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by wooster 17y ago
AFAIK, Google Code Search was written by Russ Cox, who also wrote this: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html My guess, back when I was doing code search at Apple, was that he was actually scanning all the docs with his fast regexp, w
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by wooster 17y ago
Nope. Favrd doesn't show you what your friends are favoriting, which is why I made Tweeteorites. Also, I recommend people you should follow.
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by wooster 17y ago
"so it's easier to surf on an existing brand instead" -- sure, but it's still unethical. Just because you can make a quick buck by impersonating someone else, doesn't mean you get carte blanche to do so.
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by wooster 17y ago
"risk of failure" -> "rate of failure", of course.
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by wooster 17y ago
See my comment elsewhere in the thread, but the paper can be found here: http://ideas.repec.org/p/sba/wpaper/05bwmk.html
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by wooster 17y ago
The paper is here: http://ideas.repec.org/p/sba/wpaper/05bwmk.html He's generalizing from banking industry data from 1984-1997, which seems like a tenuous proposition. Recent events suggest the risk in the banking industry was not properl
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by wooster 17y ago
This reminds me of the schoolgirls in New Zealand who tested Ribena and found it contained almost no Vitamin C: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/mar/27/schoolsworldwide...
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by wooster 17y ago
I wrote a Jabber client for OS X public beta back in 2000. It was a horrendous pain in the ass. I was also on the IMPP working group list for a few years. The big standout problem with XMPP is "XML streaming", which is fairly difficult to h
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by wooster 17y ago
It depends on which group or division you're in. Some let you do it as long as it's "under the radar", others strictly forbid it. If you made the app and got it on the store before you started working at Apple, they're generally fine with t
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by wooster 17y ago
This is fantastic! I could see myself paying for the ability to set up feeds to share with other people during an event. It's also nice to see Cappuccino being used for something outside of 280 North. :)
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by wooster 17y ago
I just figured the implicit assumption was the original poster doesn't have a spouse or significant other.
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by wooster 17y ago
Jamie worked at Apple. So did I. So did the guys who did the iReddit app. We've all had rejections, and it's not like nobody at Apple knows who we are.
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by wooster 17y ago
I submitted 12 almost identical applications (code was identical, data was not). They were all approved. Then, I submitted updates for all 12 of these applications. 2 were rejected. These were city maps, so it's not like they were controver
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by wooster 17y ago
With different sized bills: * Sorting is O(N) [see spaghetti sort: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_sort ] * Retrieval is O(1). Further, retrieval is O(1) even in unordered sets, so sorting is irrelevant. (Also, how is sorting on ins
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by wooster 17y ago
I'm not sure why you were voted down, as that's exactly what she should be doing. Study groups are good too, and there are usually private tutors available for a price. One of my regrets about college is not taking more advantage of office
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by wooster 17y ago
I second the recommendation for Rotee. Fantastic, and right down the street from Toronado. Memphis Minnie's is great, too. ... and, hah, the reference was not missed by someone with the last name Wooster ;)
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by wooster 17y ago
Yup, they're there because they're close to Moscone, and I agree on your recommendations.
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by wooster 17y ago
The advantage the Valley has isn't so much a collection of discrete items, it's more of a gestalt. I'm a believer in geography influencing thought, so let's start there. The weather is fantastic and there are plenty of awesome things to do
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by wooster 17y ago
Wow, okay. I hadn't dug into OAuth enough to get to that point. Is there any reason the client token isn't authentication enough for the server to decide to sign the request? If the app (client+server) has control of the authentication flow
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by wooster 17y ago
"You put it on a server, because it’s the only place you can ensure that it stays safe." Uh, what? If on OS X or iPhone, use Keychain. If on something else, do whatever makes sense there. There's really no need to stick it on your server, t
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by wooster 17y ago
In my experience he's spot-on with 15MB - 18MB being the "safe" range. I've seen low-memory warnings past 18MB, and process death shortly thereafter. Relying on the OS to kill off background processes has not been reliable for me, at all. A
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by wooster 18y ago
Sure. Make an app that stores a very large amount of data. A good example would be spidering web data (unstructured), parsing some structure from it, and storing it in a database. Then, do some analysis on it, expose it to the web, etc. The
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by wooster 18y ago
I started my startup. It's more fun than reading about them, although reading about them is fun too.
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by wooster 18y ago
Yup, you were right, no sense of humor.
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by wooster 18y ago
If you're in California, salary NDAs aren't binding, mostly because they're totally illegal. A lot of people make a lot of noise about California being very business-unfriendly due to taxes, etc, but it's very employee-friendly due to thing
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by wooster 18y ago
Oh yeah? Your mom.
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by wooster 18y ago
Meanwhile, the Google Maps and Google Analytics javascript files are the slowest loading files on my site.
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by wooster 18y ago
"it will cost you a franchise fee, but if you incorporate somewhere else you should be okay." No. If you operate in CA, you have to pay the minimum franchise tax regardless.
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by wooster 18y ago
Good idea. It would be nice to have a JS widget ala Get Satisfaction that could be used to provide feedback without leaving a site.
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by wooster 18y ago
As someone who spent quite a bit of his youth farming: these people are doing it wrong. Hoeing weeds in a field that hasn't even been disced or planted yet? Sorting beans by hand? Planting wheat by hand? Fertilizing by hand? Digging ditches

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