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Re:Steam for linux testapp thingy on Friday April 23, 2010 @06:15PM (#1289657)
Looks like Valve is definitely going towards multi-platform support. While the Linux version doesn't do anything as of yet, one commenter got the OS X version running after somebody pointed out that both http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/steam_client_osx and http://store.steampowered.com/public/client/steam_client_lin... are valid URLs. Both clients download updates, and the OS X version pops up the new, unreleased Steam application and everything. However, it appears to be in closed beta, since he was kicked off after trying to log in (see http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/butl8/steam_for_linux...)
Re:Ask HN: Why and how is Lisp better? on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @09:08PM (#1283743)
I've been curious about the practical applications of LISP as well. Pure functional programming, as I understand it, means no side effects. The issue with this is that procedural & OO programming lives off of side effects: screen displays, file writes, etc. How would you build a GUI application in something that shouldn't give you anything but an answer? I'm aware that it is done, of course (web servers, games, etc), but how you would do something like that escapes me.
Re:Watch Sid Meier build a game in 48 hours on Thursday April 15, 2010 @06:19PM (#1269107)
I didn't have any of those problems, actually. The video played fine and I had controls the whole way through. FF 3.6 on an outdated Ubuntu distro here, which I would have expected to have its share of problems if normal systems did.
Re:Introducing "Aristo", A jQuery UI Theme/Experiment on Monday March 29, 2010 @07:35PM (#1227845)
Uniform already handles this theme. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and there are three pre-made Uniform themes listed: "Uniform Default," "Aristo," and "Agent."
Re:PyRoom — distraction free writing on Sunday February 28, 2010 @01:35PM (#1157248)
I used it quite successfully for Nanowrimo. The "Py" is probably because it's written in Python.
Re:Apple bans hackers from App Store on Friday February 19, 2010 @06:16PM (#1138208)
Jailbreaking allows the installation of cracked apps, which basically makes the App Store DRM a non-issue.
Re:Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @10:55PM (#985250)
I'm glad this article actually presents both sides. The latter paragraphs talk about another study in which THC did nothing to cell growth, and makes it pretty clear that the entire affair's still really uncertain. I don't think this shows up in many of the pro-marijuana (pseudo-)scientific articles on the web.
Re:Lisp in about 200 lines of Ruby on Monday November 09, 2009 @02:56PM (#931614)
Fixed in 1.4.2... Thanks for pointing that out!
Re:New Skate-Sharpening Method Takes Hockey by Storm on Monday November 02, 2009 @06:12PM (#918177)
Being a hockey player, I definitely want to see what this would/does look like.
Re:Changing the game with μTP on Monday October 12, 2009 @07:05PM (#877865)
...The way the client talks to other clients has had to be completely re-built. As a side effect, because the new protocol so different, it is practically invisible to some of the nasty traffic shaping techniques that some ISPs have been using.

They're not even going to pretend other client will be able to support it in a timely fashion. Backwards compatibility is out the window if they really did implement everything documented in the article.

Re:Own up HN: What are your craziest abandoned projects? on Friday September 18, 2009 @06:18PM (#831293)
This seems like it could go places, but I can't seem to grab a copy of the file. The server keeps running it!
Re:Mirror of _why's projects on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @07:53PM (#774109)
As is the wiki for Shoes (http://wiki.github.com/why/shoes)... I don't know if they were forgotten, or this was on purpose to help people who were going to keep the projects alive.
Re:Ask HN: What do you think of e-cigarettes? on Monday August 17, 2009 @09:15PM (#769514)
Depends on how much. A lot of it produces a minor buzz. A bit (like one cigarette) relaxes you, calms your nerves. This effect is still present at a higher dose, but generally overshadowed.
Re:X Could Learn a Lot from Vista, Windows 7 on Sunday August 16, 2009 @03:55PM (#766602)
I did that a few months ago, actually. The only crash I had was because I forgot to update my driver for the new video card I got. Since then, it's been as stable as my pre-Compiz system.