alayne

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by alayne 14y ago
Core Data is essentially an ORM layer on top of SQLite.
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by alayne 14y ago
Safari 6 greatly improved the remote web inspection capabilities for iOS6.
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by alayne 14y ago
This reminds me of the issue with Dave Carroll http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Breaks_Guitars . As a company, you can't afford to get yourself in conflicts with people who have genuine issues and are savvy with social media.
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by alayne 14y ago
If anything, you're the one arguing for outdated editors -- editors that are not aware of structure and treat programs like an array of characters, allowing navigation only by the simplest and least efficient means possible.
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by alayne 14y ago
Spafford's write up is such a hoot. He complains about suboptimal file descriptor closing. Clearly, whoever wrote that worm (that targeted VMS and Unix in one worm, used numerous exploits, probabilistic replication, and required 40 pages of
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by alayne 14y ago
I was a teenager when this happened. RTM's worm probably started a number of security careers and brought career peak levels of excitement to many of the people involved with analysis. I remember being absolutely astonished that someone wri
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by alayne 14y ago
Yahoo! needs to regain credibility after Bartz ran it into the ground amid claims of overcompensation. Having someone like Mayer as a public leader with accountability will be a positive thing.
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by alayne 14y ago
JavaScript is essentially a high level VM on the web. That's how Dart uses it.
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by alayne 14y ago
I agree that Android is an evolving comedy.
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by alayne 14y ago
I don't think Amazon in general is a welcome force in the Android world and I doubt many people enjoy submitting apps to both Google Play and Amazon. They are contributing to fragmentation of the platform.
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by alayne 14y ago
If you enjoy Unix shells, you will probably hate PowerShell. I use a bunch of GNU utilities compiled for Windows that are probably about ten years old. Cygwin is too much effort for an unnatural feeling environment and PowerShell was design
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by alayne 14y ago
Desktop CPUs are something like 10 times faster than the typical ARM mobile CPU. Plus a desktop would run the higher optimized JVM instead of Dalvik. I'm sure it is challenging to get Minecraft to run at a playable level of performance on m
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by alayne 14y ago
I was not a big fan of Bill Gates in the 1980s and 1990s. But I think the philanthropic work he has done has been wonderful. Steve Jobs was not philanthropic, to a fault. He preferred to give to society by producing good things. I think Gat
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by alayne 14y ago
I don't mind clarified headlines, but editorialized headlines bug the heck out of me and they can color the discussion. Today I complained when the title was "Are Placebos Really Sugar Pills? Or Something worse? instead of the original "Are
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by alayne 14y ago
The blog title is "Are Placebos Really Sugar Pills?". Was "Or Something Worse?" editorialized on? The thrust of the article isn't that placebos are bad, it's that they are inert and not regulated or reported on consistently.
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by alayne 14y ago
The idea that someone's age prevents them from making good decisions about technology is offensive to me. It's a bullshit argument. Martin Cooper, inventor of the cellphone, was born in 1928.
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by alayne 14y ago
It's telling that you want Apple to burn rather than improve.
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by alayne 14y ago
You forgot Jenkins/Hudson too.
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by alayne 14y ago
Sun was installing toolbars before Oracle bought them. I remember them bundling the Yahoo toolbar with Java.
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by alayne 14y ago
$500 is a target related to alleged stock manipulation. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/01/15/suppressing-aapl
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by alayne 14y ago
I would never encourage use of the f* I/O functions from the standard C library for high performance code. They're all buffered which means there's an extra copy happening. You should use read and other POSIX I/O functions instead.
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by alayne 14y ago
There already is an efficient multithreaded C version on the shootout site. I don't know if that's what people would consider good production code, but at least it isn't laughably bad. http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.ph
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by alayne 14y ago
This is speculation parading as news.
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by alayne 14y ago
Microsoft was late to the party. This is a pretty good overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tablet_computers
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by alayne 14y ago
Even with a positive naming convention, you will have conditionals for the negative case, e.g. if (![str isEqualToString:@"myvalue"]) and falling into its block is not desirable when str is nil. Personally I have had plenty of bugs around t
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by alayne 14y ago
He's not being sarcastic. Maybe a better example of what he is trying to get at is if (![missleLauncher isDisabled]) { /* declare thermonuclear war */ } When missleLauncher is nil, thermonuclear war is still declared which may not be the pr
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by alayne 14y ago
Pie charts are stupid because the shapes you want to compare are rotated in space. You can't distinguish close values. It's better to use a normal bar/column chart where the comparison only occurs in one dimension (height of the bar).
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by alayne 14y ago
Most people called designers in mobile/web software development produce artifacts/comps in my experience.
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by alayne 14y ago
You won't get away from tuning of some sort so it's not like vector images are a panacea. Fonts require "hints" to scale. http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-...
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by alayne 14y ago
Old style properties vs. auto synthesized properties vs. ivars are good for some entertainment as well.

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