BigZaphod

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by BigZaphod 16y ago
My boy has been playing with touch devices literally his entire life. It started as a baby when we let him hold our iPhones. He learned to unlock them very early - I can't remember how old he was. Maybe around age 1 or so. Not long after, h
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Wow. That description fits me almost exactly. Or, rather, it fits what I wish I could feel free to do as life cycles between these phases. What usually happens is I have to keep going to work and slogging through stuff even after I finish a
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Do apps prior to the official SDK count? If so, I'm at 30+. :)
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
If Apple puts you on the new and noteworthy or featured lists, app sales go way up. I think it is safe to say that a lot of app sales are driven by discovery on the store itself. As to if it is the majority of sales, well, I have no way o
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
I'm a huge Apple fan, but I admit there's something about this which doesn't feel entirely... right, and that's concerning. That said, however, there's decent and non-evil reasons for them to think like this - at least in terms of subscript
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Oh.... he'll be leaving, I think. Perhaps not in one piece, though. :/
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
They probably will. AT&T seemed to spend a lot of time and effort promoting other non-iPhones. The people who want iPhones are probably already sold on them. Apple is also advertising it, too. The networks likely still feel a need to re
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Could it perhaps have been supplied by Verizon instead? They'd be the ones with the most to gain right now in terms of PR - get all the bloggers to talk about how much better the network is since the hardware itself is a non-story (which is
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
I'm hoping there's more to this than meets the eye right now. Sadly, I suspect we won't know until Thursday. I can think of a couple of scenarios that might fit what we know so far: 1) Apple might simply declare that they want 30% of all in
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
This is more of a meta question/comment, but so far in my entire professional programming career (10+ years), I've never been interviewed in a way that required any programming tests or proof of ability. Instead I've always been hired by re
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Not that this is "universal", but I believe anon (from 4chan, etc) has been using them for the occasional public protest/event/whatever.
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Works great for me in the US. I've been watching it off and on the last couple days from different locations and different ISPs.
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
I doubt it. All it'd take to shut down a satellite is to take over the control room on the ground and transmit a "power down" command or something. Perhaps a better approach is to work to decentralize as much of our existing infrastructure
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Only on the Mac. I guess Apple feels the memory and/or performance cost is still too high for mobile.
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
The only people who care about this are tinkerers and hackers and those with an agenda. I find it odd that people will bitch so much about this, and yet spend hours/days/weeks/whatever digging into the internals of stuff and poking around w
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
And before (I think) those, they released some kind of experimental app that dealt with large photos or building a bigger picture from smaller photos or something like that. I can't remember what it was called right now, though. :P
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
In answer to the headline: Of course - just not every day. :) In answer to the actual situation behind the headline: No. It's time to find a new boss.
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
The gesture is remarkably natural to use. I was surprised.
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
The iPod nano could be seen as a prototype for an iPad without a home button. It still has physical volume and sleep/wake buttons, but everything else is gestured.
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Fingers still need somewhere to go when holding it. It's not just the button that defined the size of the border. However there's no reason to expect the border couldn't be a bit more narrow without a button. They could also possibly do som
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Possibly, but the iPod nano doesn't have a home button and instead uses gestures for everything. Perhaps the nano was partly an experiment to see how well that concept worked in the wild.
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Zooming isn't necessarily defined as a system-wide gesture, but more of a convention. I believe the rules say that your app will get rejected if you use a pinch gesture for anything but a zoom-like operation, but it isn't enforced by the sy
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
Correct. At least, that's the info that's currently available. :) If you try fitting 4/5 fingers on the phone, it's way too small to work well anyway. I don't expect them to show up there. If they do remove the button, I'd expect to see it
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
I believe 3 finger gestures are used by VoiceOver so there's a possible conflict there, but VoiceOver is a system wide on-off setting so I don't know if that'd be a good enough reason not to use them as shortcuts. VoiceOver more or less red
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Visual Transistor-level Simulation of the 6502 CPU(visual6502.org)
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
A note of caution: If you choose to read the actual suicide note as I did, be prepared for a rather intense emotional trip. I don't mean to say that to dissuade anyone from reading it, but just that... I was not expecting what I ended up re
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
This hypothetical struggling middle class family makes almost 3x what mine does. I'm soon to have a family of four as well (one toddler now, new baby in March), and yet somehow we survive with a house, car, daycare, no credit card debt, etc
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
"I can't see any reference to underachieving in the lyrics" This is what I see as a kind of reference to under-achieving by calling out and insulting people who work harder: "Let’s have a toast for the jerkoffs / That’ll never take work off
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
"In the lyrics, the hard-worker is the person singing the lyrics." I just don't get that at all from the snippet quoted, but I can imagine how the larger context of the song might flip the meaning of things around - but I don't know the res
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by BigZaphod 16y ago
"She" probably came from some attempt at political correctness. There's been a rise in recent decades to use "she" when speaking about an unspecified person. Historically, it was common to use "he" for that task. Unfortunately english doesn

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