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by btn 15y ago
The visual format is supplied to the layout system as a string. It's completely independent of the Objective-C language syntax.
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by btn 15y ago
Here's a link to the original interview audio and transcript: http://www.npr.org/2011/07/16/138160765/twitter-co-founder-b...
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by btn 15y ago
There's still a free tier; and all of the videos are accessible to those who are not members of the paid programs (but are registered under the free one).
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by btn 15y ago
When it's paginated on an iPhone, it's displayed as 56 "pages".
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by btn 15y ago
and accordingly, arrogant about them The Dunning-Kruger effect doesn't necessarily imply a narcissistic personality (or any other personality traits); overconfidence in ability is something we are all vulnerable to.
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by btn 15y ago
At the very end of the clip, Lazaridis says in closing the interview: "this [the topic being discussed] is a national security issue". He knew exactly what was being asked; and even if the phrasing was better, he'd have given the same react
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by btn 16y ago
Because these companies don't really want to forbid deep-linking, but establish some kind of recourse (regardless of whether it is legally enforceable, or just scary and threatening) against anyone who might offend them in some way.
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by btn 16y ago
The article cites Jake Adelstein and his book "Tokyo Vice", which is a good review of the Yakuza from a western perspective. He also contributes regularly at http://www.japansubculture.com/ , which also features a lot of insight.
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by btn 16y ago
The account name (steve@mac.com) has been used in a lot of material published by Apple as an example email address, .Mac account, or Apple ID account.
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by btn 16y ago
I don't think that Google needs to determine the originality of any one piece of content, but rather the tendency for a site to feature content verbatim from other sources. The sites Google seem to be targeting are those who aggregate conte
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by btn 16y ago
I didn't say that they had to. But, having a single API is preferable to writing everything twice but in a slightly different way. Although, Microsoft aren't doing themselves any favours by not even trying a standardisation path.
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by btn 16y ago
Anyone taking bets on whether these features will have any compatibility with Microsoft's msSiteMode API in IE9? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg131029.aspx
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by btn 16y ago
Integer overflow behavior varies a lot between languages; it can be undefined, some wrap around, others promote to a larger integer type, others convert the type to something else, and some clamp to the largest (or smallest) value. For exam
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by btn 16y ago
On the iPhone, photos/contacts/files/etc. can only be shared over email or MMS; so there is some utility in having a more convenient sharing method.
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by btn 16y ago
It looks like it's just a more convenient way of calling "querySelectorAll" on elements (you can call it on arrays of elements, or with arrays of selectors, for example). I'm not sure why you'd use it over Sizzle, unless you wanted to do so
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by btn 16y ago
A similar (but much simpler) anti-piracy feature was built into Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2. The game would appear to operate normally, and let you start playing; however, after 30 seconds, all of your buildings would explode and you
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by btn 16y ago
Wikipedia has a much more comprehensive review of the issues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_spacing In general, modern typesetting software (and/or fonts) should be able to properly set the width of spaces between sentences to b
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by btn 16y ago
Microsoft's Firefox add-on simply replaces the browser's <video> player with a Windows Media Player object, so the fees have already been paid for as part of their licence to include an H.264 decoder with all copies of Windows. Supp
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by btn 16y ago
According to an article about the indictment, it was discovered by chance: "It was only by chance that [the Fannie Mae engineer] scrolled down to the bottom of the legitimate script to discover the malicious script" http://www.computerworl
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by btn 16y ago
Previous discussion (for the article this one is a response to): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2000833
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by btn 16y ago
It's part of a set of tools for management of iOS devices for enterprises. There was a session on MDM at WWDC, and a bit of information about the system in this PDF: http://images.apple.com/iphone/business/docs/iPhone_MDM.pdf
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by btn 16y ago
S3's REST API supports the HTTP 'Range' header to pluck bits of an object out (with a similar facility in its SOAP API).
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by btn 16y ago
The article is written in a condescending manner because the author is irritated. This means that it drags on a bit because of all the hand-holding through mundane examples. The rules are just as simple as C or C++, and Apple explains them
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by btn 16y ago
It's a nice solution, but doesn't seem to solve the problem they present at the start of the article. "What we wanted was a way to keep at least 24 hours worth of entries at all times"; but their solution only stores the last MAX_CIRCULAR_L
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by btn 16y ago
Short messages are usually of the form "404 - File not Found". These are non-informative for many users ("what does it mean?"), don't give any recovery options ("what can I do now?"), and aren't localised.
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by btn 16y ago
Wikipedia reports that too, but the original paper reports that nobody stopped before 300 volts and that there was no feedback from the victim until that level. I'm not sure why there's a discrepancy.
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by btn 16y ago
The results are a bit more involved than that: * 65% administered the (maximum) 450 volt shock * All participants questioned the experiment at one point * None of them backed out until the 300 volt level (over halfway), when the learner sta
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by btn 16y ago
A complete collection of answers (and analysis) has also been available since at least 1988: http://amzn.com/0131096532
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by btn 16y ago
The complete story for that anecdote can be found on folklore.org: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=PC_Board_Esthetic...
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by btn 16y ago
There are also legal ramifications when doing business in a new country. They (Google, in this case) have to ensure that they are complying with appropriate company/tax/accounting/privacy/etc. laws for each country. This may not be as easy

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