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by aryastark 13y ago
I still dream of an alternative universe, where Apple kept Dylan alive through the lean years, Jobs came back and based OS X and the iPhone on it. We were this close to having iPhone being a LispOS.
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This is my current frustration. I have a Macbook from 2008. It can't run the newer OS X. I was looking into doing a little iOS development this weekend. Turns out, newer Xcode requires newer OS X. I could upgrade to, I think, Lion.
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> Well, don't work for those companies. That's not a solution. That's the issue. Smart people don't work for those companies. Then, said companies turn around and complain that there is a shortage of talent* *wil
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Yep. This is how backwards our industry is. It wants to pay peanuts for rockstar coders, but doesn't realize that no one is both dumb enough to work for snack food Tuesdays and smart enough to have a PhD in CS. The problem is exasp
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All Objective-C programmers I know are really iOS programmers trying to make a quick buck. Most of these people either aren't aware of GNUstep, or wouldn't care since they have OS X. GNUstep is old . It predates the revival o
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pretty sure Dwight did this (The Office, US version). That's where I first remember hearing it
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> I wonder how they store all that. Well, now they have a massive data center in Utah. That's most likely where it's all going today. Standard open source tools are all you really need. > Wouldn't they show up on, say
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NSA spying is not designed for the individual. It's designed for the masses. It's to keep the populace in check. It's Century of the Self and Edward Bernays, except for the 21st century. It's an update to what was alr
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Just an FYI, a Mint competitor, Wesabe, went out of business some time ago. When they did, they open sourced their software. Not sure of the state it's in. Maybe you can find some good things in their bank interface/scraping co
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> Most countries have intelligence apparatus of course, no reason the USA shouldn't have something fulfilling the NSA's role. This isn't terribly compelling to me. I've never understood why we don't question th
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Not sure about that. Guile is pretty old and messy itself. It's still my preferred Scheme, though. But that's mostly just because of familiarity and loyalty on my part. There is already Edwin, which comes with MIT-Scheme. It&#
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The problem isn't exclusively Facebook. It's a problem with spam filtering and the dangers of false positives. > Job openings should be emailed to you directly This scenario happened to me: I emailed my resume to a company. T
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god, how I hate what YouTube has become. It really used to be so nice until Google got their grubby hands on it. Nowadays I can barely get through a single video without massive stalling issues, or 30 second ads for a 10 second video. It&
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I read the article. The author started by whining that he lost months of notes. His solution was to beef up his syncing. I still have no idea how he came to that conclusion when backup technology has existed since the dinosaurs. I guess
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Not sure I see the point. Or the complaints people are having here. The author really should have a backup plan in place. He still doesn't, even though this software lets him sleep easy at night. He's still riding the edge of d
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Since when could facebook crush dissent and political movements with military force?
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There is a fundamental difference between expecting privacy on the Internet, and the government actively collecting all data on all people and compiling a massive database linking all of this data together. No one should expect privacy.
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Google and Facebook are trying to clear their name here. But what I'm afraid of is that this mess with deciding exactly how much access the government has to Google will turn into a distraction from the larger picture. Which is that,
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Correct. The AES family of algorithms are public knowledge, not proprietary. They are open for scrutiny by mathematicians and crypto experts across the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard
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http://www.eetimes.com/design/embedded-internet-design/43724... The only feasible thing against AES 128 right now would be if a flaw was discovered. This is also why it doesn't matter whether you use 128, 19
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That may be true. However, the giant elephant in the room is the Utah data center. This is a data center designed to, supposedly, store data on the scale of a yottabyte. I only say "a" yottabyte, because to assume even slightly