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811.
by blasdel 16y ago
Avoid ever referring to it as code. There'll be a few cases where it's valid nomenclature, but most of the time it gets you headed in the wrong direction. The trick would be a synthesis that preserves line-number metadata, and then a lintin
812.
by blasdel 16y ago
Maybe use 'survey' or 'audit' instead of 'testing' to describe the mass builds. It's a continous integration system for a notoriously fiddly set of toolchains, and right now you're pitching it at the beancounter that selects the parts. Send
813.
by blasdel 16y ago
Apple can't use a TPM without people going apoplectic, even now years later. After the first couple shitstorms when the Intel Developer Preview Mac and a few other early models had TPMs, they just stopped including them with any of their ha
814.
by blasdel 16y ago
Just having builds go way faster would be awesome. Shove some static analysis in there for warnings, and maybe collect user feedback to feed into a statistical model of the likelihood that the warning was indicative of an error. Take real a
815.
by blasdel 16y ago
Well, the object proof is that there isn't even a vaporware "GNU Embedded SQL" project. Unfortunately, there is probably a Rule 34 for these things. Apologies in advance.
816.
by blasdel 16y ago
Everyone using SQLite instead of trying to implement their own independent interoperable stuff would be fucking awesome. There is very little software that's anywhere I would say that about, but SQLite belongs in valhalla. Reimplementing it
817.
by blasdel 16y ago
The aws-s3 gem was throwing an exception correctly after a fairly long timeout ("We encountered an internal error. Please try again.") But none of the software that was using the aws-s3 gem or causing it to be called caught the exception. I
818.
by blasdel 16y ago
It's very common for newer releases of SDK toolchains to drop support for targeting older SDKs. Apple has done the same thing with OS X several times.
819.
by blasdel 16y ago
If you consider rotation, the iPhone currently has 4 resolutions and will soon have 6. There's also the expanded green status bar during calls, a red one during voice recording, and another color for background VoIP apps in 4.0 -- so it'll
820.
by blasdel 16y ago
maxklein may regularly be a speculative asshat that writes questions as statements, but a broken clock is still right twice a day.
821.
by blasdel 16y ago
I was having %90 of my requests time out. Very little of the software I'm using handled the exceptions raised while this was happening. I checked the status page first thing, but it didn't get set to yellow for another 5 minutes after I sta
822.
by blasdel 16y ago
> There is not any fluff, nor a wasted word. Except yours, here.
823.
by blasdel 16y ago
For the older versions of Exchange, OWA is actually pretty terrific in IE, a completely different UI -- they invented XHR to implement it! In the IE version, you can purge your inbox in a couple clicks. In the last release or two (which not
824.
Most "mad scientists" are actually just mad engineers(cowbirdsinlove.com)
61 points by blasdel 16y ago|15 comments
825.
by blasdel 16y ago
Wow, your new phone has a whole 512mb of non-SD flash instead of the G1's paltry 256mb!
826.
by blasdel 16y ago
There's no end to the questions raised: http://jacobian.org/writing/gpl-questions/ …and no answers for them: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=702369
827.
by blasdel 16y ago
I thought about it a bit more, especially after seeing that article talking about how %74 of your startups from this round have taken funding or are profitable already -- which I saw as having only %26 of them not be successful (whether a
828.
by blasdel 16y ago
That's wildly inconsistent with everything I've ever heard from you on the subject before. I thought the limit on YC was you -- that the partners didn't have enough attention to distribute to any more startups (or more tablespace to sit
829.
by blasdel 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that all four major US cellular carriers use billing/CRM software from the same vendor . There's really only one nightmare billing system!
830.
by blasdel 16y ago
People will just install the Quicktime component, just like they'd have to install the DirectShow filter to get support in IE.
831.
by blasdel 16y ago
Apple already supports WebM as much as Microsoft does. You can just install a Quicktime component that adds support for the container and the codec, which gets you <video> support without them having to do anything. Microsoft isn't
832.
by blasdel 16y ago
The capability model for requesting extra permissions is terrific, but it should have been done using <meta> or <link> tags -- reusing their bundle format for extensions was a terrible idea, especially since they're going to
833.
by blasdel 16y ago
Except that people who use web apps don't give a shit about the code running the site. They're using a transient app over the network as the service over a stateless mostly-idempotent protocol -- they care only about responses coming out of
834.
by blasdel 16y ago
Welcome to Web 2.0 http://media.odeo.com/files/d/9/y/draft_47039_out.mp3
835.
by blasdel 16y ago
Android uses a heavily hacked kernel and essentially ignores the standard interfaces for everything it's userland stuff touches. It's also less of a distro than Slackware was -- every update has to be ported to the existing hardware platfor
836.
by blasdel 16y ago
Neither of your points are really true: ChromeOS uses X Windows, just without a reparenting window manager. ChromeOS is not Unix 'hidden' under a pretty UI -- neither the filesystem nor the userland are exposed to the user or to application
837.
by blasdel 16y ago
I'm sure that it's just your friend that sits around manually configuring servers, taking EC2 at face value as just virtual hardware -- what some are calling the "Meat Cloud". Source Code > Documentation > Artifacts
838.
by blasdel 16y ago
Apps are represented in the tab bar as "pinned tabs" (which it looks like they updated the styling of), the user probably has HN set as one.
839.
by blasdel 16y ago
Using bundled packages for offline support is entirely the wrong strategy. The coupling is too tight even before you start trying to use the same format for multiple browsers. You should just copy Apple and just make it easy to save web pag
840.
by blasdel 16y ago
Gears was the alpha implementation of the work that went on in WHATWG. All the Gears APIs (except for WorkerPool) were refactored significantly and integrated into the spec that became HTML5.

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