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Re: Mac OS X 64 bit Assembly System Calls | dustin.schultz.io

Mo — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 21:10:43 -0000

minor correction: the ABI specifies that the 4th syscall argument is passed in %r10, not %rcx, in contrast to normal function calls

(See A.2.1 of the ABI — it refers to Linux, but it applies to XNU too)

Re: How I structure JavaScript

Mo — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 19:02:10 -0000

Another point on progressive enhancement: since we've left the stagnation of an IE6-dominated world behind, there are now far more browsers with far more varied capabilities than ever before. As soon as you start using features which aren't available in the browsers used by anything more than a handful of people, you need progressive enhancement to ensure that they have a sane experience. Once upon a time, 'features' meant only 'JavaScript' and 'Flash', but now of course might be the audio APIs, Canvas, SVG support, native video playback, etc.., etc.

(Of course, I know you know this)

Re: MetaBroadcast - blog - tuesday terminal tip add some colour to your prompt

Mo — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 09:49:40 -0000

(No warranties about how shonky it is, though... that whole repo is somewhat organic!)

Re: MetaBroadcast - blog - tuesday terminal tip add some colour to your prompt

Mo — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 09:47:25 -0000

Feel free to crib from https://github.com/nevali/d... :)

Re: MetaBroadcast - blog - tuesday terminal tip add some colour to your prompt

Mo — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 08:37:46 -0000

You may want to only do this if the terminal is something like an xterm* or linux (console), or else you may find it has odd side-effects in esoteric situations.

If you put this somewhere other than .bashrc (e.g., .bash_profile) you'll want to wrap it in a check that PS1 is non-empty (PS1 is empty for non-interactive shells).

You can also set an environment variable called PROMPT_COMMAND whose contents will be executed within your current shell before the prompt is displayed (including functions that you define in your .bashrc and similar) — so you can use this to, for example, set a variable based upon whether you're in a git repository or not (and if so, the name of the branch) — that variable can then be substituted into PS1, e.g., PS1="blah \${vcs_branch} blah \$" would cause the variable ${vcs_branch} to be substituted each time PS1 is evaluated.

Re: http://tracks.ranea.org/post/16138238036

Mo — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:41:53 -0000

“But you don’t have much reason to sell something this thing creates outside Apple’s store, ’cause it ain’t gonna be creating those snazzy multimedia books for your Kindle Fire.”

Well, you might be selling it on your website, via a Paypal cart (or similar), as one of several other formats. It’s a pretty niche scenario, but not by any means unheard of.

Re: Teachers warned over Facebook and Twitter use

Mo — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:02:20 -0000

That wording isn’t “entirely pragmatic in nature”, it’s “don’t get involved in any public debate about teaching”, which is moronic and self-defeating.

Re: Typical BBC bias

Mo — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:00:05 -0000

Nobody said it was a conspiracy, just that it’s idiotic.

Re: On your first date? The man must pay?

Mo — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:27:07 -0000

Both parties should expect to pay, to be honest—nobody loses, whichever way it ends up going.

Re: HTML5 yes great but it should have nothing to do with the ipad

Mo — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 06:22:28 -0000

I don't think there's anything wrong with a major consumer product launch being used as an excuse to adopt newer, better, technologies.

My only concern is if these sites will ONLY serve HTML5 to iPad users. That would be lame.

Re: Uses and Abuses: Final Reflections

Mo — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:09:34 -0000

You're not alone in location & connectivity fail issues. Most events suffer from them to some extent—it's really only the exceptionally tech-savvy (or anal-retentive) hosts who get it right. You should try attending the Mobile World Congress (where all the handset developers and network operators get together to show off shiny things): the connectivity there is famously abysmal.

Re: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - Bret Taylor's blog

Mo — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:47:47 -0000

Your statement may well be ambiguous rather than incorrect, (I'm assuming the former), but for the benefit of anybody else: you can do joins across databases in MySQL, provided they're accessible from the same connection (i.e., same user/pass/hostname, and privileges allow it).

Re: New poll: Who will replace Monkey Boy?

Mo — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:52:23 -0000

Clearly if Ballmer were to go it'd be Ozzie. He has the same kind of “everybody's wrong if they don't see the magnificence of my plans the way I do” that Gates has, and Ballmer's tenure will suggest to investors that they're better off with a visionary geek in charge instead of a sales guy.

I'd really love it to be Scoble though. I can see the blog posts now.