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by watmough 16y ago
We have an unmodified AT&T uverse wireless router, and had no problems getting through to the FaceTime demo guys this morning. Setting your iPhone to a static ip address and putting it in the dmz is an utterly crazy suggestion. Are you
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by watmough 16y ago
Having queued for 7 hours yesterday to get my iPhone 4, I can confirm that the display actually exceeded my expectations. All natively rendered text in controls, etc., looks like it was printed in a magazine. This display is going to be hu
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by watmough 16y ago
I've always held my 2G at the top of the phone, primarily to avoid attenuating the wi-fi noticeably, but also to reduce the energy being absorbed by my hand. Carrying this over to the iPhone 4.0 appears to completely avoid this 'problem'. I
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by watmough 16y ago
If I saw this sort of ad coming from people I follow, they will be unfollowed pretty sharpish.
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by watmough 16y ago
Remember the mortgage is secured on the house, so in a non-recourse state, you can simply hand the house back to the lender and walk-away. This is how commercial real estate works. Can't fill the building? Hand it back to the lender.
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by watmough 16y ago
Just upgraded my wife's 3G, and it feels great, but then I'm used to my original day 1 iPhone, so not really sure, but ios 4 on the 3G feels plenty fast to me.
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by watmough 16y ago
Aaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhh. Holy cow. Maybe this is how the Visual Studio rumors started. I really hope those tool palettes undock, for those of us with multiple screens: http://yfrog.com/9e6lhj
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by watmough 16y ago
What about amongst bored university students? My first job after lectures and eating lunch, was to read through the Times, Scotsman, Guardian and Independent. And this is back in the day when all these papers were in 'broadsheet' form, not
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by watmough 16y ago
I watched my iPhone app sales rise, when I made my blurb on the app store simple and assertive. People respond to clear, strong sentences.
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by watmough 16y ago
When the perceived worth of a piece of some 'internet action' was much higher, along with the 'barriers to entry' being perceived as much higher, of course IPOs did a lot better. Now, it's easier to grab a tiny slice of pie, either through
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by watmough 16y ago
Yeah, after a few weeks of a clueless founder, and surrounded by our fellow 'agile' and 'rockstar' programmers, you might be longing for reassuringly foosball-free break-room, and the steady whir and click as the TPS reports roll into the o
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by watmough 16y ago
It's a huge relief to look at a file on scribd and have the file be HTML, rather than flash. I used to avoid scribd, but now I'll happily use it. As well as the pauses and slowdowns, even the flash text rendering is wretchedly bad in compar
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by watmough 16y ago
Terrifying. But it doesn't sound that far removed from any other mal-adjusted kid who was obsessed with computers and porn. I'd forgotten how miserable puberty was. Ahhhh kill me now.
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by watmough 16y ago
The use of ternary operators is a standard idiom, at least in C, and reduces the visual noise of if..then..else used to implement code like your example. Enforcing coding standards to ban the use of standard idiom is exactly the sort of r
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by watmough 16y ago
Just so you know, my 'sofa laptop' is my wife's old 'day 1' 13" MacBook. Still trucking along! Great little machine. 4 years of use for $1099, and still runs XCode decently. Incredible value. Tip for people with multiple macs. If you want t
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by watmough 16y ago
Quite possibly me, as I used to run one. Just checked my MBP, and it's a 17" 1920x1200. Bloody awesome screen. The Dell shades it though, being a 15" panel rather than a 17", which is a bit on the gigantic side.
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by watmough 16y ago
They always remind me of Rolls Royce in that respect, merely asserting that 'adequate power is available'. I think the interesting thing is where they go from here. Apple being Apple, perhaps we'll have two years of iPhone 4 whilst they get
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by watmough 16y ago
As one of my friends put it, "Livin' the dream."
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by watmough 16y ago
Wow, this sounds like me. I generally hit the hay around 3am-5a and sleep for 5 or 6 hours. However, when I do go to bed, I fall immediately asleep for 5 or 6 hours and I'm pretty awake and alert in the mornings generally. Great article, an
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by watmough 16y ago
See also this video entitled 'The Secret Powers of Time', posted on twitter by Jeff Atwood. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg I have to profess some interest in this, since my own 1-month old will likely grow up with the same iPh
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by watmough 16y ago
Philip Greenspun had some pretty choice words on MIT Media Lab. http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/suck Scroll down to Example 3. It sure looks like Greenspun's page, using simple formatting, has aged very very many times better than anyth
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by watmough 16y ago
A great point, but car companies do iterate. The iteration just occurs over model years. Take the widely acclaimed Chevy Malibu as an example. This started off as a pretty cruddy GM, but now it's reputedly competitive with Japanese models
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by watmough 16y ago
Scratch an itch, and build something you'll use, because if you don't use it, it's much less likely that anyone else will! I do have one suggestion, that I'd use... a really minimalistic Twitter web client, with beautiful typography and som
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by watmough 16y ago
You got me. ex-Biker, sometime-speeder and cat-attendant.
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by watmough 16y ago
The Houston Python users group has some NASA / Constellation guys... I suspect they might have a Python api.
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by watmough 16y ago
Yes, I second this. An absolute tour-de-force article, which I've skimmed and plan to go back an re-read. One point though, successive versions of XCode help have got slower and slooowwwwer. The current 'public' release is wretched compared
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by watmough 16y ago
What's stopping you?
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by watmough 16y ago
Ahhh crap, my iPad isn't scheduled for delivery until June 15th. Damn you accursed AT&T.
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by watmough 16y ago
I just peeked at my iPhone cellular data usage. 650 Megs. And I wouldn't perceive myself as using it that much. I mainly surf the web, and play games on it. Maybe someone can put up a poll for iPhone/iPad users.
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by watmough 16y ago
Aside from the admitted fail in building their own software, there's some good points in this article. In the world outside software, avoiding platforms can be equally hard. If you sell lawnmowers, cheap meat, car parts, then you may depend

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