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by jakobe 15y ago
Concerning the workload: As far as I'm concerned, the academic workload is definitely not all-consuming. From watching my colleagues, I came to the conclusion that everybody chooses their own workload. Some of my coworkers come at 9AM and l
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It's a bit short sighted to claim that trigonometry and calculus are 'only necessary for scientists'. For example, if you write code for some user interface, you'll have a very hard time to get smooth animations if you don't understand deri
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Yes, I write apps. Yes, I know that some bugs will slip through. And I have had customers write "bug reports" in the app store comments. My take on it is: If a bug slips through, I have to live with the public humiliation as a consequence.
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While I don't quite understand the specifics the author describes, I can relate very well to the general problem: Open Source software often depends on packages that are common on the Linux Desktop. This quickly gets you into dependency hel
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I use the following simplified signup procedure: 1) User is asked to enter his email address 2) User is immediately logged in, and a generated password is sent to his email adress The generated password is short and pronounceable, lower cas
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I'm extremely happy that developers can't respond to user reviews. Many developers would just use the opportunity to tell lies about how their users are stupid and wrong. Of course this restriction is annoying for honest, hard working devel
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It doesn't matter if MacOS is advertised as UNIX or not. Technically, it is UNIX. The practical issue is that you are using GNU programs written with the Linux/GNU operating system in mind. Of course this experience is sub-par on the Mac, b
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1) Nowhere have I suggested to "kill top RSS process". 2) If you start Activity Monitor, you immediately see if memory pressure could be the problem (well, after 30 seconds, because it takes time to start Activity monitor if you ran out of
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You are missing the point. The idea is not to determine exactly what's going on, because that doesn't matter. You mentioned the casual user before, but all these details are only important to specialists trying to debug an issue with a sp
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The problem is that you are treating Mac OS as if it was a Linux distro. If you want the Linux experience, with package managers and command line utilities and X11, then Mac OS is not a good choice. Package managers with automatic dependenc
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It's hard to describe why Apple's trackpads are better, they simply are. If you are used to them, every other one simply feels clumsy. It must be a combination of the surface (friction), the sensor (precision) and the software drivers tha
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If your problem is that you are running out of RAM, Activity monitor will tell you precisely what app is the culprit. Nothing "blunt" there. If you want to know why a specific app is frozen (beachballing), you can click the "Sample Process"
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Open activity monitor, and check which applications use a lot of memory. (Look at the "Real Mem" column). If your computer frequently freezes, the problem is mostly a specific application (Virtualbox comes to mind), not just Mac OS X itself
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I don't even know where to start with the author's complaints about the memory model. Inactive memory is not "memory from a recently used app". Inactive is just like active memory. It is not unused memory. Inactive memory is memory that has
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by jakobe 15y ago
I think the best feature of a wiki is that you can edit it anonymously without logging in. I just won't bother contributing to wikis that require logins.
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I have also heard that tip plenty of times, but it's difficult to give links and references to real life conversations :). Anyway, the UIApplicationExitsOnSuspend key is for legacy apps, and has nothing to do with the article. If that key i
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by jakobe 15y ago
But PayPal makes it as inconvenient as possible for non-members. The form is extremely long and if I recall correctly, doesn't work with Safaris Auto-Fill feature.
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I think FrameMaker would be another one.
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The issue is not whether TeX is capable of the tasks it was designed to do. The point is that it struggles with the the tasks it is actually used for today .
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You can't use merge sort or any other standard sorting algorithm in this case. All these algorithms assume you can compare any two elements. To use a sorting algorithm, you would need to be able to say for any two images which is further le
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I think the major problem is that you need a high temperature difference for efficient power generation. Assuming an outside temperature of 0 celsius, and a maximum temperature of 100 celsius, you have a theoretical maximum efficiency of ar
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Since I have just spent several hours unsuccessfully debugging a problem with a Journal template, a missing font, and my TeX distribution, I understand why the author thinks Latex is messy.
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Whenever someone talks about studies like these, I just can't help picturing a bored 16 year old giving random answers to a seemingly never-ending questionnaire they were told to participate in.
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On my Macbook, no Flash installed, the video plays nicely (via HTML5 I suppose), until I hit pause. The the play button stops working.
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I totally agree with you here. It's important to see when you should switch. But I think that right now it's a great time to be an Apple developer, and as I understood it that's what Gruber said. I don't think that everyone should develop
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There are two reasons why the platform matters: 1) You might not want to build the next Facebook. Many developers don't actually plan to start multi-billion-dollar companies. If you are an individual developer, or a small team, you cannot c
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In Europe it works like this: If you want to receive money, you give the sender your bank account number. The sender can then transfer money to you using his bank's website or mobile phone application. There is no risk involved, because kno