jballanc

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by jballanc 15y ago
I agree on the better guidance, but I don't think steering people away from these degrees is completely correct either. Anthropology, English, and Women's Studies can lead to tremendously rewarding careers (if not monetarily, at least profe
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by jballanc 15y ago
Many video games these days are designed as Skinner Boxes ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinner_box ). Drugs have some of the same effects, but their addictive powers are often limited by adverse side effects (e.g. get too drunk, you vomit
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by jballanc 15y ago
Yeah, but consider: the SR-71 was intended to replace the U-2. Which one was retired? Which one is still in active use?
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by jballanc 15y ago
With multiple kill vehicles that are capable of repositioning themselves in flight (like the ones shown here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9mNNA2gEF8 ), I don't even think you can call that an advantage. The only advantage I can think o
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by jballanc 15y ago
Assuming that "name", "firstName", and "lastName" are KVC compliant properties, you could do this in MacRuby: person = Person.new person.name = "Joe" person.lastName = "Blogs"
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by jballanc 15y ago
Yes. It's also worth noting that while Apple will stop shipping the Obj-C GC, it is also an OSS project that anyone can fork/ship if they really wanted to.
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by jballanc 15y ago
If you're eager to try out MacRuby, please either download the 0.11 release from Github ( https://github.com/MacRuby/MacRuby/downloads ), or the latest nightly build ( http://www.macruby.org/files/nightlies/ ). The nightlies are currently r
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by jballanc 15y ago
There are already a good number of MacRuby applications available for purchase from the Mac app store. Here's some information on the process: https://github.com/MacRuby/MacRuby/wiki/Mac-App-Store-Submis...
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by jballanc 15y ago
The mold used produces ammonia as a side product. Too much ammonia means overripe cheese, which is no good, but a little touch of ammonia is an important component of the overall flavor.
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by jballanc 15y ago
Heh...just wait until the world learns what gives Brie it's distinctive flavor.
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Isn't that the very definition of progress? I'm pretty sure the horse-and-cart worked just fine when the automobile came around.
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by jballanc 15y ago
More annoying than people that choose licenses in an uneducated fashion, are people that do not choose a license at all. Under the Bern Convention, your work is copyrighted by default. If you don't add a license, I cannot use it. Period. At
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by jballanc 15y ago
Well said. Indeed (again in keeping with much of Zen), it is best to regard this quote as an observation without judgement.
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by jballanc 15y ago
I first heard this quote in the context of learning the game of Go. If you're not familiar, Go has very very few rules, and the game starts off with a 19x19 grid. Two players alternate placing stones on the grid. A beginner sees 361 positio
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by jballanc 15y ago
I don't think they were expecting to win in court. For the number of patent suits that are brought, the number that are seen through to a judgment is really quite small. I can't find the link at the moment, but there was a story that Yahoo
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by jballanc 15y ago
I agree in principle, but the cynic in me feels the need to point out that you might want to consider what profession the majority of senators and congressmen were in before they took office.
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by jballanc 15y ago
This is probably the best summary of Jobs's style and leadership I've read anywhere. I find that too many people don't understand a key component of what Jobs and Apple do. Simplicity is not a goal. I see products all the time that their cr
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by jballanc 15y ago
I worry that the current attitude held by the "kids of today" is a knock-on effect of America's celebrity worship culture. I wonder how many of the girls that show up on "Girls Around Me" would, in response to suggestions that they should i
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by jballanc 15y ago
This man does not lie...(we lived in Hoboken for 1 of our 7 years in the area). Some of us just can't stand Jersey, though! :-P
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by jballanc 15y ago
Actually, Manhattan Valley is just to the south of Columbia. The area to the north where we are is called Manhattanville ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanville ), though most won't know that name. Another tip for prospective New York
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by jballanc 15y ago
I think the elevator in my building is a perfect metaphor for New York city...bear with me... When we were first shown the building, all I noticed was that the walls of the elevator were covered in graffiti! The very picture of urban blig
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by jballanc 15y ago
Since I am moving out of the city (and the country) at the end of this month, I have no qualms sharing a little secret for anyone looking for a place in Manhattan... There's an area of about 6 city blocks bordered by Columbia University on
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by jballanc 15y ago
Reading the article and the comments here... I have to say it's rather sad how many are completely ignoring the single biggest differentiator between brick and mortar retail and online shopping: human interaction.
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When I, and Ron Johnson, still worked for Apple, he told a story that has stuck with me. As he told it, he was talking with the CEO of Williams Sonoma who was complaining about the difficulty of getting people to make return visits. "If you
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by jballanc 15y ago
This is a very interesting and novel technique, but it brings to mind a very interesting and (to my knowledge) still very much open question in human biology: just what all does RNA do? Obviously, we know quite a lot about RNAs such as mR
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The dual-licensing nature of the Ruby license has always meant that you could distribute it in a BSD-like fashion (with an extra restriction on naming). They simply moved the "or" part of the license from GPL to BSD. Ruby was never distribu
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From the FSF's own list of GPL-compatible licenses: > License of Ruby (#Ruby) > This is a free software license, compatible with the GPL via an explicit dual-licensing clause.
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by jballanc 15y ago
Unfortunately, evolution is evolution, and if there is any way that cancer cells can trick the immune system that does not require CD47, trust me we'll know about it after the first few months using this drug. We've probably learned more
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Advertising has always been targeted, but lately consumers have been making it more and more difficult for advertisers to do so. Compare the number of magazines, television shows, radio stations, or highway routes to the number of websites
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I'm sorry, but this solution is very much cart before the horse. I think many people have woken up in a world where most of the "free" stuff they enjoy on a daily basis necessarily requires the ability to identify them on an individual ba

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