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Re:Ask HN: Why do some hardware only have proprietary drivers?
on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:11AM (#14050624)
There have been efforts at least from AMD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_...
For recent cards, it makes more sense for these companies to tend on the side of not giving out competitive information, hence their NDA processes for developers.
There are more types than classes
Re:Open Letter to the Emacs Maintainers
on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @08:26PM (#12125983)
> Adults don't need to write down a code of conduct, because they adhere to an unwritten code of conduct. Children whinge, 'you shouldn't do that, because this says not to!'; adults don't do that, because they know that they oughtn't — and they refrain from associating with others who do. Children want their clique to gang up on the people they don't like; adults simply walk away from those people.
Because no adult has ever harassed another in a programming community? I would love it if everyone behaved politely and courteously, however this is not currently what is happening in some projects. Having a CoC is merely a preventative measure to curb bad behavior for those who can't self-police.
Re:Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds
on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @02:15PM (#11383570)
Currently firefox is blocked by this, and some other related APIs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/selectio...
Once dom.select_events.enabled defaults to true, we'll be able to polyfill most of the other missing APIs.