acomjean

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by acomjean 14y ago
I second Waze. Its replaced my GPS, a mr T voiced TomTom (Mr T yelling directions at you is awsome...) Only one problem years ago when Waze couldn't give me directions. Its gotten a lot better as more have used it. There are enough dri
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by acomjean 14y ago
I got sent to redhat in my companies project to go from Solaris/HPUX -> Linux. It was government software and the project got put on hold.... The instructor was excellent. https://www.redhat.com/training/courses/rhd361/course-exam-o..
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by acomjean 14y ago
OS's form natural monopolies. The more you sell, the more software is written for the OS, the better the OS becomes. Its why nobody has come close to displacing windows on desktop computers. The web helps even the playing field in become a
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by acomjean 14y ago
10 years ago the browser market was very different. ie dominant and many sites (banking in particular) "ie only". Mac had a version of ie and linux as a web surfing platform was wanting. Firefox has been a good thing. for those using fire
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by acomjean 14y ago
Maps are very iterative. As someone in charge of mapping the 400 or so artists in Somerville Ma, I can say the first couple years we tried google maps, it was decent, yet imperfect. It gets better every year, but there were still some add
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by acomjean 14y ago
Maybe. Google in the short term seem to be encouraging people install links on the phone to map/youtube services (go to youtube or maps.google.com in mobile safari and you'll be instructed on making the link). The web based google map app
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by acomjean 14y ago
Probably a business decision. Apple probably decided that having core phone functionality in the hands of a competitor wasn't such a good idea. Also Apple users were helping the competition with all the information they were uploading about
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by acomjean 14y ago
I just use Waze for turn by turn (iphone 4s) available for blackberry and andriod. Plus if you go to google on mobile safari, it basically pesters you to install a google map shortcut on the "desktop". This works very well. I'm sure apple
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by acomjean 14y ago
One of the big things they seem to be pushing is the windows 8 store, and one of the platforms they offer is HTML and Javascript. To that end they have a large javascript api library of calls that seems to match the c++/C# ones... I don't
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by acomjean 14y ago
Probably just end up like color scanner and copiers that have "anti counterfeit" measures baked into the hardware. "Error, I see your printing a spiral bored tube...."
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by acomjean 14y ago
Its all about point of reference. When I worked with radar we liked GPS time, always increasing so its easy to get a difference. But for locating the sun and sun rise, earth time is useful (those griping astronomers have a point). We fig
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by acomjean 14y ago
That gcc and a lot of the open source technology used by both OSs, is a win for the Open Source movement, and also may explain why performance is similar. A lot of the linux and GNU software is hardly just developed by "teams of hackers" at
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by acomjean 14y ago
As someone with a macpro version 1 tower, I can be heartened that I can install the latest Linux, even though apple no longer supports my machine with its OS upgrades. Its only a matter of time (and lack of security updates...) before it w
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by acomjean 14y ago
And the sign said "Long-haired freaky people need not apply" ..... signs, signs everywhere a sign. oh, wait.. Which Tesla?
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by acomjean 14y ago
the often forgotten unix, linux command line calculators I use all the time. bc -l or for those who like rpn dc
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by acomjean 14y ago
I agree with this. I use the similarly named: tree style tab it is the bees knees, tree style tabs on the left of the screen, its simple and genius. Its the reason firefox is my default browser, despite its gradual slowing as it keeps run
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by acomjean 14y ago
I was at photo conference a years ago and watched as the help staff hit there walkie talkies looking for a monitor dongle for a mac. They got one just in time saving apple's embarrassment. I generally like apple products but they recently
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by acomjean 14y ago
Go seems like a rehash of Ada, without the option to dynamically linked. Maybe an improved version of Ada. I liked some feature of Ada a lot, it was safe, input, output, in/out parameters for functions. Of course to make itself useful as
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by acomjean 14y ago
We were in the US so we used to get it from the Naval observatory. http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/time/master-clock/leap-seconds they get if from IERS http://www.iers.org/ They issue leap second guidance to about 1 year in the future. T
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by acomjean 14y ago
Thank goodness I don't have to work on time anymore. Zulu time, sidereal_time, UTC, GPS Time... Phone calls from work at odd hours.. I do like GPS time. It keeps going at a constant rate like all good time should. Time differences are ea
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by acomjean 14y ago
I use coda for my personal site and a non-profit site I work on on the side. Its not as hard core as my work setup, but its fast and easy and I do like it. Its easy and fast but was getting a little long in the tooth. I'm all optimism abo
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by acomjean 15y ago
For turn by turn a lot os ios users use the Waze app. I've used it a fair bit and really like it.
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by acomjean 15y ago
Looks like the same game as the "don't click" twitter button (that everyone clicked anyway) from 2009. That was iframes/css. http://shiflett.org/blog/2009/feb/twitter-dont-click-exploit
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by acomjean 15y ago
Loved that game when I was a kid. love the sound code. Having to write your own "tone" routines to tweak a sound out of the speaker...
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by acomjean 15y ago
I think most "big time" fireworks you see are more like a "Mortar" not a rocket. It gets its initial thrust through and explosion and is sent up a tube. I'm not an expert either.
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by acomjean 15y ago
I had a similar positive experience with a gift subscription to Make. The site woudn't take my credit card. so I tried again. Then again. Then again the next day, finally success. Credit card shows 3 charges.... friend gets 3 copies of t