maxidog

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by maxidog 16d ago
I’m currently reverse engineering a large enterprise app and the feature flag bloat is truly astounding. Imho excessive feature flag complexity is a symptom of management who are indecisive and mistrusted by the developers.
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by maxidog 2y ago
Lol, thanks for that, was worried I was being too negative!
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by maxidog 2y ago
I studied “computation” at Oxford 92-95 while CAR Hoare was still there and basically all they taught us about computers were these formal methods. They actually thought it would revolutionise programming and looked down at anything else as
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by maxidog 5y ago
Actually it goes straight back to the Apple TV remote without having to unlock. Not sure what the time limit is but it works after the device has gone to sleep and otherwise locked itself.
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by maxidog 6y ago
6% return peak bubble to peak bubble is in no way reassuring.
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by maxidog 10y ago
Am I unusual in being constantly surprised when people assume time's arrow in everyday conversation? I can never quite accept the sheer oddness and asymmetry of it.
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by maxidog 12y ago
Nope, that really was the end of the story.
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Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development(medium.com)
1227 points by maxidog 12y ago|278 comments
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by maxidog 12y ago
Yes, it works for writes and support is built-in to current processors. It's faster than conventional file access.
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by maxidog 12y ago
Is that fundamentally different from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory-mapped_file ?
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by maxidog 12y ago
Especially weird considering the hack is totally unnecessary. You can take a picture without making a shutter sound using AVFoundation.
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by maxidog 13y ago
Gizmodo says this uses GPS but there's no way that's accurate enough, is there?
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Just Tap Your Phone On Every Wall and This App Will Draw a Floorplan(gizmodo.com)
5 points by maxidog 13y ago|4 comments
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by maxidog 13y ago
What a pros-and-cons evaluation of a culture misses is that cultures are "self-modifying code", with the weakest attributes constantly being revised. Few cultures are modernising as quickly as Korean. After all, Korean Air decided
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Show HN: My 1st app, iPhone indoor location tracking using gyro & accelerometer(itunes.apple.com)
3 points by maxidog 13y ago|0 comments
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Technical information on Locometric's new Autocorrect feature(locometric.com)
1 points by maxidog 13y ago|0 comments
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IPhone Location Tracking Using Only Gyro & Accelerometer(itunes.apple.com)
1 points by maxidog 13y ago|0 comments
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Inertial navigation working on the iPhone; used to make floor plans(appstore.com)
2 points by maxidog 13y ago|0 comments
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by maxidog 14y ago
I was 99% sure our advisors had screwed us before they came in with the 20% lower offer.
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by maxidog 14y ago
When I sold my company, our own advisers (not Goldman but a famous name) did something which in my opinion is much worse -- I'm 99% sure they told the winning bidder that we'd been prepared to accept a 20% lower bid from their competitor. T