jmelloy

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by jmelloy 15y ago
Our architecture has a front-end database and a billing database. The credit card number is stored in the billing database, and the details such as the billing address, expiration, etc are stored in the front-end database, since they need
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by jmelloy 15y ago
Interesting to compare two products that aren't actually out yet.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
My $250 iTunes bill this month suggests Apple is also shipping you a cash register.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
I have trouble with the oracle syntax once you get to two or three tables left joined against each other, and consider it more a relic of old oracle programmers than any actual advantage one way or the other.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
This is also one of the tricks Amazon uses to keep pricing low.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
My bluetooth keyboard treats escape as Home, double-tapping it to bring up the task switcher and hitting the screen is acceptable. I keep trying to alt-tab, though.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
My bluetooth keyboard treats Home as escape, double-tapping it to bring up the task switcher and hitting the screen is acceptable. I keep trying to alt-tab, though.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
Put your college professor mindset on, because you're going to need it. For books about war, famine, disease, and horrible death, I find his books incredibly dry.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
It's the only thing I wish had an equivalent on the nook. (There's plenty of ways to sync a feed, but I plug my nook into a computer about once every two months.)
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by jmelloy 15y ago
I know someone at work who bought 3 iPhones so he could faceTime with his kids. It's definitely a growing option.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
>> basically lying, which typically means "in channel == sold". That's exactly what they're doing -- and have been doing this entire time. Apple is the only one that reports # of tables sold.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
Which is why it's 7", and why it doesn't have an email client on it. They're directly competing with the Nook Color, and positioning themselves as a multimedia tablet that's cheaper than an iPad. Which is in my opinion a much better idea t
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by jmelloy 15y ago
I think it's interesting that everybody is attempting to differentiate on top of the Android kernel, and are forced to build their own skin to compete. Free Prime memebership (for life?) is interesting. Amazon has a big content catalog, an
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by jmelloy 15y ago
easy_install / setuptools works pretty well for me. Installing trac is non-trivial no matter what operating system you're using.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
I love my Nook, and it supports ePub.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
You get notified when the user switches apps away from yours, so at that point you quicky get your shit together and assume you could be killed at any time.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
I haven't played it much, but I've always felt it would make an interesting iPad game. Seems like it wouldn't be too complex to put an objective-c wrapper around the code.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
Yes, when they say "Beta" they mean it.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
Sure, if by "conflicted" you mean "Absolutely hates it but understands reality and economics".
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by jmelloy 15y ago
Also, they've been working on FCPX for two years, and needed to ship. Even if it wasn't quite ready for pro usage.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
But that's less profit specifically for a platform that is already lower revenue.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
I think you're describing the Nook Color and/or Nook.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
Well, they have to use something while the servers are being built, and something that's not local to their campus to give a good feel for how much speed & lag they need to deal with. I'm sure AWS is a fine contender for a test envir
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by jmelloy 15y ago
I've had situations where I'm calculating a ratio or something for each member of a result set, and needed a "safe_divide" function. Mine was much less complex than this one, but returned 0 if the denominator was 0.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
Access to the tracks on the cloud server. It's not like they're being deleted from your hard drive.
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by jmelloy 15y ago
Seattle/Bellevue, WA: drugstore.com is hiring frontend and backend devs. (C#/C++)
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by jmelloy 15y ago
I know a lot of people who work/have worked there, and it seems to be a very love it or hate it company. They work people hard, but the people who like that kind of environment thrive. They seem to be pretty ruthless about improving in ce
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by jmelloy 16y ago
Dancing Links is definitely a fun algorithm to implement. I wrote one in Python a while back and included an option to generate graphs as it went through the recursion tree. I put up a quick page at http://cavernum.net/dlsudoku/ demonstr
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by jmelloy 16y ago
I believe that was considered a bug in the App store.
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by jmelloy 16y ago
And with the iPad selling 15 million copies, and the iPad 2 coming out Tuesday, they need to get the damn thing out the door and into the hands of customers.

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