Zev

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by Zev 16y ago
There's a benefit to getting to know people with interests other than yours. Perhaps you'll discover that you actually like something new.
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by Zev 16y ago
My advice is to go for it. At worst, you'll have a story to tell a few years later. Or you can make a few friends. Either way, it'll likely have some sort of positive outcome. Personally, I didn't join a frat. Not for me. But, I know a few
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by Zev 16y ago
Is apple going to let people compete in this space? Or is this a "system" level thing like the dialer that can't be replaced? Seems like someone could do a great job here. Want to make a word processor? Go for it. Pages doesn't come with
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by Zev 16y ago
Apps don't get killed for requesting memory. They get killed when they're running in the background and other apps request memory. Can't malloc return NULL and the app act accordingly ("your picture is too big, so i am not going to edi
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by Zev 16y ago
What do you spend more time on? Because, as someone doing both half-time, there isn't enough time to be a full time dev (40+ hours/week) and a full-time student (4-5 classes, 3-4 hours/per class in the classroom, maybe half of that outside)
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by Zev 16y ago
I would settle for GMail to be usable again, let alone improved. As of right now, I can't send or reply to any email's from any account[1], I can't search within my emails, I can't view emails that aren't on the front page anymore or are ar
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by Zev 16y ago
The Borkware NSLog replacement seems like a rather a large amount of overkill and unnecessary clutter. __FILE__ and __LINE__ should always be implicit parameters instead of having to be passed into a method, every time. Not a MLog() wrapper
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by Zev 16y ago
Wilduck's post pretty much hits the nail on the head. Especially the first two points and the last paragraph. While the third point is important, it doesn't have to be a full presentation. Just have the person talk to everyone on the team f
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by Zev 16y ago
I opened the thread to say just this, in a much less succinct fashion. I like your version much more.
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by Zev 16y ago
App-store rankings are based on downloads from the past three days If you go from free to paid (or vice versa), your ranking is reset. They're different charts.
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by Zev 16y ago
..one of the problems of my generation is that too few of us follow our hearts. Is this really specific to our generation? For that matter, I don't know what generation you're from. I assume the same one that I'm considered to be, if you'
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by Zev 16y ago
(where he's obviously forgetting that there's a universe outside of the US) Google's not doing much better, in regards to remembering the rest of the world. Paid apps from Android App Store are only available in what? 12 countries?
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by Zev 16y ago
For the most part, I agree with what you're saying. The only problem is, "better" is subjective. I've had cases where the person I'm working with can clearly explain why he feels one UI is better. And I was just as adamant about a different
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by Zev 16y ago
There's an idea! The last time I personally looked at CF cards was a few years ago. Back then, the theoretical max speed was "only" 66MB/s, which an SSD can easily top. However, it looks like the new theoretical max is 133MB/s , which is fa
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by Zev 16y ago
I think we might be thinking about the same time period, 4 or 5 years ago. CoreFoundation had something vaguely resembling garbage collection introduced in 10.4, with CFMakeCollectable[1]. I've always thought of that time period as being wh
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by Zev 16y ago
Garbage collection likely has something to do with NSZone's (perceived on my part) deprecation. My understanding (although I can't find it documented) is that NSZone doesn't have any effect on allocations handled by the GC. This is also the
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by Zev 16y ago
I was talking to someone about this article on IRC a few days ago. He mentioned that Apple has something similar to this, NSZone (which has been around since 10.0 (likely NeXT)). However, NSZone's usage isn't really recommended anymore (if
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by Zev 16y ago
There are adaptors. And he works at a Mac repair shop, so, he's got all the tools and supplies he needs available to him.
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by Zev 16y ago
Or perhaps an intern team would be more appropriate. Either way.
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by Zev 16y ago
If Mongoose is playing, we could have an intern-only round! I could use an excuse to fly back to San Francisco for a weekend.. :-D
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by Zev 16y ago
On a tangentially related note, a friend of mine is planning on putting an SSD into his PowerBook G4. Of course, those plans may be on hold as he claims to not use his computer much anymore, after getting an iPad.
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by Zev 16y ago
Personally, I'm going to avoid iTunes 10 for as long as possible. I don't need Ping much, not planning on getting a new tv and I can do without a horrendous UI. Plus iTunes 9.2.whatever is still working fine with my iPhone (which is runnin
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by Zev 16y ago
Large parts of the tech press probably aren’t happy that they can now pay much more attention and do critical and profound write ups afterwards. They're journalists. Their job is to gather information. I'd be surprised if the only way a s
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by Zev 16y ago
..larger parts of the press will probably be ok with stricter rules with regard to wifi or mifi usage.. I don't think they'll be happy. If the stream holds up all the live blogging is kinda pointless hits the nail on the head as to why.
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by Zev 16y ago
I'm in the same boat here. The only reason I use git is for github -- for work or collaborating with other people on something. And even then, unless I need branching, I'll still use Mercurial, through the hg-git plugin they provide[1]. Not
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by Zev 16y ago
My roommate just bought a Palm Pre. There are very few apps in the market. But guess what, my roommate is very happy with his phone. He said it's the best phone he's ever had. I'll second the sentiments. I've got a Palm Pre Plus for perso
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by Zev 16y ago
Then I delete it from Ultrabook - it was embarrassing. Goodbook still has it stored. You can have a good-faith "please delete this" but that doesn't stop another party from keeping it. How's this different from Facebook and someone saving
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by Zev 16y ago
FWIW, the author did somewhat touch on the issue of performance at the end of the article: Of course speed is an issue here. Emscriptened benchmarks currently run at about 1/20th the speed of gcc -O0 run on the original C++. and goes on t
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by Zev 16y ago
Colloquy's an open source IRC client for Mac/iPhone/iPad! (Disclaimer: I happen to contribute to Colloquy. In this case, it just means that I'd be delighted to look over any patches that anyone has. :)
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by Zev 16y ago
It is a bit hard to answer the questions you're asking without knowing what languages you know (or what languages you feel vaguely comfortable with the syntax of). In any case, one bit of advice that I'd like to throw out there that isn't u

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