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by FigBug 14y ago
I do. I split my time between firmware and desktop apps. I work for a small company of about 5 people. Before that I worked at a larger company, but was the sole developer of an Audio Recording app. I also worked on speaker modelling and co
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by FigBug 14y ago
It's going to require more OS and hardware upgrades for Android to properly support music apps due to the latency of the audio stack. In previous versions of Android it's over 100ms, 4.1 they were aiming for 10ms for Nexus devices. Other de
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by FigBug 14y ago
I agree it really depends on where you are. Craigslist was slow to expand past the major Canadian cities, so in the smaller cities UsedEverywhere or Kijiji were first and remain more popular.
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by FigBug 14y ago
Originally yes. With the release of the IBM PC the term was used to refere to the IBM PC or compatibles. Since IBM is no longer making PCs the descendants of the PC are referred to as Wintel or Windows machines. The term PC is slowly revert
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by FigBug 14y ago
It's been a long time, but now there is more viable competition as well as less need to upgrade from older versions. I think Microsoft would be far better off doing more frequent OS updates with smaller changes.
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by FigBug 14y ago
I don't know if Windows 8 is good or bad, but I do know the perception of it is bad. Perception is reality. If Microsoft doesn't get control of Windows 8 image ASAP then it's going to bomb.
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by FigBug 14y ago
Yes, it's still used for several reasons, including: - enumerate the properties, signals, slots and other methods as well as decorations (classinfo) present in a class (this feature is called “type reflection”, which is common in scripted l
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by FigBug 14y ago
Miranda IM (nee Miranda ICQ) didn't become usable or popular until after I gave up on it. I think it's been abandoned at least once again. Several complete different sets of people have been working on it.
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by FigBug 15y ago
It's not the +0/-0 that causes the issue, it's the repeated dividing.
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by FigBug 15y ago
Yes, it's definitely useful. I use AskGeo to tag GPS files users create with the correct timezone.
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by FigBug 15y ago
I've been using AskGeo for about 10 months and am very happy with it. Does exactly what I need. I am surprised to see it's now $200/year. What I signed up AskGeo said: Is this free? Yes, for now. We built this for internal use and this
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by FigBug 15y ago
Windows is UTF-16 internally, unless using the old ASCII functions. NSString on the Mac is UTF-16. I think w_char in Linux is UTF-32. I still think its an awkward statement. It should say Unicode internally, the specific encoding is irrelev
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by FigBug 15y ago
I made something similar, but as a desktop app. It does all web pages, not just images. https://github.com/FigBug/Allochthon/wiki
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by FigBug 15y ago
Mint.com is a good dashboard to watch your finances. I check my balances and trends etc from Mint and only log into my bank when I need to do a transaction. They are probably stealing all my personal information however.
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by FigBug 15y ago
I've been looking for an alternative mostly because of #1. It's actually quite expensive for a small team. I have yet to find anything that works as well as DropBox. I don't agree with #4. All your data is stored locally, it DropBox goes aw
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by FigBug 15y ago
Other than open street maps, Map Quest and CloudMade (pay) are there any map Apis that let you download the tiles in a desktop application?
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by FigBug 15y ago
I had job similar to this. I was doing a rights management console for Universal Music to control usage rights on YouTube and Vimeo. My previous two jobs I stayed over 4 years at both. I last 9 months and the CTO yelled at me when I quit. I
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by FigBug 15y ago
I panicked about 2 years ago, thought the web was the only future. Quit my job and became a web programmer. Lasted 9 months, absolutely hated it. Dealing with multiple browsers, guess and check methodology drove me nuts. I lasted 9 months a