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by huxley 14y ago
"Fadell explained that a key and yet often overlooked difference between Apple and other tech companies is that Apple ships 99% of the products that pass certain internal milestones." Seems like an odd statement knowing Apple's history, I w
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by huxley 14y ago
Do you mean the power connector or something internal, rather than power supply? Because the power supply on a Macbook is an external AC adapter, no reason at all for the Macbook to be kept.
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by huxley 14y ago
As I understand it, JQuery 1.9 and 2.0 are supposed to be API identical so what is suggested is to offer JQuery 1.9 to sub-IE9 via conditional comments.
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by huxley 14y ago
When there is no news, they make up some news, see a similar story from 2011: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57321362-17/slower-iphone-...
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by huxley 14y ago
Django added a timeout period to the password reset in Django 1.2, it defaults to 3 days, the only issue I'm aware of is that it calculates the timeout in days which isn't very convenient if you want to be extra-careful. https://docs.djang
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by huxley 14y ago
Well, dang, I stand corrected. As a Django user, I've always understood Django 1.x to follow the Apple convention with OS X numbering. To the credit of the core team, every minor release has felt like a major improvement to me.
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by huxley 14y ago
Django 1.6 wouldn't be a minor release, 1.x are major versions. You're more likely to see an alpha release of 1.6 in 8 months, the final released versions of Django have a roughly annual release schedule: * Django 1.4 came out March 23, 20
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by huxley 14y ago
They aren't straight rankings. They have a complex algorithm that has several weightings and probably include some velocity variables that affect placement. There's been lots of speculation but Amazon rarely gives more than hints about how
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by huxley 14y ago
You may want to avoid setting Expires to greater than 1 year, RFC 2616 (HTTP), section 14.21: "To mark a response as 'never expires,' an origin server sends an Expires date approximately one year from the time the response is sent. HTTP/1.1
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That's pretty neat, thanks for collecting all of those. I've spent hundreds of hours reading newspapers from that period for a historical novel I've been working on for a long while. It's equally fascinating to see the parallels and the div
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Does it mention the company name? I couldn't find it in either the transcribed or the scanned versions.
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Here's a longer and more detailed essay Patrick wrote about Java's history: http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/javaorigin.html
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It's probably not a real story, The American Magazine published a great deal of morality tale fiction anonymously -- mostly aimed at a female audience -- and this sounds a lot like one of those "just-so-stories" about a man that brings his
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by huxley 14y ago
PCs released after the XT could be configured with up to 640KB but the original IBM PC was limited to a max of 256KB (entry level config was 64KB).
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I'd love to see a widget that would let you display and toggle between two versions of the code on a webpage: * a first version illustrating the core concepts * a second more complex version aimed at showing proper coding practices includ
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by huxley 14y ago
The NeXT and Rhapsody kernels used NetBSD as the basis for their BSD subsystem, OS X used FreeBSD as the basis for its BSD subsystem. You are technically correct that it isn't FreeBSD but, for most intents and purposes, Mac OS X re-uses man
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by huxley 14y ago
Back around 1993, I worked doing digital editing and post-production on Macintosh Quadra 800/840AVs which had 96MB of RAM and 40MHz processors. A lot of the video work was done on co-processor boards (Media 100 and Avid), but almost all of
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As for Gates, I would never dismiss him. He took advantage of his connections and built one of the biggest, most influential software companies ever. He then stepped back at the height of his career, listened to his wife, and the two of the
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by huxley 14y ago
I don't completely disagree with you, a good start in life and tons of money doesn't guarantee you future success, but luck alone doesn't pay the bills either, that takes money. You can have a great viable market and if you don't have the m
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by huxley 14y ago
"The Iron Law of Oligarchy sets in" Mentioning the Iron Law of Oligarchy in a comments thread about Techcrunch and fundraising gets you a vote up from me. For those who didn't study sociology or political science at some point, the Iron Law
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They had very different circumstances: Bill Gates was the son of wealthy parents, his father was a partner in the law firm Preston Gates & Ellis, his mother was on board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. B
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by huxley 14y ago
Apparently that's a fake site: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy.html
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In Canada, the Provinces set the payment systems since health insurance is a provincial responsibility but they have to do so within certain requirements outlined by the Canadian Health Act (which is Federal legislation) and based on input
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Probably in other areas, but a major one is in IO-Kit (their device driver framework) which is written in and uses a specialized subset of C++ called Embedded-C++, though the userspace API for it has a C wrapper.
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My impression was that the 2.7GB was required for installation itself (space to save the installer, extract temporary files and install), after installation you get most of that space back.
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Just to put some numbers to the upgrade stats you mentioned, Chitika reported 61% of iOS users were on iOS6 in late October about one month after its release. 9% were on iOS 4 4% on iOS 5 25% on iOS 5.1 http://bgr.com/2012/10/22/ios-6-adop
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Google "Kessel Run in Less Than Twelve Parsecs"
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Yep, Apple had the Advanced Technologies Group. Jobs shut it down partly as a cost savings measure and partly to focus Apple on the NeXT frameworks as its long-term technology foundation.
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I see it more as a sign that "20% time" projects are becoming an employment benefit, particularly important if Apple is competing with Google for some of the same talent.
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I have to give the news media credit for not subsequently reporting: "Experts Report Loose Cables Probable Method of Faster-Than-Light-Travel! How You Will Soon Make the Kessel Run in Less Than Twelve Parsecs."

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