jsolson

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by jsolson 16y ago
I've got another project I'm working on at the moment, but I expect that to go stable/released soon. This idea has been very interesting to me for some time now. Drop me a line if you actually start working on this and are looking for a c
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by jsolson 16y ago
> How else was Apple going to maintain their 55%+ profit margins on the things? Gross margin on Apple products has consistently been around 33%, at least for as long as I've been listening to their quarterly conference calls.
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by jsolson 16y ago
May 12th. Four days.
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by jsolson 16y ago
> Amazon Kindle should be safe. This presupposes that people will be willing to buy (and carry) multiple devices or that they'll prefer a reader over a more general purpose device with a less pleasant reading experience. It's possible t
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by jsolson 16y ago
> That said, aren’t you Americans always gonna be out of luck? I thought the iPad’s 3G only works with AT&T, the best you can do if you don’t want AT&T is get Edge and T-Mobile. That must suck. It looks like maybe not? The iPad
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by jsolson 16y ago
As a general rule the spinny wheel should by tied to a particular application. Are you noticing this somewhere specific, or does it appear to be system wide? I ask because if it appears to be system wide it could be indicative of a hardware
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by jsolson 17y ago
I'm curious as to what your objection is to managing moves in iTunes? I've got most of my DVD collection in there at this point, and I actually find it fairly pleasant.
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by jsolson 17y ago
You'd like to know how fast they're scrolling and in which direction so you can decide which resources to cache given finite disk and memory bandwidth as well as finite texture memory. Apple's implementation doesn't bother loading the cove
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by jsolson 17y ago
Predictive caching is hard. Let's go shopping!
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by jsolson 17y ago
I just sent this post to my girlfriend with the annotation "Look dear! Other people have these conversations too!" :/
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by jsolson 17y ago
Precisely because they had such a successful product. Initially that product wasn't Steam, but Half-Life 2. Once other studious picked up on it as a distribution model (because who doesn't want to take advantage of the entire HL2 install-ba
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by jsolson 17y ago
Small business in the sense of few employees and little in the way of capital assets. Just because you're making money hand over fist doesn't mean you're implicitly a "big business".
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by jsolson 17y ago
Hah. If you think Giant Eagle is crap, you should step into a Kroger sometime. I grew up around Pittsburgh, then moved to Atlanta for school ~9 years ago. Talk about a substantial drop in supermarket quality...
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by jsolson 17y ago
To be fair, qemu is appallingly slow. Windows in Microsoft's Virtual PC for Mac (on Power PC macs) was several orders of magnitude moe performant. Machine-code translation can be done well, but that still doesn't mean trying to pack a des
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by jsolson 17y ago
I think the cat was really out of the official announcement bag when their invitation for this week's press event said "Come See Our Latest Creation". edit: Not in terms of it being a tablet, but in terms of Apple having announced that they
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by jsolson 17y ago
Last I checked, Georgia Tech was using: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms.html for their intro algorithms class. I TA'd a semester with this book, and while it definitely has its warts it is much more compact and readable th
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by jsolson 17y ago
Time Machine can do it on a full 500GB filesystem in a little over 5 hours, in my experience. YMMV.
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by jsolson 17y ago
You could view it as a list of numbers, yes. Alternatively, we all know that the file representing the image is nothing more than a collection of bytes. Bytes are nothing more than 8-element bit vectors. What if instead of treating the file
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by jsolson 17y ago
Ideally I'd start off my day by picking up nothing but my notebook and walking out the door. The ability to go and sit down anywhere and work is a huge feature, particularly if the thing can handle that kind of battery life at full screen b
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by jsolson 17y ago
I wish I'd seen this a week ago. I was staying in a hotel less than a mile from the place.
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by jsolson 17y ago
Sounds grand.
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by jsolson 17y ago
I wonder if there's a market in being an American company that's willing to act purveyor of apps for foreign developers... As I'd be perfectly willing to do the minimal work of submitting your app for a small portion of the proceeds. Dealin
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by jsolson 17y ago
Pretty much, yeah. I say this as a man who could stand to use a good 40 lbs if I'm being generous... more like 60 if I'm being honest.
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by jsolson 17y ago
If someone happens to be having a similar meeting around Christmastime, I'll be interested. I'd love to meet the hacker folk from my hometown (in Atlanta these days).
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by jsolson 17y ago
> I believe the problem is with ever advancing hardware. The new chips are much faster and would "overtake" an experiment that's been running. There's no reason why this would have to be a problem. It should be possibly at any given ite
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by jsolson 17y ago
No. Your message sends all end up going to the same place where you pass in (a) the target of the send (b) and the message you were sending. This handles dispatch to wherever that's supposed to end up. Objective-C itself handles it this way
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by jsolson 17y ago
> They really don't, though of course those who do speed routinely like to think that "everyone does it". I can't speak for my friends across the pond, but where I live (Atlanta), driving at or below the speed limit on any road where th
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by jsolson 17y ago
To be fair, when 2130 (along with the ECE2030 requirement) was cut they replaced it with 2110 and 3240. As I understand it (I tested for standing, so I can't claim first-hand knowledge), 2110 does a very good job of combining the relevant p
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by jsolson 17y ago
I think if you time it right getting from Mars to Earth actually isn't so bad since Earth is in a lower solar orbit than Mars. Think of it as a big de-orbit burn. Of course you'd want it to deposit you into Earth-orbit (perhaps after some a
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by jsolson 17y ago
100% agreement on cleaning my apartment. I find this is the single most useful thing I can do in terms of my day-to-day emotional health.

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