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by kenferry 10y ago
> Get rid of that silly big screen on Apple watch. Put the touch sensor there. Why not just allow thumbprint scan, wave my watch at a Apple Pay terminal, and buy things? Way less effort than taking out my phone. Just in case you missed i
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by kenferry 10y ago
This is typical of any new thing, no? It has to solve SOME problem that some subset of people care about so intensely that you don't mind the many ways in which it is not as mature as the incumbent. It's clear that the current sma
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by kenferry 10y ago
"The product is strong with this one. Now learn some grammer. -Mark" I hope the return gift was the Oxford English Dictionary.
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by kenferry 10y ago
Thanks for tracking that down. I had the same questions. I would be very interested to see followup interviews with a representative sample to investigate the percentage of units that would actually be on the market if not for airbnb.
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by kenferry 10y ago
Well, but what do you think they did after they named their price? I'd guess they hired a bunch of people, and their expenses came up to match what they could charge.
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by kenferry 10y ago
The problem, by the way, is that the use of nested literals (string and dictionary, here) causes the compiler to do a very large search to resolve the types. A quoted string, e.g. "foo", could be any type that conforms to StringLi
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by kenferry 10y ago
I don't think you're catching the basic premise here. Brent is suggesting that when you're writing code targeting iOS or the Mac, the majority of time spent is within the system libraries (in most situations). So the language
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by kenferry 11y ago
For more on this see "File Data Protection" and "Data Protection classes" in https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf . The default protection class is "Protected Until F
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by kenferry 11y ago
Looks like there's consensus to accept it as an "experimental" backend. I think that means the code is in tree, but other people changing LLVM aren't obligated to keep it working. It may be accepted as a full backend in
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by kenferry 11y ago
Yes. For my girlfriend's birthday I grabbed her MRI scans, extracted the pial surface as a mesh, 3D printed the mesh, made a silicone mold from the print, and cast her brain in chocolate so she could eat her own brain, thus becoming an
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by kenferry 11y ago
The difference is that in that case the bug never makes it out to the end user. Apple writes a new API. It has a problem. You try to adopt it, it doesn't work. You don't just ship that, you do something else. Unpleasant, but doesn
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by kenferry 11y ago
When a point release of the operating system breaks your app, the user doesn't care (or understand) whose fault it is, they're just ticked off. Apple cares about that.
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by kenferry 11y ago
I suppose it would if there was perfect liquidity in the entire job market as a whole, and if the effect size was large. In practice, I'd expect aspects local to your area and industry to dominate any kind of macro trend like this.
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by kenferry 11y ago
> By the time these countries have been exploited, then robotics will have taken over and most everyone will be unemployed. Do you think the world is running out of problems to be solved? I don't particularly, so automation doesn&#x
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by kenferry 11y ago
iMessage is discussed in great detail in https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
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by kenferry 11y ago
What are you basing this analysis on?
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by kenferry 11y ago
Much more specific and limited semantics. I would not expect that this is rendered with a web engine.
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by kenferry 11y ago
That does seem reasonable, doesn't it? If they were succeeding well enough to be known in the larger world, they probably wouldn't be shutting down!
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by kenferry 11y ago
I have sympathy for the idea of focusing on one platform until you've got something people actually want. You'll move faster that way. Sounds like they never quite got there.
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by kenferry 11y ago
This is an amazing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCcxwieuDH0 A colorblind person tries these glasses on without knowing what they are. :-)
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by kenferry 11y ago
> So why was this added to the language? For Swift's benefit. The types come across the ObjC-Swift bridge. It's a big pain to deal with arrays typed as [AnyObject] in Swift, so this helps.
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by kenferry 11y ago
It would be nice if they'd cite their sources. This looks to be one of the main ones: http://www.crew.org/sites/default/files/cascadia_subduction_... But this is not nearly as dire. For example, "th
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by kenferry 11y ago
Is there any work on inducing earthquakes to relieve stress before it builds to catastrophe levels?
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by kenferry 11y ago
I'll just add: to estmiate stuff like BATNA, try breaking the problem down and summing up. It's the same as in programming. How do you solve big problems? By breaking them down into littler and littler problems. Then when you go b
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by kenferry 11y ago
There are something like 10 robo advisors. If a competitor could undercut wealthfront and get more business, why wouldn't they?
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by kenferry 11y ago
He's noting the irony of how punishing "your" (the developer's) margins are, vs how easily you hand your hard-fought cash over to the high-margin wealthfront.
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by kenferry 11y ago
I've often wondered about precisely the author's issue – why do wealthfront, betterment, et. al. charge a percentage of assets under management? Is it just that no competitor has offered a flat rate yet, or is there intrinsically
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by kenferry 11y ago
Congratulations on this! Great to see a company founded around Julia.
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by kenferry 11y ago
This is interesting, but are they using "performance on a sample coding task" as the truth? If we knew that was a good proxy for being a good hire, we'd already be done.
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by kenferry 11y ago
You're saying an archiver, an encoder, and an installer don't do a lot of floating point math? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked. :-) More to the point, it's unclear if this is a static analysis of the binary, or a runtim

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