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by aliston 15y ago
Any suggestions on how to find the "appropriate clients"?
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by aliston 15y ago
I was able to do freelance iPhone development. If you're already good in C++, it will give you a leg up in learning objective-c. Also, I could not agree more with the points about "working needs discipline." If you're staying in hostels,
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by aliston 15y ago
500 MIT graduates work at a company founded at Stanford :p. (I kid, I kid... it's amazing to think about the innovation that has come out of there, here's to another 150...)
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by aliston 15y ago
And the "certain instances" when you can run things in the background are incredibly limited... You can finish network calls or set an alarm, for instance, but you can't actually run your app in the background. When Apple first announced m
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by aliston 15y ago
I'm curious what their definition of "multitasking" is... To begin with, iOS doesn't really support multitasking in the general sense of the word. You can save application state when the app moves into the background and restore when the a
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by aliston 16y ago
Well, if you wanted to be a real geek about it, given n attempts, your chances of a single success are 1 - (.95 ^ n)... but I'd also like to think that an entrepreneurial endeavor is not pure chance.
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10 Barrel T-Shirt Gattling Gun(gizmodo.com)
1 points by aliston 16y ago|0 comments
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by aliston 16y ago
A large number of voters voting by dice would have no effect on elections in which a plurality is required to win...
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Making the Dream Trip a Reality(travel.nytimes.com)
1 points by aliston 16y ago|0 comments
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by aliston 16y ago
I think the argument is that, by and large, Australian football is no less violent than American football. However, helmets incentivise poor tackling technique (i.e. leading with the helmet). If you took off the facemask, the game would b
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by aliston 16y ago
"I'm not talking a $400,000 a year working Wall Street stiff flying first class and being comfortable, I'm talking about liquid "
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by aliston 16y ago
I've heard this point made on a per-individual basis. The numbers I found actually make it look even worse: California per-pupil spending 2008: $9,015 California’s Annual Costs to Incarcerate an Inmate in Prison: $47,102 http://blogs.sacb
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by aliston 16y ago
Interesting... here's my "gut reaction" as a non-statistician. The problem is that 'A' has a probabilistic component as well. If you let X be the "lesser of the 2 dollar amounts" and let A = X/2 + 2X, then you come out with equal expected
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by aliston 16y ago
It's ironic the article mentions Stanford, then describes university presidents as not having "done anything memorable, apart perhaps from firing a popular athletic coach." The president of Stanford is John Hennessy, a founder of MIPS and
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by aliston 16y ago
From what I've read (which may be outdated), there was a system whereby high frequency traders could discover buyers limit prices by executing a series of small-volume "probe" trades at increasing dollar amounts. Then, once the limit is fo
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by aliston 16y ago
I disagree with pretty much every position in this article as a matter of opinion. However, I disagree with this part as a matter of fact: "Yet if you look at all those powerhouse [college football] programs across the country, only seven
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by aliston 16y ago
Since the government already owns 60% of GM, why not simply make the car cost 35 grand and cut out the middle man? The 40k+ sticker shock will inevitably drive away buyers, even if the actual cost is lower.
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by aliston 16y ago
I couldn't agree more... It's absolute lunacy that a student who has gone through an engineering PhD program, subsidized by US taxpayers and corporations via research grants, may not be able to stay in the US post-graduation. There should
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by aliston 16y ago
It looks from the screenshots that they are integrating interface builder into XCode and possibly (I'm hoping) the simulator as well? Even in "single-window" mode, you have to switch through multiple windows/applications in order to do dev
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by aliston 16y ago
You don't have to actually install the full xcode IDE. You can do a minimal install of XCode from the installation CD, enough to get the required dependencies, and then install gcc from macports.
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by aliston 16y ago
I'm not changing any facts. !. Illegal immigrants have bank accounts. I don't know specifically how they do it, which is why I said "presumably"... I just know that they do. 2. There is nothing, legally, preventing illegal immigrants from
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by aliston 16y ago
Why so down on Austin? I've heard really good things about the nightlife scene and other things young folks would enjoy... do tell!
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The Elements of Change(zenhabits.net)
1 points by aliston 16y ago|0 comments
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by aliston 16y ago
I agree with what you're saying -- I thoroughly enjoyed the pure theory classes as part of the CS curriculum. I also agree that it is more important to teach concepts than specific technologies. That said, I think there are schools that f
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by aliston 16y ago
I agree -- and going one step further, WITHIN higher education, there seems to be somewhat of a stigma against training for real-world, hands-on, applications. I was pretty lucky to attend a college that encouraged students to work on proj
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by aliston 16y ago
Plenty of illegal immigrants have bank accounts. At least around here (Bay Area) it's kind of a joke -- there's literally a separate line for illegal immigrants to do all-cash transactions. Presumably they use a fake SSN to open the accou
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by aliston 16y ago
Why is a -50dBm S/N ratio considered a "perfect signal"? Edit: dBm as a unit for SNR doesn't make sense, which is why I was confused. The Y axis is overall signal strength, not S/N ratio.
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by aliston 16y ago
I picked one up on launch day and I seriously think all these "problems" are no big deal. Yes, if you intentionally place your hand over a particular spot on the phone you lose signal strength, but in my experience, it takes a deliberate e
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Riding Waves to a Healthier Life(zentofitness.com)
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Lawsuit Brewing Over iPhone 4 Antenna Issues?(pcworld.com)
1 points by aliston 16y ago|0 comments

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