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by pmjordan 14y ago
I'm already signed up to be notified when it becomes available to use in Europe. Until it does, FastSpring certainly seems good enough (and defers the effort of setting up a non-static website to handle purchases, which is worth a fair bit
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You're thinking of iOS. On the Mac, you can distribute apps out-of-band, although you still need to pay Apple for the digital signature, or else your app won't run on a default Mountain Lion installation.
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While we're on the subject of helpful deployment software, MarsEdit's Daniel Jalkut has an article about crash reporting for Mac apps on his blog: http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/860/crash-reporter-roundup I haven't yet tried any of his s
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I've had FastSpring recommended by others as well and I am planning to use that service. Having dealt with accepting payment via PayPal I can only say: never again - they still owe me money, but I eventually gave up after I spent days tryin
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Could be because they dropped support for 32-bit kernels in 10.8, and generally pretty much everything apart from public libraries are 64-bit only.
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Resetting the SMC [1] on my Macbook Air (late 2010) seems to have fixed the wifi issue. Obviously, no guarantee that'll fix it on yours... Unfortunately, I've had all sorts of other, less intermittent issues with Mountain Lion. Finder is ex
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CEO of Lookk Steps Down Less Than a Week After Co-Founder Leaves(thenextweb.com)
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Hmm, I've only used enlive on a small project, and that was quite a while back (I haven't done any webdev lately) and I generally ended up marking my templated elements with special ids or classes. Artificial example coming up: <ul&
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This is from the point of view of an outsider, but I get the impression that YC's operational costs are substantial at this point. Aquihires might look good based on cash valuation of YC investments, but that hides the investment of intangi
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This doesn't mention the distinction between criticism and discouragement. Damning, but valid criticism can sound a lot like the dismissive reactions in the article, if not phrased constructively. Sometimes crap is just crap and you're best
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That's just defeatism, not arguing against cathedral-style development. Just because we're likely to be wrong to some degree doesn't mean we shouldn't try to be as close to right as possible. Anyway, I get the impression that for the origin
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So what you're saying is that progressively tidying up a codebase to simplify fulfilling current requirements is always a bad idea because you might remove something that might make a hypothetical future requirement easier to fulfill?
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I can't speak for the gp, but I certainly would still be on Snow Leopard if development for the current version of iOS was still supported on it. I'm now seriously considering switching back to Linux as a desktop OS as I hardly do any iOS w
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Basically, one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_analyzer
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This reminds me of the Mountain Lion/Gatekeeper announcement. We heard it second hand from John Gruber [1] so it's possible the facts got mixed up on the way, but developer IDs for Gatekeeper were supposed to be free. As it turns out, they
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"From someone who did this for a living at one point" I'm curious: was this as an independent contractor or for an established company? I really enjoy driver programming and low level stuff for some reason (OSX & Linux and game consol
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It's not too bad if the device uses USB and you have a working Windows driver for it: run Windows in a virtual machine on Linux, pass the USB device through to it and log the traffic using Linux' USB debug facility. Then figure out what tha
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64-bit integers don't really solve the bugs, they just make them slightly less probable. They basically don't help against malicious input in the general case. The most famous example for this kind of bug is probably the binary search imple
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Yeah, that would require type inference via the expression/return value though and not even C++ can do that (by and large anyway). But then ObjC as a language in general doesn't seem to care much for type safety anyway. I realise this makes
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C and its descendants have some really, really scary integer overflow/underflow and type promotion behaviour. As a lot of my code lately runs in the kernel, I'm now extremely paranoid about overflow/underflow bugs, and it's amazing how mu
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by pmjordan 14y ago
Note that if you have int foo = 42; NSNumber* boxed = @foo; // fails NSNumber* boxed = @(foo); // works One thing that isn't supported but would be extremely useful is a shortcut for NSValue boxing. Fortunately, it's really easy
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Random idea: If I remember correctly, the US has extremely strict anti-bribery laws that apply to bribes made outside the US jurisdiction as well. These might only apply to government bribes (corruption), but if they apply here too, you cou
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I thought about this a while back, and the colour palette used was basically the reason I preferred the Red Alert series over the Tiberium universe series of Command & Conquer. The games were otherwise very similar.
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There's another error here: The qualifier const can be added to the left of a variable or parameter type If you have the declaration char* str; Adding const to the left of the type doesn't make the variable immutable: const cha
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The cosmic ray observatory founded by Victor Franz Hess is still being maintained and operated by the University of Innsbruck: http://www.uibk.ac.at/astro/observatory/hafelekar/index.html... (I had the opportunity to visit it when Innsbru
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Are you sure your blood sugar level really is low (hypoglycaemia), that is, have you had it measured? Idiopathic postprandial syndrome is apparently much more common, presents similar symptoms except blood glucose levels aren't actually esp
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The problem with storing passwords insecurely is that people reuse them. You can try to tell them otherwise as much as you like, they will do it, so even if one service holds non-sensitive data, stealing the password will grant access to
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Re 1: The iPad has 786432 pixels vs the iPod 4G's 614400. Not that big a difference, particularly as that mainly affects the framebuffer. If each pixel in the back, front and Z buffers uses 32 bits, that's a whopping 2MB RAM difference, or
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Welcome to the club of end-of-life Apple device owners. The 15 million or so first-gen iPad owners will also be joining us in October, when Apple tries to force everyone to buy yet another iPad by releasing iOS6 and dropping support for the
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So, there have been a few replies to this post, but as far as I can tell, you're asking about maintaining invariants ("not breaking the structure"), which nobody has addressed so far. Let's have a look how this is handled in different types

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