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cedarorbit7392··on Gmail was down
confirmed.
cedarorbit7392··on French President announces pro-business measures
Agreed with "own merits" but that would be true is competition was local. Once you start compete with Delaware-based company, tax breaks can help and make it more fair.
cedarorbit7392··on "Make something people want" poster
Great idea! It should be more expensive since they are selling quickly and the money is going to charity.
cedarorbit7392··on Zero and forget -- caveats of zeroing memory in C
The assumption that the trivial solution won't be optimized out is, I think, wrong. From your experiment GCC is indeed not smart enough to do so but I would bet that a compiler like ICC would. In this case the best is probably to use some pragmas to avoid optimizing out a statement.
cedarorbit7392··on Open sourcing the “quilt” view for iOS
It's in our plans but we don't have any urgency in doing it. If you feel like doing it, it shouldn't be too hard and we would be happy to integrate your changes.
cedarorbit7392··on Open sourcing the “quilt” view for iOS
Done! http://www.cocoacontrols.com/platforms/ios/controls/tmquiltv...
cedarorbit7392··on Apple Q3 Results: What the Analysts Missed
The explanation advanced for the drop in ASP (= users buying older cheaper devices) is dubious. Using the ASP here is assuming all the devices have been sold in USD.

Over the last six months Euros and Yuans decreased in value. And Apple devices are also sold at a "constant" price in these currencies. This more likely to explain the drop.

cedarorbit7392··on Show HN: textlaundry.com
I was just wondering who were the "professional" editors. Some credentials might increase the trust in your service.
cedarorbit7392··on Why the Nokia N9 will fail
While it might fail, it shows that Nokia is still able to release a phone with some kind of "wow" factor while everyone tends to describe them as "dead", "MS-owned" etc.

Let's hope that the software is as fast and as bug free as in the demo video!

cedarorbit7392··on Tech Products Ahead of Their Time
But GMail doesn't require other people using GMail to be useful.
cedarorbit7392··on Ask HN: Does Your Startup Improve Lives?
We developed Genius Scan, a small scanner app for iPhone. The intent of the app was to make it easy for people to scan documents and send documents when not close to a physical scanner.

One of the best rewards we have is some of the users comments. - "This app simplifies my life and it actually works like it says it does (weird…)." - "My wife went to the hospital and I needed to send my in-laws her diagnosis and discharge papers(They are both M.D.'s) It worked like a charm. It saved me from buying a scanner and going to kinko's!" - "As a student, this app has saved my butt a few times." - "Saved my company over $1100 in courthouse copy fees last month alone." - "When needed to have a document but no copy machine nor fax, it saved me, got a mortgage with with the bank!!! (had to send a few documents)" - "I've used this app for the past year and it is so helpful. I am able to post assignments for my students and copy their worksheets while still in class with them. I do not have a fax machine and this has saved my butt a few times! Yea!!" - "As a traveling sales rep, I have to fax my figures through to our interstate office each night, when staying in motels this can get quite expensive, now I just scan and email. No more horrendous fax costs!! Thanks guys!!"

One of the best emails we received just contained: "FYI genius scan saved my ass on Thursday and now I will graduate in may all because of genius scan!"

So while in the first place it's hard to think an iPhone app can really improve people's life, a few comments tell us that Genius Scan can have a small positive impact on some people's lives. Also, it's interesting how many uses people can find for this app we would never have thought about.

Link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/genius-scan/id377672876?mt=8

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