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Lol, thanks for that, was worried I was being too negative!

I studied “computation” at Oxford 92-95 while CAR Hoare was still there and basically all they taught us about computers were these formal methods. They actually thought it would r…

Actually it goes straight back to the Apple TV remote without having to unlock. Not sure what the time limit is but it works after the device has gone to sleep and otherwise locked…

6% return peak bubble to peak bubble is in no way reassuring.

Am I unusual in being constantly surprised when people assume time's arrow in everyday conversation? I can never quite accept the sheer oddness and asymmetry of it.

Nope, that really was the end of the story.

Yes, it works for writes and support is built-in to current processors. It's faster than conventional file access.

Is that fundamentally different from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory-mapped_file ?

Especially weird considering the hack is totally unnecessary. You can take a picture without making a shutter sound using AVFoundation.

Gizmodo says this uses GPS but there's no way that's accurate enough, is there?

What a pros-and-cons evaluation of a culture misses is that cultures are "self-modifying code", with the weakest attributes constantly being revised. Few cultures are modernising a…

I was 99% sure our advisors had screwed us before they came in with the 20% lower offer.

When I sold my company, our own advisers (not Goldman but a famous name) did something which in my opinion is much worse -- I'm 99% sure they told the winning bidder that we'd been…