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by pieter 17y ago
Anyone know where to find similar numbers for (west)Europe?
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by pieter 17y ago
If he likes the OTA stuff, why doesn't he just use gmail and google calendar? They both have excellent iPhone support, even allowing you to view your emails and meetings when you're offline. You can also 'push-sync' your contacts with your
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Clang vs. GCC memory use graphs(lists.cs.uiuc.edu)
7 points by pieter 17y ago|4 comments
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by pieter 17y ago
C is the lingua franca of computer languages. You can create bindings for almost any language if you have a c library. A lot of system libraries are in fact C, not C++: think of stuff like zlib, curl, openssl, libxml, iconv.. Sure, if you k
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by pieter 17y ago
I agree, most of the points seem to apply more on C than on C++. Also this: 10. You will hardly be seen as a hacker if you don’t know C++ there are enough kernel hackers that are excellent C programmers, but don't know C++ that wel
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by pieter 17y ago
My guess would be that according to Apple's interpretation, you're allowed to: * run javascript from remote sites using the existing JS API's (so you can create alternative browsers, like there already are in the App Store) * expose custom
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by pieter 17y ago
I might pay $30-$40 / year for all google services together. I really only use them because they're free. There are enough other services already I'd switch too if some of them became payware. I'm really not attached to any of the services.
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by pieter 17y ago
My main gripe with 'back' in Safari is the keyboard shortcuts. I can press the back button to go to the previous page, I cab press it with command to open it in a new tab, I can press backspace to go to the previous page, then why can't I p
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by pieter 17y ago
All joking aside, their app reviewers might cost more money than all their bandwidth, as they have already invested heavily in that infrastructure for the iTunes store.
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by pieter 17y ago
That also means that the mean revenue / developer is $300... Doesn't sound like too profitable a business as $99 of that $300 has bought you the registration fee ;)
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by pieter 17y ago
The point is that calling a function is much more expensive than comparing a single byte. You'll have to fix your stack, jump to another location, check the first byte, unwind the stack, and continue your program. EDIT: A quick test shows a
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by pieter 17y ago
this scenario is still very unlikely, because the birthday attack method will just produce two randomly garbled files with the same hash. No-one will accept a patch that introduces some garbled stuff into their repository, as it's just nons
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by pieter 17y ago
That's one of the reasons I don't use AIR. It's the stuff as 20 years ago, with windows with all forms and sizes, and weird black buttons. I know it's hard to build cross-platform stuff, and stuff that tries to look native (Java/Swing, Qt)
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by pieter 17y ago
"Not really, if you can dynamically load libraries at runtime, then you can separate the platform-dependent code from the main codebase, making it possible to target multiple targets without recompilation." It's not just libraries. It also
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by pieter 17y ago
It seems like he makes two errors 1) He thinks that you can retarget C++ code compiled to LLVM BC to multiple targets. That's not the case, you can only JIT LLVM BC to the platform you're targetting with your C++ code. That means that you m
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by pieter 17y ago
Am I the only one who thinks these prices are really high? I appreciate the free 2GB you get, but I think $10/month for 8GB extra is just way to much. I can get a VPS with 20GB of disk drive for that. With something like $25/year I wouldn't
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by pieter 17y ago
Nope. If they're not careful (or don't know), they'll just merge in the bad commits on the next pull. They'll have to know in advance, and do some manual resetting or use a rebase call.
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Understanding Git submodules(speirs.org)
18 points by pieter 17y ago|3 comments
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by pieter 17y ago
Hmm, the stripping of exclamation marks in the title makes the "It's fun!" part a bit less.. fun. Anyway, I have created this little game as part of my master's thesis. It's very simple, but it's a bit of puzzle. Some of you might see immed
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Will you help me by playing my game? It's fun(frim.frim.nl)
2 points by pieter 17y ago|2 comments
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Story of another iPhone app rejection(kraln.com)
20 points by pieter 17y ago|5 comments
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by pieter 17y ago
>WebOS applications will be created with standard Web development tools such as CSS, JavaScript, and HTML that run on a version of the Webkit engine. This doesn't mean they are "Web applications," which require a connection to the Inter
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by pieter 17y ago
That's really his one question he'd ask to someone working in R&D, and writing code? How about asking somebody about the problem domain he'll be addressing? Past experiences on that field, or related fields? Recognising bad code might b
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by pieter 17y ago
The Wikipedia page has nice stats too ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_H1N1_influenza_outbreak
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by pieter 17y ago
I used to do DOM editing in my app that uses webkit. I changed it to use innerHTML, because the DOM was just too slow. I agree that manipulating the DOM looks nicer. But if it saves 1 second of stalling, I'll use the innerHTML method any ti
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by pieter 18y ago
I wonder how the broadband market and cellular data services will interact in the future. Broadband is more expensive in the US than here in the EU, and the same is true for cellular data. You can basically get a month unlimited (fair-use)
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by pieter 18y ago
I'm not. It still lags behind in usability (even though they want this to be one of their strong points) and performance (which they promised to fix ever since 1.0). They also don't have any large projects actually using it. Bazaar tries to
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by pieter 18y ago
Wow.. I thought the iPhone/iPod touch were pushing ARM and BSD out with their 37 million units. But ARM goes through 1.3 billion units every quarter? That's huge.
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by pieter 18y ago
The article mostly combines rumors from shady sources and some imagination to speculaty about future iPhone uses. It then tries to sell to us that the combination of video editing, video calling, and more advanced gaming will bring us the '
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by pieter 18y ago
Exactly, just look at how the GMail mobile has changed over time. I wonder if that's one of the items on their secret checklist. That said, GMail is also by far the slowest app of them all, it can take seconds to load. I hope they'll implem

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