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by tjl 9y ago
They're working at making smaller apps on people's iPhones. They strip out all the graphics that don't apply to the given phone that's downloading on, plus bitcode is compiled for the specific architecture, so you don&#x
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by tjl 9y ago
Often, it's really bad design. For instance, Facebook's app has 18k classes. In other cases, it's a lot of big 3rd party libraries.
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by tjl 9y ago
The base for iPhones now is 32G not 16G.
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by tjl 9y ago
That's the difference between a freshman design project and an actual design used in practice. It's unlikely he has the mathematics/engineering background to do a proper analysis of his design. He's not thinking of the b
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by tjl 9y ago
The box set for David Bowie's Sound + Vision album included a fourth CD that included an extra video track in addition to three regular CD audio tracks.
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by tjl 9y ago
The term "killer app" goes back a long way (back to the early 80s) and was first used for Visicalc, I think.
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by tjl 9y ago
The term "killer app" goes all the way back to the 80s. Back then, Lotus 1-2-3 was considered a killer app as was Wordperfect/Wordstar depending on your needs. As others have pointed out, it was also used as the file extensio
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by tjl 9y ago
I love that a technique that's so widely used now was the co-invented by a movie star. It's also used in cell phones.
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by tjl 9y ago
Looking at the info about the formats for that book it seems that the ePub and PDF are unrestricted.
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by tjl 9y ago
I've never really had a problem with the watermarking in the footer with the person who bought it. It's out of my way so I tend to forget about it.
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by tjl 9y ago
Technically, they're saying Google will offer them DRM-free, but they're ePub and the PDFs are conversions from ePub. It looks like ebooks.com will offer ePub and PDF that are DRM-free too.
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by tjl 9y ago
I love the Dropbox sync, although I found it hit or miss. Some books it wouldn't work. But, I've bought at least 50 books from their site. I tried Safari when I was still in university, but found it terrible (but that was a few ye
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by tjl 9y ago
I prefer PDF versions because they're formatted nicely. I find that ePub and Mobi versions of technical books almost uniformly terrible.
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by tjl 9y ago
The Essential System Administration book was a regular reference for me. Thankfully, I was not the sendmail guy.
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by tjl 9y ago
You're kind of missing the bit about the engineer they hired used to work for the other company.
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by tjl 9y ago
That's not how it works.
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by tjl 9y ago
Except, they've fled the country and only can continue business because of Google's search results. So, Google is basically contributing to their business existing. That's why the order was granted.
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by tjl 9y ago
I'm in Canada and I buy from an online grocery store, Grocery Gateway. They're run by one of the local grocery chains and other than a $9.99 delivery fee, it's basically just a regular grocery store as they carry what's
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by tjl 9y ago
I just do my grocery shopping online. The company I use charges $9.99 for delivery and you have to order more than $45, but otherwise it's basically just a regular grocery store (they're owned by one). You have to do some planning
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by tjl 9y ago
Well, I'm in Canada and every restaurant near the university is less than $10/person. While a number of them are the normal fast food, both the Indian, Chinese, and Thai/Vietnamese places have excellent food. Last I checked,
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by tjl 9y ago
BLAS and LAPACK have an excuse, they come old school Fortran (FORTRAN 77) that originally had a max on function name size.
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by tjl 9y ago
In my department at my university, professors and staff usually end up bringing a sweater and leaving it in the office so they have it in the summer. It gets kind of cold in the offices. I've set my apartment to 26C. I find that withou
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by tjl 9y ago
In Canada, there's a few hundred districts across the country, so each one is no more than a few hundred thousand people at most. But, I'd say most are under 50k people. Those districts each get to elect one person to parliament.
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by tjl 9y ago
In Canada, we have a first past-the-post voting system (if you get the majority of the votes in the riding, you get the seat) and we have at least 3 parties federally (Conservatives, Liberals, and NDP). Technically, we have 4 (including the
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by tjl 9y ago
In my mind, it's one thing if FB collects data on people who are actually users of the service and collecting data on people who don't use the service at all. People who don't use the service haven't agreed to any FB ter
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by tjl 9y ago
Hammerspoon [1] is the suggested replacement. It's pretty good and has a lot of flexibility. [1] http://www.hammerspoon.org
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by tjl 9y ago
Even back in the 90s, I knew people who would bring a separate travel laptop that would just have the basic set of apps and a VPN client. So, once you got to your destination, you'd login via VPN and download what you needed. This was
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by tjl 9y ago
I can't imagine that AMP would load much faster that the current Daring Fireball design. If it's faster, I would probably guess that it's just the different routes between the AMP cache on Google and Daring Fireball's ho
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by tjl 9y ago
Apple News is really just RSS. I think Gruber's Daring Fireball stuff in Apple News just comes from his RSS feed. It's all hosted on your servers, so it's basically just a specialized browser.
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by tjl 9y ago
That's basically what emoji are. Of course, I have a hard time telling what they're supposed to mean most of the time.

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