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by michael_miller 14y ago
For most purposes, it is de-anonymizing. There might be several famous people who share your name, but is there more than one person with your name who is currently an undergrad at Caltech studying CS? In most cases, a name combined with a
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Yes, I have worked for Apple. Anecdotally, almost everyone I met was a fanboy.
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by michael_miller 14y ago
The reason Apple is stingy is not because of this antitrust case. Apple pays (relatively) poorly because they don't want people to work there for the money. As I'm sure you know, Apple employees are fanatics about the company's products. Ap
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by michael_miller 14y ago
I don't regret getting a CS degree one bit, since it exposed me to people I wouldn't have been exposed to otherwise. I wouldn't have taken ballroom dancing, buddhist art, or learned how to fly had it not been for getting my degree. My intui
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by michael_miller 14y ago
I think what the OP is trying to point out is that this would be seen as an "oh shit we don't know what went wrong" consulting job rather than a "we knew we weren't good at this from the start, so we contracted out to another company who wa
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by michael_miller 14y ago
This is a very cool app, simply because it eliminates most of the browser chrome. Taking out browser chrome is a very important step for making web apps first class citizens. It might be a minor visual difference, but it's a huge psychologi
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Company Emails Are Key in Apple, Google Hiring Case, Judge Says(nytimes.com)
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by michael_miller 14y ago
In the Swartz case, I have to say that JSTOR acted professionally and did the right thing. They saw someone stealing their data. They reached out to the authorities to help stop the theft. Swartz returned the data, and JSTOR agreed not to p
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Most of the US has terrible public transit. The reason is simple: America is not densely populated. NYC is one of the few cities where public transit works, because it is so dense. Manhattan has ~70k people / sq mile. Compare this to SF: a
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Don, a great blog post! It's really fascinating to hear about what goes on between the inception of a project and its release at an Apple keynote. I would be interested in hearing more about the technical side of WebKit. How does it work at
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by michael_miller 14y ago
If this is the case, then maybe PHP's role is a rapid prototyping language which is replaced when the codebase gets to a certain size.
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by michael_miller 14y ago
I agree with the article 100% - laws need to be freely accessible to everyone. One particular standard which I hope they publish in the future is the HIPAA standard( http://store.x12.org/store/healthcare-5010-original-guides ). It's pretty
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by michael_miller 14y ago
That page says it's behind a developer flag, and only limited single-line support is provided. Is the page up to date, or is the feature fully implemented, and accessible to anyone, regardless of flags?
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Can anyone confirm whether final flexbox support was added? http://caniuse.com/flexbox suggests that FF 18 only has support for the old version of the standard.
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Many paranoid companies will often prohibit all use of GPLv3 software. The justification I've heard is that the terms of the license make it possible that anything you produce using GPLv3 software is also GPLv3. So, for example, if you use
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Many paranoid companies will often prohibit all use of GPLv3 software. The justification I've heard is that the terms of the license make it possible that anything you produce using GPLv3 software is also GPLv3. So, for example, if you use
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by michael_miller 14y ago
I disagree with the premise of the article. Yes, there are a lot of people dropping out of college saying "Oh Zuckerberg did it, I should do it too!" without a sane business model. Yes, there are a zillon daily deals startups which will pro
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by michael_miller 14y ago
The problem with mobile HTML5 is that the frameworks aren't nearly as sophisticated as their native counterparts. There's nothing that even touches UIKit on the web. Things as simple as drawing a UINavigationBar-style gradient prove to be u
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Can you elaborate on why? Is it for the same reasons as the article?
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Superficial as it is, absolutely, this is something I love about iOS. It reinforces the "manipulating real objects with touch" metaphor. If I move my finger while pressing down on a piece of paper in real life, I expect the underlying paper
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by michael_miller 14y ago
I suspect the reason for choosing KHTML over Gecko may have been more political than anything else. Since Mozilla was the dominant non-IE browser at the time, it would be hard to justify any fork to the community without meaningfully given
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Regardless of confidentiality issues, the post was definitely in poor taste. For example, he talks about "android’s less-than-beautiful UI". If I ever hired a contractor, and he posted something to that effect about one of my products, you
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by michael_miller 14y ago
What do you think is a reasonable law, in this case?
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by michael_miller 14y ago
To be fair, they already have an Apple Store: store.apple.com (it's marketed as "Apple Store"). Also, they do put a pretty prominent Apple logo on each device: notebooks with nothing but a glowing logo on the back, iPhones / iPads with a re
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by michael_miller 14y ago
It's depressing how little travel time has changed in the past several decades. The Boeing 747 was introduced in 1970, and we're still traveling at around Mach 0.85. In the past four decades, we haven't made any significant improvements to
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by michael_miller 14y ago
> I expect some innovative OS research is being done in universities. Sadly, this statement is predominantly false. That's not to say that there aren't interesting ideas being tried out -- there are. It's just that the ways in which Uni
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Yes, there are oil and gas jobs for CS majors / tech people. I went to school at UT Austin, which as you might imagine, has a nontrivial number of these companies recruiting. However, my takeaways from these companies: - You'll most likely
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Why do you see that has a disadvantage? From a production perspective, I don't think it would matter much, since you'd most likely compile your app to JS ahead of time no matter what, for performance reasons. From a development perspective,
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by michael_miller 14y ago
Does anyone know (either statistically, or anecdotally) how common drug abuse is in the Valley? I've never seen anyone I've worked with use hard drugs, nor have I seen anyone act like they were on hard drugs. The article makes it sound like
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Ditching a Plane 300mi from Hawaii (1999)(equipped.com)
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