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by jsolson 16y ago
They are not removing the books from devices -- they are removing them from the Kindle archives. This means it's safe if you've purchased the book, downloaded it, and left it on your device. At least according to this: http://www.teleread.
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by jsolson 16y ago
I've always preferred "Do you still beat your wife?" Rolls off the tongue better.
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I would immagine that almost every non-trivial robot you find in a research lab today includes a Kalman filter somewhere. I know the balancer I worked on ( https://collab.cc.gatech.edu/humanoids/node/1241 ) certainly does, although from th
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by jsolson 16y ago
The funny thing is, interesting as some of their projects may be, these days they still have the same mundane shit to complain about as everyone else (IT changed the security policy on my desktop so now I can't run MATLAB, etc). I do get th
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by jsolson 16y ago
So, at least where I went to school (Georgia Tech) it is well known and accepted that students have word of basically every question that's ever been asked for any given course. Professors also commonly post previous exams as study guides
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by jsolson 16y ago
> At this point, you should probably remember that Android came out 2 years ago and managed to overtake the iPhone in that short time frame. I highly doubt Apple will have even a plularity (let alone a majority) of the tablet market in
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by jsolson 16y ago
> Lagavulin Absofuckingloutley. This particular spirit has been my drink of choice for the last two weeks or so.
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by jsolson 16y ago
I actually do like them for labels, button states, and other what I'll call "scalar" widgets. For collections, though, I feel like they're more likely to get you into trouble than to actually solve your problems. I think you could do someth
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by jsolson 16y ago
I agree that there is a difference. On the other hand, once you have the business legally established (the easy part), you can conduct business as that entity. You might piss off the government and the liable for fees/penalties, but you'r
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by jsolson 16y ago
You may find the following useful: #define A(obj, objs...) [NSArray arrayWithObjects:obj, ## objs , nil] #define D(val, key, vals...) [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:val, key, ## vals , nil] I put these two macros in
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by jsolson 16y ago
> My big wish for the next major iOS SDK is to get bindings. I wouldn't expect this. Honestly I'd expect things to go the other way: 10.7 maybe deprecating bindings on the Desktop for things like table and outline views. Particularly si
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by jsolson 16y ago
I set up a Georgia LLC in the course of an afternoon. State registration, federal EIN, bank account. Income for the LLC is treated as personal income for me (it's a single member LLC that's disregarded by the IRS), so even taxes aren't that
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by jsolson 16y ago
So, I know Apple is making a lot of money off of iPods, iPads, and iPhones, but they still had 33% year-over-year growth in Mac sales last quarter. I don't think the Mac is going anywhere soon. I do think we'll see substantially changes to
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by jsolson 16y ago
> This sounds cool, but how is this not a solution that's already been considered? … I have a CS degree Well… did you think of it?
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I wasn't actually talking about error checking, I was talking about the lines: char *tok = (char *)malloc(SOMEMEMORY); tok = strtok(data, ":"); I don't actually care whether the malloc succeeded or whether or not he checked for
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I began to have serious concerns about this article when I saw the author allocate and then immediately leak memory in the first example. I agree with the message: don't use strtok, it has unpleasant side effects that you probably don't wan
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by jsolson 16y ago
I'm an iOS developer in Atlanta, GA (although I'm telecommute friendly) who'd be very happy to pick up some contract work. Since I never miss an opportunity for a plug and it basically serves as the most meaningful credential in this busine
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by jsolson 16y ago
Be warned: going universal is a bigger job than you expect it to be, regardless of how complicated you expect it to be. We did this recently with Folio+. It turned out to take us about four times as long as we were expecting to produce a po
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by jsolson 16y ago
As long as your product is not actually identical to the competition, you'll be amazed at what little things count as differentiators for customers. An anecdote: My company produces a PDF reader for iOS+. There are, give or take, 20-30 co
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by jsolson 16y ago
A few things used to make this process a little less painful. First, Safari used to download things to the desktop. This meant the DMG file was sitting right there, looking ugly, taking up space. Second, Safari used to, by default, open "Sa
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by jsolson 16y ago
Apparently the the drag/drop install thing is not intuitive to even technical users. I don't remember what my reaction was to this the first time I encountered it, but I'd guess it wasn't entirely positive. There's a perfectly good system w
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by jsolson 16y ago
My annual spending in Atlanta, GA is about 30k/year. I honestly consider that to be a bit high. I've been eating too many meals at restaurants, and my monthly coffee budget (which isn't all coffee -- my preferred coffee shop also has great
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by jsolson 16y ago
Does anyone actually use that trackball for anything other than text selection, though? Going from an iPhone to a Nexus One for about six months, I mostly wished that it wasn't there (except when I wanted to select and copy text, at which p
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App Store Update Approval: A Proposal(jon.ballisticpigeon.com)
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I'm not sure this is actually going to be a useful explanation, but I'll give it a go. One problem has to do with rotational symmetry. The selection of a juggling pin is perhaps not the best example, but let us assume for now that the juggl
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by jsolson 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I agree with almost everything you said, and most of it is coming. You can probably stop here unless you care about details, I rambled on a bit :). Your killer feature for GoodReader is an important one, we're agree
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by jsolson 16y ago
I'm loving mine. I mostly use it as a reader and a convenient way to get around the web without pulling out my notebook. Shameless plug: since you mention GoodReader, I'd like to point out that we've written a PDF reader called Folio ~ The
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We just launched Folio - A PDF reader for iPad. How can we improve it?(ballisticpigeon.com)
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by jsolson 16y ago
It's not tax evasion, it's tax avoidance. Tax evasion is illegal. Tax avoidance is not.
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I would think 2.2 might be appealing, though, given the substantial speedups some people have reported with it. Assuming those come from improved efficiency in the VM, that would be of most benefit to the weakest processors. There's nothing

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