JamieEi

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by JamieEi 17y ago
Makes it harder for people to port apps to Android if they are written in Object C. Apple figures that the iPhone is priority #1 for everyone developing a mobile version, so they can use their TOS to raise the cost of supporting priority #2
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by JamieEi 17y ago
Also stretch your hamstrings. Works wonder for me.
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by JamieEi 17y ago
Exactly which industries have been "taken over"?
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by JamieEi 17y ago
I'd start by trying to validate your business model. 1) You need to find out who the paying customers are in this space and what features they really want. It seems very possible that average consumers would have no interest in your service
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by JamieEi 17y ago
> The Old Microsoft way was to threaten to cut off vendors just for competing, not for giving a competitor an advantage. What specific incident(s) are you referring to? The closest thing I can think of is threatening to witholding volum
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by JamieEi 17y ago
Face recognition is a really hard problem
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by JamieEi 17y ago
It doesn't really, except as a very gross analogy. These guys are correlating localized brain damage with IQ. They don't have anything causal or they wouldn't have had to publish in PNAS.
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by JamieEi 17y ago
I love the Meyers books like most everyone below, but I don't think they are a good place to start learning C++. I'd begin with the 4th ed of C++ Primer, which differs from previous editions in that it uses the standard libraries from begin
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by JamieEi 17y ago
What is your rationale for tip #2? Don't forget that you also have to guard against other kinds of leaks: handles, database connections, etc. Given the lack of a finally clause in standard C++ try/catch blocks I'm not sure how you can do th
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by JamieEi 17y ago
OneNote is a good example: http://blogs.msdn.com/chris_pratley/archive/2004/01/30/oneno... You could argue that OneNote wasn't truly a bottom-up creation because Chris Pratley was already a pretty senior guy at MS when he started working
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by JamieEi 17y ago
I kind of liked it. He makes some good points about why Facebook might not be the be-all, end-all of social networking. I found the historical comparisons to AOL informative since I never spent much time inside the garden. Also, it seems a
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by JamieEi 17y ago
I'm not surprised that there are isolated groups at MS that use Python. (We have a .NET version after all.) I would be surprised if you said that you worked at both Google and MS and their use of Python was pretty much the same. In that cas
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by JamieEi 17y ago
This guy's report of his experiences at MS don't add up to me. My reply in the reddit comments... > I still have the freedom to work on anything I want I'm confused by this. In my 8 years at MS I have never heard of anyone being able to
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by JamieEi 17y ago
It's a simple question. He's looking for a community that is more directly suited to his interests, not passing judgement on yours.
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by JamieEi 17y ago
That's actually covered pretty explicitly in the Bing privacy statement: http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/fullnotice.mspx#use
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by JamieEi 17y ago
No offense taken, and sorry if any was given. I did not know about Moniker. Thanks for the info -- very interesting and helpful.
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by JamieEi 17y ago
Glad you're taking the high road and not doing any further sniping at me (lol). In case you are genuinely unsure why someone might not trust godaddy: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=915150&hi...
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by JamieEi 17y ago
No idea why this is confusing to you: 1) http://ajaxwhois.com/ 2) Type something in the big box, say "wtf" 3) Hit enter Expected: Big box returns search results on ajaxwhois Actual: Redirect to godaddy.com w/ query results for my search.
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by JamieEi 17y ago
Coders at Work was very inspiring to me and also gave me the functional programming bug. It seemed like every one of the legends interviewed had something nice to say about Haskell (deserved IMO). Founders at Work is also great but in some
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by JamieEi 17y ago
Oh the irony -- it's not available on Kindle.
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by JamieEi 17y ago
AjaxWhois just posted my sample domain search to godaddy. Sounds like a great way to get the pricejacked up.
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by JamieEi 17y ago
Here's where you'd start: http://connect.microsoft.com/
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by JamieEi 17y ago
Let me rephrase my comment this way: The photo is unprofessional and coupled with the related drama reinforces the impression that the guy is full of it. I'm generally all in favor of calling people out when they act like internet tough guy
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by JamieEi 17y ago
Yah, that pic screams douchebag (as if it wasn't already obvious).
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by JamieEi 17y ago
"I like to download things, but I also like the idea of being able to use multiple machines and have everything — my settings, files, and apps all sync up intelligently. Download an MP3 on one computer and listen to it on another. Version c
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by JamieEi 17y ago
Um, Outlook does a pretty good job.
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by JamieEi 17y ago
Which open source search engine do you use instead of Google?
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by JamieEi 17y ago
The least common denominator is going to be IE6 for the foreseable future whether MS releases a new version or not. Maybe by the time IE9 comes out it will be IE7. There is always going to be a large base of people who don't update their OS
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by JamieEi 17y ago
True, but it was so fun seeing them tweak Apple!
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by JamieEi 17y ago
Apple has always had good lawyers.

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