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by jimfl 16y ago
That's what I use them for. I carry a pocket watch, and wear Levis 501 jeans almost exclucively.
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by jimfl 16y ago
The Apple User Interface Guidelines for the iPad specifically encourages this sort of thing, which I found interesting. The phonebook app is a prime example.
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by jimfl 16y ago
For 3 days, Google Buzz mobile loads, but the Ajax refresh just spins, and never loads new content. Posting also fails. Mail works fine mostly. This is on the iPad.
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by jimfl 16y ago
If you think that Twitter f's developers, then the question is why you are still _developing_ against twitter. If you think Twitter is ffing the _users_, then the question would be more appropriately why you are still using it. Twitters rec
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by jimfl 16y ago
I, with the rest of my team, was laid off in May, and took a few months off to learn iPhone/iPad development. Needless to say I love my current job. I will be sad to have to get a traditional one working for The Man.
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by jimfl 16y ago
Having logged a few hours now in games with controls near the bottom of the screen (dual thumbsticks), I can say that your hands tire out pretty quickly because you have to hold the iPad so that gravity it prying out of your hands. Ideally,
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by jimfl 16y ago
That implementation had no exit conditions on the recursion, so after the child fell asleep, my computer went to sleep.
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by jimfl 16y ago
Ha! I had my thumb over the flag link. I think the cartoon addresses an entire class of link bait titles that get posted to HN.
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by jimfl 16y ago
When I worked at Brookhaven National Lab, the sewer system had radiation detectors in it, to ensure there was no improper disposal of radioactive stuff. It was said that it was sensitive enough to detect someone flushing a banana down the t
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by jimfl 16y ago
It isn't like Lamo sold out a fellow hacker; Manning had special access, and probably obtained the leaked information using that, rather than any particular skills. That phone call to Lamo was tantamount to "Hi. You don't know me, but you'r
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by jimfl 16y ago
It is telling that this article is in the business section and not the science or technology section.
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by jimfl 16y ago
Unbelievably bizarre that high profile news of suicides at a rate smaller then the demographic norm in China results in the loss of 800,000 jobs.
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by jimfl 16y ago
The meaningless platitude that management uses to describe what they aspire to have their company culture be, is a meaningless platitude. Ancient HR policies and hokey mission statements are no match for a good NERF gun at your side.
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by jimfl 16y ago
I guess I am surprised that the Glider case hinges on the rights surrounding ownership of the client, versus improper use of the server, which is much less ambiguously owned by Blizzard.
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by jimfl 16y ago
...the best way to build an ENDURING franchise is to do right by your customers above all else. This ignores the fact that Facebook users are not necessarily Facebooks customers, for which Facebook is doing right by aggregating as much pe
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by jimfl 16y ago
The rant is an important traditional form of rhetoric in hackerdom, and this is a fine specimen. Both vitriolic and poetic (Neckbeard 9000!), the point, in case anyone missed it, is: Flash bad.
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by jimfl 16y ago
I would love to see an ergonomic couch! Edit: (Sent from my Aeron)
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by jimfl 16y ago
Windows is surely a better server than OS X. Also, the tool set for web development on Windows is very mature and stable. Google is making a business decision here: it is too expensive for them to support Windows at the level of security th
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by jimfl 16y ago
Flaccid lede. A very flat and not particularly informative article.
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by jimfl 16y ago
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2010/05/rachel-maddow-crucifie...
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by jimfl 16y ago
I should think that industry knowledge has lost a little bit its cachet in recent months.
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by jimfl 16y ago
A rhombic triacontahedron can be formed out of "bricks" which are truncated versions of projections from the polyhedral faces to the center. Make these out of cement, and build a half dome around the well head. The pressure of the water sho
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by jimfl 16y ago
Great! Now get to work on the perfect HTML regex. (I know.)
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by jimfl 16y ago
Quixotic at best. Facebook provides value to two classes of user. There is no question that the individual users derive value from Facebook, but the idea that they're getting it for free is naïve.
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by jimfl 16y ago
One of the benefits of using a process like Scrum, if it has a daily standup meeting, is that if you are being randomized, you just say all the things that you worked on. The team will get the point in short order, and can get it addressed.
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by jimfl 16y ago
The term "open" is starting to suffer the same fate as the term "organic." Soon, your local well-intentioned hacker won't be able to call their software open, because they can't afford to do the federal filing or get the USDS inspection.
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by jimfl 16y ago
After thinking about this a little more, it seems like the complaint has to be leveled against SF's Development Platform, since many of these techniques are used in very many online services and applications. The language of the complaint a
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by jimfl 16y ago
It seems like anyone doing automatic software updates is in violation of "Method and system for identifying and obtaining computer software from a remote computer." When a user accesses the remote update service, an update service compute
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by jimfl 16y ago
This is a pretty good article, written for the lay person. There are, however, a few cringeworthy bits; for example secure hash functions are confused with data encryption.
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by jimfl 16y ago
Arrington is right, but seems to miss that this serves as the most delicious illustration of how FB policy can harm its users: by unintentionally exposing information out of context which could be used against that person in a myriad of way

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