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We (a school teacher and an unemployed hacker) have an idea we think could massively empower educators. We had plans to apply for Imagine K12's fall cadre. All we were waiting for …

Link: http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common...

Of course its not. After all, why would it be?

https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr...

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/blo…

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 a…

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_(s…

Perhaps the word is 'pwn'?

> 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 …

A few more (particularly nspr and apr): http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/portability-libs/

Agreed. Should have said "hopefully" rather than "probably".

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 …

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…

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 languag…

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…

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 f…

This may not be "news", but Apple's GSX (Global Service Exchange) site has been compromised for some time. This is the site is where/how Apple and Apple Service Providers order, re…

"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?

I write homebrew formulae.

1. Because it contains the phrase: "Graham has stated he hopes to avoid the Eternal September that results in the general decline of intelligent discourse within a community". Exce…

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 [ $# -eq 2 ] && for i in "$@…