Scorponok

I read on the recent story about FAA regulations that current cockpit iPads are on all the time during takeoff and landing, although I suspect they'll be in airplane mode whenever they're on the plane.

Presumably in case of an emergency, the pilot would always be able to call the control tower to confirm whatever details, even if their tablet was dead, so I don't think it would be a major issue.

I'm pretty sure that if your business depends on Flash, you should have started implementing an exit plan a couple of years ago by now.

For candidates who already have jobs, how would "auditioning" work? Is it assumed that they'd take time off from their current job to do it?

I would assume to stop the restaurant owner/manager taking some (or all) of the tips.

Conflict of interest. If you're advising startup X in the "deliver food to people at lunchtime" space, it could very well be a conflict to do the same to startup Y in the same space, as they'd be competitors.

Aren't you living dangerously by still using garbage collection on iOS at this point? Apple keep making dire statements about how everyone needs to stop using it, so I'd be worried that iOS8 will just remove it entirely, meaning apps that use GC just wouldn't work at all on that OS...

Our app has ~15 view controllers laid out in a single storyboard, and we haven't had any issues with them. We only have one iOS developer, so I don't know if that makes a difference.

We don't really use segues, though, since they seem to add complexity if you want to pass data around between the view controllers.

According to the video you can clear the code, the example if if the code reports "Loose gas cap".

Which are usually followed by Apple saying "We're delighted to have sold [a crapload] of [whatever] this weekend, a record amount etc etc". That's why Apple sellouts are interesting, because they actually tell you how many they've sold. If Microsoft does the same thing, kudos to them, but for the surface RT launch they didn't (IIRC).

Even if google itself isn't going anywhere, if the stock market falls over again it could cut a big chunk out of the value of everything, including "safe" companies like google.

Can you imagine trying to raise 2 children on less than $260k? Thanks Obama :(

I assume they'll want to set up edge caches at all the ISPs or something before going live with this, to save on their bandwidth costs?

This is no longer true when using ARC. See the "Stack Variables Are Initialized with nil" section of http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#releasenotes/Objecti...

"Using ARC, strong, weak, and autoreleasing stack variables are now implicitly initialized with nil."

This doesn't affect plain C variables, but it would solve the issue you had above.

This gets annoying with sites that have actions defined when you click on words, or bring up a popup window when you click, etc. :(

I felt that the inconsistency this post talks about was a good way to emphasize the difference between the "launch an app" icons and the "perform an operation" icons.

So is the problem Uber / Lyft / whatever, or is problem a lack of licensed taxis? If there were more licensed taxis available, women wouldn't have to take a shady unlicensed cab.

Because as soon as they do that, there's less of a reason to spend a lot of money setting up an expensive corporate HQ in Ireland.

"Another recent paper from the journal Consciousness and Cognition by psychologists at the University of Illinois confirms what many have long suspected: a couple of drinks makes workers more creative."

That's definitely what we need more of, investment bankers being "creative".

Someone really dropped the ball on this. They should have had this figured out before they used the name "Metro" for the first time.

I went through the E-2 process a few years ago. IIRC you can pay an extra $1000 to make your application a "high priority" one, which cuts the guaranteed response time from something like 3 months to 30 days.

When I did it as a high-priority application, I got an initial response saying "we need more data" within 2-3 weeks (from what I remember), then the final approval 2-3 weeks after I submitted that info.

Do you have to register it with the copyright office as soon as you create it, or could you create it, register it 10 years later, then immediately sue someone who copied it?

Sure, if you like. I like (for example) the RAII and templating features of C++, but if you want to just use C go for it. I guess what I really mean is, what does Erlang offer beyond "concurrency is easy if you don't share state"?

I've been curious about this for a while: If you can do concurrent processing so easily by message passing, why not just write Java or C++ that just passes messages around instead of sharing state? That way you don't have to learn a whole new programming language to do it.

Maybe the solution is to make it a choice for the user? An option to "clean up documents when space is low on the device" in the instapaper options. If checked, stuff gets stored in cache. If not, in documents.

That way, the default behavior is that "download something = want to keep it on device", but users can do the other one too if they want. I don't think the option is particularly useful, but it might make the app reviewer happy?

My first thought was that this would have fields for me to enter my email address and password, under the pretense of "we will test your password to see if it's secure". Wonder how many people you could get with that...

“One of his jobs after an explosion was to plot where the body parts landed, and to figure out what caused the explosion.”

And I thought my job had bad days.

I think I found a picture of HP's cloud: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Sz5ESDttTuE/S7jLPZqcm-I/AAAAAAAAAI...