webjprgm

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by webjprgm 3y ago
The potential is to replace computers. In its current version, it is basically an iPad on your face. Look a little forward and it is a laptop on your face. Imagine that the price came down to $1500-2000 in a couple years, now you can buy an
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by webjprgm 9y ago
Telnet? That's the alternative I can remember.
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by webjprgm 10y ago
My guess is that Apple was a vehicle to further his compiler and programming language plans. Now that he has done that, it becomes more mundane maintenance and incremental changes. So it is time to move on to a new challenge.
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by webjprgm 10y ago
Swift has its problems but keeps getting better. I only get to use it for my at-home projects, since at work the portion of the codebase that is for iOS is Objective-C with no plans to switch any time soon. Old Obj-C too, and started by peo
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by webjprgm 10y ago
I'm not sure I would say Swift is the kind of robust that is needed for safety critical software, but it is a nice step forward for application code. It mostly forces you to deal with things safely while still allowing Objective-C dyna
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by webjprgm 10y ago
Also sounds similar to M (aka MUMPS), see InterSystem's Cache (commercial) or GT.M (open source). It is an old programming language with a persistent key-value store that is basically a NoSQL database with programming logic combined. F
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by webjprgm 10y ago
Which he did, but then his defense was hampered by the secrecy around how the evidence was obtained. At least the article makes it sound like this.
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by webjprgm 10y ago
Isn't Iceland going through a national financial crisis and also just booted their president for lying to them? That doesn't sound much better.
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by webjprgm 10y ago
It would be interesting if candidates were not allowed to promise what they would do, but merely campaign on their morals and good standing in the community so we can pick people who would make intelligent decisions but not necessarily ones
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by webjprgm 10y ago
Booted out by whom? The board of directors votes. Well, that is We the People who have to vote in this case.
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by webjprgm 10y ago
Democracy is a form of government that can destroy itself. The French voted to put in an emperor their first time around. So we may have a good constitution but if the people vote to make bad laws that break it, and permit those laws to fun
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by webjprgm 10y ago
The article has one sentence about the videos being on a beach house computer that someone else could have used. So just from this article it is unclear exactly how damming that evidence is, but it is possible it was not his fault that the
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by webjprgm 10y ago
Is this true across all economic levels or is this an average so it could be the rich and upper-middle class saving more.
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by webjprgm 11y ago
It's kinda like adjusting the seat position in a car. If you could have each individual user's preferences saved somewhere and applied to every car/computer when you sit down to use it, then personalization wins.
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by webjprgm 11y ago
Similarly some punctuation is moved on a Spanish keyboard, but often in Venezuela and Chile I ended up using an American keyboard with Spanish layout so I had to just know which keys were which because the letters printed on them were wrong
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by webjprgm 11y ago
The stay at home parent is childcare. You get personalized child care or you can outsource it for economies of scale and have the second parent work so long as that parent earns more than the cost of childcare. But I think there's mo
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by webjprgm 11y ago
I agree with other posters that same-field is usually going to be blocked anyway. I've had non-competes at 2 of my 3 jobs which would prevent me from working at any competitor in the industry for X years after quitting anway. But my cu
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by webjprgm 11y ago
So a more realistic test would let the candidate use Wikipedia to refresh his/her memory, but then you would need more complex questions that require demonstrating understanding, like being given a chunk of real code and applying the t
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by webjprgm 11y ago
Misrepresenting abilities ... yes, I did that in my first job interview. The job posting said PHP, HTML, MySQL skills. Well, I knew HTML well enough but my PHP and MySQL skills were from a few side projects doing copy-paste-modify with PHP
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by webjprgm 11y ago
The one time I tried a fizzbuzz in a series of interviews, one candidate was surprised and almost insulted. At the end of the day, I learned almost nothing about any of the candidates from this question. Only one candidate (in fact, the one
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by webjprgm 11y ago
Apple isn't usually about "locking people in" but more about controlling the experience. That can lead to the same thing, where they want everyone to use their API and not someone else's, but the difference is whether th
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by webjprgm 11y ago
My first thought on seeing Vulkan is that it is basically Metal for everyone else. Is that not so? Then why would you expect Apple to support Vulkan given that they already have Metal?
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by webjprgm 11y ago
I don't know if people share this opinion, but to me speeding is due to the inadequacy and inconsistency of speed limits. Near my home there is a major thoroughfare with a 35 MPH speed limit. It has no homes facing the road, just a few
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by webjprgm 11y ago
When I worked at Apple we used a native Mac issue tracker. It was much nicer than anything I've used before or since. I hate having to click-refresh-back-forward in a browser window, whereas a native client can have multiple windows, o
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by webjprgm 11y ago
So we want unsupervised learning, huh. I think this line is rather important: > But there are lots of limitations of this approach. For one, to teach a person something new, you typically don't need to tell them about it thousands o
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by webjprgm 11y ago
I know a 12 yo who made a simple game in Unity. I think he plays with making games in Python and Scratch too, though I haven't seen them. Tools change, but interested kids still find a way to tinker.
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by webjprgm 11y ago
I'm not sure about CHIP, but a RasberryPi can hook into our TV and I have several old USB keyboards and mice to plug into it. If you don't, you can get one for really cheap. It's the monitor that is most of the extra cost. (I
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by webjprgm 11y ago
There are too many JS frameworks/platforms/libraries to keep up with. I can't spend my time investigating them all. I've heard of Meteor several times but in my mind it was associated with (a) real-time apps, and (b) not
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by webjprgm 11y ago
A few thoughts: (1) If they block tracking, does it block Google Analytics? Because that would annoy me as a website owner. (2) The reason I don't pay subscriptions to sites like Wall Street Journal and NY Times is that I get my conten
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by webjprgm 11y ago
They provide tools to port. So I think it depends more on how large your app is. For a small app running the tool and making a few misc fixes will probably be fairly easy. At least if it is like the 1.0 -> 2.0 change. For larger apps, we

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