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by btn 15y ago
The author doesn't mention the size of the images that are being stored in the database, but for larger files (~>1MB), it would be interesting to see Lion's/iOS 5's new external binary data storage (-setAllowsExternalBinaryDataStorage:)
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by btn 15y ago
I think Herb Sutter talked a fair bit about this at the Build and C++ and Beyond conferences last year. The gist of it (IIRC) is that while managed code may be better for developer productivity, C++ continues to win when it comes to perform
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by btn 15y ago
For the most part, this is an incomplete index of Gamasutra's postmortem articles. A complete list of their articles can be found at: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/postmortem/
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by btn 15y ago
Jon Bentley's Progamming Pearls books are full of such insights into designing incredibly efficient data structures and algorithms.
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by btn 15y ago
The original Netcraft article has far less filler text and contains far more information (with graphs!): http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2012/01/03/january-2012-we...
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by btn 15y ago
This list has been posted a number of times before [1], with this version having the loosest title. To be more precision, this is a list of best paper awards given at selected conferences based on reviewer scores at the time , and only
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by btn 15y ago
The complete "world class cities" story has been written about by Susan Kare on Folklore.org: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=World_Class_Cities.tx...
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by btn 15y ago
The service [1] described in that article allows authors to let people download an article from the ACM via. a link on their personal website, rather than having to host the PDF themselves. There's been no change in the access policy for no
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by btn 15y ago
It's an on-going discussion: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380637
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by btn 15y ago
In this case, he didn't only probe the approval process, but he also released the app containing the exploit into the store for public consumption. Apple's process allows for submitting an app for approval without releasing it into the stor
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by btn 15y ago
The patent in question (which I believe is 8,024,234) only covers a method for people selling tickets to compare prices for tickets across a venue in the form of a venue map. It does not describe an interface for purchasing them. (Don't c
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by btn 15y ago
The book has a section answering that very question: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/7.0/prologue/audien...
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by btn 15y ago
Note that the locale of iOS in the screenshots is Japanese. The author has done a number of these types of examinations before, usually with parallel Japanese & English captioning.
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by btn 15y ago
"votes" is not a count of the number of uses, just that it has been used at least once in the last 30 days.
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by btn 15y ago
"bazaar" should be "bzr". It's important to note that this graph is generated with data collected from people who have the popularity-content Debian package installed [1]. The "vote" metric it provides is probably a more accurate method for
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by btn 15y ago
Amazon offer security token authentication for accessing AWS account resources, which can limit the impact of a breach in another part of their system.
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by btn 15y ago
Private/internal-only sites still require a Premiere licence ("starting at just $10,000 per year").
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by btn 15y ago
OS updates are probably more important for developers initially---having access to the latest and greatest API/phone features/bugfixes. This becomes important for consumers when the apps they want to use require a version of the OS they can
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by btn 15y ago
While it's good to see online privacy issues getting more attention, I think that the enduring message that people take away from these articles shouldn't be " Facebook is evil ", but rather " I should be more aware of the privacy of my dat
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by btn 15y ago
Wasn't this covered already with "Arial vs. Helvetia"? ( http://ilovetypography.com/2007/10/06/arial-versus-helvetica... ) I think what's going to distinguish these fonts isn't their individual character forms (which I do think are signific
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by btn 15y ago
They aren't claiming to have taught Siri to add events From the article: "we had to teach Siri to add tasks to Remember The Milk [...] and we're super excited to announce that we've done just that!"
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by btn 15y ago
Why put something that provably is never used in there at all? It's important not to confuse "never used because it's useless" and "never used because nobody knows about it". Of the items in the Windows 8 "Home" tab that fewer than 84% of
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by btn 15y ago
Isn't this sentiment true every time Facebook makes changes to their UI? There's always some user backlash immediately following its release, but after a few weeks everything settles and returns to the status quo. I have no doubt that Faceb
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by btn 15y ago
A trademark protects a mark that would cause confusion about the source of a product if it was used by another person/company. That is, it would protect any branding on the package, rather than the design of the package itself. There is a c
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by btn 15y ago
Of course, you have to do a little bit more than roll together some snow into the shape of a snowman to infringe (it definitely doesn't cover "snowmen and snowwomen as a whole"). The patent actually covers an internal skeleton of spheres
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by btn 15y ago
I recently read Robert Bringhurst's excellent Elements of Typographic Style, but have no idea how to apply it to the web. You may find this interesting: http://webtypography.net/toc/
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by btn 15y ago
Edward Tufte gives the pie chart a more succinct and decisive treatment in "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information": A table is nearly always better than a dumb pie chart; the only worse design than a pie chart is several of t
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by btn 15y ago
These aren't kernel APIs. In most cases, you can simply call the Unicode version of the same functions and prepend "\\?\".
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by btn 15y ago
Everything that people contribute through Map Maker is available freely for non-commercial purposes (with some restrictions). However, the license is certainly not as permissive as Open Street Map. https://services.google.com/fb/forms/mapm
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by btn 15y ago
This isn't a full change log, it's just a list of known issues changes between releases.

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