open, some 6 seconds after the "Please wait . . . loading file.".
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by zppx 17y ago
The article is too much anecdotal. What is a "better programmer" compared to the average Joe developer? How do I measures this?
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by zppx 17y ago
1. Rashomon 2. Apocalypse Now 3. 12 Angry Men
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by zppx 17y ago
Just check the instructions for iChat it clearly says to uncheck SSL.
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by zppx 17y ago
I lived without X for 4 years, between 2005 and 2009, my main box was a 500Mhz Coppermine Pentium 3 with 128mb of ram and an integrated SiS 630 video card, a crappy setup that taught me much about computers and unixes. The applications that
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by zppx 17y ago
While it's not exactly related to the kernel, Matt Porter's presentation slides about Android and the discussion that followed in lwn raise some good points about the state of Android in the linux development community: http://lwn.net/Arti
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by zppx 17y ago
I'm not sure if you know much about linux kernel development, but it always was centralized, dividing efforts would be awful to linux kernel developers that works in the embedded devices market.
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by zppx 17y ago
Have you ever tried to delete every file that a .pkg installation creates on your hard drive, good luck! I think this is what he was trying to say, even slackware has a better package management than OS X... MacPorts mitigate this for some
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by zppx 17y ago
Well, what if I decide to make a toy web application that works with video and I decide to use HTML5 video standard? Will I have to pay royalties only to serve this webpage? And what if I put the source code of this application on github or
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by zppx 17y ago
> 'I will give you this magical thing that can do anything' Well, it will not open to applications at the same time.
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by zppx 17y ago
How will developers create new applications for the iPhone OS without the Mac? Just think about this question to see how this article is utterly nonsensical. Contrary to what the Apple apologists are saying Apple do not have "user experienc
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by zppx 17y ago
This is stupid, sorry for the strong word, if H.264 succeeds it will be the free market that will lose and not mozilla, any startup that works with videos (say a new video editing on the cloud) will have to pay licensing fees just to serve
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by zppx 17y ago
Does webkit have better support for other codecs?
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by zppx 17y ago
I'm confused, can't the source be downloaded from a mirror in another country? I always use heanet.ie when downloading from SourceForge.
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by zppx 17y ago
I have been using this: http://alex.csgraf.de/self/?part/projects&folder/Qemu%20... in a triple booted MacBook for some low-level testing on OS X, just to see how it works following the Mac OS X Internals book, the performance is pass
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by zppx 17y ago
Being very close to graduate in the end of the year, run a half-marathon, try to not be a complete slacker and play with my recently purchased VPS.
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by zppx 17y ago
The entire "field" of memetics is a form of pseudoscience, without clear presuppositions, by the way, Dawkins is a die hard fan of bogus scientific definition: http://www.scientificblogging.com/gadfly/extended_phenotype_...
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by zppx 17y ago
ESR a programmer? Do you ever read the mailing list of the major FLOSS projects out there? Read them and search for his name. It was even the theme of a webcomic in the past: http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/show-them-the-code
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by zppx 17y ago
The problem with mathematics is that it's very hard, it's not for everyone, the common folk cannot understand it, and 99% of those who can will not be on the level of a Felix Klein or Henri Poincaré. This is well exemplified in the book "In
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by zppx 17y ago
That was exactly the situation in Brazil, 7 years ago, the dark age of the Brazilian internet, some users using Macs and Linux boxes (and also some Netscape fans out there that were using Windows) and web developers, myself included, "took
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by zppx 17y ago
That's depends on what you want to learn and for why, well, some people want to understand the formalism of a theory, as theoretical computer science or theoretical physics where others are only interested in applications, so I will take a
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by zppx 17y ago
São Paulo, Brazil
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by zppx 17y ago
I am brazilian but I will answer it either way, Brazil is also a country were a large portion of the population are not far removed from immigrants, mainly Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Germans and Lebanese, and in recent years Bo
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by zppx 18y ago
Wanna be a useless blog, everyone knows that BSD is dying. (Just a pun, okay, I use OpenBSD as a secondary operating system on my laptop).
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by zppx 18y ago
Does your shell don't have command-completion? zsh does have a programmable completion and it is great. There was an gtk 1.2 aria1 that used to be the most useful application besides Mozilla in my Gnome desktop, it remains the best graphica
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by zppx 18y ago
In one word: focus.