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by nupark2 15y ago
I very much agree. Having something that could drop into our existing directory system is exactly what I was thinking; the standalone Windows PC is what needs to be retired.
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by nupark2 15y ago
The current software is bad, but you must realize that we don't want off-site "cloud" software for our office doors. What happens when your servers go down (or our internet goes down) and we ... what, send people home? Prop the doors open b
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by nupark2 15y ago
Yes - it costs far too much in terms of mobility to own a home. Only if you need mobility.
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by nupark2 15y ago
Offices use RFID key fobs with local, dedicated hardware. An internet connected mobile phone based entry system is too complex, and will have particular difficulty integrating into the existing supply/service chain for these kind of systems
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by nupark2 15y ago
I notice that the STM32 line is actually priced on-par (or cheaper) with the ATmega chipsets, yet offers considerably more functionality (and speed). As compared to Atmel's 8-bit MCUs, what are the downsides to the STM32 for most applicatio
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by nupark2 15y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by weak in terms of price/performance ratio; the ATmega328 used in the Uno can be had for $3 (and way less in bulk).
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by nupark2 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand your objection. The iMac isn't even remotely user-serviceable. Apple used hard drives that fit their design constraints. Marco's position seems perfectly sane to me.
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by nupark2 15y ago
However, on that note, the iMac has always been the hardest computer to upgrade. Interestingly, the G5 iMac was an exception to this -- Apple seemed to be experimenting with DIY repair. When the motherboard failed (and in the G5 iMac, thi
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by nupark2 15y ago
These are both government regulated non-profits. Compare to the BBB.
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by nupark2 15y ago
If a company does a good job for a good price, its fame will quickly spread. So what happens when that company is bought out by new owners, starts skimping on product safety, and 1,000 people die before the market notices? If 1,000 people
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by nupark2 15y ago
An unregulated market will spawn entities that provide the services it needs. Information and resource asymmetry are not easily overcome; how is your argument any different than a naive assessment of economics that fails to take into acco
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by nupark2 15y ago
On the other hand, I can point to portions of Mac OS X and iOS that are shipping today and say: I made that. Not only was the experience of working at Apple incredibly valuable from a technical standpoint, but from a business standpoint it'
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by nupark2 15y ago
If you're certain I'll agree to being tracked as to receive a better advertising experience, simply ask first.
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by nupark2 15y ago
What guarantees that the high school drop-out's industry is "as flaccid as a used balloon"? As a high school drop-out in the computer industry, the industry does not seem the least bit "flacid" to me. Of course, I also had comparatively wea
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by nupark2 15y ago
Educational requirements are invariably soft; I don't even have a high school diploma, but that's never disqualified me from a job. We're in discussions regarding the purchase our small company, where I serve as (a technical) CEO. I'd be jo
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by nupark2 15y ago
As a hiring manager, my 'bias' against CS degrees, such as it exists, is that they don't actually tell me much of anything. Individuals have the capability to learn "compiler construction, functional programming the theory behind OO program
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by nupark2 15y ago
You're not wasting the time if you're learning something, but don't expect the degree itself to be generally considered a notable accomplishment. Additionally, whether or not 5 years and $X dollars is worth the reward depends heavily on you
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by nupark2 15y ago
If PNaCL or similar can't be leveraged, then the web won't keep up as an app platform. Let's look at the modern platforms: - Microsoft is innovating heavily on the language front with C#, F#, and the CLR. I'm not a big fan of Microsoft's pl
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by nupark2 15y ago
We're talking about the modern landscape of native applications -- iOS, Android -- in which apps certainly have not "lost". The legacy desktop application distribution model you're referencing -- one in which a toolbar can spy on you -- i
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by nupark2 15y ago
I think it matters more for mid-range business market, less so for the home consumer that may find an iPad already meets most of their needs. Personally, Windows virtualization is an unfortunate requirement I have due to Windows-only hardwa
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by nupark2 15y ago
Apple will require CPU emulation to support legacy software releases (think Creative Suite, MS Office, ...); whether this can be done with reasonable performance on ARM is the first real question. After that, why not make a switch? We (deve
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by nupark2 15y ago
This is why the modern native application environments are winning, and the web isn't: "There are already _a few_ consistent ui toolkits" "isn't far off", "maybe it would help," "matter of waiting 2 or 3 years" ... To compete, the web e
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by nupark2 15y ago
That's the GPLv3; Apple ships no code licensed under the GPLv3. The GPLv2 reads: You may copy and distribute the Program ... provided that you ... Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, f
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by nupark2 15y ago
... helping HTML5 catch the native app rocket ships. Can it? It feels like the browsers are slaves to their own success; what the web desperately needs to compete with native applications is the antithesis of what the web has become. To c
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by nupark2 15y ago
Missing the forest for the trees. The problem is that the old delegate will be invalidated before it deregisters itself, because it will not deregister itself until it is invalid (during -dealloc)
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by nupark2 15y ago
Think delegates, or observers. There is a race condition between calling the delegate and deregistration of the delegate. Once an object's dealloc method has been called, you must not resurrect it, but there is a race between the execution
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by nupark2 15y ago
This is a hack, not a general purpose solution, as it requires modifying the class, and and still must be done carefully to avoid accidental retain/release. Calling retain/release from a background thread will happen simply by using blocks,
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by nupark2 15y ago
If you follow those "easy rules," how do you handle race conditions between weak references held to avoid retain cycles and the execution of those weak reference's -dealloc methods? There's nothing to stop the weak reference's -dealloc from
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by nupark2 15y ago
Except for retain cycles. Which are easy to cause with blocks, and even without blocks can make dealing with thread-safety near impossible (think weak referenced delegate and race conditions between its -dealloc and messages that are being
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by nupark2 16y ago
I don't want to send my resume as a Word document because I wrote it in LaTeX, and it looks correct as a PDF. I don't understand why you wouldn't do me the courtesy of accepting the PDF. This seems like a good cultural filter to me (on both

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