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I don't believe this is true. Most windows store apps run on both of them, but I think there are some, e.g. graphics, API's that your app could access that would limit it to x86 only

Why wouldn't they just confiscate it, and "oops, it fell in a bucket of water"?

Is Apple not doing the same (I believe they started last year)?

The Nokia is staged for ads too. You can change the highlight color to be whatever you want. Additionally, many WP apps have a solid colored tile that doesn't respect the user's color choice.

Shift+R could do it (Shift+a for reply all)

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6594?hl=en

WoW isn't meant to be cutesy (which I think you hinted at, but to be explicit for others), it stands for Windows on Windows, which is the compatibility layer between different architectures (first 16 on 32, and now 32 on 64).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_on_Windows

If you're looking for a new reader to try, check out www.readuction.com .

It's a different take on RSS, that intelligently gives you fewer articles to read. A friend and I built it over a few months, and we'd love any feedback you have.

You can import and export your feeds, so no need to worry about having data locked in.

Do you have any tips on testing for deliverability? I have a hunch that if I try to send something, say to my gmail or one of my close friends' email, that the spam filter will allow it because it's a familiar name/domain, but I would expect that if I email a stranger's gmail, it might get flagged...

It should still work like a normal folder, even if you're offline, no?

Has anyone read any of the books mentioned in the link (or Rails 4 in Action)? Any recommendations for someone that is intermediate in Rails 3, but would like to become more advanced?

Since it sounds like you've done it a few times, can you recommend some specific textbook combinations which you've enjoyed?

That's probably true if you don't have >$100B in the bank

I think they mean something like:

    c = make(chan bool)
    go doSomeWork(c)
    select {
    case b := <- c:
        # do something here if something happened on the channel
    case <- time.After(5 * time.Second):
        # timed out :-(
    }

Sorry if this is an obvious question, but do you mean rest as in http (e.g. 'REST'-ful apis)? Or is this a different use of rest?

So, by this logic, BitTorrent piracy is a $0 problem? Doesn't sound right to me. Not that I'm really pushing the $495 figure either, mind you.

I think the assumption is that given that other successful conferences have had speakers that were good (technically), that were non white/male, that if such speakers had been considered for this conference, the organisers wouldn't have ended up with a lineup of 100% white & male speakers.

You're right though that we have no real evidence for this, this is just a natural assumption to make given the evidence we do have (the lineup).

As a poster said above me, this could have possibly been mitigated by publishing who they considered and possibly even selected that were non-white/male and couldn't make it. (this would give us some of the evidence you mention).

I would guess that the gdb thing is to prevent cracking of their DRM, not to hide some PII tracking. Do you know if you can attach gdb to something like Xbox Music (Zune)?

Maybe not Google anymore, since Google acquired ITA :-). But obviously they still use it

Yeah, this seems non-representative, especially if text is rendered natively (as other comments claim). Probably pretty accurate for images though.

Since you're obviously experienced in this area, can you point me to a tool or article that describes this 'scrubbing'?

Is this something that people should be using on their old files/backups?

Search is still working for me.

You likely know this already, but Downcast is an awesome podcast app, it has location based downloading as well, which is great if you're a commuter.

(I also listen to a lot of podcasts and have been disappointed by the Apple Podcast app).

I believe this is about size, not pixels. This way you can see if your buttons are too small, or similar...

I know that as programmers/hackers, we're supposed to never use the mouse, but the biggest thing that I've recently started to appreciate with macs is how good the drag and drop system is.

Some examples:

- If you want to open a file with a certain application, drag it to that application in the dock.

- If you want to send a url to your friend, drag the url onto the mail app.

- If you want to get a folders path in the terminal, drag the folder into the terminal window.

- If you want to move a file into a folder in finder, hover over that folder for a few seconds, and you'll see a new window spring up with the contents. You can navigate deep trees quite quickly, without needing to know where you're going at the outset (did I want to put this in Personal/ or in Vacation Photos/?)

This behavior has really spoiled me, and is probably the thing I miss the most when I need to use Windows for more than a few hours.

I thought the main difference wasn't age, but that macports installs it's own version of binaries that are already on the system (e.g. python or ruby).

This means that if apple changes the binary in the OS, you don't risk breaking the dependency tree.

If there's a way to do this in homebrew, please let me know! I'd like to switch over, and this is the one thing keeping me with macports.

Since they also own the phone OS, they could get the location of those millions of phones at all times, no need to have the maps app open.

It likely would, just not immediately. But salary certainly influences career paths for those still in a position to choose a new career.

To nitpick a little: If your source and final are the same, I don't think you can call it lossy, by definition.

Sept 21st with preorders on sept 14

For this approach, how do you tie the two pieces together (e.g. the Java and Rails parts)? Do you have recommendations for where to start learning about building one system with multiple languages?