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by poutine 14y ago
Exactly. Everything is becoming a software problem. Dispense coffee? Make a rug? Drive a car? They'll eventually all be software problems. Businesses are being limited by their ability to understand and adopt software by the supply of ta
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by poutine 14y ago
I've worked for a very long time in software, network infrastructure and now Internet payments (complex stuff too) and mobile. I've never heard a manager or developer say: If only we had someone that could write an algorithm to solve this
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by poutine 15y ago
Absurd. This has nothing to do with what I like or not. The facts are that Taiwan is not Hong Kong, Taiwan is a separate country who's future may or may not involve becoming part of China and that Foxconn is a Taiwanese and not Chinese co
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by poutine 15y ago
Smart phone? I agree smart phones are different. My somewhat glib inference was that the iPad could maintain the same market dominance as the iPod Touch due to similar reasons.
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by poutine 15y ago
Just like what happened with the iPod and iPod Touch, right?
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by poutine 15y ago
Foxconn is Taiwanese, if you think they care about their 'domestic buddies' you'll be sorely mistaken. Even if it were mainland Chinese they'd not give a damn about China's domestic industry over making stupendous amounts of money from App
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by poutine 15y ago
Despite the short term confusion of the name change (Not "iPad 3" just "iPad") it does make sense. Afterall you have iPod Touch, Macbook, Mac Mini, etc. Better than eventually having iPad 7, etc. Wouldn't be surprised to see the iPhone 5
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by poutine 15y ago
His rant doesn't seem too informed: "aggressive anti-performance and apparent contempt for the web by Twitter’s designers" According to his charts most of Twitter's page is JS/CSS and presumably set to heavily cache. Very little is data.
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by poutine 15y ago
The facility isn't lost nearly as much as one thinks. And the joke is on the younger people, seriously.
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by poutine 15y ago
Whether the data is sent via HTML or JSON it will still incur the network latency.
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by poutine 15y ago
Pretty cool that the Xoom has a barometric sensor. Other than this nifty use case what is it used for?
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by poutine 15y ago
Another suggestion for tuffmail. Used them for years. Stable and does what you need.
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by poutine 15y ago
Doesn't look it supports server sent events, a pity as they're much nicer to deal with than websockets (which it does support unlike the native browser). Still going to be a long time until we can depend on these technologies for android
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by poutine 15y ago
HTTP PATCH was created due to this problem, though I've not run across an API using it yet. http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-dusseault-http-patch-...
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by poutine 15y ago
That may be so, however he asked what else is wrong with this API. An ugly URL scheme is something wrong with an API in my opinion and lots of people agree (see Rails, etc).
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by poutine 15y ago
It's pretty straight forward, just do the following: - Use HTTP verbs: GET to retrieve one or more objects, POST to create a new object, PUT to update an existing object, DELETE to remove an object. - Address objects by collection and by in
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by poutine 15y ago
From a quick glance: - Doesn't use HTTP verbs (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE) to retrieve, modify, create and remove objects. - Doesn't use a restful url path to action on (ie. GET /users/#{user_id} to get a specific user by id, POST /users to cre
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by poutine 15y ago
Indeed it's much easier if you're proficient in both. I've written a number of non-trivial IOS apps that are heavily server based. I've done both the server side (Ruby Sinatra API App, MongoDB, Varnish) and the client side (Obj-C naturally
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by poutine 15y ago
Indeed it's worth pointing out that solar energy kills far more people than nuclear power does in the west. Installers fall from roofs quite often...
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by poutine 15y ago
While an impressive engineering feat, this probably isn't equal to a similar sized hotel in the US. Having lived in a new and quite upscale (rent was 8K RMB/mo, apartment sold for $500k USD) Chinese apartment in Beijing for a couple years a
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by poutine 15y ago
Agreed, this sort of thing harms any sort of boycott by making things look ineffective or perhaps less effective. I know that for the 40 or so domains I transferred off of Godaddy none of them used Godaddy's nameservers. Indeed it's ill ad
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by poutine 15y ago
I believe the term he's looking for is pedantic. pushes glasses up on nose
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by poutine 15y ago
Similar issues in dealing with the IOS SDK, ended up removing support for single sign on in my app due to it simply not working part of the time.
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by poutine 15y ago
Indeed this is precisely how I do things as well. If I have a custom UIView subclass then I still lay it out in a xib in relation within it's superview. Doing it this way makes refactoring so much easier.
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by poutine 15y ago
In dev teams UI done in an xib will make the UI easier to understand. It's also much faster to do many things with the GUI.
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by poutine 15y ago
If you did this then in IOS 5+ you'll be missing out on storyboards which are a great productivity improvement. Not a good idea. Indeed you don't want to use IB all the time, but you should learn when to use it.
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by poutine 15y ago
Congratulations Reddit. Boycotts do work!
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by poutine 15y ago
Just transferred 40 domains off of GoDaddy using this. Thanks.
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by poutine 15y ago
Any such group for Vancouver?
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by poutine 15y ago
Very hard to find experienced Ruby devs in Vancouver, Canada. Have had open positions for months at my company with only junior people applying.

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