ianloic

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by ianloic 14y ago
FWIW, the Rdio iOS SDK now avoids linking to the Rdio web site, or even talking about the existence of an Rdio web site :(
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by ianloic 14y ago
Apple has been doing this with other APIs for a while. If your app links to a way of signing up for an account that could be used to pay for something you'll be rejected. If you mention the existence of such an account you'll probably be re
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by ianloic 14y ago
The problem here is that Americans haven't ever experienced a competitive mobile telephony market where all carriers use the same network technology and switching networks is trivial. That's probably why our coverage is terrible and we pay
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by ianloic 15y ago
Why the fuck are people putting their bitcoins on servers that they don't control? That's just stupid.
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by ianloic 15y ago
If we had a union for software engineers they'd be lobbying against this.
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by ianloic 15y ago
I worked for Andy for a few years at Danger. He's a great guy. He's got a great mix of technical skills, business savvy and being a generally nice bloke. He's also ridiculously generous. Also, he builds cool robots for fun (or at least used
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by ianloic 15y ago
But node.js doesn't have any concurrency. It's single-process, single-threaded and event driven, so by definition it's not concurrent. It's just not blocking. Also, was someone really trying to run performance benchmarks on a shared machine
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by ianloic 15y ago
This is why Gtk+ implements icons as a set of vector / raster images to be displayed at various sizes. It makes resolution independence really easy. This has been important to Gtk and GNOME for a long time since it's a big issue for accessi
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by ianloic 15y ago
Comparing the size of Ubuntu 'main' isn't interesting. A more thoughtful assessment would have examined what packages were installed & used rather than which ones existed. That data is really easy to find: http://popcon.ubuntu.com/
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by ianloic 16y ago
Off the top of my head a couple of things that didn't map well were: * search * deleting songs from a playlist (safely) * multidimentional stats queries (eg: http://developer.rdio.com/docs/read/rest/Methods#getHeavyRot... ) Perhaps we coul
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by ianloic 16y ago
Jens Alfke suggested PEST - Post Everything STyle: http://jens.mooseyard.com/2011/03/dudes-this-is-so-not-rest/...
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by ianloic 16y ago
Not to brag, but at least the Rdio API doesn't allow non-idempotent calls over GET.
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by ianloic 16y ago
Yep, our API isn't really technically REST in the classical use of the term. We changed some of our wording and made a blog post: http://developer.rdio.com/blog/read/No_REST_for_the_wicked
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by ianloic 16y ago
Hiring managers don't list a salary. If they do they're looking to hire really junior engineers who probably can't write a linked list reversal program anyway. In my 13 years working at startups I've never applied for a job that listed a sa
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by ianloic 16y ago
If there's no source code then it's not open source.