DrJokepu

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by DrJokepu 15y ago
It's not like there's some kind of secret deal or something that limits that number to $12 / phone, it's just that it appears that in average that's how much iPhone users are willing to spend on apps currently. Apple and AT&T have a muc
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I can't help but be reminded of the various copy protection schemes they used with CD/DVD disks, such as SafeDisc. It feels like this is "nature's copy protection scheme", if you forgive the cliché.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (Hacker News Guidelines): When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2,
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
How the hell is that possible? Every platform out there has high quality date libraries. It's a cliché that date & time operations are very complicated (leap years, leap seconds, time zones, daylight saving time and so on), every even m
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Where I work, Dropbox (and its folder sharing feature) has completely replaced Sharepoint for storing, managing and distributing corporate documents. Just think about the significance of that for a moment.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
You seem to have misunderstood my comment which is probably my fault due to unclear wording. Evolutionist was indeed a bad choice of word but in my defence over here in Europe the word "evolution" is really not that emotionally charged. I s
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I'm no biologist or evolutionist but it appears to me that welfare society and mass healthcare greatly reduced the effects of natural selection. As long as Vitamin C food supplements are easily accessible and people are educated to take the
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
In my experience if you're struggling with naming something (variable, function, class, etc.) in your code, it often indicates that you're not entirely sure about the role of that particular structure. When this happens to me, I ask myself:
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
You're right, Reddit does not use a similar mechanism. My bad.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
It's called a continuation. Continuations are essentially closures being passed around to represent state (hence "fnid"), check the Wikipedia page on them for a proper, computer sciencey definition. The nature of Lisp really lends itself to
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
The support for the audio and video elements in browsers is still rather basic and unreliable. Shockingly enough, in my experience at least, IE9 has the best support for HTML5 audio / video, with Safari on OS X (not Windows) being second be
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I believe the grandparent was referring to the same phenomenon described in the relevant Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep#Sleep_stages
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Isn't Chromebook essentially a Linux-based appliance?
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
And this works right until a developer who doesn't speak the language will have to deal with that code, which will happen much sooner than you'd expect. Half of the fun is figuring out the meaning of variable names, the other half is figuri
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Here in Europe we almost exclusively drive standard shift cars only. In fact, I've never driven an automatic shift car until very recently when I've visited my American girlfriend's parents the first time and found that's it's simply imposs
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
All Apple apps (inbuilt or downloadable) follow this guideline. Amongst the non-Apple apps that follow it are Reeder, WhatsApp, Twitter, Sykpe (sort of), AIM, Shazaam, Instapaper and so on.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
This is a fair point; it makes business sense from Apple's point of view to give it away for free, however the same reasoning didn't stop Microsoft and IBM in the 80's/90's to charge developers $3000 for the OS/2 SDK. In response to your se
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
This practice actually goes against the recommendation of iOS Human Interface Guidelines, although it doesn't seem like Apple actually enforces it: Display a launch image that closely resembles the first screen of the application. Thi
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I don't really understand the sentiment of the author. Xcode is free, and even when it wasn't free it was very very cheap. A decade or two ago it was very common to charge hundreds of dollars for much much shittier IDEs, the Professional ed
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
You have to explicitly bridge them in or out of ARC and indicate the ownership rules. Sometimes, for example when you're interfacing straight C code, you have no other option.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
To be fair, using multiple displays on a Mac is not exactly a common use case so that would explain why they've chosen to enable it by default.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
You have been downvoted because many people on HN base their votes on whether they like the message of a comment. People who like Apple products and can identify with the values of the company will feel you're defending Apple with your comm
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
This is called Automatic Termination and it's standard behaviour on Lion. Beginning OS X 10.7, the OS automatically suspends processes that are "safe to close" and opt in to Automatic Termination when certain conditions are met. It could ha
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
That's not the case. Forfeiting Iranian citizenship is a fairly complicated process that ultimately requires permission from the uppermost levels of the Iranian Government as well as completing your national service. As long as he has Irani
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
This is not legal advice or anything, but if anyone ever asks you whether you've broken the law or consumed drugs etc in the past, you say no, regardless whether you're telling the truth or not.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Curiously enough it's more difficult than you'd think. According to Sports Illustrated, within five years of retirement 60% of NBA players go bankrupt (although I'm not sure how reliable the source is).
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
It's a shame you guys couldn't go down the path of writing your own scheduling system, based on what you said (market fragmentation, outdated systems) it sounds like that's definitely a problem that needs a solution! Of course I understand
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
This is very interesting, if you have a few minutes, can you please explain briefly why this is the case to someone who doesn't know much about aviation?
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
However: 17.1 Apps cannot transmit data about a user without obtaining the user's prior permission and providing the user with access to information about how and where the data will be used It's likely that this app will be pulled from the
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
For the record, I'm in the UK. Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with gambling in moderation, it's a lot of fun after all, however, I'd be very surprised if the public opinion about the gambling industry wasn't within the lea

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