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  1. Re:harder to read if there is no consistency on Anonymous No More: Your Coding Style Can Give You Away · · Score: 1

    Coding standard adoption can provoke holy wars but at the end of the day, you're a team. Though idiosyncratic decisions irk me, such as prefixing instance variables with underscore. Any decent editor will make such a distinction between scope via colours.

    Pretty printing tools and style checkers present in any decent editor will enforce coding standards with minimal fuss.

  2. Re:pygame chess is the ultimate on Computer Chess Created In 487 Bytes, Breaks 32-Year-Old Record · · Score: 1

    So today's /. project is to implement Go in the Go language?

  3. Re:Ugly as it can be? on Latest Windows 10 Preview Build Brings Slew of Enhancements · · Score: 1

    It's creating a common skin for phone, tablet and workstation.

    modern day ARM GPUs have enough 3D acceleration for eye candy. Simpler rendering conserves battery life, perhaps.

  4. Re: Really good news! on Opera Founder Is Back, WIth a Feature-Heavy, Chromium-Based Browser · · Score: 1

    Posting from Vivaldi. :)

    the browser seems to generate revenue from affiliate sites - links on the homescreen and prepopulated with shitloads of bookmarks to online services.

    Which doesn't bother me in as much as the default theme is ugly but more importantly, page loading is dog slow.

  5. Re:If by "some fucked up stuff" on Young Cubans Set Up Mini-Internet · · Score: 1

    an infamous US naval base is on Cuban soil.

  6. Re:How do I install DirectX on Linux? on DirectX 12 Lies Dormant Within Microsoft's Recent Windows 10 Update · · Score: 1

    Gallium3D (used by nouveau and others) includes a 'state tracker' for Direct3D. So in theory its possible to port Windows games across.

    That's xorg only - I believe Android has a custom NiH framebuffery GL ES approach.

  7. Re:Lennart already announced the systemd glibc rep on Google Just Made It Easier To Run Linux On Your Chromebook · · Score: 2

    Sun Mar 31 17:22:15 PDT 2013

    April the 1st, east of the Atlantic.

  8. Re:Pedantic, but... on Google Just Made It Easier To Run Linux On Your Chromebook · · Score: 1

    GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.

    Addition commonly uses the symbol '+' . Hence shouldn't that be

    "GNU divided by Linux" ?

  9. Re:How about the flash integrated into chrome? on Adobe Patches One Flash Zero Day, Another Still Unfixed · · Score: 1

    I use firefox for general browsing and paste the URL into Chrome for the remainder of sites that need flash (or choke Firefox's HTML5 video implementation)

    Bottom line, Flash is still an attack vector but at least I know I'm conciously invoking it each time rather than relying on the vagaries of a blocker or click-to-play.

  10. Re:Future platform for mobile native apps? on Could Tizen Be the Next Android? · · Score: 1

    Servo is there to replace Gecko - you'd still be writing HTML5 apps in BootToServo.

    Although someone has written rust bindings to EFL, so you could develop Tizen native apps in rust!

  11. Re:Tizen is *NOT* Meego ! on Could Tizen Be the Next Android? · · Score: 1

    Well if nothing else, Tizen provides Rasterman with a full time job and indirectly benefits the E19 window manager, e.g. making it ready for the Wayland apocalypse. :)

  12. Re:The thing about new languages... on Is D an Underrated Programming Language? · · Score: 2

    The new trend, as per the aforementioned rust, is to target LLVM.

    So there still may be places that the Gnu Compiler Collection can go that LLVM can't but port Clang and you get the rest for free.

  13. Re:Limited power to change working situation... on Regular Exercise Not Enough To Make Up For Sitting All Day · · Score: 1

    Unions... Get a government job where the unions take Occupational Health and Safety to an extreme and you can request any darned whizzbang office furniture.

  14. Re:Hope the trend continues. on Google Releases More Windows Bugs · · Score: 1

    Call it an act of faith.

    If patching old code does motivate even one vendor/carrier to get off their arse and release a security update then success...

  15. Re:What? on Google To Test Build-It-Yourself Ara Smartphones In Puerto Rico · · Score: 1

    Puerto Rico is American soil though, right? Can't Yanks travel freely there without a passport?

    If the devices are locked to a regional carrier that would suck.

  16. Re:Extradition? on Uber Suspends Australian Transport Inspector Accounts To Block Stings · · Score: 1

    Has Uber been involved in a traffic accident resulting in injury of death?

    What is the legal precedent here - can Australians sue a billion dollar US corporation for damages? Their whole business model goes down the toilet if the driver is inadequately insured and unable to pay.

    Fuck any EULA on the app, if I were to become paralysed I'd want a 7 figure payout.

  17. Re:owners of older machines, behold... on Firefox 35 Arrives With MP4 Playback On Mac, Android Download Manager Support · · Score: 2

    there was an announcement a couple of months ago that Electrolysis was enabled by default in the nightlies.

    Trunk is several versions ahead of release.

    So probably the release after this one, i.e. 36

  18. Re:Zawinski's Law (sort of) on Firefox 35 Arrives With MP4 Playback On Mac, Android Download Manager Support · · Score: 1

    iOS has a store. Android has a store. Unsurprisingly, Firefox OS has a store.

    What they're doing is extending same said store to the desktop, so that you can run the apps from your phone on your PC.

    Quite handy if you're in the minority (myself included) that are blessed with a Firefox OS handset!

  19. Re:Safety? on Rust Programming Language Reaches 1.0 Alpha · · Score: 2

    Type inference frees one from the boilerplate of, say, Java while maintaining static typing. You still get type safety in compilation.

    It's the basis of functional languages such as ocaml and haskell.

    Have a read about Damasâ"Hindleyâ"Milner typing.

  20. Re:Device drivers ? on Rust Programming Language Reaches 1.0 Alpha · · Score: 1

    Firefox OS (Boot to Gecko) has Raspberry Pi (armv6) as a porting goal.

    So I imagine if the project ever evolved into BootToServo, rust on low spec ARM would be a prerequisite.

  21. Re:i5? Call me when they have the i7 on Intel 5th Gen Core Series Performance Preview With 2015 Dell XPS 13 · · Score: 1

    They make fanless i7 boxes? Wouldn't a high load on an htpc melt your case? :)

    I've been wondering about getting a Brix or a NUC just as a quiet home desktop. Not having to crank the volume up to 11 just to hear html5 video above the fan matters more than raw performance.

  22. Re:The religion of peace on In Paris, Terrorists Kill 2 More, Take At Least 7 Hostages · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile in Spain...

    Napoleon snuffed out the Spanish Inquisition, only for it to be reinstated by Fernando the 7th - the great-great-great-great-grandfather of the current King Felipe.

    Thus Cayetano Ripoll was excecuted in 1826 in Valencia.

  23. Re:No on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 1

    check the xda forums. "official" support for a number of devices is lacking from the cyanogenmod team but hackers often create their own ROMs.

  24. Re:It could be that Android users have defected on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 1

    I switched to Firefox OS.

  25. Re: ah the great ghengis khan burial on Finding Genghis Khan's Tomb From Space · · Score: 1

    Wu-Tang Clan are still around? They must each be in their 40s by now.