amichal

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   by amichal 11y ago

   It's amusing that one of the bugs they found and fixed was a buffer reuse bug -- similar to what caused heartbleed -- will help in my 'memory safe languages are not magic bullets' rebuttals.
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   by amichal 11y ago

   > You can plug in your own rates at the bottom :-) just click "Show Details" Didn't see that and it helps. Still i think the parent comment is important. If what you selling is just UI design and coding hours then you are
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   by amichal 11y ago

   I recognize the poster is not in the US but to answer your question: According to the BLS the average hourly wage (not including overhead) of ALL us software developers is 45.81/hr. I would expect iOS developers to command a premium. T
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   by amichal 11y ago

   I understand and I know it's just an estimating tool but are you saying I can hire your team to deliver a gold-plated does everything iOS app with geolocation, health and sensor inputs, a top-notice design, etc including the detailed f
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   by amichal 11y ago

   Love the concept not sure the math works out: Maxed out iOS app shows: 35 person-days UI/UX + 162 person-days dev = $88,650 $88,650 / (35 person-days + 162 person-days) / 8 hr/day = $56.25/hr per person average cost
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   by amichal 12y ago

   - Chaos: Making a New Science - Down with these mean streets - thinking in pictures: my life with autism - in code: a mathematical journey - Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem - The
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   by amichal 12y ago

   http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format from 1987 ish worked this way. Or as another commenter mentioned SGML in it's more compact forms from the same time period and so therefore early HTMLs. Having a cl
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   by amichal 12y ago

   Not quite a straight up math error but my high-school english class had a weekly 10 question spelling/definition quiz. Each question was worth "10%" if you got both the spelling and definition correct and "0%" if yo
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   by amichal 12y ago

   My #1 wishlist item for Gmail: Group by Sender Domain. - When I have 5 outstanding emails from @client.com i need to reply baddly. - When i have 5 outstanding from @asdfsa.com with subjects like 'Buy Viagra' its a good sign i sh
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    by amichal 12y ago

    guessing... Touch tone phone keypads dont always show q and z. I suspect that some older JetBlue system allows you to use your password via a touch tone system (with a vastly reduced keyspace)
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    by amichal 13y ago

    A data set containing only tweets from the 100 largest cities in the US probably doesn't generalize to the entire twitterverse
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    by amichal 13y ago

    My US public high school did not offer calculus at all during my tenure. Resulted in very interesting conversations with university admissions departments.
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    by amichal 13y ago

    OSX 10.7.2+ apparently disables DMA when using FileVault and a screen lock. See the article 'Attack mitigation - OSX'. Seems like a decent compromise.
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    by amichal 13y ago

    so does ghi.
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    by amichal 14y ago

    Or no table changes with http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Locking/Pess... but in this specific case `affected_rows` works better as long as you know its reliable.
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    by amichal 14y ago

    ~10Kbps. Southern VT. 0.1 mile from a cable provider and 2 miles from 4G cell coverage. Live on the wrong road and you are out if luck. Solutions tried by people I know (all since 2005) * Satalite radio (helps with downlink but uplink is st