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by zxoq 10y ago
That figure seems slightly exaggerated, Wikipedia states he had $9800 saved when he was 20. And that he made $175 a month from his postal route. If he started his paper route at 15 he would have made over $10,000 from just the paper route d
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by zxoq 14y ago
This is why I always walk half a block to pick up a cup of coffee rather than just get one in the cafeteria (also it tastes better). For some reason taking a ten minute walk every now and then and getting some fresh air might be frowned upo
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by zxoq 14y ago
Apple does not provide any API for getting the state of the modifier keys on iOS. I really think this is something they need to loosen up about if they want people to go into the post-PC. We get the point Apple, you want users to be able
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by zxoq 14y ago
I think it's a great idea. But to be persistent over my entire life, there really needs to be an export option so that when smartphones are no longer around and we got neural implants or something I can still make use of the data collected
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by zxoq 14y ago
The support for JSON is only validation, otherwise it's just like a plain text column. A better choice would be to use a hstore column, which is sort of like JSON but we different syntax. Postgres supports indexing hstore subfields, queryin
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by zxoq 14y ago
You can't click outside the page (ie. on the background texture) to close the modal. But it looks great!
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by zxoq 14y ago
I would just write the code to compute it to arbitrary precision and then tell the interviewer that I would test how many iterations are required and hard-code it. If they insist that it must be solved at runtime, I would check the size of
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by zxoq 14y ago
Google Music is a javascript app and works well on the iPhone, the remote etc. all behave properly and it can play while in the background.
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by zxoq 14y ago
My bank is a lot more careful then this. I actually called them a few days ago to get a password, and they asked: * SSN? * Full name? * How long have you been with the bank? * How many accounts do you have? * Do you have a business account?
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by zxoq 14y ago
I actually use it a lot for watching subscriptions. However, it's in bad need of an update (it's ugly as sin). So I won't complain if Google releases a version on the App Store instead.
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by zxoq 14y ago
That explains how you serve the same data to that user, but the more interesting problem is: how do you propagate the changes to the rest of the users over time? Do you run some sort of backlog daemon that moves stuff between the different
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by zxoq 14y ago
With iOS 6 it's not necessary for updates, at least. Still required for installing paid apps though (which arguably it should be).
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by zxoq 14y ago
While useful, it's very dangerous in that it's serendipitous to make a commit that breaks building the project, which in the future will break building the project when checking out old commits, or introduce some subtle bug, which breaks ot
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by zxoq 14y ago
This is why I prefer services to be with different providers. Having storage with dropbox, mail with gmail, phone with Apple etc. etc. means one service dying won't kill your entire online persona. While if you use G-drive, gmail, android p
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by zxoq 14y ago
Don't forget set / get, which ubiquitous in almost every language.
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by zxoq 14y ago
That's amazing since it's less than a year since the Google+ app launched.
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by zxoq 14y ago
The server tells the client it can handle SPDY through an Alternate-Protocol header. The client then makes subsequent requests over SPDY. http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-protocol/spdy-protocol-dra...
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by zxoq 14y ago
While that router may be beefy enough for multiple downloads. Installing an open-source firmwire degrades WAN performance a lot. I've tried a few different routers and dd-wrt / tomato generally reduces the WAN speed by 75 - 90% (from 500-10
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by zxoq 14y ago
Not on mobile, which is where Facebook wants a browser.
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by zxoq 14y ago
I do use vim on a daily basis for all my remote editing needs. Just did not think of how useful all short-hands are for blind people. Thanks for mentioning it.
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by zxoq 14y ago
None of the answers were about the questions I had about how to program when you're blind. While the tools they use are interesting. I'm more concerned with how you would browse the code. Say you wanted to find a method, how do you scroll i
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by zxoq 14y ago
What worries me is if future generations will be able to enjoy the games of today. Will it ever be feasible to emulate a PS3 to the level demanded here? Will my grandchildren in 50 years be able to play GTA 6 on a PS4 emulator? Processing p
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by zxoq 14y ago
While offline?
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by zxoq 14y ago
Most people don't know that 50 mbit is 6 MB/s anyways. So there should be no issue. The main gain is that higher speeds allows new services (like HDTV over the pipe) and makes content more accessible. I got a 1 gbit home connection and it's
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by zxoq 14y ago
This is just plain wrong. It's much, much more common for shots fired at people to hurt bystanders than warning shots fired into the air. There has only been a single recorded case ever of someone being killed by a warning shot fired into t
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by zxoq 14y ago
I would place blame on W3C. Standardization simple take way too long. Apple: We'd like some 3D transform properties for making cool websites for phones! W3C: We'll have a draft ready by 2020. Apple: Yea, we'll do our own thing
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by zxoq 14y ago
Yep, only thing I dislike is that the processor does not simulate the importance of cache. If the in-game processors allowed the selection of different cache-line sizes (both instruction cache and data cache) for different costs (paid via t
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by zxoq 14y ago
He's alluding to his own coding ability being inferior to the author's (I presume).
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by zxoq 14y ago
Reminds me of http://macminicolo.net/
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by zxoq 14y ago
Their FAQ [1] states that they were fetched last year and stored locally for testing. So changing sites shouldn't affect the result. I presume they will switch the set of sites in a few years, statistics don't need to be over 10 years to be

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