mabhatter

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by mabhatter 3y ago
The barn door is about to be wide open in this one. When private App Stores hit on iPhone because of the recent-pending legislation, you're going to have no control at all over what developers do with your data because you'll have
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by mabhatter 4y ago
This is about letting you use a biometric token like YubiKey to authenticate your account.
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by mabhatter 12y ago
You comment hits the core of the "problem". Traditionally What "China" wants has been 100% decided by its rulers.. While the people were TOLD what they wanted. Even now China's rulers think about what's useful
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by mabhatter 12y ago
My town is on an aggressive knock-down strategy as well. One problem they ran into was people trying to "save" houses on the chopping block after the tax sale. Since then they are clearly tagging the houses where the PROPERTY is f
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by mabhatter 12y ago
The B-2 bomber pilots are closer to computer hackers... Hacking is long hours spent quietly trolling for marks and acquiring programs and contacts for your "bag of tricks".. With a few hours of frantic planting the hooks and grabb
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by mabhatter 12y ago
How about Polos and Kakis?
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by mabhatter 12y ago
It begs the question "where the hell is my tuition going?" I was taking at a private "degree mill" part time classes at $180 per credit hour. The school required 7 students to teach a 4 credit class during normal hours.
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by mabhatter 12y ago
Lets take alcohol away from everybody that claims Social Security!!!
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by mabhatter 12y ago
I cannot wait til we can sin-tax old people because they are on Social Security!!!
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by mabhatter 12y ago
You still write the council and get permission.. You just have yo "buy your place in line" from somebody that already has one.
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by mabhatter 12y ago
They trashed Mach and Rapsody and bought out NEXT to get Steve back full time. OSX is mostly updated NEXT, right down to Objective C and API names.
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by mabhatter 12y ago
Earth isn't entirely self sufficient and needs light from an external source.... It's working in the same constraints the origins ed evolved for... Just smaller
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by mabhatter 12y ago
Bingo. Airlines have most of the commercial piloting jobs. The BIGGEST provider of employees is the US Military. A civilian pilot just doesn't stand a chance in that market versus kids that come out of service with 8+ years of high qu
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by mabhatter 12y ago
This article is painfully wrong. The motivating factor for airline wages is experience, and availability of airplanes to fly. Experienced pilots come primarily from the US military. For a civilian trying to get into that market you are esse
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by mabhatter 12y ago
The performance is in the SYSTEM architecture. Even a mid sized POWER box can address Hundreds of gigs of RAM, Petabytes of direct attached disk and rooms full of tape stored data. You can make an x86 box do that, but it's not really s
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by mabhatter 12y ago
This sucks. It means IBM doesn't want to do HARD engineering anymore. They just want to do sales and handling of stuff for high markup. This is the last really cool thing to go before the finish dismantling that former technical giant.
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by mabhatter 12y ago
Intel was almost dumb enough to put those on the used manufacturing line from x86 chips... Almost. Then Intel "knifed the baby" by moving those designers to Atom and selling off their ARM stake... At one point StrongARM was the to
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by mabhatter 12y ago
there's a fundamental problem here if the "CTO" can talk down to an owner like that. Obviously YOU didn't hire the CTO, because he doesn't see YOU as his boss. There's already another conversation with this guy
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by mabhatter 12y ago
but the CTO wouldn't be saying that unless there was another "conversation" out there. Why is this guy CTO anyway while a Co-owner is left at coder? You don't bring somebody in as "CTO" without a promise of a
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by mabhatter 12y ago
That's the way OSX is RIGHT NOW. As a User I can run any program I want and mucky-muck my crap up. But Apps from the Mac App Store live in neat little bundles and are forbidden to do the mucking around in OS bits. So the OS is an &quot
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by mabhatter 12y ago
But they used recycled connectors as a way of using the legal argument their product was a "customer modification" of a licensed and paid for product. You sent them YOUR charger and they modified it to work with their device. The
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by mabhatter 12y ago
Not really... Because companies in Silicon Valley poach employees on purpose to interrupt other companies. It's a real problem in a lot of industries. I'd note you don't see Microsoft in this because they stayed in Washington
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by mabhatter 12y ago
The bigger problem is that these companies all want "rockstars" at age 22 AND ones that will be "company men". Neither Bill Gates nor Steve Jobs would get in the DOOR at a tech company today. They didn't finish coll
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by mabhatter 13y ago
America car companies issue recalls all the time. That is what's getting Toyota in trouble from the start. A company I worked for was involved in those decisions made with days of discovering a slightly wrong raw material grade was shi
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by mabhatter 13y ago
The big thing is that developers move to "adult" companies. The pay is less, but they get to act like grown ups, take vacations, have families... Sure the work is more boring. Who doesn't love EDI or Factory planning!!! But g
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by mabhatter 13y ago
I was explaining to my kids he other day this great silly game and they already knew what it was. The first thing they said was people play that all the time at school. The top reviews are "tounge in cheek" to the addictiveness of
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by mabhatter 13y ago
And you needed to kick people off after a certain point so others could use it.
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by mabhatter 13y ago
"Essentially, we're back to where we were with video arcades, before consoles at home gave us unlimited play." you just nailed it... most of these companies executives were alive in the time of arcades... they all LOVED the p
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by mabhatter 13y ago
to be fair, you have to make the game for the market. If the market will only bear $2 then you need to make a simpler game... not "play the horses" that you can beat them into spending more money. That's why the App Store and
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by mabhatter 13y ago
for me though the evidence of intent is in having $39 and $99 level tiers. There's no way to expect that to ever be "reasonable" for a mobile game. I could go with up to about $20 in IAP. For instance the Settlers of Catan iP

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