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Alphasite_··on Chrome now uses clang for production builds on Linux
I dont know about C++, but for C Clang certainly feels like it has better error messages than the variant of GCC that the distro the Uni defaults to has, If nothing else, because of the colour.
Alphasite_··on Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform
The internals of STDlibs tend to be nasty, but externally they're designed to be clear. The problem here is externally these interfaces are extremely messy and hard to follow, i.e. the abstraction doesn't seem to work.
Alphasite_··on Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon
Well, without these IP laws GNOME wouldn't have any recourse, would they?
Alphasite_··on Rust and Go
And even Java is getting that.
Alphasite_··on The future of C# and Visual Basic [video]
Picking up languages really isn't that te key, it's always been the library that's hard, so I can't say I can see the value if it's just that.
Alphasite_··on Does the FCC really not get it about the Internet?
Except that it actually works just fine, see BT OpenReach in the UK.
Alphasite_··on Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
There's not just that, we just don't use installers in 99% of apps either, which makes installing toolbars tricky.
Alphasite_··on Mono for Unreal Engine
How would that work with the App store now, since you can dynamically link to frameworks?
Alphasite_··on Safari is sending every search query to Apple
Of you know: http://imgur.com/tfjoo2k an even simpler workaround.
Alphasite_··on Safari is sending every search query to Apple
Safari also shows the top spotlight search result iirc.
Alphasite_··on Disney rendered its new animated film on a 55,000-core supercomputer
they'd have to render the same textures for every adjacent frame anyway, so i dont think textures are the reason that ti doesn't work like that.
Alphasite_··on iMac with Retina 5K display
Only 3090 on steam. Which is ~1/3 of the while windows back log. And a large chunk of the imported games are older games, so Linux and Mac both are making steady progress.
Alphasite_··on English Proficiency Index
One number which really has me is that Singapore's proficiency is only high, from what I've seen, they have (on the whole) have an excellent grasp of english.
Alphasite_··on Microsoft Announces Windows 10
No they didn't.
Alphasite_··on Microsoft Announces Windows 10
They've never skipped an os version to my knowledge. For at sure, but that was to bring it in line with the whole x thing in the os
Alphasite_··on The iPhone 6 Review
No, but there isn't any low hanging fruit.
Alphasite_··on Building OS X Apps with JavaScript
Because defining constraints in code is more of a faff than just doing it visually? Its also more immediate since (as far as I know) Xcode doesn't support anyform for edit and continue outside of Playgrounds.
Alphasite_··on Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops in Europe
The substantial improvements in battery? Better screens (brighter, better fov, more resolution 2008 laptops had atrocious screens)? More portable designs? USB3? Better trackpads and keyboards? More durable designs?
Alphasite_··on PathFinding.js
Isn't this just flow field pathfinding?

http://leifnode.com/2013/12/flow-field-pathfinding/

Alphasite_··on Stripe and Apple Pay
Thats a very different mechanism.
Alphasite_··on Intel Xeon E5 v3: Up to 18 Haswell EP Cores
Perhaps its a heat issue, so they place the cores as far from each other as possible?
Alphasite_··on Scottish independence referendum poll tracker
The UK already has very low corporate taxes, so Putting it even lower could be interesting.
Alphasite_··on Swift-X tool to cross compile Swift and Objective-C(++) code to Android
iOS 8 finally allows dynamically linked frameworks.
Alphasite_··on How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking (2012)
In this case they're different URLs. But I believe generally the easiest way is to append some nonsense parameters to the url.

http://www.wired.com/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/... http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-hona...

Alphasite_··on New Sublime Text 3 New Beta
Keyword being "probably" here, it's on the news, but it also has a big impact on tech and even on startups, so it may very well be worth discussing.
Alphasite_··on Why haven't China's cities learned from America's mistakes?
Singapore is excellently planned from what I can see. Dubai is another as well.
Alphasite_··on Can Reddit Grow Up?
It can very well go back, just let it's popularity die down again and you'll be back there eventually.
Alphasite_··on Day One with the Oculus Rift DK2
If nothing else, the new elite also supports the dk2, although we may not see the full experience until Monday.
Alphasite_··on Java Developers
I thought there was some work to support Lambdas in ART?
Alphasite_··on FTL: WebKit’s LLVM-based JIT
But that misses the other side of the argument, a fix for them is a fix for everyone and improvements to core are free improvements for everyone.
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