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by randomdata 15y ago
I sometimes run into a problem with Google that when I try to log out, I remain logged in. Even after deleting my cookies, I find myself logged in still. This may explain why.
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by randomdata 15y ago
No, but four hackers around a kitchen table can start a wireless company. Do people actually come straight out of an MBA program and start a company that requires hundreds of millions of dollars in funding? I feel I would be skeptical of an
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by randomdata 15y ago
I experience something different. From $0.99 up to $9.99, no matter what price I set, my daily income remained essentially the same. Before you ask, the amount was greater than $0.
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by randomdata 15y ago
That is like saying Cocoa is a popular alternative to C++, but you prefer C++ because it allows you to write your own UI event loop. I guess it is true if you really stretch your imagination, but does it mean anything?
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by randomdata 15y ago
There is no regulation that I am aware of, though the government did provide some assistance dollars a few years back. What is regulated is the price of access, which does make rural access challenging – being forced to sell your services a
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by randomdata 15y ago
I recently visited a farm in rural Saskatchewan, a province of vast areas of farmland and only one million people residing within. Broadband was readily available even way out on the farm. For comparison, the only US state with a lower popu
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by randomdata 15y ago
I wrote about this under another thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2853308 The problem isn't that the workforce can't be programmers, or other technology related discipline. Entry-level programming skills can be picked up in day
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by randomdata 15y ago
> For these displaced workers to find new jobs years of training could be required. I think we vastly overstate the importance of training. Being a farmer, I enjoy following farm-related discussions. Farmers spend just as much time talk
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by randomdata 15y ago
> but the digital revolution happened in just a few years Going to have to disagree on that one. I recall twenty-some years ago, the death of manufacturing due to robotics was a hot debate and something discussed all over mainstream med
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by randomdata 15y ago
An alternative anecdote: I often received poor marks in school because I was curious about learning things that were unrelated to what was being taught at the given time. I distinctly remember sitting in high school math class solving some
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by randomdata 15y ago
> because that's actually how you do formatted text, and javascript for event handling within that text I would say that CoreText is the preferred way to do it. WebKit is pretty slow by comparison and leaves you with much less control o
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by randomdata 15y ago
On the iPad version of Twitter, even the Tweets appear to be rendered with CoreText. The only place WebKit seems to be used is when you are actually looking at a web page.
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by randomdata 15y ago
I will add that your first glance at the code should give you the same feeling that you get when you see a hot sports car or an Apple product[1] for the first time. Humans are attracted to visual appeal and code is no exception. Code that l
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by randomdata 15y ago
The funny part is that when Rails and Django were rising to fame, it was argued that PHP was the better choice because finding developers to maintain the code in the future will be easier. Now that we are here, it seems it didn't turn out t
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by randomdata 15y ago
As a man, I count myself lucky that I was born in an age when a man can become a programmer. In the early days of the industry, programming was relegated to a "woman's job". I think it goes to show just how ridiculous gender biases are. As
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by randomdata 15y ago
iOS 4.3 has the four finger gestures to simulate the home button if you enable it, and 5.0 is rumoured to have gestures to replace all of the physical buttons. No excuse for rapidly failing buttons, of course, but it will allow out-of-waran
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by randomdata 15y ago
I believe hiring the best is the desire of all employers, but software people, of abilities big and small, are in short supply in today's marketplace. I mean, if you are really going to set out to hire only the best, why even look at people
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by randomdata 15y ago
I agree, and that is sort of what I was trying to get at. A really good developer should be able to create a wonderful user experience all the way down to writing stable and performing code. However, not all developers are really good. Some
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by randomdata 15y ago
I always thought a UX designer was the one who worried about how the interface functioned. Like in iOS, for example, when it does that little bounce thing when you reach the end of a scroll view. That is something a UX designer would design
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by randomdata 15y ago
I don't think it has to be either/or. I took about a month off to write my iOS app. While it never made me rich, it still provides a nice income stream that continues today. Now I have my regular job revenue and app sales revenue.
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by randomdata 15y ago
Exactly. It seems like a lot of potentially false conclusions are drawn from the data. Successfully completing a degree requires a significant amount of motivation and determination. Finding a good, high paying, job also requires a signifia
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by randomdata 15y ago
When I say driverless, I'm not precluding the presence of an operator. John Deere's iTEC Pro, for example, is capable of controlling the tractor, but still requires an operator to be in the cab, just in case. Although here's a fun video of
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by randomdata 15y ago
I buy it. I don't think we'll all be sitting down in front of a C compiler, but I think a lot of people will spend their days configuring software to do things that it is not pre-programmed to do, using logic that is in line with the progra
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by randomdata 15y ago
I think you make some great points. If we look back in history, almost everyone was a farmer. Farming was the job you did to survive, whether you liked it or not. Along came tractors and other farm machinery, and now something like only 3%