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by andrewf 17y ago
Valgrind will tell you about stuff you malloc()d but didn't free(). That's part of what their tools do, but it won't help so much with reference counted/GCed stuff. Remember there's a lot of Javascript code in the browser itself.
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by andrewf 17y ago
For similar "pulling" reasons, make sure your feet reach the ground (or a footrest) - you don't want them dangling in the air.
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by andrewf 17y ago
That's Softdisk, not Apogee. Apogee was id's publisher from when they started moonlighting until id handled their own distribution for Doom.
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by andrewf 18y ago
Web proxy farms mean you can't just say "100+ votes from a single IP address = blacklist". You'd probably need manual intervention to distinguish proxies and individual abusers. Once you're manually intervening, you may as well just wait un
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by andrewf 18y ago
I used to chuck Communications of the ACM until last year's total revamp. It's really good now.
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by andrewf 18y ago
MySQL and Oracle excel in different areas. I would expect Oracle to halt any effort to grow MySQL towards Oracle's feature set. I suspect this is very bad news for Postgresql. Sun is a major backer, but that will likely end. Postgresql's ta
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by andrewf 18y ago
sqlite has a page cache but its default settings are a bit weak. I suspect that what you want to do is open the sqlite database in exclusive mode (so that it grabs and holds a lock over the db, and should be able to assume that cached data
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by andrewf 18y ago
Looks like the plan was to release Episode 1 only (what the shareware Wolfenstein was) for $0.99, and Eps 1-6 for $5. I only see the $5 bundle on the app store though.
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by andrewf 18y ago
We officially support IE6, IE7, IE8, Safari3, and FF3. We're now in the ridiculous position of spending more time testing different versions of IE than we do all the other browsers. We've already pushed the IE7 compat meta tag out onto all
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by andrewf 18y ago
I'm skipping over the issue of your CEO's motives - he could hate you and want you out, but assuming he doesn't.. despite the fact we've always done what we said we would when we said we would. So you've got the commitment thing down: yo
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by andrewf 18y ago
PayPal's PayFlowPro can do basically that. No callbacks, you have to poll them.
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by andrewf 18y ago
VMWare's brands within brands within brands continue to confuse me. I'm hoping at some point this leads to a client for OS X and/or X11 that can talk to ESXi and VMWare Server. At the moment you have to manually configure each VM to expose
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by andrewf 18y ago
Google has ~65% of the search market. The other 35% is probably still representative enough for you to figure out what the population is searching for that leads to your website.
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by andrewf 18y ago
RAM is disproportionately expensive on leased/managed servers; afaik it's just the pricing model that hosting companies established in the past (when RAM accounted for more of the total hardware cost compared to now), and the industry has s
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by andrewf 18y ago
On the plus side he doesn't drive to work.
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by andrewf 18y ago
There's already a garbage collector in the Objective-C runtime for regular Mac OS X. People targeting OS X 10.5 and higher (that's anyone writing a new app) are happily using it. They've just chosen not to enable its usage on the iPhone.
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by andrewf 18y ago
Nokia is already executing a different strategy - they purchased Trolltech for $150 million less than a year ago.
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by andrewf 18y ago
Or make the only "work" behind the last 15% of the bar a timer.
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by andrewf 18y ago
If clicking the mouse is painful, try switching hands. Using your mouse other handed will feel very clumsy for a few days, and you probably won't ever want to play a game that way. But it does give your other arm a break. I switch between l
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by andrewf 18y ago
But does the display at the other end live up to the Yes Men's Management Leisure Suit? (nsfw) http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=yK9Cs_UcTEE
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by andrewf 18y ago
Have you considered the iPod Touch? It's a significantly thinner iPhone, minus the phone and camera. Not sure on battery life (my iPhone survives for at least four days if unused), it has no GPS, and is missing common PDA niceties like an S
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by andrewf 18y ago
No, it's a separate development effort. The BeOS stuff became PalmOS 6, aka PalmOS Cobalt, which debuted in 2004 but never made it onto a shipping device. That IP is owned by http://www.access-company.com/ , who purchased PalmSource (the O
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by andrewf 18y ago
Sorry: http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9654/colligan-no-new-palm...
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by andrewf 18y ago
There's also The Cocotron, a Cocoa implementation for Win32 - http://www.cocotron.org/Info
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by andrewf 18y ago
Sun has previously demonstrated Postgres scaling well on their 32-way (8 cores x 4 threads/core) hardware. http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/postgresql-publish...
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by andrewf 18y ago
"Other Windows apps" is itself vague. There is an alternative style for Qt which can be configured for ".NET application" or "Microsoft Office" looks, which are not the same as the default "Windows" look which call into the Windows theming
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by andrewf 18y ago
Not strictly true. Livejournal supports OpenID for this purpose. (The average user will just join).
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by andrewf 18y ago
The Black Book is available as PDFs from http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1698.asp Byte.com hosted a copy for a long time, but that seems to have issues atm.
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by andrewf 18y ago
That's a paradox. At that point surely the survey becomes garbage in, garbage out.
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by andrewf 18y ago
I'm not but I have in the past - downloadable with a time-limited trial, and also available in boxed form via mail order and some distributors. The biggest difference I've noted since moving to the web is that on the desktop (Windows at lea

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