vanwesson

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by vanwesson 12y ago
SJWs are not beyond criticism, nor should they be: http://studentaffairsfeature.com/ten-counterproductive-behav...
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by vanwesson 12y ago
> The consumer version of the Rift should be out in about a year. Yeah, and will I be able to buy one and use it without Facebook keeping a permanent record of everything I do with it (tied to my real name of course)? Will it refuse to w
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by vanwesson 12y ago
At the other end of the spectrum, there's Subliminal[1], which relies on Apple's UIAutomation underneath, which in turn relies on the application's accessibility information as-is, rather than hijacking it. Building up tests
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by vanwesson 12y ago
Steve Jobs once said in reference to Ed Catmull (and another Pixar co-founder): "They're babes in the woods. I think I can help turn Alvy and Ed into businessmen."[1] I guess training Mr. Catmull to do things like what we see
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by vanwesson 12y ago
> the only innovative thing they did was finding a law loophole Don't forget this: http://www.quora.com/Airbnb-Craigslist-Spamming-Controversy
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by vanwesson 12y ago
Google gets grief over being "evil" because they publicly claimed not to be, and got a lot of popularity and goodwill in the marketplace as a result. When people get "riled up" about Google, they are threatening to take
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by vanwesson 12y ago
The smaller ISPs are just following Comcast's example: "You mean we can charge multiple times for the same data without doing any extra work? Sign us up!" All last-mile ISPs will eventually realize they can hold everyone host
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by vanwesson 12y ago
The world is less violent than ever. The average person's chances of coming to a violent end have been declining for a while: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/22/world-less-violent-... Much of the c
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by vanwesson 12y ago
HN has pretty much always been a creepy echo chamber where more or less all posts toe the line of "whatever startups do must be right, so don't question or criticize".
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by vanwesson 12y ago
Bingo. The Oculus and WhatsApp deals have added up to billions "spent" via mostly stock instead of cash. This is almost certainly due to insistence from the Facebook execs themselves, who clearly are expecting the price of their s
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by vanwesson 12y ago
>I'd note that Facebook was one of the only companies NOT conspiring to deflate the wages of half of the people that visit this site If you're referring to the fact that it was reported yesterday that Facebook refused to partic
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by vanwesson 13y ago
I share your concern about drift, but in practice I've never seen it become a problem. On the other hand, blurry views really stick out. The easiest way to avoid them is to have a category method on UIView called something like "a
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by vanwesson 13y ago
> I use UIView+Positioning... Looking at that code reveals that it doesn't try to account for fractional positioning. If you set self.center on a view that is an even number of pixels wide, it will result in a non-pixel-aligned orig