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by dgallagher 15y ago
It's named "the new iPad" and not "iPad 3". My hunch is they did this so they can release an iPad Nano (or iPad Something), rather than an "iPad 3 Nano", which is semi-confusing. The final slide "There's a lot to look forward to" has a pict
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by dgallagher 15y ago
It's best to think of Obj-C method call syntax as a sentence, written in english, which happens to also be computer code. If you name your methods and variables succinctly and explicitly, the language is extremely readable and documents its
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Atul Gawande's 'Checklist' For Surgery Success(npr.org)
2 points by dgallagher 15y ago|1 comments
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by dgallagher 15y ago
it would be awkward to expect to see two views of the app, one mouse-driven and the other keyboard-driven, being flipped between via an MVC paradigm. I'd expect that both views would be fairly similar, like the two different views on an i
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by dgallagher 15y ago
Couldn't agree with you more. Another form factor option would be a Macbook Air with a double-sided display. Rather than flipping a screen around, you just close the lid to enter iPad mode, and open it for laptop mode. Seamless app switchin
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by dgallagher 15y ago
It sounds like we'd make perfect roommates! ;)
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by dgallagher 15y ago
I've lived alone for almost 4 years now. I don't crave companionship and am perfectly fine with my own thoughts (introvert). Boredom only sets in if you have nothing interesting to do. My apartment is sparse; no television, empty walls, no
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by dgallagher 15y ago
I reset Safari on OSX frequently, and do the same with Chrome. On iOS I run Safari in private browsing mode all the time. Not really to auto-delete cookies (it does that), but because if you have a history of websites and you start typing i
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by dgallagher 15y ago
That's awesome. I actually have a set of ear muffs, different brand. Compared to the Bose QC15's, they let in a lot more bass, where the noise-canceling gets rid of that. Coupling them with earplugs works really well though. They're less co
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by dgallagher 15y ago
My $0.02. The Bose QuietComfort 15 (over-the-ear, closed, noise canceling) are fantastic to code with. With no audio playing, low bassy sounds are entirely cancelled out unless extremely loud. Highs are reduced in volume, but still come thr
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by dgallagher 15y ago
I was hoping Adobe would patch Photoshop CS4 on OSX Lion so it stops crashing when quitting, and then hanging indefinitely if you try to re-launch it again without rebooting first. It's the most expensive software I've ever purchased which
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by dgallagher 15y ago
Can anyone comment on any differences in Mission Control (e.g. Spaces) between 10.7 and 10.8 beta?
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We are all living inside the notification hell(gigaom.com)
2 points by dgallagher 15y ago|2 comments
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by dgallagher 15y ago
My $0.02. In general, I've found many people describe something as "RESTful" but not actually know what RESTful truly means. Instead, they use it as an acronym to say "A web-based API", which is not necessarily the same thing as RESTful. Th
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by dgallagher 15y ago
I think Nintendo has three advantages in the mobile-space (Nintendo 3DS vs. iOS/Android). #1, Nintendo-branded games. They're the "Disney" of video games, and have a large loyal following. #2, dedicated gaming controls. Certain games need D
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by dgallagher 15y ago
I find Obj-C elegant in the sense that it reads like an explicit english sentence: NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalAndRemoteCacheData timeoutInterval:60
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by dgallagher 15y ago
I found this guide very useful, so thanks for making it. :) I've used SVN, Mercurial, and git before, so knowing those made this easy to digest. Plus it covers stuff about git I never knew existed, like gitk. So cool!
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by dgallagher 15y ago
That's really cool. For the heck of it I increased the actor count to 16 and CPU-usage stayed ~50% when running (Core i7, dual core w/hyper-threading). If you comment out the NSLog call, it spikes to ~280% CPU usage, as the overhead introdu
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by dgallagher 15y ago
I used an HDTV once that had three different HDMI ports on it (0, 1, 2). Each port reported a slightly-different EDID for the same TV! One of the HDMI ports reported this (extracted using SwitchResX): Established Timings: --------
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How Iran hijacked and stole a U.S. drone(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by dgallagher 15y ago|0 comments
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by dgallagher 15y ago
After Django gets ported, the only thing keeping me from jumping to Python 3 is PIL. PIL has indicated that a 3.x-compatible version is in the works: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
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by dgallagher 15y ago
A friend on mine who has Multiple Sclerosis mentioned to me that it gets much worse for him in the winter, and then gets better heading into the spring and summer. IIRC low vitamin D is believed to make MS worse. He was going to try tanning
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by dgallagher 15y ago
In my experience, thats what distinguishes between good and bad IT departments. Companies which looked at IT as a cost center tended to have bad IT service, where as those who viewed it as a value-added service had good IT service. I use to
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by dgallagher 15y ago
Nice, some new music to hack to for the rest of the day. :) - $1 - $9.99 gets you 10 albums. - $10+ gets you 17 albums. - Each album must downloaded separately as a zip file. - Four simultaneous downloads allowed, max.
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by dgallagher 15y ago
Question 1: Why did you run cloc as root? Hmmm, because of a really bad habit I need to break. ;)
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by dgallagher 15y ago
$ sudo perl cloc-1.55.pl --unicode doom3.gpl/ 2014 text files. 1907 unique files. 476 files ignored. http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.55 T=40.0 s (36.6 files
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by dgallagher 15y ago
One quarter of China’s top 1000 richest people obtained their wealth from property, compared to less than 10% among the world’s 1000 richest, the report says. Are they comparing the top-1000 richest people in China to the top-1000 richest
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by dgallagher 15y ago
This SO question raises an interesting issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7419912/how-will-lions-ne... What if your app uses Python to perform IO? What if you wrote your code using PyObjC? Is there any way to sandbox that, or are y
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by dgallagher 15y ago
As others' mentioned, LFS is a great way to learn about Linux. After building LFS, I migrated to Gentoo. LFS shows you how everything is done manually, where Gentoo takes care of all that grunt-work via Portage. LFS is an excellent stepping
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by dgallagher 15y ago
Ah, I missed that. Nice catch! :)

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