metageek

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by metageek 16y ago
Yum, Baked Altivec!
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by metageek 16y ago
On my phone (Nokia N86), there's a sliding cover for the lens, which is a nice bit of reassurance. (It's also very convenient: open the cover, and the camera app starts up.) I wish some of the Android phones would imitate it.
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by metageek 16y ago
> In the types of questions this guy is asking, you have to basically guess what they're looking for Don't guess, ask. Having asked questions like this before, I can assure you that a reasonable interviewer will actually be pleased t
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by metageek 16y ago
Half a day would be enough to interview at the nearby place that paid the equivalent of £102K/year for you. Ask for £80K/year, they'll think they're getting a bargain. If you save half of it, you'll still be much better off, and you'll be
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by metageek 16y ago
> They even outsourced me to develop a ticketing system for a [potentially recognisable car service] company, to the tune of more than half my annual salary for four weeks work. And it didn't occur to them that this meant you were wor
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by metageek 16y ago
If the boss thinks you're goofing off, moving your desk will look like trying to sneak off and goof off more.
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by metageek 16y ago
The arsenic on the cake.
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by metageek 16y ago
And they may not be treated the same, legally. In Massachusetts, salary is sacrosanct; it is illegal to have an employee working for you if you don't currently have enough money to pay them. But bonuses ( ) are wide open. You can decide
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by metageek 16y ago
Put them on commission.
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by metageek 16y ago
Maybe, but this article isn't really a look at Foursquare's problem; it's looking at these other databases, using Foursquare's problem as a lens. Not so useful for Foursquare, but useful for people who are considering which database to use
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by metageek 16y ago
Though demo was sufficient for simple ops, it needed transaction system implemented, which was really not a big deal. Couldn't sell it. Transactional integrity across replicas is a big deal--it is, in fact, the hard part. Telling peopl
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by metageek 16y ago
>> - 'Build what people pay a lot for' http://www.amureprints.com/img1/doonesbury/2001/db010325.gif "Boring stuff that people actually need?" "Yup. You'd be surprised how lucrative it is."
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by metageek 16y ago
Datapoint re 1): the Sony Reader line is built on Linux. Not particularly open, though, since you can't modify anything. (There was some hacking done on the 500 and 505, but later models lack the firmware updater.)
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by metageek 16y ago
And Sony in particular has tried it many, many times, and usually failed. Beta, 3.5" floppies, Minidisc, Blu-Ray, Digital8, MS...any others?
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by metageek 16y ago
without the threat of failure, we have no incentive to improve. Yeah, but widespread bank failures would have completely wrecked the economy, as in the Great Depression. The people worst hurt would have been the ordinary workers losing t
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by metageek 16y ago
Or they froze the accounts by changing the passwords (and maybe the email addresses, to prevent password recovery).
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by metageek 16y ago
And then you see things like the absolute robbery of the American people via the bank bailout Minor fact check: the government has gotten back almost all the money spent on TARP. The current outstanding bill is fifty billion; even that m
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by metageek 16y ago
Instead, they said, the proposed class of Pennsylvania consumers was demanding only that manufacturers and sellers be ordered to provide a headset with every phone as a safety device. ? Every phone I've bought in the past 5-10 years came
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by metageek 16y ago
Interesting, but the meat seems to be buried in a 46-minute video. Not worth it for me.
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by metageek 16y ago
Since when is MIPS mysterious?
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by metageek 16y ago
No, that's a data structure.
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by metageek 16y ago
We mostly use our cellphones, but we also have the cheapest POTS plan we can get.
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by metageek 16y ago
Bandwidth is all I really want, too, but I don't have good options for it. I'm about 15,000 feet from my CO, so the DSL I used to have was limited to 384kbps, and would flake out when it's hot. Comcast provides something like 14Mbps, and
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by metageek 16y ago
iTunes will make this trivial for you and keep your apps up-to-date. That's not what's happened in the iPhone world. Developers with apps on iPhone and Android have written that their iPhone version is never up-to-date, because the App S
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by metageek 16y ago
1) Apple already managed one processor transition Two, actually. 68k to PPC to x86.
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by metageek 16y ago
They could have created FaceTime to be compatible in the first place.
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by metageek 16y ago
That's the display department.
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by metageek 16y ago
Excuse me, I went to upvote this, missed, and downvoted it instead. Sorry.
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by metageek 16y ago
wouldn't this be fixed by simply declaring types of everything? Yes, but I'm not so sure about the "simply". It's only marginally easier in C++; but at least you know that haven't forgotten to declare anything.
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by metageek 16y ago
...actually, I don't know. When I started, I was told we don't use it; I don't remember whether I was told a reason. If I was, it was performance; anything else would have been surprising enough to remember.

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