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Mark Adler, he of zlib/gzip/Info-Zip fame, seems to think that zips cannot contain arbitrary data before and between individual files. http://stackoverflow.com/a/12393597/60910 The…

With LetterSnap, take pictures of text and extract the actual text. The app is powered by Google Cloud Vision, which lets it tackle weird fonts, Chinese + Japanese, colored backgro…

You can definitely compose a zip file "on the fly" and stream it out. The central directory at the end of the zip file can be determined from all the content already streamed. The …

Cloning, coding, eh. Much the same.

I have the book too. It's interesting as a history lesson and initial motivations for Objective-C. In particular, in the beginning Objective-C was a lot looser typed at compile tim…

I've been a Type 2 diabetic officially for 18 years but impaired glucose tolerance for longer. You're on the right path, there's a lot you can do to slow down the progress of the d…

Curcumin is poorly absorbed but there are several ways to increase the bioavailability[1]. Otherwise too little will be absorbed to be effective, and you'd just be ingesting an exp…

It's probably an informal use of the word "lying" prevalent in tech culture. When I was working in a moderately sized software company in Australia, engineers would often say, "xyz…

Hi, this is a full rewrite of my iOS diagram sketcher -- it took 4.5 years, 30 features, 400 commits and lots of prayer. It uses Objective-C, Core Animation, UIKit, the works. The …

Essentially, yes. In ARC, all strong pointers may have multiple owners. In C++11 RAII, the typical, defining use is for single owners (std::unique_ptr) but multiple owners are supp…

> If the JoCo Cruise is a church, I am apostate. That’s why I couldn’t stop worrying and love the Sea Monkeys. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to be a nerd anymore. It was that I did.…

Interesting that "Spock" uses a lot of emotional language -- "prejudice", "lonely", "happiness", "frightening", "feel best about himself" -- contrary to the popular conception of V…

Matt 6:25.

It's relatively straightforward (but moderately involved) to split out CPU-heavy operations in node.js so they don't block the event loop. A rough sketch would look like this: * Wr…

Actually, as a C++11 user, it's a lot like a lambda declaration: [capture](parameters){…}. Certainly the brackets are in the same order. The similarity between lambdas and Markdown…