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by cube13 14y ago
According to this: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.htm Developer-related positions(both research and development), are some of the highest paid STEM-related positions available.
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by cube13 14y ago
I think the jury's out on that. Vista was a disaster because of MS' focus on security. UAC is a usability disaster, both because it's not clear exactly when it is triggered, and the behavior of the system when it is triggered(blanking out
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by cube13 14y ago
Here's an article with quotes from Kasparov that supports the thesis. The site is a classic 90's setup, and Kasparov's reaction is about halfway down the page(search for "Suicide?" without the quotes). http://www.chessbase.com/columns/col
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by cube13 14y ago
Lead paint is pretty easy to figure out, though. Lead paint was banned in the US in 1978. If the house was built before or around that time(say, up until 1980), it's a good idea to test before purchasing. However, if it was built in the la
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by cube13 14y ago
I agree completely. I'm trying to remember the last app I download(let alone purchased) by browsing through the top whatever in the app store. I think it was the flashlight app I got when I first bought my iPhone. Now, I don't even bother
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by cube13 14y ago
That's because those guys are the ones that fix all the regression bugs and "features" introduced by the new version, and release their fixes so the rest of us don't have to.
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by cube13 14y ago
They don't even charge until the funding round is over, actually.
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by cube13 14y ago
I agree. If the guy's story is correct, it doesn't seem that Appcelerator should have even noticed their usage of the framework at all. Unless it was for a huge client that's gotten hundreds of thousands of downloads(which I don't think is
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by cube13 14y ago
>Interns signed some kind of overly general internship / employment contract that included some form of non-compete which he's leveraging to strengthen his lawsuit. That doesn't seem to be the case here, from TFA. It seems that it's mo
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by cube13 14y ago
The article mentions that the "flaw had to be triggered 185 times in the exploit code in order to overcome some of the vulnerability’s limitations". How long would that take to trigger through the NFC interface?
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by cube13 14y ago
And? That's the definition of a peer. There seem to be two issues here that are being conflated. The first is the value of peer review. I don't agree with the arguments that having a select group of people, who are experts in their fields
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by cube13 14y ago
For cutting edge theoretical research, there are only a handful of people in the world with the knowledge to review the research. And having millions of people that really don't have a clue about it doesn't produce anything worthwhile. So
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by cube13 14y ago
I mean the iPhone 3G.
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by cube13 14y ago
Has that number changed much over time? The iPhone 3 hasn't been for sale for over 2 years at this point, so I'm curious if you're seeing the number go down at all.
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by cube13 14y ago
Kickstarter is not an investment. You're buying the rewards for the tier that you choose. In the Kickstarter TOS, there is the following line: Project Creators are required to fulfill all rewards of their successful fundraising campaig
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by cube13 14y ago
What change to due process would you recommend in this case? The prosecution, as is their right, asked the judge to issue a subpoena to Twitter for the information. The judge agreed, and issued it. I don't see how due process was not follo
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by cube13 14y ago
> What stops a self taught developer from also 'self teaching' the fundamentals? I think that the main problem, especially for maintaining the student's motivation, is that a lot of the fundamentals don't seem to be all that useful to a
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by cube13 14y ago
>I am not an iPhone user, but if what you have described above are problems that a significant number of iPhone users face, then I am pretty surprised/disappointed. As noted by other posts, most of the issues are with OSX applications r
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by cube13 14y ago
Does Google have a "Powered by Android" licensing scheme like what the Mozilla foundation has for Firefox's source?
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by cube13 14y ago
Do you have any idea how hard it is to waterproof electronics? Not only do you need to keep water out of the device, but you also need to make sure that it can't collect anywhere and corrode away parts. There's a reason that hardened wate
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by cube13 14y ago
No, I don't think it's stupid of people to expect that manufacturers make good technology. As a matter of fact, I expect manufacturers to make good products. I expect manufacturers to produce what they promise to produce. I don't expect
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by cube13 14y ago
>Sorry, false dilemma and totally disingenuous. Just because no one promised it doesn't mean that one couldn't hope for it or be disappointed at its absence. Similarly, having big deal features like those are reasonable expectations for
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by cube13 14y ago
Factoring in supplier changes and development costs, I would wager that the .5% revenue would result in an overall wash on the accounting sheets. I really don't think it was to sell connectors. Those kinds of things are too low margin for
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by cube13 14y ago
Which is really the only major benefit over both the standard USB and the current Apple 30-pin. To be honest, I'm not sure if that alone is really worth the extra annoyance of a new connector.
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by cube13 14y ago
What's odd is that they added it to the iPod Nano, but not the iPhone or touch.
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by cube13 14y ago
It's buried in the article, but here's the paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2137 Here's the source: https://github.com/lemire/FastPFor
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by cube13 14y ago
The iPod touch post was for the release of the 4th gen Retina Touch. That was released in September 2010. More importantly, none of these "leaks" are surprises. They've either been confirmed by Apple(the 5 in the announcement), or are for
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by cube13 14y ago
Also: If a user emails support, and their email address is not directly traceable to their login(for example, if they use firstlast@gmail.com for battle.net instead of first.last@gmail.com as the sending email), it allows support to add tha
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by cube13 14y ago
But those people aren't the target of Greenlight. This is a marketing tool, not a funding source. It's not Kickstarter.
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by cube13 14y ago
SPARC is pretty much a lost cause for us. I believe that we have had better performance with the system memcpy over anything we've written. Linux GCC was all over the place, depending on the Red Hat Enterprise version. IIRC, RHEL 4 and ab

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