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Comment · 14 years ago
There is nothing illegal about this. It provides magnet links, so it is not even linking to the files themselves, they aren't hosting infringing content...
Comment · 14 years ago
HDMI is compatible with DVI. You can convert from DVI to HDMI and vice versa (without requiring logic, simply hooking the right lines into the right port).
Comment · 14 years ago
Depends on when it is done ... for example as a child the rules are different for a lot of countries and dual citizenship would be allowed.
Comment · 14 years ago
In the time period listed I've bought WAY more than 5 jars of Nutella, but I don't honestly think that I bought it thinking "Hey this is healthy!".
Comment · 14 years ago
The guy I was talking to was amused when I actually read what I was signing while purchasing my car. It asked me to sign saying I had received something, which was going to be printed next. He said I was the first person to refuse to initial/sign the paper until I had seen the next item on the list.
Comment · 14 years ago
You can run an emulator for both the iPad/iPhone iOS stuff on top of an Apple Mac OS X machine, same with the Android development environment. At that point you can test your website using WebKit on a "mobile" device without actually owning a mobile device.
Comment · 14 years ago
Safari is available for Windows. If developers were running Windows they could test IE, Chrome, FireFox and Safari all at once.
Comment · 14 years ago
I've been waiting for Linux distributions to pick up the idea behind FreeBSD's handbook (http://freebsd.org/handbook) which is an absolutely fantastic resource that has helped me even as a veteran FreeBSD user make sure I had all my ducks in a row before making modifications to my system.
Comment · 14 years ago
At least with clang/llvm and gcc you now have binary compatibility between two competing compilers.

You can take a .o built with gcc (g++) and link it with a .o generated by clang (clang++) without issues. Same name mangling, same everything. This means that I on my system at least don't care anymore whether the project is built with GCC or with clang and I can use either or for my own projects.

The thing though is that the C++ standard doesn't have a default ABI, so saying that it is non-standard isn't even the case, that we get any compatibility is nice at all, and I understand that complaint.

The biggest issue I've ran into is that even with the same compiler on the same platform (using MSVC 2008) setting different compiler flags generated completely different code and memory layouts for std::vector that caused me to not be able to link against a DLL. At least some consistency exists with other compilers and different flags don't necessarily change compatibility.

I don't think it is entirely fair to compare WinRT with Foundation/Cocoa. WinRT has an entirely different goal than what Foundation/Cocoa provide, and Foundation/Cocoa provide none of the same things that WinRT provides such as a object model that can be used across different programming languages fairly easily. Mac OS X has nothing that even comes close to COM.

Comment · 14 years ago
Objective-C isn't used in XNU the kernel that Mac OS X uses, Mach is a mixture of C and C++ (A subset of it actually, known as IOKit).
Comment · 14 years ago
I'm on Aderall, and by the time I watch the show its effect has worn off (watching it RIGHT before I go to sleep, the guys voice makes me go to sleep), making me slightly hungry, but not enough to get out of bed and actually make any food, besides I don't like eating right before I go to sleep.

Yes, there is a lot of food that is on there where I can find myself saying "well, definitely not eating that ever again".

Comment · 14 years ago
I've been watching "How It's Made" on NetFlix, I am on Season 3 and it is awesome. Although, I do tend to get hungry for the foods they show :P
Comment · 14 years ago
Chrome on OS X 10.6.8, worked with no issues after giving it a minute or two.
Comment · 14 years ago
Flag the post and move on. I don't see any Microsoft hating here, most of the posts are about Microsoft being in their right to take down a project that uses their copyrighted binaries and is distributing them wholesale after adding some extra code...
Comment · 14 years ago
Why an iDevice? Does Android add periods by default? (Space space doesn't on most Android devices, neither does Enter enter).

He could have written this on any mobile computing platform.

That being said, he did use short hand texting "speech" with his "w/".

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