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Lua Workshop 2017 in SF one month: registration still open(lua.org)
3 points by forgettableuser 9y ago|0 comments
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
While they certainly enjoyed the conventions English law afforded them, it was always understood that these rights are natural rights born with their humanity. To lead a revolution and form a new government, they understood that this could
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
It is worth reminding that the freedom of speech was understood at the time as one of our unalienable rights as individuals. Notice the phrasing of the First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" was published anonymously.
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
It is worth remembering that The Federalist Papers were written under pseudonym Publius. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay believed in the importance of anonymity as a tool for public discussion. A surveillance state can destr
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
As somebody who has written to companies about bugs in their products (and almost always ignored), I would really appreciate a response even if it was some form letter thing to the effect of "I just make a small component that happens
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Interesting. Now you got me thinking more about what things might change with self-driving cars. Will cars offer an "orbiting" mode where they keep driving in a circle until you are ready to be picked up. Will stores offer a drivi
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
I knew a guy in college who rented a house that didn't have any outlets with a ground plug. This became such a problem, he made his own ground by using a big metal pipe outside the house that was already deep in the earth, and running
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
This was a really good teardown. http://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surpr... The author also does consider the cost of the components.
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Mp3 support now coming to Fedora Workstation 25(blogs.gnome.org)
4 points by forgettableuser 10y ago|1 comments
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
I also suspect CUPS remains pretty active. CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) started a long time ago and is used by pretty much all the Unix platforms. Apple bought the project in 2007. The license remains GPL2/LGPL2 and all the platf
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
I know from personal experience that at least LLVM, Clang, Swift, and WebKit/JavaScriptCore have daily activity and also include non-Apple commit reviewers.
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
I am now a victim of the adage, "Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it". I hated Flash. I either avoided installing it or used a Flash blocker. So I always managed to avoid the auto-playing problem when the In
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
All the ones I listed are the ones where they are significant contributors. The much larger set of where they are mostly users, like the BSD userland tools, curl, Python, Perl, Tcl, Ruby, and so forth, I omitted. There are just too many.
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
The only thing that has doubled down here is the marketing of the fact they are contributing to open source. They have both been large users and contributors to open source since the switch to OS X (NeXT acquisition). Just off the top of my
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
I personally think they go overboard in the name of security on iOS, for example the banning of JIT and (formerly) dynamic libraries combined with the App review process is overkill. You don't need both. BUT...context of where this all
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
You are using a disingenuous interpretation of what he said. His quote is: "tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem" Yes, he uses the word "lock", but not in the same context we
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Those who enjoyed this may also enjoy Chuck Jones' 9 (or 11) Rules for Writing Road Runner cartoons: http://mentalfloss.com/article/62035/chuck-jones-rules-writi... Excerpt: 1. The Road Runner cannot harm the
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Since all the posts here seem pretty negative about Slack's response, I'm genuinely curious...how do you think a smaller company should respond when a huge company decides to enter their competitive space? I ask because I've
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Maybe Apple is using something like the Big Mac inflation index to determine their costs/pricing. From January 2013 to July 2016, the price of the Big Mac went from to $4.37 to $5.04. This works out about the same percentage increase f
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
It is estimated Steam made $1.5 billion in revenues in 2014, and $3.5 billion in 2015. If you assume Valve gets 30% of that number, and remember Valve is a privately held company of about 360 employees, that is an impressive figure.
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Wait. Aren't the numbers for SSDs, particularly the bus speeds for the SATA connection measured in Giga bits (not bytes)? Looking at these numbers you linked to (which seem to be in mega bytes , it seems to me that decompression speed
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Microsoft Flight Simulator
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
I see where the confusion comes from. The example in the middle is in Swift, regardless of which language you've selected. But the API list at the bottom does reflect your current language selection.
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Did they just kill the Macbook Air? They kept emphasizing how the 13" Macbook Pro is thinner, smaller, and lighter than the Air. And at the end, they talk up the 12" Macbook.
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
The spacebar is a big amount of wasted space. They should make this a Touch Bar too so you can map multiple buttons to it.
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
Jonathan Blow gave a talk to Berekley college students a few months ago, complaining about the poor quality in modern software. He picks on Twitter in one part, showing the graph of the number of employees by year, challenges their claims t
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
I still use my classic iPod. I'm amazed the thing still works. I expected the hard disk to fail long ago. I had to replace the battery twice, but that's only a few dollars nowadays.
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
I don't have anything against the Creative Zen, but it just looked like another weird/silly looking MP3 box that wasn't an iPod to my undiscerning eyes. I remember an awful product placement for the Zen on Smallville. There w
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by forgettableuser 10y ago
This is from a British show called The Real Hustle. They show a modern way to cheat at roulette using a tiny computer and an earpiece to predict where the ball is going to land. The scammers then quickly place bets on all the immediate slot

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