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by coldcode 4y ago
Swift being open source makes sense that the book is too. Hopefully more and better examples will be added.
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by coldcode 4y ago
My employer did some work early in Dotcom for a company that owned the domain name "manufacturersexchange", when I pointed out that was a terrible name for a business they said "no business person would notice that". Bus
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by coldcode 4y ago
I wish I had had that opportunity back in 1985 when I founded my first one, but being outside of the Bay Area (as in 1500 miles away) there were basically no software startups at all, and with no internet/web/ycombinator etc, no w
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by coldcode 4y ago
I also prefer information from the NHS even though I live in the US. Here medical information online is all about making money from ads and who knows what else they sell. There is actually little money to make from providing relevant inform
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by coldcode 4y ago
It's a great idea but not fully baked yet. My former colleague is using it for internal apps and it seems to work fairly well (UI is not fancy), but not for anything going into the high volume apps, which has much more complex behavior
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by coldcode 4y ago
I need a 4K TV since mine is only 2K but the only non smart TV I've found are at Walmart, the Sceptre brand. Does anyone know of any other?
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by coldcode 4y ago
I can never read anything by nytimes, even with removing cookies, it's basically a black hole of non-content. With all the technology at our disposal, why can no one build a system whereby people can read occasional articles at most we
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by coldcode 4y ago
It's fun to play around with it, but like the author found, what you get is often strange or useless. I also find 1k images too small to do much with but I realize making 4k images would be cost prohibitive. I also wish it could genera
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YouTube fraud led to $23M in royalties for two men, IRS says(billboard.com)
6 points by coldcode 4y ago|0 comments
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by coldcode 4y ago
My friend flew every plane they delivered, sort of a functional test, in addition to practicing/planning for airshows, as well as sometimes showing off for employees at lunchtime.
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by coldcode 4y ago
Although I retired last year, that year I worked at home during the pandemic was just fine productivity-wise, but I did miss the social interaction, the ability to hear discussions around me (sometimes too loud of course) where I learned th
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by coldcode 4y ago
A friend of mine in the 90s was there as an F-16 test pilot and saw the accident. He said this sort of problem is a well known risk of being a test pilot so they spend a lot of time on planning how to deal with something bad. He also said t
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by coldcode 4y ago
As a (right handed) guitarist I can't even imagine playing upside down guitar. It shows you that the brain can do amazing things, if you do it for long enough, and are dedicated enough. Plus she stopped playing for decades and then jus
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by coldcode 4y ago
With the pressure coming from the inside of the star from burning fuel, I think this meat-star would implode since it is just meat. Unless of course sausages under pressure emit energy. How much sausage would it take to start a thermonuclea
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Amazon Seems Unable to Reliably Provide a Simple Code for Its Hub
1 points by coldcode 4y ago|1 comments
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by coldcode 4y ago
As a guitar player I can't even imagine relearning a lifetime of experience from scratch again, much less learning to walk and do ordinary things you take for granted. Brains are amazingly plastic, but usually not at age 75. It take in
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by coldcode 4y ago
Funny I worked there in 95-96 for half a year as a contractor (DTS), and the interviews were fairly simple, the hardest thing was looking at a page of source code and finding all the bugs. Otherwise most people knew the Mac software I had l
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by coldcode 4y ago
I spent half of my iOS experience of a decade in ObjC and the last half in Swift. I also used ObjC way back when it was in NeXT. No comparison, you'd have to have your head examined to start something in ObjC today. The only reason to
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by coldcode 4y ago
In 1970 my parents, sister and I went on a cruise which had a stop in Haiti; we rented a cab to drive through the town (I think Port-au-Prince) and I can admit I have never seen such poverty, as a child it was beyond shocking. There were al
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by coldcode 4y ago
Seen this way too many times to recount in a comment. Stupid company hires stupid company to do massive project, neither side is competent to do anything but waste/collect money. I talked once with an airline who had outsourced their e
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by coldcode 4y ago
Would such a thing be possible in Android world? I wonder since there are so many phone manufacturer and ISP mods that might not be under Google's control.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I worked at a place in the 2000's where our main application leaked like a sieve due to not releasing memory from a C++ framework, and two people had to take turns every other night restarting the app (actually it was chopped up into 2
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by coldcode 4y ago
He might not have sold many paintings, but after he died by suicide Monet saw Irises (I think) and remarked something like "How can someone who paints with such joy be so sad". Selling art requires the right contacts, even today,
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by coldcode 4y ago
Having worked in the OTA space, every time I see their (sometimes funny) ads, I want to call them Booking.Nope OTA make comparisons a bit easier, but everything is negotiated and contractually controlled to keep people from just going to th
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by coldcode 4y ago
Hmm I wonder if you could register a new account for the CEO of Experian and take his identity? That perhaps would create some incentive for them to change to better security. As long as its just grubby peons like us, why should they care?
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by coldcode 4y ago
Pretty cool, but it costs like $100K per mm. Think of it as art, not a tool.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I just sold my house for a ridiculous number. My realtor got 50 people to tour the house in a single weekend, and 5 places offers and I took the one 10% over the asking price. It's not a mansion or anything, and not in some high tech c
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by coldcode 4y ago
My parents/ancestors small town in Germany wasn't bombed (except a few accidents) but after the war they decide to destroy many of the charming ancient buildings and replace them with 70's style ugly. It still has some charac
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by coldcode 4y ago
I went to work for a company that built web apps in 1997, we used WebObjects/EnterpriseObjects (NeXT still at the time) which I still remember fondly as being head and shoulders better than anything else people were using at the time.
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by coldcode 4y ago
As soon as side loading or their own app stores are allowed, all sorts of companies may require that. Maybe most big companies will stick with Apple's. As an iOS developer, hardening the 10k-ish apis that exist in iOS will be mostly im

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