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by btn 17y ago
They use 2 spaces for C++ and ObjC, 4 spaces for Python.
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by btn 17y ago
There isn't a comparable feature in Mail.app. If you turn on the "Advanced IMAP Controls" labs feature in gmail, you can switch off the labels that will give you the most trouble. You can do this with "All Mail" and "deleting" messages from
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by btn 17y ago
Generating an image from the PDF server-side is the only way to faithfully perserve the layout of the PDF. For some PDFs, Google will give you the option to view it as HTML (it seems to just be the PDFs returned in search results?). It's us
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by btn 17y ago
using CSS3 to generate compliant HTML files A significant chunk of the CSS is vendor-specific. Similarly, the HTML contains Apple-only attributes and segments designed to only be interpreted by iTunes. Neither the HTML nor CSS is "complia
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by btn 17y ago
Remember when people chastised Microsoft for doing similar things (using IE-specific HTML/CSS for parts of an application interface)? I guess Apple have the web standards street cred to get away with it. (I know it's not entirely the same,
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by btn 17y ago
That was a very long, boring, and buzzword-pumped way of saying: "Apple should let you stream stuff from the iTunes Store".
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by btn 17y ago
What is the pace of development? Obviously not fast enough for the moon colonies and jet-packs I was promised.
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by btn 17y ago
I'm not suggesting that these questions would require a textbook, but rather that they aren't particularly insightful interview questions as they test something that can come by rote out of a textbook.
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by btn 17y ago
Or you could just flat-out ask them if they memorised all of their introductory CS textbooks.
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by btn 17y ago
No matter how the site is re-designed, people will hate it. This is simply because people hate change . The NYT team (for example) could test their deign and produce empirical evidence that their design (with tweaks from testing, of course
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by btn 17y ago
Screencasts are usually good to give an overview of something's capabilities, but rarely are they useful for teaching how something works. Unfortunately, talking into a microphone is easier than typing, and reading is harder than being dict
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by btn 17y ago
RSS is dead because some VC firm couldn't capitalise on it, yet Twitter is the way forward?
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by btn 17y ago
Was SimCity 2000 never translated into Japanese or something?
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by btn 17y ago
How does hosting it yourself protect you from these issues (downtime)? The only thing you gain is control over the situation, which may be a worse prospect if you don't have the same level of resources that Google/whoever has to fix it.
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by btn 17y ago
Are there any reasons to believe that we can generalise the behaviour of birds to humans? The article claims that we can, but I don't see why, especially given that "they're not as complex as humans".
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by btn 17y ago
This doesn't explain anything (I'm not even sure what there would be to explain), or seem to have any connection to Star Trek. All it seems to show is that in the late 90s shows started to merge sci-fi (or aspects of sci-fi) with other, mor
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by btn 17y ago
"Here’s rock-solid proof that Snow Leopard is designed for touchscreens [...] "Yeah, I know, this isn’t proof that Snow Leopard is designed for a touchscreen device"
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by btn 17y ago
I don't think you understand what NSNull actually is. It's designed to behave as an empty placeholder object in collections that don't allow nil, nothing more. C's NULL isn't an issue either, nil == NULL == 0, and isn't encountered in any o
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by btn 17y ago
Nope. Java was strongly influenced by languages where this was already a solved problem: http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html
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by btn 17y ago
Alternatively, all of these questions are irrelevant if you can answer "yes" to "Is it a list?"
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by btn 17y ago
How is your idea "basically the same thing"? Your idea seems to boil down to the calculation of a edits/views metric that supposedly implies something about the quality of the entire article. WikiTrust tracks the edits relating to each word
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by btn 17y ago
Indeed, almost all of these practices seem idiotic for a modern search engine to pay any attention.
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by btn 17y ago
XML Sitemaps are specifically designed to be a machine-readable list all of the individual pages on a site, when they were last updated, how frequently they're usually updated, and how important a page is to your site. HTML Sitemaps are the
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by btn 17y ago
Ideally, this shouldn't happen anymore; or, at least they've designed the current system to stop it from happening: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163845.aspx