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by 286c8cb04bda 14y ago
Business with significant capital get loads secured against that capital. Smaller or low-overhead businesses get loans personally guaranteed by the company officers (often against their personal assets) Or they get by with corporate credit
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> To clarify, I don't think it's a coincidence and I think Google employees probably submitted these. If you look at the posters' profiles you can see where they both work. (Neither is currently a Google employee.)
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by 286c8cb04bda 14y ago
Speaking of using other tools for testing and prototyping, there are REPLs available for Cocoa. My personal favorite is Nu[1] with Nutronic[2], though you can do similar things with MacRuby and PyObjC. [1] http://programming.nu/ [2] http
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by 286c8cb04bda 14y ago
How do you go from friendly to total dick in so few characters? Is there any possible outcome to your question that would serve any purpose other than to rile the parent poster?
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> There are however multiple projects that I think deserve priority when looking through my github, but as far as I can tell, there is no way for me to make it clear what those are. You should use your user page[1] to draw attention t
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by 286c8cb04bda 14y ago
The API is already open: https://developers.google.com/drive/
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> How is swapping in a SQLite database any different than separating development / testing / production databases? At work we use a test database that is schema-only. All tests populate the data during setup, and rollback on tear down.
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by 286c8cb04bda 14y ago
For database testing you'd mock[1] the connection in some way. I've done it before by swapping in an SQLite database with some sample data. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_object
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by 286c8cb04bda 15y ago
Take a look at these: [1] http://docs.python.org/library/parser.html [2] http://docs.python.org/library/ast.html [3] http://docs.python.org/library/symtable.html
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by 286c8cb04bda 15y ago
This is a warning for future you: Objective-C, when used like Objective-C and not just C-with-classes, is a lot like Ruby. Both have a shared heritage in Smalltalk. E.g. http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?HigherOrderMessaging
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by 286c8cb04bda 15y ago
I'm not sold on tossing "and" and "or" out the window, but wouldn't "document.saved? or document.save!" read better as "document.save! unless document.saved?"
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by 286c8cb04bda 15y ago
I've used it, and had no problems at all. It's missing a few features before I can whole-heartedly recommended it over Opacity[1], which is what I use for the same purpose right now. Right now I'd need to make separate on/off state, for exa
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by 286c8cb04bda 15y ago
> Since when has the SWF format had "fundamental openness"? Since approximately the 1st of May, 2008[1]. Adobe publishes a specification of the file format[2], currently at version 10[3]. N.B. The Wikipedia entry suggests[4] that the
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by 286c8cb04bda 15y ago
> They wouldn't have rewritten those from scratch, would they? I do a lot of cross-platform integration. This is based on my experience. If you know you're going to cover multiple platforms from the beginning, you will do a lot of thi
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by 286c8cb04bda 15y ago
That's probably a typo, and should be "bogota"[1]. His titanium ones were probably bought from SerePick.[2] [1] http://www.theamazingking.com/bogota.php [2] http://www.serepick.com/products.html
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by 286c8cb04bda 15y ago
Not the parent, but -- in my experience -- many libraries from the community were written by enthusiastic amateur developers. Finding ones I enjoyed using was very needle-in-a-haystack. One recommendation: https://github.com/kikito
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by 286c8cb04bda 15y ago
For mobile, take a look at Moai[1]. I don't like it as much as LÖVE -- it feels more low-level and fiddly to me --but it's Lua and it's pretty full-featured. [1] http://getmoai.com/products/moai-sdk
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> What browser + OS you use? I saw the problem with Firefox 10 on CentOS. My default font was specifically configured to Bitstream Vera Serif. Setting the default font in the Preferences seems to only change it for the encoding in the
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> I'm asking you what the conceptual difference is between running a bunch of "macrokernel" systems inside a hypervisor and running a single microkernel with a bunch of processes. There is none: they are the same technology. Complexit
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That page declares lang="zh" in the html tag. So it's probably not using the default font for Western or Unicode, but whatever the browser maps to Simplified Chinese. In my case that was much uglier, and I had to fix it to read the page.
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> I would never repaint van Gogh, because I'd rather paint my own things. If I were a painter, I would paint me the hell out of some van Gogh. In every skill I've practiced seeing what the masters do, reproducing it (especially figuri
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by 286c8cb04bda 15y ago
Looks like the underground will need to find an alternative currency. Bitcoin? In the long term, Bitcoin might be a viable alternative. It really hinges on the adoption of cellphone applications for exchanging them, I think. In the short
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> One thing the article doesn't mention is that the Somalis are actually making a pretty big impact as proprietors of a sort of 'banking' system for these kinds of transactions. That system is "hawala"[1]. The Somalian diaspora (cause
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> And even that's pretty hand-wavy. What makes a "professional company" and why would such a thing have a "responsibility to the public" above and beyond any other company? I suspect he's using the word "professional" here in the mor
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It looks like to biggest extra is the ability to insert variables into the generated, so you can make e.g. a blue and orange button from the the same output.
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> Apple does not allow you to sell iOS apps outside its app store, This is incorrect in a minor, but fundamentally important way, I think: Apple does nothing to prevent you from selling outside their store. What they've done is make i
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What would I search for if I wanted to know more about this story?
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Yes, the value here is in 'where I've set up ImageMagick'. If I have a task that could be made easier by having ImageMagick, but I don't have it on any machine I have easy access to, then I have to deal with the overhead of getting the pack
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> Only 8,000 sets of the 2010 edition have been sold, and the remaining 4,000 have been stored in a warehouse until they can be purchased. I suspect it won't take them very long to sell those copies after this announcement.
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> I gave up wearing wristwatches some time ago, if I did still wear them, this would be pretty interesting. I still wear a watch but check the time on my cell phone probably 50%. The watch has become mostly just a functional piece of

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