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by jacquesgt 15y ago
Yes, it's needed. People with less than perfect vision appreciate being able to zoom in on small text to make it more readable. A few other things that are needed (and work in the non-Onswipe version of pages): 1. Rotating the iPad to lands
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
No, 5% are opting to remove it. You have no idea how many are leaving in frustration, and how many don't know how to turn this thing off. I can assure you 95% of people aren't "opting" to keep it.
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
I think the difference is that it's a lot easier to opt out of online tracking. You can turn on private browsing mode. You can decide not to shop online. With this kind of tracking, there's much less that you can do, especially if more esse
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
Once you have this data, you can correlate it with records of purchases to link a given phone to a given credit card number. I'm guessing it would take just two or three purchases at the mall to be able to do a match with high confidence. B
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
The big industrial automation and SCADA companies all provide some level of application engineering/system integration services. But, it's only practical to do the integration work in-house for large (millions of dollars in revenue annually
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
I typically answer with a range where the lower end is the amount of money I'm hoping to make and the high end is $5k to $10k above that. Then I add on, "but I'm getting great benefits, so that would have to be factored in as well." My curr
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
I agree, except that they totally break zooming on mobile devices (or at least iPhone). I hate it when I rotate my phone and the text reflows at the same size instead of zooming to fill the wider viewport. On the plus side, you don't have t
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
The thing about this is that it's somewhat dishonest. They have an advertised price, but then there's an additional fee if you don't buy additional services. It's like going into a store and buying a box of pasta for $2, and then getting ch
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
No.
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
Totally off-topic here, but have you noticed that the body text size of your company's blog stays really small even when trying to zoom in? I've tried zooming in using Safari and Chrome, and with both of them the text stays so small that it
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
If the cars are mostly charged overnight, it won't be a big deal. The biggest strain on the power grid and generation capacity comes in the late afternoon, when people's air conditioners are cranking at full blast. That's when the most expe
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
In a market like the New York, Boston, or Seattle areas, with 5+ years of experience, a top tier software engineer should be able to pull down $100k salary plus 401(k), a good health insurance package (ie, something better than a high deduc
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
They've refunded some people and moved other people's expiration dates to today. It was on macrumors, but their server looks like it's down right now.
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
It's pretty clear from Gruber's previous writing that he's aware that Apple's reliance on syncing with iTunes puts it behind the curve. I think this article from April ( http://daringfireball.net/2011/04/cutting_that_cord ) gives a lot of t
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
I don't understand your biggest concern. How is it a bad thing that you're setting the example of making sure you have quality time at dinner with your family? Especially if you're doing work after you put the kids to bed to make sure that
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
I don't know if it's patented, but TSMC is apparently working on deploying the technology (according to the NYTimes article linked above). So, there are definitely people who think that Intel doesn't have a monopoly on the design. Plus, the
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
Understanding the precision of floats is a small pain, but fixed point math is much more painful. With fixed point, you have to decide how many fraction bits you're going to have. If you have more than zero fractions bits, multiplies and di
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
My favorite one was the guy who looked up my name on a list of resumes he had printed out from LinkedIn or something and asked me why I was in such and such a role when I was clearly more suited for another role based on my experience. Firs
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
As an interviewer, I've usually made up my mind by the time I let the candidate ask questions. My "tell" in interviews is that I tend to forget to give people I've rejected a chance to ask me questions. So, I'm not looking for the candidate
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by jacquesgt 15y ago
The main reason for the secret ballot is to prevent vote buying. With the secret ballot, there's a low incentive to buy someone's vote, because there's no way to make sure they held up their side of the deal. Under your plan, candidates cou
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by jacquesgt 16y ago
Exactly. And keep in mind, you're competing against someone setting up their own web store. If I didn't use your service, I probably wouldn't go through all of the trouble of setting something up. In that scenario, I make $0. If you charge
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Fukushima: How risk assessment fails(machinerysafety101.com)
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by jacquesgt 16y ago
I ran the first answer from this interview with Barbara Liskov (famous MIT computer science professor) through the gender guesser: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10217055-92.html Genre: Formal Female = 509 Male = 971 Difference = 462; 6
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by jacquesgt 16y ago
They've rejected helicopter drops because the targets aren't close enough to the holes in the reactor building roofs. http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/15/japan.nuclear.re...
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by jacquesgt 16y ago
Other than the fact that they're both command-line project managers, these don't look all that similar. Among other things, pit is designed to store your data in your home directory, while ditz is designed to store it in your VC system. Pit