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Nevermind. You click on the clip first, and then you get the option to delete it.

Can I delete clips?

Congrats to the Lightbox team.

Admittedly, I never used Lightbox (nor Instagram for that matter), but it seems like Facebook is really terrified of photo-centric startups, and gobbling them up as soon as they show any promise. Why is that?

Xort.com is a bad name.

If I heard "Xort.com" without seeing it, I would try to type it as "Zort.com" and probably wouldn't be able to come up with Xort.com on my own. That's also why I hate the Web2.0 trend of dropping vowels. It incurs too much work on my side to reach the website, which is a bad thing.

Foo, Bar, and Baz: Not Having It

Posted on April 21, 2012 These placeholder variables are the worst thing to happen to language documentation in the modern era. And so there’ll be none of this on Lingua Pragma. I’ll illustrate the problem by demonstrating classes in ruby. Compare:

Example 1

class Dog def speak return 'woof' end end

class Dachshund < Dog end

fido = Dachshund.new fido.speak => 'woof' Example 2

class Foo def bar return 123 end end

class Baz < Foo end

qux = Baz.new qux.bar => 123 Which example conveys more information? Which is easier to quickly grasp? Which would you rather read?

The dog motif in Example 1 came to me because my GF asked me to write an app to simulate a pet salon. And I’d model the classes something like this.

I didn't know it was all written in Assembly. Is there any documentation to help with reading the code?

Thanks for the code btw. PoP is a landmark in the history of computer games.

Wouldn't an SD card slot help?

I knew about themeforest.net, but never used them. I'll check them out. Thanks.

Excellent advice. Thanks for sharing.

Having mediocre design skills, I struggled before to create even the simplest landing pages for my mobile apps. Like the article says, I was simply trying to create a one-page site that contains a short description of an (upcoming) app, and a way for people to enter their email addresses for future notifications.

Although this sounds really simple (I can cook up the bare html in a few minutes), I struggled to make it look half decent. Surely there must be some easy way to create such simple landing pages, but I couldn't find it. I tried wordpress themes, twitter bootstrap, and other platforms, but my designs(or lack thereof) always turn out horribly.

My question: is there an easy way to create simple, beautiful landing pages?

If you don't understand it, why use it? Is it that important for you to do this in one line of (relatively obscured) code, than in 2-3 lines of readable code?

For the record, the do() block defines @ARGV (which normally holds the command-line arguments) to contain the value of the $file (presumably a file name), and sets $/ (which is the input record separator) to an undefined value. In Perl, <> is synonymous to <STDIN> which makes it read from stdin. Since @ARGV now contains a file name, Perl will open this file for reading. Since $/ is undefined, Perl will enter in "slurp" mode, and will gobble up the whole file in one shot. Since this is the last statement in the do() block, it will be returned as its value, and stored in $text.

Lots of Perl magic happening here. I advise you against using such shortcuts.

There are always two sides for each story. You hear about a lot of successful companies that rejected a buyout, only to die in obscurity. I guess it all depends on the shareholders and what they want to do. Sometimes it's good to take home a good chunk of profit and look elsewhere.

Ah. Makes sense. Thanks.

I'm curious why my comment was downvoted? Just for future reference.

The A4 does use this technology, but Apple certainly did not invent it (though I wouldn't be surprised if they claimed so). It has been used in cell phones for years, and only recently others are starting to adopt it, and extend it to place two chips side by side on a Si substrate within a single package. The reasons are purely economical. In the past, much benefit can be had just by shrinking the transistor size. At the current feature sizes, though, physics is not helping anymore and there is very little benefit in terms of raw transistor and wire speeds, and power. So chip makers need to find more ways to extend Moore's law a few more years. FinFETs and stacked chips are just such ways.

Unfortunately, I can't detect sarcasm over the internet.

But, your answer (along the lines of "I'm a perfectionist and a workaholic") is the most cliche answer possible. As an interviewer, I never ask this question to begin with. But whenever someone claims they are a perfectionist, then my bullshit meter goes crazy.

Trust me, employers do NOT love this answer.

You might be correct, but that money doesn't go only to Asus or Motorola or Acer or Samsung. There are tens of other components in the tablet that are made by other companies (touch screens, cpus, DRAM, usb controllers, LEDs, gyroscopes, network controllers, etc). Each one of these companies needs money to survive and spend more on R&D and innovate even more. This ultimately leads to more competition, and reduced prices, which reflects back to the consumer.

I think it's a very naive point of view. Not all corporations are evil.

He said that "they are running it from backstage", which doesn't seem to be true. It seems to be a video running on the machine on stage (hence the VLC controls).

Given the rumors that Intel is delaying IvyBridge, it is very possible that they recorded this on a different machine, with a different GPU, and are claiming otherwise. They're not the first, nor the last to do this.

But of course my good sir.

My awesome puzzler fetched me a whopping $55.

Age is not the real reason. Perl was first released in 1987, while Python was released in 1991, Tcl in 1990, and Ruby in 1995.

I believe that Perl's success is due to the fact that it was written to scratch an itch. Larry Wall didn't care much about making a pretty language. He cared about creating a useful language. To this end, it was picked up quickly by Unix junkies everywhere.

The other big issue, that's often overlooked, is the Perl community itself. People working on Perl are really passionate about it. Spend some time reading the perl5-porters (p5p) archives, and you'll see for yourself.

Isn't this precisely the kind of thing that will trigger anti-competition lawsuits?

(Apologies for going off on a tangent)

Personally I don't like domain names like cool.com or color.com because they are impossible to google. Apple is probably the exception that proves this rule.

Not sure if the Lego example is a good one. Lego has been available for over 60 years, and still going strong. According to his website, the OP is 18 years old. If his fears had any basis, then Lego would have disappeared way before he was born.

Another important point is that our experiences shape us in specific ways. Our kids' experiences will shape them differently. Having iPads does not make them any less inventive or curious. It's just that we can not imagine, today, what they will think of in the future.

I interviewed with their ASIC design team last year (they made me an offer, which I did not take).

the 1000 number might be large, but definitely in the ball park. Designing a microprocessor is not that easy. Besides the ARM core(s), you have the graphics cores, custom DSPs (I heard they have Siri-specific cores in the A5), power control logic, various IO macros and other random stuff. You need an architecture team to figure out what needs to go there and how things interact, a micro architecture team to develop the RTL, a test team to make sure the RTL behaves as planned, a physical implementation team to transform all this mess into polygons that run at desired speeds, various tool/methodology support teams to develop internal flows, evaluate tools and make sure everybody is following the rules and nobody forgot anything, plus various levels of management.

note that most probably they are working on a couple of different designs at the same time.

To me it felt like Apple were clinging to straws by touting Siri as a "feature" of iPhone 4S. What was more interesting to me are the thoughts that came to my head. My first thought was of Clippy. My second one was of the McCain/Palin campaign insisting that Alaska's proximity to Russia gives Palin international politics experience. My third thought was that Apple must be smarter than this, or are they?

Isn't that what Opera does on their mobile platform?

You are right. But, I have an extensive library of PDF files that I'd like to read. I expect many people do too. Most are technical documents with equations, graphs and other images. I would love to have an e-ink based reader that will render such documents correctly.

But, Amazon are probably more interested in selling their content, so I understand the lack of PDF support.

Looks nice. To nit pick, I am a believer that, unless you are a recent college grad, your work experience should come first, before your education. Unless you are applying for a teaching job, or you otherwise want to purposefully highlight your educational achievements, I feel that a few years after graduation, what you did in school is mostly irrelevant.

I'm interested in hearing counter arguments.

I consider myself a mere tinkerer in mobile development (my day job does not involve such technologies directly). I like to learn new stuff, just out of curiosity. In the past I published an iOS game which netted me a whopping $55. I also have an android game in active (but very very slow) development, as well as a mobile-friendly web app. I don't expect to monetize (or even finish) the latter.

With their "cheap printers + expensive ink" model, one would assume they have enough experience to monetize WebOS.