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Watch Out, Apple
The anti-trust community is all over Google, these days, says an article in the August 2009 issue of Wired Magazine. Fred Vogelstein tells readers that the search giant is the new Microsoft – remember that huge antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft for packaging their browser with Windows? Now they’re interested in the advertising and business ideas [...]
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Tags: antitrust, apple, apple antitrust, apple monopoly, apple sucks, google, google antitrust, internet, microsoft, microsoft antitrust, monopolizing, monopoly, Rant, Technology, watch out apple
Automatic sinks, hand driers, soap dispensers, and more may seem like a dream come true, but this is not always the case. The construction of such a contraption is very simple – you need to create the main function of the device itself (um, duh – I hope that designers can at least do this part, [...]
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Tags: automatic, automatic sensor, bad design, hand drier, hardware, IR, malfunctioning sensor, Rant, retarded products, sensors, sink
The Twitpocalypse Returns
In my last post, I explained what truly went on in the Twitpocalypse, which dealt with tweet IDs passing the limits of the 32-bit signed integer (from -2,147,483,647 to +2,147,483,647), which is the most common datatype in use in computer applications today. Yet, whilst computer science has limits embedded into its structure, Twitter does not [...]
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Tags: 32-bit, 32-bit integer, 32-bit signed integer, 32-bit unsigned integer, 64-bit, 64-bit datatype, 64-bit integer, API, computer science, computer science datatype, computers, integer, microblogging, Programming, signed integer, signed integer limit, social media, social networking, social programming, Technology, twitpocalypse, twitpocalypse problem, twitter, Twitter API, twitter client, unsigned integer, unsigned integer limit
Numerous friends have asked me about this whole Twitpocalypse thing, as they just don’t get it. “What’s this whole deal with signed integers?”, they ask. Well I’m here to clear that up, as I do programming, and in programming, if you don’t know such basics of computer science, you’re doomed.
What the predicters of the [...]
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Tags: 32bit, compsci, compsci bugs, compsci error, computer error, computer science, data types, error, int32, int64, integer, long, overflow, Programming, programming bugs, programming error, signed integer, stack overflow, tech, Technology, twitpocalypse, y2k, year2038
Apple recently released new versions of the iPhone and iTunes SDK. The main purpose of these updates is not to add or improve new features, but to remove some major holes in their software.
Another beta of the iPhone 3.1 SDK was part of the released items, and it held more disappointment for users than happiness. [...]
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Tags: apple, apple is mean, apple is stupid, apple palm, apple sucks, at&t, breaking, iphone, iphone sucks, itunes, palm pre, tech, tethering
This year, I attended the 2-day Microsoft Faculty Summit 2009 at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. This was my first time ever visiting such an awesome company as Microsoft, and I was very amazed and delighted. I was able to speak to one of the programmers at Microsoft, and I was very intrigued. I [...]
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Tags: facsum, facsum2009, faculty summit, faculty summit 2009, geek, microsoft, microsoft conference, microsoft faculty summit, microsoft research, personal, seattle, tech, tech conference, tech event, Technology, technology conference, trip, twitter
Yesterday, I arrived in Seattle for this year’s Microsoft Faculty Summit, my relative accompanying me. Of course, I tweeted (hashtag #facsum) about the sessions I attended today, and took pictures of said sessions and of the Microsoft campus. You can click here to view the gallery. Enjoy! Tomorrow, I shall summarize the main developments exposed [...]
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Tags: 10th anniversary, day1, facsum, facsum2009, faculty summit, faculty summit 2009, microsoft, microsoft conference, microsoft faculty summit, seattle, tech, tech event, technology conference
Implementing GUP in ASP.NET
You may or may not have heard of GUP, but it is used in numerous programming projects for updating purposes. GUP is an acronym for Generic Updater, and it was originally developed for NotePad++, one of my favorite text editors. As you can guess, by “generic”, the developers mean that you can use GUP in [...]
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Tags: asp.net, generic updater, GUP, php, Programming, update, updater
Another Nasty IE Bug
Plain and simple, I detest Internet Explorer. Why, some may ask? Internet Explorer is a retarded browser whose proprietary graphic rendering engine sucks, whose scripting engine fails, whose security does not exist AT ALL, and much much more. Thus, I don’t use IE, and I haven’t used it since a very very long time ago. [...]
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Tags: bug, ie, ie bug, ie sucks, internet explorer sucks!, nasty bug, problem
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