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by tjl 10y ago
I typically export mail regularly. In my case, I store them in a DEVONthink Pro Office database as that supports directly importing from Apple's Mail.app, has good search, and good cross-referencing support. I really wish I followed th
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At least in that case there's a physical product. I don't mind patents, but I prefer the original version where you needed a physical implementation. I don't know about his design in particular, but I have the mechanical and
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It may be that they were waiting for the outcome of this trial. If they are successful against Apple that would likely improve their chances of succeeding against Google. It's a pretty common patent litigation approach.
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I remember when I first learnt Python. It seemed so similar to the pseudocode that I was taught to write first when I was working on a problem. As a result, I will often prototype an algorithm first in Python before I try it in something el
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There's a number of projects as part of Google X that have little to do with any of Google's core businesses. They don't really need engineers specializing in fluid mechanics outside of Google X. I interviewed for a mechanica
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Because they don't want people to worry about what is open. That's what I understand is their reasoning. I don't really agree with it, though.
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In the Dock Preferences, click the box "Show indicators for open applications". You should get a black dot under (or to the side) of the app icon. I've used this setting for years.
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Really? That's odd. The iOS Contacts app merges Facetime and phone calls, but at least that's somewhat reasonable as that's still a call. CallKit in iOS 10 is standardizing it so all VOIP calls will be treated the same as Fac
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My parents had a contact book when I was little (back in the 80s), but they eventually went to a system of cards standing up in a tray separated by last letter. It made it easy to pull it out when you wanted to make a call. They now have a
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Android only had that opportunity because Apple changed the basic design of smartphones. Until the iPhone, Android was more like the Blackberry of the time. Of course, it wasn't until a few years later that Android phones were decent a
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I can point to one service Apple has done right, Messages.
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I was more thinking about that Hull and Kanata are both enough outside Ottawa that they're in the NCR, but not Ottawa. But, Orleans is right by the main part of Ottawa so I know a lot of people who just thought of it as Ottawa. I lived
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Back in the 90s, I was doing telecommunications standards and one operator proposed storing all the performance information right on the optical switches. Given that a large amount of performance metrics were being generated every second, t
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True, but that's also true for a number of those other cities. Ottawa has both Kanata and Hull for example (and possibly Orleans depending on what you consider Ottawa). My aunt and uncle own a berry farm within a short drive to Ottawa
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Actually, they are part of the normal Google pipeline (or at least they were before the Alphabet split). A few years ago, I was contacted by a recruiter from Google and after talking to her I ended up being interviewed by someone for a job
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by tjl 10y ago
I know a friend of mine used category theory heavily in his Ph.D. thesis which was related to GIS and optimization. I keep meaning to learn more category theory so I can have a chance of understanding his thesis.
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The problem with that statistic is that it lumps all taxes together.
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Hmm, it's a Dover book. That alone makes me think it's probably a good one as they have a habit of reprinting some excellent books that would otherwise be out of print. I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
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There's two basic approaches to calculus of variations. One is based around the Gateaux Variation which basically is an extension of the normal derivative. So the vector x becomes x + epsilon*v and you take the limit as epsilon goes to
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I'm using the previous version of DayOne as I want it to use Dropbox rather than their sync system. I'll keep using it until the app no longer works. I've been considering trying to put together an org-mode compatible mobile
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I think the success of Pokemon GO will open up people to the possibilities of AR apps and hopefully, we'll see more apps that use AR and the GPS in innovative ways.
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I already feel annoyance with my past self reading my old code. For example, "Why did you code it this way? Are you an idiot?" I've since added more comments explaining certain decisions after thinking something was a bug, bu
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One problem is that people often misuse the term "disruption" to mean different things.
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Like you said, it's about travelling and finding Pokemon. That's what kids who saw the anime and played the game wanted to be able to do. Pokemon GO delivers on that desire. I think it also helps that Pokemon GO simplified the exp
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You shouldn't need to. It runs under LLDB so it should be able to examine anything you can debug.
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What bothers me so much is that his father is both an excellent teacher and researcher so he should have a good role model. I took a course from his father during my undergrad.
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People often assumed that if you had something physical, you had something mental as well.
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As someone who is disabled and when I was younger was called retarded, I want to be called disabled. For one, people have a particular way of saying retarded that's very insulting. I was okay with the traditional term at the time, hand
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The best source I know of on early iPhone is the Nitin Ganatra episodes of the Debug Podcast [0]. He was in charge of the early iOS apps from before the iPhone shipped so he talked about those days. Those podcasts and the ones he did with D
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I typically have used either Beamer (what I currently use) or Prosper (what I used to use) document classes in LaTeX for my slides and have since probably the 90s. For me, the big thing with using LaTeX is that I can get consistent fonts be

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