kd1220

10 ms·

1.
by kd1220 15y ago
How useful is the API for speech on iOS? Do you have a link to the docs for it? I did a quick search for "speech recognition API for iOS" but I didn't see anything official from Apple on the results. (Is there an official one?)
2.
by kd1220 15y ago
Then you have to define "continually." It's probably better to say it's unreasonable when it eventually fails, but you can only make that determination after the fact. The truth is that any managerial behavior, when applied continually, w
3.
by kd1220 15y ago
I've seen, in my decade of experience in tech, that a well-worded and keyword-packed marketing ploy is as irresistible as gravity to many. As the seductive promises and successful toy examples accrete around the neutron soup of buzzwords,
4.
by kd1220 15y ago
I don't think any of these are anti-patterns. They are behaviors that may be completely reasonable to use in a given circumstance. The author is misapplying software engineering terminology to software engineering management.
5.
by kd1220 15y ago
I've solved some coding challenges I come across, but mostly because I wanted a little diversion. Generally those problems give me an excuse to practice lesser used languages or languages I want to learn. I've been contacted by companies
6.
by kd1220 15y ago
This is the case in the U.S. as well. Apple products are considered chic, and people merely buy them for the fad value. Apple marketing has been very good lately - a stark change from "Think different." Their product release cycle and pr
7.
by kd1220 15y ago
Neko.io looks like it's trying to solve the access control list issues that Facebook has been plagued with since... forever. But it gets no further. It only exports these issues to all social networks. Watch Zed Shaw's "The ACL is dead" p
8.
by kd1220 15y ago
He's making a consumer/producer dichotomy. If you can't produce software, then you are relegated to only consume it. This is true of all technologies and advances though. Lofty arguments aside the article is mostly a subtly placed ad for
9.
by kd1220 15y ago
Being the pragmatist that I am: Why bother with public social media if you want to say something in private? Also, from a social behavioral view, this is very rude. It's the online equivalent of 2 or more people in a group switching to sp
10.
by kd1220 15y ago
And we will likely never get there. A good place to start reasoning about programming languages is the philosophy of language. Frege, Hume, Wittgenstein, Searle are some interesting figures in this space. Many language philosophers believ
11.
by kd1220 15y ago
The article would make more sense if it were titled: "Why AT&T should acquire Twilio."
12.
by kd1220 15y ago
My experience with gung-ho githubbers is the same. It's great to try out new technologies, but gitguys take it to an extreme. They'll shoehorn any new technology into their stack without a second thought about product stability. Gitguy: "
13.
by kd1220 15y ago
I've had an interest in philosophy lately and I thought the last comment was fantastic. I'm on Heidegger at the moment and Sartre may follow. I loved 1984, so maybe I'll heed Orwell's criticism and substitute Kirkegaard for Sartre.
14.
by kd1220 15y ago
It's been done before, but I think the result the same. I met with a guy who was a co-owner of a luxury car rental service in South Florida. He wanted help with implementing a tracking system, but I passed up the job. He started the compa
15.
by kd1220 15y ago
They're what you make of it. Those problems are generally far removed from what you would actually do at most tech companies. Regardless, if they're complicated enough and you come up with a working solution, it does hone your problem sol
16.
by kd1220 15y ago
The article makes me feel the same as when some guy on the street says "Hey, you want to buy a new laptop? Come over to my truck here." Bitcoin is slipping into the dark recesses of the internet.
17.
by kd1220 15y ago
There is a logical explanation. Drivers are spending more time sorting through lemons at the grocery store and end up driving less, thus traffic fatalities fall.
18.
by kd1220 15y ago
What's the thing about article titles posing questions? The answer is always "no." My guess is during this decade, there will be a push toward becoming inaccessible and exclusive. The internet club is a bit overcrowded and their door poli
19.
by kd1220 15y ago
If you replaced "free software/service" with "person" then a sensible title could be "Don't Have No-Strings-Attached Relationships." I think the author is giving bad advice. If you're using a free service that doesn't appear to have any re
20.
by kd1220 15y ago
This is probably tied to female "mathphobia" in some way, because in my experience males were the most competent math teachers. Gender biases notwithstanding, I can say there were three female teachers in my school career who influenced my
21.
by kd1220 15y ago
His review may be a bit hyperbolic, but this is how I predicted people would respond to Siri. 10 years ago there was a big push in commercializing automated ("intelligent") speech recognition systems. AT&T, TellMe and BeVocal were big
22.
by kd1220 15y ago
Your logic focuses on the product; mine the market. By your logic men's make-up should generate as much revenue as women's make-up. It doesn't though, and make-up exists for both men and women. Existing game companies aren't directly comp
23.
by kd1220 15y ago
I don't think a comparison to EA and Blizzard is appropriate. You'd likely find a better indicator of value by comparing to something like Dave & Buster's, which sold for ~$600M last year. D&B is aimed at wholesome entertainment fo
24.
by kd1220 15y ago
I experienced this mindset in my graduate studies. Many graduate advisors spend so much time writing grant proposals and hobnobbing with government project managers that they didn't care what result their experiments got, as long as it was
25.
by kd1220 15y ago
To add to the constants list: rsync, some sort of firewall (iptables, apf-firewall, etc.), netstat, sed, awk, logrotate, lsof. Hanging out with other sysadmins is better than a book. I find that information in books becomes outdated prett
26.
by kd1220 15y ago
There is no point to a .xxx TLD. Its sole purpose is to extract wealth from an existing pool rather than create value. This is the textbook definition of rent-seeking.
27.
by kd1220 15y ago
Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss-Howe_generational_theor... Generational theory is interesting on the surface, but often I take these meta-analyses with a grain of salt. They seem to be grandiose astrological interpretat
28.
by kd1220 15y ago
Zach really doesn't push the envelope with his posts. He's enthusiastic and outspoken, but at the same time very green. I can't hold it against him. Time will temper his views. (Disclosure: He's an alum.) However, I think someone like Sac
29.
by kd1220 15y ago
Dropbox also has the ability to take the path of becoming a platform more easily than something like AirBnB. I'm bringing this up because Steve Yegge's recent post on Amazon vs. Google struck a chord in me. I could see Dropbox becoming a l
30.
by kd1220 15y ago
When the tech industry is booming the silicon epithet is wantonly attached to any geographical feature. I remember back in 2000 when New York was becoming "Silicon Alley", South Florida (Ft. Lauderdale - Boca Raton - West Palm Beach) was "

More ›