robmcm

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by robmcm 7y ago
Can’t wait for the, “Elvis operator” to land. Going to remove so much code!
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by robmcm 8y ago
There also seems to be zero analysis of the winners. Simple analytics would have raised concerns early on. I guess the company just didn’t care, as long as someone won and the marketing worked.
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by robmcm 8y ago
I expect people said this about developers that just knew about TCP/IP and not how the PHY worked. At every level of abstraction they is a boundary that people may not choose (or have time) to pass. I'm not saying everyone should
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by robmcm 9y ago
SAA(F)S?
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by robmcm 9y ago
"With 40,000 technologists across 14 technology hubs around the world, there are endless opportunities to create what’s next" [ https://careers.jpmorgan.com/careers/US/en/divisions/technol... ]
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by robmcm 9y ago
The concept is to make you see the world though someone else's eyes, to put you into someone else's shoes. You are highlighting your inability to do this, and proving how you only want to consider the impact directly on yourself.
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by robmcm 9y ago
I have similar stories about acquaintance IT contractors using offshore tax schemes. Are they better or worse? These anecdotes about complex systems only fuel peoples preconceived perceptions of systems that they fear benefit others more th
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by robmcm 9y ago
This is (unfortunately) a huge testament to patenting technology. I remember Shazam shutting down a lot of early iOS apps that provided music discovery services. The technology it’s self became relatively simple in the last 10 years, but th
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by robmcm 9y ago
It seems to be quite common in angular, even if used indirectly or via inspired libraries. https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=angular+redux&typ...
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by robmcm 9y ago
There is a certain paradox with teaching something like Redux, in that it's designed to make complex systems easy to understand and manageable. Yet when trying to demonstrate with a simple example, it appears hugely over complex and un
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by robmcm 9y ago
+1 for screen filter
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by robmcm 9y ago
Why not use a usb battery pack for your phone? Seems like one fewer thing to carry, and no extra 4G cellular contract. This generally seems to be my conclusion when thinking about making something cool with a Pi or similar, wondering if I’m
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by robmcm 9y ago
Logging into a system that doesn't support your password manager, such as games consoles, shared computers, restricted work machines etc. Copying over a really long generated password is much harder than an algo you can perform in your
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by robmcm 9y ago
Google reader highlighted this issue. I wonder how many finance apps there could have been if Google had never developed Google Finance.
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by robmcm 9y ago
I expect you could but perhaps not with a very good experience. I think a lot of the lighting modes rely heavily on doing that work in real time, rather than in post processing. It could be that it's just too laggy without the new proc
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by robmcm 9y ago
I assume the depth is measured using the two cameras and the dot projection. So you couldn't use a 2D copy that was depth adjusted (if that was what you were suggesting). I also assume the dots are tracked to identify, so static dots w
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by robmcm 9y ago
It's more in the translation step between your vision and your mental image. If you ever stare at a single word it's never muddled or back to front, but when you scan a sentence and think back over what you have seen words may be
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by robmcm 9y ago
The experience isn't the same, but I think the affect on someone without it would be similar. In essence, it would take them a lot longer (or at a higher cognitive tax) to intemperate a page of text.
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by robmcm 9y ago
iPhone 7+ with AirPods, perhaps it's the BT LE or something? I also forgot the worst point, when the headphone cord gets caught and rips the 3.5mm jack out of my device resulting in it blurting out (my secret love of the Moana soundtra
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by robmcm 9y ago
I know, I was just adding balance. People loved and still miss Micro SD slots on phones too.
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by robmcm 9y ago
Reasons I hate wired headphones: 1. I have to carry around a mass of wire that it always getting tangled with its self and other items in bags and pockets. 2. I have to fiddle around to plug a port into my phone, that often scratches the su
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by robmcm 9y ago
It will, there is normally a, "kick down" point where it will accelerate at max, for emergency situations. This also normally disengages the max limit. Another feature is speed warnings, which "beep" at you when you exce
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by robmcm 9y ago
Yes I did, sorry... getting confused with this and Flash ;)
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by robmcm 9y ago
I don't think any manufacturer will be (or want to be) selling ICE cars in 2020, but it gives those manufacturers a mandate to push ahead with deprecating ICEs without scaring share holders.
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by robmcm 9y ago
Perhaps in your retrospective opinion, but it was good enough for every major investment bank to invest millions in, and even enough for a company like Microsoft to try and copy...
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by robmcm 9y ago
This was such a poor go to argument from Flash developers (I was/am one of them). However in reality this wasn't just about revenue as many assumed (it's a tiny tiny tiny percentage of Apples turn over). The better argument w
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by robmcm 9y ago
I saw it as two main issues: 1. Apple couldn't improve the Flash player like they could with WebKit and Nitro to make Flash content run well on their phones. 2. Most of the complex content on the web was in Flash, by not supporting it
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by robmcm 9y ago
At the key time JS couldn't achieve everything in the Flex scope, even now some of the less open features (DRM) are still missing. Having said that 80% of my time is still spend writing AS3 in Flex ;)
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by robmcm 9y ago
A whole host of Single Dealer Trading platforms from major banks delivered on the web via flash (and Flex). Quite an ambitious achievement for a simple animation tool.
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by robmcm 9y ago
As state by other commentators it was an open standard. However the main issues other vendors faced were Adobe's control of the standard (no TC39) and the use of patents in the technology (compression etc).

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