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They're working at making smaller apps on people's iPhones. They strip out all the graphics that don't apply to the given phone that's downloading on, plus bitcode is compiled for …

Often, it's really bad design. For instance, Facebook's app has 18k classes. In other cases, it's a lot of big 3rd party libraries.

The base for iPhones now is 32G not 16G.

That's the difference between a freshman design project and an actual design used in practice. It's unlikely he has the mathematics/engineering background to do a proper analysis o…

The box set for David Bowie's Sound + Vision album included a fourth CD that included an extra video track in addition to three regular CD audio tracks.

The term "killer app" goes back a long way (back to the early 80s) and was first used for Visicalc, I think.

The term "killer app" goes all the way back to the 80s. Back then, Lotus 1-2-3 was considered a killer app as was Wordperfect/Wordstar depending on your needs. As others have point…

I love that a technique that's so widely used now was the co-invented by a movie star. It's also used in cell phones.

Looking at the info about the formats for that book it seems that the ePub and PDF are unrestricted.

I've never really had a problem with the watermarking in the footer with the person who bought it. It's out of my way so I tend to forget about it.

Technically, they're saying Google will offer them DRM-free, but they're ePub and the PDFs are conversions from ePub. It looks like ebooks.com will offer ePub and PDF that are DRM-…

I love the Dropbox sync, although I found it hit or miss. Some books it wouldn't work. But, I've bought at least 50 books from their site. I tried Safari when I was still in univer…

I prefer PDF versions because they're formatted nicely. I find that ePub and Mobi versions of technical books almost uniformly terrible.

The Essential System Administration book was a regular reference for me. Thankfully, I was not the sendmail guy.

You're kind of missing the bit about the engineer they hired used to work for the other company.

That's not how it works.

Except, they've fled the country and only can continue business because of Google's search results. So, Google is basically contributing to their business existing. That's why the …

I'm in Canada and I buy from an online grocery store, Grocery Gateway. They're run by one of the local grocery chains and other than a $9.99 delivery fee, it's basically just a reg…

I just do my grocery shopping online. The company I use charges $9.99 for delivery and you have to order more than $45, but otherwise it's basically just a regular grocery store (t…

Well, I'm in Canada and every restaurant near the university is less than $10/person. While a number of them are the normal fast food, both the Indian, Chinese, and Thai/Vietnamese…

BLAS and LAPACK have an excuse, they come old school Fortran (FORTRAN 77) that originally had a max on function name size.

In my department at my university, professors and staff usually end up bringing a sweater and leaving it in the office so they have it in the summer. It gets kind of cold in the of…

In Canada, there's a few hundred districts across the country, so each one is no more than a few hundred thousand people at most. But, I'd say most are under 50k people. Those dist…

In Canada, we have a first past-the-post voting system (if you get the majority of the votes in the riding, you get the seat) and we have at least 3 parties federally (Conservative…

In my mind, it's one thing if FB collects data on people who are actually users of the service and collecting data on people who don't use the service at all. People who don't use …