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by wooster 14y ago
There's Vendor, which is like bundler: http://www.vendorkit.com/ But there's a bit of a bootstrapping problem and doesn't seem to have gained much traction in the last few months. There are a few other approaches for Cocoa in general: ht
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Announcing PrefixedJSONKit(apptentive.com)
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by wooster 14y ago
The insurance plans I've seen were based upon historical data, and didn't take weather forecasts into account. (My family is in farming and ranching.)
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by wooster 14y ago
From the buy/rent calculator: RETURN ON SAVINGS: We assume the money you have saved generates a return of 2%/year. INFLATION: We assume a general rate of inflation on your income and expenses of 2%/year. This seems unr
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by wooster 14y ago
AFAIK, Talisker is run by Diageo. A lot of Scotch whiskies are owned by bigco's, just like the American ones.
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by wooster 14y ago
sigh I was an intern at Tellme, which used door-desks early employees had to build themselves. I built a desk in pretty much the same style as the Tellme desks (although structurally more sound… I can jump up and down on mine thanks to an
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by wooster 15y ago
He told us after we hired him.
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by wooster 15y ago
One of the very best people I ever hired wore a suit to the phone interview .
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by wooster 15y ago
A brief bit of Googling suggests mice commonly eat other dead mice.
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by wooster 15y ago
We needed certain guarantees on the remote end in order to ensure reliable backups, that's all.
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by wooster 15y ago
> Apple put that in there so that they could sell more TC's. Not only is that pure speculation on your part, it's also not true.
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by wooster 15y ago
saurik is talking about iOS.
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by wooster 15y ago
> No. I’m saying that working very hard is a necessary ingredient to being successful. Unless you are very, very lucky. But working hard doesn’t mean you’ll get rich. "Working very hard" is neither necessary nor sufficient.
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by wooster 15y ago
Thanks Matt. This helps with at least one of my complaints about the direction Google search has been heading. (Now if you'd just eliminate that godawful slow URL redirector on result links…)
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by wooster 15y ago
I tend to think this is an example of an idea I heard someone else present (probably William Gibson) which, roughly paraphrased, goes: in a world without scarcity, the only value is in authenticity. That is, when mass produced items are che
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by wooster 15y ago
Apple itself runs antivirus for their corporate MBPs Not AFAIK. Certainly not within engineering.
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by wooster 15y ago
Just a nit: OS X does have very basic built-in malware protection in the form of File Quarantine.
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by wooster 15y ago
This is genius. My parents have a variety of crappy programmable thermostats, none of which they can figure out (or I, given the amount of time I've spent with them… the devices always seem to reset to factory settings eventually). I will b
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by wooster 15y ago
"For instance, isn't it true that most of the engineers who worked on the original iphone literally never even saw one until it was unveiled to the public?" For the core team, my understanding is "no". The core team was very small, though (
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by wooster 15y ago
What makes Apple great? Taste. I worked at Apple for 5 years. Some of the best engineers I know would routinely show up to work in pajamas. There are just as many, if not more, "poorly-dressed" people working there as at any other
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by wooster 15y ago
The "(RED) is mismanaged" meme is debatable, at best: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_Red#Criticism
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by wooster 15y ago
I'd focus on revenue: - Reduce the number and variety of ad formats. - Kill products which are revenue sinks. - Focus on products which can generate revenue "out the gate"[0]. This gets operating expenditures down, which buys tim
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by wooster 15y ago
Meanwhile, I hold Office Hours weekly at the Alembic in San Francisco, something I've been doing on and off since 2008[0] (and based off of a friend's office hours, same time same place, which he starting holding in 2007). If you'd like fre
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by wooster 15y ago
A new 10,000 person town in the North Bay? Great. Except for the county plans for real estate in the counties (20 years each), the zoning laws, the inconvenient lack of open subdivided land, the $120,000 per structure planning/permitting/in
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by wooster 15y ago
Some believe that the police merely are trying to use the guise of charges to obtain the suspect's name in order to harass him outside the courts. A valid possibility, which speaks strongly in favor of anonymous speech stil
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by wooster 15y ago
There's a difference between running `ps -ceo comm=tasks` and sending that information to Facebook's servers (which is how I read "collecting this information from millions of unknowing users"). It looks like he proved the former, but has p
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by wooster 15y ago
I spent a month in Seattle this spring (coming back in July for a bit), and I can confirm this. Queen Anne Hill is also really walkable. Two grocery stores, loads of coffee shops, restaurants, etc within a 5 minute walk on Queen Anne, plus
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by wooster 15y ago
We used this, when I was at Apple, to make the Parental Controls web content filter (which I worked on), among other things. It works surprisingly well.
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by wooster 15y ago
Idoru, anyone?
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by wooster 15y ago
There are examples of markets being disrupted from the top. The iPod is a notable example. It started at a very high price, then dropped into the range where it has become ubiquitous. The trick seems to be that the company who establishes a

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