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by voidpointer 17y ago
It's great they put it up that way as that seems to be the native resolution the demo was recorded at. That way, you get the optimum display quality of the text. Since most of the screen stays the same much of the time, it isn't that much o
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by voidpointer 17y ago
If clang could come up with better C++ template error messages that would be really sweet. STL related error messages in g++ (and MSVC) are really hard to figure out, especially when C++ is not your main language; so you're not exposed to t
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by voidpointer 17y ago
This is what as the triad of thesis, antithesis and synthesis. A lot of progress works this way. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis ] Thesis (established view): SQL/ACID solves all you data problems Antithesis: No
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by voidpointer 17y ago
It's CWEB ( http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/cweb.html ) A language based on C devised by Knuth as a language for "Literate Programming" ( http://www.literateprogramming.com/ )
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by voidpointer 17y ago
There's also a video lecture at Stanford in which Knuth explains DLX. http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/seminars/knuth/000222-kn...
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Yep. I'd go as far as saying that the fact that Android users, on average, are downloading a similar number of apps as iphone users is hardly interesting at all. The average smartphone user just seems to get around 9 free and one or two pai
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by voidpointer 17y ago
What I find problematic about this approach is that it leads to an implementation that represents the least common denominator. Protocols that have some conceptual overlap were devised for a reason and represent some sort of evolution. Trea
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by voidpointer 17y ago
I'm mostly suggesting that Adobe's tools may not be tied to the Flash platform as much as it may seem.
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Best for shareholders? It's not like they're making money from flash player. They're making money from content creation tools (i.e. Creative Suite). At this point it may be a bit easier for them to create Flash content but adding HTML5 to t
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Aren't Feynman diagrams already a DSL for a certain sub domain of quantum field theory?
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by voidpointer 17y ago
See also: "The two party swindle": http://lesswrong.com/lw/mg/the_twoparty_swindle/ The left vs. right spiel is nothing but a simple exploitation of the human tendency to not think about actual facts when a simple (and convenient) explan
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by voidpointer 17y ago
The inverse of the assertion made in this article (i.e. anonymity leads to bad behavior) has already been theoretically predicted in "John Gabriel's Greater Internet Dickwad Theory": http://www.pennyarcademerch.com/pat070381.html
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Yep, that is already quite interesting. He doesn't say how this compares to the situation on windows (and linux). Nevertheless - this is already far more substantial.
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by voidpointer 17y ago
I'd love to see someone come up with actual facts around this Flash on Mac issue. There seems to be somewhat of a shortage of facts. Gruber has mostly hearsay (although he is very convincing with that). We'd need to do real benchmarking for
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Very nice. Here's a feature suggestion: allow me to specify the two locations in the URL so I can create bookmarks to pairs that I use all the time (e.g. Hamburg/NewYork, Hamburg/SanFrancisco...).
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Nice. I didn't realize today's HTML implementations were handling soft hyphens. When I last tried that it didn't work, but that was a long time ago.
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by voidpointer 17y ago
So we agree that there is a lot of room for innovation in the space of tools enabling people to output to the HTML5 stack.
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by voidpointer 17y ago
I don't see how HTML5 makes authoring tools (commercial or not) redundant. Do you expect people that are relying on visual authoring software to migrate to writing HTML5/JS/CSS in a text editor "just because"?
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Nice way to look out for an employer with sense of humor. This will be dismissed by all the people you wouldn't want to be working for in the first place. Unless you are really desperate, it looks like a great strategy to end up working wit
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Hello pot. This is kettle. You're black.
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by voidpointer 17y ago
> It'd be SO easy to fake even ridiculously complex performances Given the number of full playback performances that are already happening, I don't suppose the faking could get any worse. "Real" musicians will never fake a performance o
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Notice how similar this is to what happened when programming computers was made easier through the introduction of high level languages. CSS (and HTML) are the the Assembly Language of web page layout. The more standardized they become, the
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by voidpointer 17y ago
The idea seems good. Have you thought about asking someone with experience in web design to make a more streame-lined and less clunky version of the landing page? I think you are on a good way in terms of keeping it simple but in my humble
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by voidpointer 17y ago
The software companies themselves often argue that they don' really want software patents. However, the fact that other can file patents puts them into a position where they need to file patents themselves for protection. It's just a stupid
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by voidpointer 17y ago
The versioning nomenclature seems somewhat chaotic... here it says 10.5 and their current version is 10.10 and on the linked page they refer to 10.1 and also talk about 10.50. I guess that 10.10 == 10.1 and 10.5 == 10.50 but it is a bit con
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Why on earth would you recommend Agave syrup as a sweetener when it has an even higher fructose/glucose ratio than the dreaded HFCS? There are sweeteners that are 100% glucose including plain old corn syrup but also other nice alternatives
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by voidpointer 17y ago
This was really very interesting. I for one was mostly ignorant to the big difference there was between glucose and fructose. Also the bit on ethanol was quite interesting in itself. The fact that HFCS is made from normal corn syrup (almost
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Is it known what the contractor was hired to do? I guess Microsoft didn't just post on rent-a-coder to get the lowest bid on "a microblogging site like Plurk.com". How deeply was MSFT involved in the project spec and to what degree was that
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by voidpointer 17y ago
Keyboards really seem to be polarizing smartphone users these day. I am not very fond of sliding keyboards, but some of my friends would never consider buying a phone without a "full" keyboard...
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by voidpointer 17y ago
At the level of abstraction I would expect from a String object, the reverse of \r\n should be \n\r. Basically, you example is another encoding issue. I think strings should be free from any encoding concerns. Those should be handled when p

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