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by pluies 16y ago
A post on how to be a successful software engineer from someone who left school two years ago... Isn't a bit preposterous to write such patronizing articles so early? :) (Of course this criticism comes from someone still in school, so you s
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by pluies 16y ago
Is the title ironic? A dual-core ARM is indeed nice, but it's pretty far from " incredibly " (yes, yes, emphasis theirs) powerful. Or "nice new super powerful". Or "crazy powerful". All used in the article.
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by pluies 16y ago
> Technical encloses design? By "design" at Apple, they mean "how the product work" — I think Jonathan Ive is to credit for that sentence. And Jonathan Ive is an industrial designer: he's not just here to make things look cute, he's the
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by pluies 16y ago
I use both. A Wordpress install for my public blog, and Posterous for a blog to share w/ friends & family during an internship. I don't have any strong opinions here. Wordpress is great, and so is Posterous. The few things you may want
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by pluies 16y ago
This is off-topic, but I'm amazed by the descriptions at the end of TFA (I know, I know, it's a press release, but still...) Oracle is the world’s most complete, open and integrated business software and hardware systems company. (...) Le
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by pluies 16y ago
Build your own web server. :) Bonus points if you hack the hardware together in the most power-efficient way. Or as small as possible. Or pretty. Or if it makes coffee too.
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Interestingly enough, I enjoy Slashdot for exactly that reason (and the occasional insightful comment). I haven't found any other place on the net (yet?) with such witty geek humor.
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by pluies 16y ago
I used Mockingbird's beta in the beginning of the year for a project with 5 other colleagues, and it is pretty a pretty awesome web app. Hats off to you two!
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by pluies 16y ago
Well... secure.grepular.com uses an unsigned certificate, that makes most browser squeak. It is important to understand that albeit it's not proper https, this is still an encrypted connection that will make eavesdropping impossible. Being
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by pluies 16y ago
Absolutely amazing. These pictures are stunning, not only from an historical standpoint, but also quality-wise. And on a purely photographic regard, it confirms everything Ken Rockwell (and countless others) said on film vs. digital: digita
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by pluies 16y ago
It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. If everyone else in the industry, including Apple, was to support USB3 then Intel would probably have to support it too. Anyway, it's sad to see Intel holding back on standards because it doesn't fit
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by pluies 16y ago
I guess not :p I don't know about the US in particular, but most countries have laws against intrusion into computer systems, referred as "automatized data processing" or the like. For example in France, you'd risk up to 3 years in prison a
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by pluies 16y ago
This is very insightful feedback, thanks! Do you really think listing what people eat at restaurants/bars/coffees be enough to estimate their calorie intake? This might be my cultural bias talking, but here in Europe it would definitely not
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by pluies 16y ago
> Oh and apparently you can buy a Sundae for as little as $.999999999999999949. Damn, I was sure hackers here would test the edge cases, but I thought it would hold! :) What you describe look like a weird behaviour in Ruby's string pars
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by pluies 16y ago
Interesting! I'll fix that. Thanks!
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by pluies 16y ago
Hmm. If this project ever expands to a larger audience than the one intended here, I will definitely look that up. Until this happens, I'll apply the YAGNI principle. :)
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by pluies 16y ago
Yes, it might be useful providing a real dataset... The problem would be finding the menus and making sure prices are correct, etc. That would need to be crowdsourced, and I'm not sure that many people would be willing to participate. :) Th
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My first (quite pointless) Ruby website(sowhatcouldigetatmcdonalds.com)
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by pluies 16y ago
Interesting writeup. I think calling both the installation process and the window management system "broken" is a bit of an overstatement, but he's very right about de-emphasizing the Finder. Lukas' blog in general is awesome — thought-prov
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by pluies 16y ago
I don't see the point in carrying a mouse if you go for the Air (or any MacBook for that matter); the touchpad is incredible.
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by pluies 16y ago
Probably quite offtopic, but still funny/interesting/creepy (you pick) — on the right side of the site you linked: Audience Also Likes (...snip...) Kids PBS Kids 3.0x funbrain.com 2.9x
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by pluies 16y ago
If it ever does, it's only going to be the updater. Adobe would never sell anything through that Mac App Store if it means giving a 30% cut to Apple.
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> The Mac App Store I think you're dead wrong on that one. Having a single, official, centralized place where users (and not only some of them, basically all OS X users) can find, rate and buy your product is a blessing for developers
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by pluies 16y ago
Why set the minimum OS to Snow Leopard? That sounds a bit of a far-fetched requirement for some videoconferencing software.
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by pluies 16y ago
This looked like a standard quite nicely typed "motivational speech", albeit a bit cliché, until the last sentence: "Live your dream, and wear your passion". Coming from what appears to be (I didn't know them before) a t-shirt company, to m
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by pluies 16y ago
A curious melancholy infests the New Yorker’s profile. You wonder, for example, to what extent Zuckerberg actually possesses an interior life of his own. He doesn’t seem passionate about much in particular. At the age of 26, he bought a ca