geoff-codes

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First in 14 years, Unix get's rev-bumped: SUSv4 is here(github.com)
1 points by geoff-codes 10y ago|0 comments
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Does the IK12 and YC merger disadvantage edtech startups?
3 points by geoff-codes 11y ago|1 comments
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
Link: http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common...
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
Of course its not. After all, why would it be?
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr...
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
Suggest putting this in a repo somewhere, in the vein of: https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr... https://github.com/ligurio/free-software-testing-books/
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
I don't think this holds water at all. The crux of the article is: > ...one last gap remains in the middle of this stack of system exclusivity: Apple licenses the instruction set architecture for its mobile devices from ARM. But App
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
Not particlarly; in fact, apple has basically done this exact thing twice in the past ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_68k_emulator ), ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software) . But I bel
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
Perhaps the word is 'pwn'?
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
> There are LLVM targets with corresponding ABIs that are nonspecific to architectures like PNaCL but Apple is not using them They do indeed support LLVM IR target(s) that are, in fact, much more architecturally-nonspecific than PNaCl,
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
A few more (particularly nspr and apr): http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/portability-libs/
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
Agreed. Should have said "hopefully" rather than "probably".
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
Ongoing? Maybe not. But, rather than talk IBM in 1984 (which is probably a bad example vis-a-vis Apple products and their breakthrough impact), I'll refer you to the facial tissue breakthrough product of 1980: https://www.yo
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
OK. Per this 2011 article ( http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/business/media/researching... ), Kleenex has a 47.1% share of the facial tissue market. I assume these numbers reflect the U.S. (rather th
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
Ha. Having conquered the paywall: Ridiculous. COBOL. AppleScript. Lego Mindstorms. Also: Is it difficult to develop a programming language which is closely related to human language? ( http://programmers.stackexchange.com/que
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
To answer my own question (and for anyone else who's an idiot like me): Google the title of this post and look at Google's cache. i.e., http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EI3f-tS...
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
Ok, got it, and fair enough. So, per said item/policy: > It's ok to ask how to read an article or to help other users by sharing a workaround. So, can anyone share the workaround for this one? In a desktop browser, I get a payw
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Apple Global Service Exchange Has Been Compromised
3 points by geoff-codes 11y ago|0 comments
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
"We're not sure this will work, but if it does we'll do it from now on." I don't believe this has now been "done from now on" I don't think?
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
I write homebrew formulae.
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Ask HN: Why (and where) did “Apply to YC without an idea” fail?(old.ycombinator.com)
5 points by geoff-codes 11y ago|1 comments
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Why the HN Wikipedia page is awesome
1 points by geoff-codes 11y ago|0 comments
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
Identical is pretty easy. Maybe something like this. #!/bin/sh here=$PWD dir=. depth= rm -f /tmp/list [ $# -eq 1 ] && [ -e "$1" ] && dir=$1 || depth=$1
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
> I recently found a new a job hoping to gain some mentorship I this is probably the real error. Lacking greater context, what made you expect that your boss at this new position would be able to mentor you? Is he supposed to know how
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by geoff-codes 11y ago
This is awesome. Thanks!
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Have a Look at GitHub's Backend Magic
17 points by geoff-codes 12y ago|0 comments