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by ankhmoop 17y ago
You don't need a conference to go out for a beer, and you certainly don't need an exclusive conference to go out for a beer with someone interesting. You do need a way to gather interesting people in one place, but you don't need a traditio
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Unless you're going to deliver a receipt that matches my meal in value, I don't particularly see the point. I don't want some stock-printed receipt merely intended to impress. Receipts are just receipts, and there's no real value you can pr
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Mac OS X preferences -were- human-readable (and editable), but that's not what makes the NSUserDefaults API so handy. What makes NSUserDefaults handy is the support for varying default domains (network, system, user) and dead-simple seriali
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Given that the talks are canned, and the materials they are based on are almost always published, why should I pay for a conference when I can already leverage existing networking/social channels to stay in touch with the latest ?
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
While I don't believe Atwood should have anything to do with educating developers about how to build crypto, the fact is that the available libraries are remarkably poor, and as a developer I've been placed in the unfortunate position of "b
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
No, because then there wouldn't be such a nice API for managing live settings from within the programs themselves: http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Reference/Fou...
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
The prevalence of linkbait Coding Horror, TechCrunch, and Rails-Drama articles has resulted in a significant reduction in my daily reading of HN. I'm interested in reading and commenting on informed, insightful articles. TechCrunch, Coding
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
It looks great, but unfortunately, the plugin is Windows only (and I'd never install a random plugin anyway), and the Java-based demo won't work either since I just turned Java off ( http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/CVE-2008-5353.2
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Critical Mac OS X Java Vulnerabilities(landonf.bikemonkey.org)
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
From the article: "Regardless of the outcome of a meeting, I view it as a success if I learn one thing." This is a phrase I've heard more than once from individuals who lack the humility to appreciate that the meeting is also a success if t
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
I can't believe that no one's discovered this yet. Maybe this is a manifestation of the Python paradox. The kind of people using the jar command (Java developers) are the kind of people who just accept the limitations of their systems with
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
We're forced to regularly ban Mibbit users on Freenode technical channels due to abuse masked by Mibbit's proxying, and for that reason I must say I'm not a fan.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Assuming your web development position actually requires a computer science background, I'd recommend rephrasing your educational requirements as "Bachelors in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience ".
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Regardless of the merits of the case, choosing to frame the gene-patent fight in terms of reduced access to health care and breast cancer research is a brilliant political move.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
My browser provides an inline PDF viewer (no Acrobat required).
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Apple already has quite a bit of experience with full-text e-mail search, not to mention running Mobile Me's mail servers. What would be the upside?
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
They may be referring to IMAP's server-side search support. If the message isn't cached locally, the IMAP server can search the message headers, body, etc on the phone's behalf. See RFC 3501, section 6.4.4: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3501
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
The lack of a vendor-documented API guarantee means that any findings are moot, and usage of this feature is unsafe. Open source, for all its developer benefits, would not change this.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
The article is a puerile rant; it borders on incoherent, lacks any rational supporting argument, and does little to convince the reader besides advancing emotional declarations. "The only question is, how big a dick move was it?" "It's only
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
You've missed an important but subtle point. The article points out that the reason this was overlooked is not because Rails isn't profiled but because this behaviour is happening outside the standard rails profiling scope. That is a) why
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
The short and to-the-point version of the post went to the Rails-core mailing list. On my blog, I prefer to tell stories. There are quite a few stories of this nature, which could simply be summarized as individuals finding incredibly sim
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
I'm not sure why individuals feel the need to write an entire page of text regarding a relatively straight-forward bug fixes. "Improved [Rails|Ruby|...] performance by [X] ms by changing [N < 20] lines of code" posts are becoming a comm
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
That's typically how it works. Paul can ban people from his site. The New York Times can prevent you from publishing an article on its pages. Neither infringes on your free speech rights, as understood by law and Western intellectual tradi
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
I believe the most interesting aspect of your comment is the conflation of individual, corporate, and commercial speech as "free speech". Why, exactly, do you think that your proposed "right not to see things you don't want to see" trumps
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Just curious, can swap space be enabled on a jailbroken iphone? The iPhoneOS doesn't ship with dynamic_pager, which implements user-space allocation and enabling of page files, but in theory, the necessary kernel support should be availab
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Well the way you use memory in a game is non deterministic, so "OS having time to free memory" is not a good enough answer. Once the memory is made available to the foremost application, it will not be reclaimed by the operating system; A
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
I'm not sure the author is sufficiently familiar with the iPhone's memory management. The iPhone will terminate a user process if it consumes all available memory before the OS' low-memory handling has triggered low memory warnings, causing
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Most github links appear to be code dumps, not projects (or, at least, what I would consider projects). My definition of a 'project' includes documentation, stable releases (ie, tar/zip archives), issue tracking, mailing lists -- these thin
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Or take software. Does anyone actually believe that it was harder to write code for the ActionScript interpreter than it was to get Dowd's exploit ( http://bit.ly/13OjyR ) working? It's not my intention to disparage Dowd's work in the lea
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
The inappropriateness of the images is their context -- whether classified as porn or merely risque, their only purpose in this talk was to cloud a technological discussion on the state non-relational distributed key/value databases and the

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