metageek

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by metageek 16y ago
There's lots you can do. First: stop typing. Get voice recognition software. It is possible to program with VR; I did it for a year or two, by using ViaVoice's Java bindings to control emacs. (I stopped when I no longer needed it, not b
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by metageek 16y ago
Scenario 4: someone is eating Cisco's lunch. Anybody seen any evidence of this?
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by metageek 16y ago
The Sun/4 was Sparc-based. I remember, because around 1990-91 I was in a department with a mix of Sun/3s and Sun/4s, and the incompatible CPUs were an occasional spot of friction.
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by metageek 16y ago
The time to fix it is before it's passed, not after.
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by metageek 16y ago
And REST is a way of building Web services.
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by metageek 16y ago
Wrong title. I was expecting something positive, explaining why I should start a startup; instead, I found something negative, explaining why these reasons not to no longer hold.
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by metageek 16y ago
The "no income tax" part doesn't kick in until 2017. Note that the CRS summary says that the bill states that paying off the debt in 7 years is the bill's purpose. The CRS does not assert that it will work. I suppose it might work, but I c
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by metageek 16y ago
Misleading title. This is actually about the end of a consortium which produced an inefficient set of standards for Web services, and called their standards "Web Services".
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by metageek 16y ago
> they might just resolve this issue with a unified Google OS that doesn't use Java at all. I don't think that would be feasible. That would mean deserting all their Android developers, telling them that their investment in Android sk
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by metageek 16y ago
> And if you do that you're really writing POX, with any true-REST features being fifth, sixth, and seventh wheels. Not at all. In REST, the resource represents an object. When you GET the resource, you get a document encoding the st
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by metageek 16y ago
> For instance, in one user authentication system I've worked on, there are about ten database updates to create a new user. That strikes me as a strawman, because the obvious RESTful way to do that would be to POST a document fully de
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by metageek 16y ago
> connect an Asterisk box I'm pretty sure Asterisk can use a cellphone over Bluetooth.
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by metageek 16y ago
> Lots of people say that Facebook won't go the way of MySpace. But you know what? Lots of people said the same thing about MySpace too. The difference is that, when people gave up on MySpace, Facebook was there to move to. Not sure t
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by metageek 16y ago
> Why does an iPhone cost more than an iPod Touch, a standard 2G phone and a 3G USB dongle? I suspect the real reason is that Apple keeps the iPod Touch cheap to sell to people who can't get an iPhone for some reason (they're too young
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by metageek 16y ago
A quick google says that Netflix is profitable. I don't know if Netflix Instant would be if analyzed separately, though.
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by metageek 16y ago
Archos has had Android PMPs for about a year now.
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by metageek 16y ago
> Why does an iPhone cost more than an iPod Touch, a standard 2G phone and a 3G USB dongle? That's all the hardware is. Currently, that's not true. The iPhone 4 has a much better camera than the current iPod Touch. Not sure if there
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by metageek 16y ago
> Surely someone would be interested in buying the remains of it for the technology. ...unless it, say, exploded. Personally, I wouldn't want to pick up an unexploded missile anyway; there'd be no way to know whether it didn't explod
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by metageek 16y ago
> Prozvonit's equivalent in English is a "bat-call." Nice. In which country?
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by metageek 16y ago
In System 7, I think it was, it was possible to use ResEdit on the Finder to add a ⌘Q. Useful if you were low on memory. IIRC, if the last application exited, the Finder would restart.
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by metageek 16y ago
The model probably works better for designer dresses, since renting a $2000 dress for $200 seems like a bargain, but leaves the owner with enough profit to pay for professional cleaning.
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by metageek 16y ago
The voicemail situation is especially stupid, since voicemail delivery over SMTP, and IMAP access to voicemail was developed in a consortium back in the 90s, and standardized in the IETF in 2004 [1]. I'm pretty sure it's a standard feature
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by metageek 16y ago
Just tell the truth. In a headline, say you support N different payment methods, or payment methods that X% of customers have, or something like that. Once someone drills down, of course, you can just list them.
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by metageek 16y ago
Yes, but it draws the decorations for other clients. The GP said that Wayland clients draw their own decorations.
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by metageek 16y ago
It looks so much like a terminal that I had a "that's impossible!" reaction when I typed "whois" and got a picture.
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by metageek 16y ago
My favorite recruiter story: In summer 2008, I was looking for work. At one point, I saw a job listing at The Hive [1], calling for Erlang. I don't have much Erlang experience (one proof-of-concept DNS server), but it's on my résumé. I a
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by metageek 16y ago
Or even just a niche payment card. "Any payment method" includes things like a Macy's card, or the stored-value cards some subway systems use. Obviously a reasonable person wouldn't expect to buy a video with a farecard, but that just mean
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by metageek 16y ago
I think only Windows gets the GPU acceleration, so far.
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by metageek 16y ago
You should probably pay somebody to proofread your site, or you're going to lose customers. Your tech could be rock-solid, but a potential customer can't see that, so they look at what they can see. If they see bad English or bad design
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by metageek 16y ago
"Any currency, any payment method"--I think you're overpromising here. Someone is sure to want to pay in something unreasonable, and then your customers will complain that you misled them.

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