mattstocum

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by mattstocum 11y ago
Considering that the teaching method of a lot of faculty has become doing nothing more than reading the slides to the class, I can't say I find that surprising. Some of the best PowerPoint presentations I've ever seen have nothing
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by mattstocum 11y ago
You could accomplish all of that using PowerPoint. PowerPoint isn't the problem, bad presentations are the problem. It's the same problem Access has. It's not a bad program, but people use it to do bad things.
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by mattstocum 12y ago
No, resetting PRAM is triggered by holding down command-option-P-R. This was a special step that was required specifically for firmware updates.
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by mattstocum 12y ago
Macs used to require a physical step in addition to the software setup to modify the boot ROM. I think it was something along the lines of load firmware update which initiates a reboot, after reboot press and hold the power button until the
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by mattstocum 12y ago
Except Google clearly told him that his actions violated the rules. This isn't even a trademark issue. There has been no legal action taken against him. This is a rules issue, and the sole arbiter of those rules told him he was breakin
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by mattstocum 12y ago
Neither approach is right. There's nothing wrong with the write-once sell-many approach, that's basically all of non-custom software development. You shouldn't be charging for your time to learn, either. His 10 apps aren&#x27
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by mattstocum 12y ago
And that's all well and good, until you read the rest of the chain of events leading up to that. He had an app suspended, and was given a clear reason why ("The suspension email stated that I was trying to impersonate another comp
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by mattstocum 12y ago
"The app was simple. Launch it and it display the videos for a single YouTube channel. I made the app, and it was really nice and a pleasure to use." I'm assuming his hourly rate is $50,000/hr. Did he do anything other t
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by mattstocum 12y ago
He was warned. Repeatedly. What the hell else did he want? An overt act of divine intervention?
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by mattstocum 12y ago
Yes it is. For some reason supporting SRV for HTTP is too hard https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14328
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by mattstocum 12y ago
And if any web browser supported SRV records to do this properly, we wouldn't have an issue. You don't have to use mail.domain.com because MX records were created to solve this exact issue for mail servers. SRV records were a gene
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by mattstocum 12y ago
Thank you! I get amazed every time the internet freaks out because XYZ Company confirms "blah", when in reality, it's just a single service rep, who probably just wants to get you off of the phone.
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by mattstocum 13y ago
I'm wondering the same thing... The author of the article clearly is confused over what's going on.
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by mattstocum 13y ago
And I think that's where the confusion is. CarPlay doesn't "run on" QNX in the sense that QNX is the platform Apple chose to implement CarPlay. It's accurate to say iCloud "runs on" Azure, as the iCloud pl
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by mattstocum 13y ago
The title's implication is clearly that Apple is using BlackBerry tech for CarPlay, a very link-baity title. The reality is that QNX is able to implement CarPlay. A better title might be "Apple's CarPlay compatible with Black
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by mattstocum 13y ago
The title is hardly factual. It was a theory by the author that shows his misunderstanding of CarPlay, the update does not confirm his theory either. The in car entertainment system might run QNX, CarPlay is a protocol. It's not like A
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by mattstocum 13y ago
CarPlay doesn't run anything. It's a protocol for iOS to talk to in car entertainment systems and controls. It's better to think of it as a specialized version of AirPlay for cars.
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by mattstocum 13y ago
PA still has a fully functional turnpike system today. It is government owned, but our current governor was trying to sell it off a while back.
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by mattstocum 13y ago
I don't get what his goal is. As best as I can tell, Ensure is the product he's trying to create, and it's been on the market for years.
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by mattstocum 13y ago
That's a bit of a false dichotomy, the implication that one of either vitalism or Soylent must be true. Of course, I'd say you're committing a bit of a straw-man fallacy by claiming that the author stated that.
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by mattstocum 13y ago
Even if there were perfect competition, it doesn't matter much, people don't comparison shop for ERs. If you are having a heart attack, you're not in a position to compare prices at local hospitals.
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by mattstocum 13y ago
On my MacBook Pro it's bad. The scrolling is jerky and doesn't feel right, like there's too much inertia and too much momentum, and you can't stop it once it's scrolling. On iOS there is to little momentum. There&#x
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by mattstocum 13y ago
That's a terrible idea. Latency is your biggest concern on mobile, not bandwidth.
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by mattstocum 13y ago
Especially since NiceScroll isn't very nice. The scrolling is jerky. Leave the OS defaults for scrolling. On OS X, there is an option to keep the scrollbar always visible, and the OS itself decides to do this if you don't have an
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by mattstocum 13y ago
Why would you arrive before the light left? You could arrive at your destination before light from your source got there, so it would make phoning ahead to let them know you're on your way very difficult, but you wouldn't truly be
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by mattstocum 13y ago
I think that's why you still move the ship forward within the warp bubble (to borrow a Star Trek term). So you're compressing space in front of you, while moving forward into the compressed space.
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by mattstocum 13y ago
And how many failed projects came out of 20% time?
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by mattstocum 13y ago
>"streams it directly to the Chromecast device from the cloud". So you are right about it being somewhat different from airPlay AirPlay will send a URL to the Apple TV if possible. If you're streaming a video from a web pa
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by mattstocum 13y ago
> There doesn't need to be an OS or a UI for the Apple TV: your phone or tablet will be a better experience for typing and searching for content every time I could not disagree more. I understand your point, and on an intellectual l
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by mattstocum 13y ago
They may have checked developer.apple.com, which is up. It's just when you try to get into the dev centers that you get the notice.

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