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by jimfl 16y ago
Combine this news with the announcement of the App Store for OS X, and one possible conclusion is that Apple doesn't want Java-based apps in the app store. It's an easier prohibition to make if the JVM is not officially supported by Apple.
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by jimfl 16y ago
Shouldn't we start talking in terms of gigabyte hours (GbH)? Cloud storage needs can fluctuate over time in most applications.
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by jimfl 16y ago
Top N Reasons #Subject Is Dead.
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by jimfl 16y ago
Hmm. The article says that the as operator is the same as casting, which is not correct. Casting will result in an exception if coercion fails, where as 'as' will return a null reference. Which makes the code example (foo as Bar).Metho
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by jimfl 16y ago
I used moderation every minute of every day, but I decided to stop using moderation altogether and now I feel immoderate. Regarding cell phones, I haven't carried one for years, since I was a consultant, and it was necessary. People look at
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by jimfl 16y ago
Kiva and as little as $25.
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by jimfl 16y ago
Or "Haskell in a Handbasket."
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by jimfl 16y ago
Pretty good. I was thinking Faramir, and it guessed Boromir.
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by jimfl 16y ago
From my experience, there is no shortage of bees-- only honey bees, which are cultivated as agricultural pollinators and inbred so as to, apparently be less resistant to disease and parasites. In my garden last year, no honey bees, but 3 ot
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by jimfl 16y ago
In many cases you cannot read the entire article in Flipboard, and must click the Read On The Web button, which takes you to the content in the context intended by the publisher. Slightly off topic, the Flipbook experience of HN is pretty g
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by jimfl 16y ago
a design chosen by Apple executives Ding!
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by jimfl 16y ago
One surprise, the Twitter account @bc_l will run 'bc -l' on anything you direct message to it. I wonder how many such Twitter accounts there are.
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by jimfl 16y ago
My dad, who has no Internet, and watches mainstream TV, said to me the other day, "Boy it sounds like Apple really screwed up with the iPhone 4, eh?" I said, oh, yeah, screwed up Real Good. Name two competitors to the iPhone 4. At that inst
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by jimfl 16y ago
They had me at Steve Jobs.
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by jimfl 16y ago
Should have called it Network Activity Recording and Collation (NARC).
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by jimfl 16y ago
Other reasons your language might have great tools: there are lots of talented, motivated people using it, or there is a large company with lots of resources which has managed to find the right vision to put those resources behind (which, I
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by jimfl 16y ago
So far, the only place I really, really miss hover is xkcd.
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by jimfl 16y ago
Pretty meaningless figure. There are lots of mitigating factors, like ads, whether the free app is merely a teaser with in app purchase, whether the app is a fart machine, etc. Because of all of these factors, it is very difficult to extrac
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by jimfl 16y ago
"[C]an one change one's chronotype from evening to morning?" I used to be a night owl, but I eventually synced to my wife's morning schedule. When I had no other structure (school, work) I found that I had a 26 hour day, which would prece
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by jimfl 16y ago
In the short story "Tlön, Uqbar, and the Orbis Tertius," Borges writes about a short discussion of base 12, which he calls (at least in translation) duodecimal. This is interwoven with a discussion of the 1001 nights, which I found odd, so
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by jimfl 16y ago
Facebook.
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3. ... 4. PROPHET What issue to you see arising from this exposure?
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by jimfl 16y ago
If the mechanism speculated in the article is true (app developer hacking iTunes accounts and buying his own apps), then a crime has been committed, and It would be irresponsible of Apple to "respond" (in a visible way) until proper steps h
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by jimfl 16y ago
"I don't know what BP is waiting for, they are wasting their time." I don't think it is really up to BP whether or not to set off a nuclear bomb in the Gulf of Mexico, even if they happened to have one in their repertoire.
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by jimfl 16y ago
I never really considered myself a hardcore gamer. About 4.5 years ago, my co-workers game me a 10 trial on WoW. I played it obsessively for 3 years, but never to the point of end-game raiding, because I never wanted to commit to actually m
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by jimfl 16y ago
I was a software developer at Serena when they made the change to Google, which was generally well-received when proposed, and at cutover. It didn't take long to discover that distribution lists were poorly supported. When we could get them
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by jimfl 16y ago
How could anyone with an iPad not know about Pulse, since Steve Jobs showed it on stage, then it was the center of a controversy around NYT and fair use?
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by jimfl 16y ago
TeX will be able to render moment tensor solutions, with a package called Beachball.
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by jimfl 16y ago
Corporations cannot behave according to common human morality, because they are accountable to different systems. They must create profits simply to continue existing against entropy. But it is not necessary to have the system in which co
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by jimfl 16y ago
Sometimes my brain is in Vulcan mode, and sometimes in Ape mode. I suspect that Vulcans alone, while they may be able to program, could never develop software.

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