jallmann

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by jallmann 15y ago
The author explained why. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_inference
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by jallmann 15y ago
I'm all for hey-why-not geek cred, but the reason for getting a Touchpad is WebOS. There is nothing intrinsically special about the hardware that deserves Android (except that it is cheap right now). I'd be more impressed with figuring a wa
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by jallmann 15y ago
I honestly doubt that would make things any better. The carriers are terrified of becoming dumb pipes between you and your content. Apple's latest strategy is to wedge itself in the middle as a distributor (iTunes, iBooks). Considering Appl
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by jallmann 15y ago
>Has it actually been scientifically proven that humans have a genetic predisposition toward preferring symmetry? http://www.grajfoner.com/Clanki/Perrett%201999%20Symetry%20A... seems to imply so. (I'm sure you can find something else
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by jallmann 15y ago
You could narrow it down using standard mimetypes even if the alternate representation is a xml derivative. application/svg or whatever the mimetype for that is. The encoding for svg is well defined; SVG tags merely lend structure to the
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by jallmann 15y ago
That is actually an interesting point. I can't pull up the HTTP spec or Dr. Fielding's dissertation right now, but what precisely is the mimetype supposed to signify? It seems that that the encoding of the response (html/xml/json/etc) is
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by jallmann 15y ago
Tarsnap. http://www.tarsnap.com/
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by jallmann 15y ago
A couple boxes I SSH'd into today only had vi. vim is not always included in the standard $OS install.
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by jallmann 15y ago
> You're right, we are making a few assumptions Protip: build just as much as needed, and iterate as needed. You'll often find your early assumptions are not always the correct ones. If you posted this saying, "Hey, this has been proven
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by jallmann 15y ago
It sounds like you're making a lot of assumptions about its use case, without actually using it in production. This whole thing sounds drastically over-designed. And that initialization code is symptomatic of everything that is wrong with t
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by jallmann 15y ago
>With around 60% of users identifying themselves as web developers or software engineers The other 40% are social media consultants.
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by jallmann 15y ago
XCode 4... where do I start? It's slow, buggy, unstable, slow, bloated, slow, and Apple yanked a lot of useful features, like plugins. So now there is no easy way to get rid of the trailing whitespace XCode loves to insert. External editor
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by jallmann 15y ago
I don't think this is meant to replace the x86 ISA, but rather SIMD units like MMX/SSE and traditional GPU shaders. The article was a bit muddled -- I'm waiting for the Anandtech version. Successful adoption will be dependent on good toolin
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by jallmann 15y ago
Odd. I just tested on Chrome/OSX (with ⌘+ and ⌘-) and the text seems to reflow fine here. Is that a ChromeOS-specific bug? And actually, reflow is nonexistent on Safari/iOS, which is one of my biggest gripes with it.
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by jallmann 15y ago
> Why not bite the bullet and adopt Android across the board? s/Android/WebOS. I'd like to see more than two OS players in the market, and at least one with a sane dev model. While others argue that'd work against RIM's core competency,
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by jallmann 15y ago
libstrophe (xmpp) allows you to use your own allocator, but it's pretty niche.
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by jallmann 15y ago
I usually have a bunch of $1 bills in my wallet. I'm not sure I'd want $1 coins, given that they're heavier than a paper bill and are more likely to get lost.
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by jallmann 15y ago
If it had passed, this particular bit of maneuvering would not have been necessary. It's more work and more drama for essentially the same result. Even then, there is no guarantee those funds will be reinstated and those parks reopened...
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by jallmann 15y ago
Ugh. And what is even more distressing is that California voters rejected Prop. 21 in November that would have saved all these parks, and much more. For the uninitiated: Prop. 21 was a $18 fee added to your vehicle registration, intended fo
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by jallmann 15y ago
I love WebOS because it has the only sane development model of all the smartphone platforms on the market. edit: I actually think wp7/silverlight might fare well too from a dev perspective, but i haven't spent time with it yet.
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by jallmann 15y ago
"AI" nowadays is a mess. I could write a book on why I feel this way, but a lot of it has to do with the prevalence of narrowly defined, domain-specific algorithms that need to be heavily tuned to fit your usage parameters. Even then, you c
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by jallmann 15y ago
You have no idea what I was doing (or even what language I was using), so don't presume. I benchmarked my binary search, a hand-rolled linear search, and the search function that was built into the container I was using. binary 0.019003
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by jallmann 15y ago
I had to write a binary search a few weeks ago in the course of Real Work. I agree technical interviews aren't the only way of assessing a candidate's qualifications. Their open source projects, their writing on technical topics, and just h
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by jallmann 15y ago
This works over Flash, which means you're confined to RTMP... while it's possible to tunnel a more standard protocol on top of that and open up the other end to third-party clients, (or simply gateway to $protocol), I doubt they've thought
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by jallmann 15y ago
assuming you mean RTMFP: https://github.com/OpenRTMFP/Cumulus
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by jallmann 15y ago
tinychat.com
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by jallmann 15y ago
I moved to Honolulu about 2 months ago. It's done wonders for my productivity. Need a break? Hop down to the beach, take a swim, and get back to hacking. It is awesome. A 10-day sojourn might not work so well if you want to enjoy the area w
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by jallmann 15y ago
Sounded like they were moving towards a different encoding though. Is this still valid? http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=201#c1
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by jallmann 15y ago
Unfortunately, XML still prevails in XCode config and xib files. Modifying them makes for a completely polluted diff in your commit. Makes me rage.
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by jallmann 15y ago
Last I checked, the protocol encoding for GTalk on Android had been modified to make it more lightweight for mobile -- it could be an entirely different protocol, not sure. XML FTL.

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