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by rayval 16y ago
The techniques mentioned (personas, card-sorting, etc) are all well known "best practices" in user experience design. The large successful companies in the consumer space (Amazon, EBay, Expedia, etc) adopt these practices (or derive their o
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by rayval 16y ago
Actually, Cuba has the highest life expectancy in its region, and is basically equivalent to that of the US. In terms of social health (person to person), one can say that Cubans enjoy a better situation. "Political health" is a debatable r
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by rayval 16y ago
Gruber misinterprets what Schmidt said. He was making a prediction, not a prescription, regarding future social behavior -- young people changing their name as they come of age. Ten years ago, would anyone have predicted that today we would
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by rayval 16y ago
If you want to hack tomorrow (literally), there is the iOS Dev Camp at EBay/Paypal HQ in San Jose starting tomorrow evening. This is an independent not-for-profit all-volunteer event around the iPhone/iPad platform, but there likely will be
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by rayval 16y ago
Assuming you have the documentation, or assuming that you can extrapolate from a program in a language that you already know. If one knows python and is given a program in APL, then likely an insurmountable barrier has been reached. If you
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by rayval 16y ago
Good point. Not only that, but a case can be made that one cannot build such as system as an end stage. Instead, it appears that ontogeny must recapitulate phylogeny. The system must develop over time as a result of inputs (and the remember
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by rayval 16y ago
Good list. I would include some more pragmatic algorithms, such as Frank Liang's hyphenation algorithm (PhD thesis at Stanford in 1983) http://www.tug.org/docs/liang/ Also De Casteljau's algorithm for Bezier curves from 1959 and deBoor's
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by rayval 16y ago
* A system that is designed for mostly disk will run faster when run in memory, but won't be as fast as one designed from the outset for in-memory operation. * Leaving out features is harder than adding features, because you have to judicio
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by rayval 16y ago
Android was also an acquisition.
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by rayval 16y ago
Good point. If Google did as Gruber suggested, and compete with Blackberry instead of iPhone, they would still end up in the same place (touch screen smartphones), because these are all converging to a consensus view of user experience desi
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by rayval 16y ago
Trolls buffalo trolls that troll Buffalo buffalo trolls. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo
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by rayval 16y ago
Coming late to the party, here is my version. Even though it uses some weird constructs, it compiles and runs with TurboC V2.01 from 1988: char *d,*s; for(d = s = z_terminated; *s; s += (char_to_remove== *s)?1:(
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by rayval 16y ago
Fake Steve has good insight. http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/05/our-new-spin-on-the-foxconn...
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by rayval 16y ago
Agree. This is a case of, um, Apples versus Oranges. One can turn off JPEGs in a browser and have the page load faster than a browser that loads images. But that does not merit writing an article entitled "JPEGs proven to ruin Android 2.2 p
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by rayval 16y ago
Actually there are 100 apps written with Adobe's Flash compiler on the App Store, and no one has complained. That is, they seem similar to all the other apps on the App Store: simple, quickly written, drain battery life, crash often. Just l
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by rayval 16y ago
I don't understand the statement that Steve Jobs has to "spend money to support Flash"? Instead, it appears that he is spending time and effort and going out of his way to block Flash. There are already 100 apps written in Flash in the Ap
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by rayval 16y ago
Here's one developers catalog of "lies and half truths" in Jobs' message: http://jessewarden.com/2010/04/steve-jobs-on-flash-correctin...
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by rayval 16y ago
The matter was not something that needed to be attended to at 9:45 pm on a Friday night. They could have done it during business hours. Actually, they did not even need to visit the premises. They could have used a subpoena.
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by rayval 16y ago
Agree. I live in a mid-size city with a couple of world-class medical facilities. The waits for specialists are about 3 months.
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by rayval 16y ago
I spent the last six weeks learning the Unity system, which is a powerful, full featured engine, the best I have worked with. Now I genuinely wonder if that time is wasted and whether I should look at other alternatives. I'm sure I'm not al
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by rayval 16y ago
That's not what they said. They said we are not taking flowers/weeds combinations that arrive on purple trucks. But if you want to dump a whole mess of stuff in a red truck, that is fine with us.
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by rayval 17y ago
some low level libraries and frameworks are written in C and C++, which can co-exist with Objective C in the same project. For example, the Chipmunk physics engine is in C, and the Sound Engine multi-threaded sound library is in C++
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by rayval 17y ago
Tumult's point is not about writing a single script-based solution but rather about developing an enabling technology for a whole raft of solutions. A platform-on-platform.
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by rayval 17y ago
Yes very good point. Simplicity on consumption (user) side can require massive scale complexity on the production side. iPhone is grandma-level simplicity to use, but hard to replicate by competitors (despite massive investment by Nokia, Mi
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by rayval 17y ago
Yes, the ad reads like it's a geek looking for some kind of blend between software lackey, secretary, and (depending on gender/preference) a possible date.
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by rayval 17y ago
it is not a domain squatter's dream come true, it is the DNS bureaucracy cabal's dream come true. It has little value for users/consumers (i.e., won't remember if they want canon.com or canon.canon). It has little value for businesses, beca
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by rayval 17y ago
Technically, the article is about the quality of journalism in the WSJ (plus of course the impact that politics has had on that quality), and the poster responded with a comment on the author's politics and completely ignored the issue of c
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by rayval 17y ago
The point remains that the WSJ was unique in providing rock solid objective financial journalism, and now it is sliding down to the same level as "every other news institution".
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by rayval 17y ago
No he doesn't. He provides nuance, as follows: <blockquote> This isn’t a politicization of the Journal, it is more accurately described as a tabloidization of it. .... I am willing to give the Marketplace and Money & Investing s
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by rayval 17y ago
A common use of function pointers is in a dispatch table. For example, in a text editor, every ASCII character value, including control-characters and printable characters, is used as an index into an array of function pointers, each one of

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