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by yoda_sl 4y ago
I came on board with the NeXT acquisition (or rather reverse acquisition as ex-NeXT often refer to)… So I do recall seeing a few times after we relocated to Infinite Loop, that Steve at first was just working as a consultant, and not as an
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by yoda_sl 4y ago
Personally I am using GoodLinks: I am most of the time on mobile and it has good support for iPhone and iPad. You can add custom tag, mark link as ‘read’ when bookmarking. Simple but does what I need. App Store link: < https://
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by yoda_sl 6y ago
Yes he used to work at Apple in the Maps team for many years but left a few years ago... thus his guess.
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by yoda_sl 6y ago
Pretty cool! Any chance the app could import some audio file to visualize ?
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by yoda_sl 6y ago
Extremely curious the outcome... I hope they can get some folks in the medical field to provide quickly some feedback.
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by yoda_sl 7y ago
WebObjects starting at version 5 was 100% java so it could run on any system running a Java VM, including Mac OS X. When Apple was selling Xserve then many Apple on Une services like iTunes, .Mac (ancestor of iCloud), Apple Online Store wer
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by yoda_sl 8y ago
No surprise there: Craig used to be the engineering manager for the WebObjects team which included EOF. In fact, if you were running one of the example app, it was going to populate a Movie database, and I forgot the movie name but all “act
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by yoda_sl 8y ago
Now each team of rockstar developers will have to find a really good name!
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by yoda_sl 8y ago
Congrats! I have started a similar approach for the last 2 months using LoseIt as my app to count calories, and the goal to loose around 64 pounds by end of the year (going from 244 to 180 pounds). I did join a gym, and this weekend decided
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Rakuten acquires Curbside(newsroom.curbside.com)
1 points by yoda_sl 8y ago|0 comments
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Amazon Fire TV Cube Hands-Free with Alexa and 4K Ultra HD(amazon.com)
3 points by yoda_sl 8y ago|0 comments
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Swift Android toolchain build scripts by Readdle(github.com)
2 points by yoda_sl 8y ago|0 comments
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by yoda_sl 8y ago
Time Machine server is now built-in into macOS... it used to be part of macOS server but Apple recently moved it to standard macOS. Personally I have a Mac Mini being used as a Plex Server and now as a Time Machine server too. Instructions
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by yoda_sl 8y ago
From what I have heard, CloudKit is an API abstraction either of Cassandra/Solr and more recently Foundation DB. So new CloudKit codebase nowadays is being run on top of Foundation DB
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by yoda_sl 8y ago
Slightly incorrect! The offices there vary in size from one person to up to a dozen. A lot of offices in various sections of the ring accommodate 2 persons. Yes there is a big glass/sliding door but from what I have seen when closing t
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SpaceX will try to bring rocket upper stage back from orbital velocity(twitter.com)
3 points by yoda_sl 8y ago|0 comments
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by yoda_sl 8y ago
Funny I just posted about it... the English name is “The Ice people”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_People_(Barjavel_nov... And yes a great sci-fi book, even so the civilization in question is just 900,000 ye
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by yoda_sl 8y ago
Over 20 years ago, I read a good sci-fi story which I would love to see in a movie; the book is “The Ice People” by Barjavel (French author). Article on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_People_(Barjave
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HarperDB: Full SQL and NoSQL Functionality(harperdb.io)
2 points by yoda_sl 8y ago|0 comments
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by yoda_sl 9y ago
It was 21 years ago exactly that Apple was announcing the acquisition of NeXT. Who could have envisioned the impact it will have on Apple!
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Apple – NeXT merger 21 years ago(cnet.com)
2 points by yoda_sl 9y ago|1 comments
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by yoda_sl 9y ago
Stumble on this video from last night where a few lucky invitees could feel the experience of riding in the new Roadster. https://youtu.be/C6nN-GlghAc
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by yoda_sl 9y ago
See the answer for the 2nd comment: Memory management is cooperating with Objectve-C runtime memory mgmt, see https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/blob/master/runti... (function runDeallocationHoo
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by yoda_sl 9y ago
I guess people like us - i have 2 Belgium Shepherd dogs, are not the target market. Probably for us Amazon will try to promote their “Amazon Locker”. I just noticed yesterday that they are now being installed at Whole Foods, which make sens
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by yoda_sl 9y ago
Updated to be more accurate and keeping still the initial blog title. Thanks for the suggestion.
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The End of the DreamHost vs. DOJ privacy case(dreamhost.com)
596 points by yoda_sl 9y ago|135 comments
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Nest Hello – new product(nest.com)
1 points by yoda_sl 9y ago|0 comments
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Western Digital acquires cloud services company Upthere(techcrunch.com)
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by yoda_sl 9y ago
Like many I'm really disappointed by that news. Not only I have been using CrashPlan for over 7 years, I did recommend it to many family members and friends. I remember back in 2010 it took more than a month to upload / backup all
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by yoda_sl 9y ago
Not right now, since it is one of the aspect where my app will be different than other app.

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