DrJokepu

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by DrJokepu 15y ago
You know, I actually judge people by the way they dress. This might sound like a very shallow thing to do at first but I think you get a non-trivial amount of information about a person just by looking at how they dress. Fashion is a visual
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
If you change the region format from whatever you have to United States, it will however display 73 degrees F and sunny. I don't want to sound like a fanboy but this is some serious attention to detail.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Actually, by late 2003 Phoenix (which is what Firefox used to be called back then) was already an impressive little browser (it was little back then) and IE6 was already horribly outdated and clumsy for those of us who grew a penchant for a
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
(I agree with you, this is just nitpicking) >Equivalent to Java's interfaces, but Cocoa use protocols heavily for delegates only. Uh, NSCoding, NSCopying and the million other non-delegate protocols? Cocoa uses protocols heavily for a l
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I disagree with this advice and the reason I disagree with it because it completely disregards the human tendency to name objects (not OOP objects, but real-life objects) based on their functionality. Guess what a photocopier does? Or a sca
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I'm by no means an expert in this domain but my understanding is that that's normally not happening on x86/x64, not even on Linux or OS X. Otherwise, how could just-in-time compilers like Java, .NET or V8 work? Please correct me however if
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Mostly they just don't know how to start. They can't break down the problem into subproblems. Once a candidate managed to break down the problem to subproblems, they can always do the rest easily (solving the subproblems, composing the solu
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
In my experience, about one in five (20%) people I get to interview can solve basic programming problems on a whiteboard (in their language of choice). It's really depressing.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Maybe the SSL compression was enabled on the web server by a sysadmin who likes to tweaks settings. Maybe he doesn't work at the company anymore. Maybe it was a default setting in a previous version of some exotic distro. Who knows? Maybe t
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I would be hesitant to attribute this to malice; it easily could be a honest mistake by an inexperienced employee.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I think we're prepared for that too. First, we have a few currently unused previous generation Mac Minis lying around that could be used temporarily. Second, since everything we need (Apache and PostgreSQL, minus Mono) comes preinstalled wi
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I could (and indeed that was what we were originally planning when we decided to go with Mac Mini Servers), but I simply don't need to. I open the packaging, put Mono on it and it's ready for work. Why would I waste time with Windows Server
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Well, it's complicated, but the main reason is that since our premises are just around the corner from one of the biggest Apple Stores in the world, we can replace any of our servers literally within minutes if they fail. This makes me slee
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
We run non-trivial, large, unmodified .NET 4 C# ASP.NET MVC web apps (compiled on Windows) on Mac Mini Servers on OS X with Mono and Apache. Never had a single problem. It's almost creepy how well it works.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Because Flash is not good enough. Flash video playback has an incredibly poor performance, especially with h264 or HD videos, even on average machines or Macs. Silverlight video playback is simply a lot smoother. I'm not sure if it's their
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Actually, even a "prettily wrapped webkit with bookmarks for these streams on its default homepage" itself would be bordering unauthorised exploitation of their content, especially if you charged for it. This might sound weird at first but
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Useless trivia: the French word for a competitor is "concourant", hence the mistranslation.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
As a PostgreSQL fan myself, the main thing I miss in PostgreSQL (as opposed to DB2 or Oracle) is nice and simple hot backups with point-in-time recovery. It is certainly possible but (at least in 9.0) it requires a non-trivial level of unde
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Well, be careful with that. A lot of properties in Cocoa and Cocoa Touch are not retained automatically (delegates, data sources and so on). If you just autorelease them you will have problems. The other reason people are careful about auto
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
"Seriously, it'll be worth it not to learn about manual memory management." This is not true at all and it is a very dangerous suggestion. Automatic Reference Counting indeed makes memory management an awful lot simpler (often you don't hav
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
When I follow your link from the UK it lists the price as £1,869.95 which is about $3000. Outrageous.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Of course, Avid Media Composer costs at least $3000 so they will probably just stay with FCP.
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
I like to believe I am doing serious development and I find the iPhone Simulator immensely helpful. Maybe because my apps don't use location services. My point is, as long as you understand the limitations, it's a very helpful tool. Fortuna
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
(edit: I have said something stupid, nothing to see here, move along)
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
Door stuck closed are also a safety hazard as they can hinder evacuation in case of fire or other emergency and make it more difficult for rescue teams to enter the train. Imagine a packed railroad car full of smoke, very bad visibility and
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
From the Mac App Store Review Guidelines: 2.18 Apps that install kexts will be rejected
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
> The people who visit your page with the problematic version of Firefox will get to see the message. The others don't need to know. Obviously, this is not true when you're providing a web application as a service to a large corporation
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
For me it's about all the little things. There are so many little frustrating things on Windows that you don't even notice because you're just used to them and you don't even realize that life is possible without them. It seems to me that a
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
This might be true for patents, but don't forget that copyright is (mostly) free. If any band, indie developer, unsuccessful writer and amateur photographer would have to pay such large fees for simply owning their works, what would happen?
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by DrJokepu 15y ago
So, assuming that such a system was adopted worldwide, you would have to pay a tax in every country of the world if you wanted your IP to be enforceable in all territories? Because if that's the case, owning IP will be so prohibitively expe

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