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by loumf 12y ago
It would not. The only thing I could imagine countering is: Fly me to Austin for two weeks, put me up in a hotel, and hire me to do a project at $x/hr. If we both like what we see, let's talk about a full-time position. Frankly,
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by loumf 12y ago
According to this: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9828&page=43 The UN 30 year projections for the US/Australia/Japan group is around 5% error.
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by loumf 12y ago
They say that called the US Population correct at 395m, when it's 316m. It was 191m in 1964. So instead of over 100% increase it was 65%. Doesn't feel close to me. For something like this, where we have good models (for exampl
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by loumf 12y ago
http://goread.io
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by loumf 12y ago
About to start A Theory of Fun for Game Design . http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Game-Design-Raph-Koster/dp/1449... I have no interest in making games, but this comes highly recommended to understand applied intrins
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by loumf 12y ago
A lot of people call this a chicken-egg problem. For some reason, that's supposed to make it seem hard to solve, when in real life, anybody could start a chicken farm very easily. You simply buy chickens. If your question is how do I
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by loumf 12y ago
According to the article, the eviction was by an executive at Google.
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by loumf 12y ago
No. You don't pay to watch NBC over the air. Aereo tried to be the one to watch for free and then redistribute it to you also for free (to them).
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by loumf 12y ago
But, don't you think the "No, we don't do this, we build products that ...." for Zuckerberg ends with "allow hundreds of millions of people to share photos and videos". Or something like that. Feels like there
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by loumf 12y ago
> And they don't even seem to have a monetization strategy for it. Not yet, but mature messaging services seem to have reasonable monetization that isn't primarily display-ad-based. I understand "stickers" to be one
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by loumf 12y ago
If you are in the area, I like the atrium in the IBM building (~57/Madison). There are bajillion coffee shops you can easily find, all very crowded. (or, if you are in NYC a short time, stop working! See NYC)
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by loumf 12y ago
Tech meetups are not the best choice for meeting people. Try movies, museums, hiking, etc. Meetups where there is a built-in social component of perhaps one where conversation is the whole point.
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by loumf 12y ago
I think we need more information to make a suggestion. What do you mean by less social? For me, I either post to Facebook if the photo is one that I wouldn't mind being completely public and I think is generally interesting to my frie
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by loumf 12y ago
Most of what you need to learn is Cocoa Touch and whatever other frameworks you want to use. If you need to start today, use the production Xcode and Objective-C -- it will be far less frustrating. Give the Swift book a quick read in a mon
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by loumf 12y ago
There was an analysis done by a respected frugal blog (can't find it now) on new v. used. From what I remember, the result was "new" only won if you intended to get a car and have it for a very long time. Eventually you could
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by loumf 12y ago
You can say whatever you want in your terms of service. Enforceable or not, good-actors just follow the rules of the service -- because if the service wanted to block you, they could probably easily do it.
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by loumf 12y ago
IANAL, but websites are allowed to control (via their terms of service) whether you can scrape them and use their data. There is a difference between accessing a website via chrome and via a native app that uses the website as a service.
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by loumf 12y ago
From a business metric point of view: it is probably one of the best things they can do to reduce the global number of app crashes, which I would think is a driving factor in customer satisfaction.
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by loumf 12y ago
There are many languages with the same name as another lesser known one. Go was taken before google used it -- there was already a Pearl before Perl.
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by loumf 12y ago
Sounds like they need your Enterprise plan
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by loumf 12y ago
We agree that Apple can write and distribute code for its own apps, and share between them. What does it matter what the technical details are? Doing it the way that they do uses less memory -- that's better for users. It's not f
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by loumf 12y ago
I did, but my point still stands. 500 is in the expected result set. Put up an error that says Apple's server is down. If you need a feature to work in the presence of down servers, you need to make your own fallback or perhaps cache
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by loumf 12y ago
In the future contract dispute, how will you explain lying to the customer? IANAL, but it's usually not legal to lie so blatantly about business relationships. You are his partner.
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by loumf 12y ago
A server being down is not a bug -- the app should expect 500 is a possibility and deal with it. In this case, why does Dark Sky need to geocode? My Lat/Long is enough to know my weather.
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by loumf 12y ago
Use interviews to find your weak points and get practice. You don't want to come across your perfect job and have that be your first interview. For my part, when I look at low-level programmers, I really just want to make sure they hav
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by loumf 12y ago
I used to lead development in an image processing company. I can tell you that anyone with interest and skills in low-level programming is hard to come by, so when we found it, we were interested. From Matasano's careers page, I unders
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by loumf 12y ago
What if the code was just in an unreleased static lib that was linked to each app. Isn't Apple allowed to make shared code for just its apps? Putting it in the supported frameworks is just an easier way to make sure that it eventually
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by loumf 12y ago
Yes they did. If they deliver an OS upgrade and a bunch of apps stop working, the user will blame the OS upgrade regardless of the real reason. Raymond Chen (from MS) covered this well on his blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b&#
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by loumf 12y ago
Nielsen knows that people lie on TV surveys. They need to monitor and compare that to surveys.
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by loumf 12y ago
You can add meaning to your work by picking goals and accomplishing them. It doesn't matter what they are -- just as long as they can be accomplished and you know that you did. Pick things that incidentally accomplish the assigned goal

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