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peterknego··on US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time
Hmm, does this apply if I use leased server in a leased space.
peterknego··on Apple to crush carriers, become direct service provider
It's more likely that this rumors are a move to extract even more cash from telcos.
peterknego··on Google App Engine community support is moving to Stack Overflow
How is this news? It's been announced March 23rd.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!searchin/google...

peterknego··on List of Printer Manufacturers working with the Secret Service"
Not Samsung?
peterknego··on Map of ToshL App Syncs Around the World in Real Time (Open-sourced)
This serves no purpose for the user. Just a marketing gimmick.
peterknego··on Google App Engine's Datastore Admin is Terribly Inefficient
A GAE datastore delete takes multiple operations because it also updates indexes:

1 entity delete = 2 Writes + 2 Writes per indexed property value + 1 Write per composite index value

All from this page: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/billing.html#Billable_... And more about why it is so: http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/life_of_write.html

Well, the OP is just another coder who can't read docs, but can write a blog.

peterknego··on Google Awarded Driverless Vehicle Patent
The abstract says:

"Disclosed are methods and devices for transitioning a mixed-mode autonomous vehicle from a human driven mode to an autonomously driven mode. Transitioning may include stopping a vehicle on a predefined landing strip and detecting a reference indicator. Based on the reference indicator, the vehicle may be able to know its exact position. Additionally, the vehicle may use the reference indictor to obtain an autonomous vehicle instruction via a URL. After the vehicle knows its precise location and has an autonomous vehicle instruction, it can operate in autonomous mode."

So it does not patent "driverless vehicle", but a particular method of transition from mixed-mode to driverless mode.

peterknego··on Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it
USB and PDMI are standard connectors. What part don't you understand? And, btw, how do you rip off the cable?
peterknego··on Just released: LeanEngine, open-source solution to cloud-enable your mobile app
I'm not expert in parse or stackmob, so I can't compare it feature-by-feature. But there are two general advantages of LeanEngine:

1. It's open-source so you have all the freedoms that come with OSS. You can tweak it, add features, fork it, etc..

2. It runs on your AppEngine instance. So you have full ownership/access to your data. Also AppEngine is proven to be scalable, has tons of features, has SLA and is (still) cheaper than comparable cloud solutions.

Second,

peterknego··on Most laser printer printed pages have tracking watermark
One could mess up "the system" by printing several times on the same sheet of paper (possibly also changing orientation top-down).
peterknego··on Dynamic Periodic Table
It's broken on iPad.
peterknego··on “C#, it’s just not portable”
You could make the same argument about C, which exists on much more platforms than C#.

But writing in C does not make a program portable. Neither does writing it in C#.

So yes, C# compiler might be portable, but programs written in C# are not.

So yes, C# compiler might be portable, but C# programs are not.

peterknego··on Nortel Announces the Winning Bidder of Its Patent Portfolio
Bad news for Google.
peterknego··on It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer.
I have Google Chrome 10 on OSX and everything is fine. I won't say great, but fine. And the background is snow. Text is grey.
peterknego··on It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer.
When I set to write that post I was trying to base it on some real data, not personal experience.
peterknego··on It's official: developers get better with age. And scarcer.
If you look at original linked doc, you'll see that there are three 68-yr olds, that have on average 19.000+ points. That's why I only used in graphs age groups that have at least 100 developers.