krevis

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by krevis 14y ago
Apple doesn't track bugs. Couldn't be farther from the truth. Apple's development process revolves around their bug tracker, to an extent that I haven't seen anywhere else. If it isn't in Radar, it didn't happen.
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by krevis 14y ago
I’m super excited to see how this experiment goes. Yes, must be him all right.
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by krevis 14y ago
The guidelines say nothing about any particular programming languages.
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by krevis 14y ago
In some circumstance, when you're healthy, you could comparison shop. Except: you can't. Try to find out how much a major medical procedure will cost you -- if you can find anyone who gives you any numbers at all, you'll be lucky if that'
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by krevis 14y ago
About that category issue: you know about the -all_load and -force_load linker flags, right? c.f. the "Important" box in http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa1490/_index.htm...
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by krevis 14y ago
Engineers at Amazon. Seriously.
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by krevis 14y ago
This made me laugh. The words "Apple II" and "graphics chipset" don't belong in the same sentence! The Apple II graphics were a fantastic, and fantastically weird, low-hardware hack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_graphics#Video_out
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by krevis 14y ago
Uh, no. The last MBP update was in October 2011. The specs page on Apple's site still shows the same specs. What makes you think anything has changed?
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by krevis 14y ago
How soon people forget! OS X had a software-based compositor until 10.2 -- that's when "Quartz Extreme" was introduced. Pretty sure the OpenGL path was planned the whole time, but the GL drivers were not nearly stable enough to use for such
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by krevis 15y ago
In practice, CGLayer is not some pixie dust that magically makes your drawing fast. It helps only in a specific instance: when you are drawing repeated instances of the same content, into the same context. Otherwise, it ends up being extra
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by krevis 15y ago
That's a bit oversimplified. The ACT approach is that goals can be useful things, in moderation, when they're serving your values. But if you get too caught up in the outcome associated with the goal -- whether you succeed or fail, whethe
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by krevis 15y ago
No idea why this reminded you of DO -- as you say, it's a totally different thing. DO still works in OS X. Frankly, it's a neat hack, but it's prohibitively difficult to build anything robust on top of it: - Error handling is difficult -- w
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by krevis 15y ago
Keynote is $20 on the app store. How much is your time worth?
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by krevis 15y ago
Just remember: the Galois extension of a Galois extension is not necessarily Galois. (Never took number theory myself, but that was the one thing I learned from those who did.)
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by krevis 15y ago
Not true. You can get Opera for iOS: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id3637...
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by krevis 15y ago
The problem is: Most people don't do that, especially new computer users. (Or, these days, people who are used to web apps, which don't use command-S.) They don't learn until they've been burned, probably quite badly. If the computer doesn'
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by krevis 15y ago
Not necessarily; you can special-order a 15" MBP with a 1680 x 1050 display.
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by krevis 15y ago
Apple just introduced a new monospaced typeface in 10.6, Menlo. (It's the default in Terminal and Xcode.) Seems unlikely they'd want to bother changing it again so soon.
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by krevis 15y ago
Inertia. 20 years ago, at the start of college, I got a free checking account at a smallish local bank. Which got bought by a bigger regional bank, which got bought by another bank, which merged into BofA. I had no particular reason to swit
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by krevis 15y ago
Am I just in the wrong program at the wrong school at the wrong time? Yes. Maybe the wrong program, definitely the wrong school. (You have little choice about the time, so forget about it.) Suggestion: Be the person you want to meet. The
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by krevis 15y ago
The name for this concept is "lifestream". Lots of projects have attempted it, but nothing has really taken off yet AFAIK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestreaming
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by krevis 15y ago
Not Woz, Bill Atkinson. http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story... "Smalltalk didn't even have self-repairing windows - you had to click in them to get them to repaint, and programs couldn't draw into partially obscur
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by krevis 15y ago
It hasn't always been that way. The Powerbook G3 series (and before?) had a similar logo, but oriented in the other direction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G4#Industrial_design
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by krevis 15y ago
What happens when the user moves the cursor outside the window, and then clicks? Or moves the cursor into a hot corner of the screen, activating something like a screen saver? Deltas are necessary but are only part of the solution.
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by krevis 15y ago
But: BeOS couldn't print. End of story. (I don't recall the details, but there was little to no printer support; certainly nothing comparable to classic MacOS. For Apple's core market at the time, that was the kiss of death.)
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by krevis 15y ago
Some banks have. In the mid-90s, Bank of America used to take a photo, and put it on their debit and credit cards -- in fact, my (much newer) cards still have that same photo on them. No idea if they still do that. I don't get the impressio
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by krevis 15y ago
It's hard to keep good developers, unless you let them work on something brand-new once in a while.
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by krevis 15y ago
As always, the last word on this topic: "Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration." -- Stan Kelly-Bootle
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by krevis 15y ago
What do you mean "eventually"? The iPad has worked with Bluetooth keyboards since day one.
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by krevis 16y ago
Doesn't match my experience when I worked there. We had a pretty typical setup: a few phone screens + one in-person all day interview round. I have to imagine he was interviewing around a bunch of different widely-spaced groups or somethin

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