mpweiher

Steady small but spaced updates is just about worst case for battery if you're on 3G. You want relatively large batch sizes so the system can turn the radios off and keep them off. Obviously doesn't…

Sort of like the interrogation technique demonstrated by the new "Sherlock": instead of asking questions that your opposite doesn't want to answer, make (false) assertions that they will want to disp…

In fact, you are looked at kinda funny if you don't jaywalk in most parts of Berlin.

German here: I found myself much more limited by artificial, external rules when I lived and worked in the states than here in Germany.

Having programmed for 20+ years in both Smalltalk and Objective-C ( + implemented both + contributed to Squeak,..), I have to disagree with you there. For me, the Objective part of Objective-C is ver…

While I agree with the title, I am not so sure about the solution presented. HATEOAS, whether encoded in JSON or XML, can only give you so much information about the semantics of links. IMHO, what's …

It's the third iteration of a prototype, though IIRC it was always billed as a prototype that could actually be produced or at least be very close: "Seriennahes Konzeptstudie". http://en.wikipedia…

Two of the examples aren't even Objective-C...

Very cool tech, and the manufacturing process looks doable as well. :-) Except for us poor mac-heads, how is iTunes going to make me some Graphene?? I was a bit disappointed that there weren't any nu…

I dimly remember a language that just hard-limited loops. I thought it was John Pane's HANDS system, but I can't seem to find a reference in the thesis...can anybody refresh my memory? http://www.cs…

Exactly. When I moved to the Bay Area to work for Apple, it was all very nice but had a strange "taste" to it, sort of like Cowslip's warren in Watership Down . It's not just the health insurance, i…

Where's the jail-time?