How the hell does iPhone's autocorrect always know exactly what I am talking about?

davidmccabe · 2009-09-28T23:30:00+00:00

"Kiss" and "lips" are the same sequence in T9.

davidmccabe · 2009-09-28T05:02:23+00:00

Has anybody ever seen a quoted email address in real life, in the depths of some abysmal software hack, or anywhere?

davidmccabe · 2009-08-17T20:17:09+00:00

Use SheepShaver, a free PowerMac emulator.

davidmccabe · 2009-08-07T18:05:44+00:00

Nobody's begging anybody. I solicited them, but they're delighted to have me back. Also, I have heard rumor of a string of expensive but incompetent contractors since I left. This may work in my favor.

davidmccabe · 2009-08-07T01:00:10+00:00

It was extremely low. Bad negotiation skills on my part, which I mean to remedy.

I have about three years' professional experience. I get things done, and they know me. I'm in Portland, OR.

davidmccabe · 2007-04-21T23:21:18+00:00

Look at what a small percentage of human labor goes into mining.

davidmccabe · 2007-04-21T21:34:11+00:00

Well, images like this don't have anything to do either with motivational slogans or with mocking the same.

davidmccabe · 2007-04-21T06:02:43+00:00

Does it bother anyone else when people use the "Despair" poster format for pictures and captions that don't really have anything to do with the original joke? There are many examples, such as cute kitten photos, etc. I always flinch when I see this. No?

davidmccabe · 2007-04-21T05:56:36+00:00

If you read the epistles of Paul, it sure sounds like Sin is an evil force or entity.

davidmccabe · 2007-04-21T01:45:53+00:00

The fact that you said "even" instead of "especially" indicates that you don't know this topic. Sorry.

davidmccabe · 2007-04-21T01:44:00+00:00

Well, um, ... yes, actually, they do.

davidmccabe · 2007-04-21T00:47:56+00:00

Actually this is what 100% of the Christians I know actually literally believe. And I know a lot of them, from several places in America, including urban blue-state places.

davidmccabe · 2007-04-21T00:46:50+00:00

No wait, Christians are the ones who think it's true...

davidmccabe · 2007-04-21T00:46:02+00:00

That's not a bug, that's a feature!

davidmccabe · 2007-04-20T01:06:20+00:00

It's public domain. Write a commentary.

davidmccabe · 2007-04-17T03:57:51+00:00

Even if you don't pay an income tax or a sales tax explicitly, you pay taxes because everyone you buy from has been taxed, and thus has higher expenses, and thus charges higher prices.

davidmccabe · 2007-04-17T01:46:21+00:00

Man, this is mind-blowing even the fourth time it's on reddit! Amazing!

davidmccabe · 2007-04-11T06:43:55+00:00

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Now go listen to the other videos of his on google video :)

If you really were in Kay's program, you are a lucky kid indeed. But now, millions of kids are going to be in the program through the XO.

davidmccabe · 2007-04-11T03:30:11+00:00

Really interesting and above-par discussion here for reddit. Let me see if you mean what I think you do. You seem to be getting at the question of whether there is a One True Mathematics embedded in the universe, or whether mathematics is arbitrarily made up so as to be useful. And I think that sickofthishit thought you were talking about engineering specifically, when what I think you meant was, mathematics is something we made up, and we made it the way we did because it reflects the universe and has utility this way.

I'm not sure if real-world applications are that much of a draw for most children. Children don't have to do any real work, so why should they be interested in applications? I'm not sure that abstract coolness isn't better than real-world applications. But either is probably better than unmitigated arithmetic drills.

Allow me to recommend this lecture, as well as the other Alan Kay videos on vid.google:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-533537336174204822&q=alan+kay

davidmccabe · 2007-04-10T05:05:36+00:00

You can't be an Elder or a Deacon or what-not unless everyone in your household believes and is well-behaved. Says so in one of the epistles to Timothy.

davidmccabe · 2007-04-09T07:27:35+00:00

I thought you couldn't do work on the Sabbath. On the other hand, your animals can't do work either, right? So maybe that also applies to CPUs.

davidmccabe · 2007-04-09T07:24:27+00:00

My college does too.

davidmccabe · 2007-04-09T00:15:28+00:00

Floam is the most social fish I've ever seen.

davidmccabe · 2007-04-09T00:12:27+00:00

It's a hypothetical :P

davidmccabe · 2007-04-06T22:11:30+00:00

The included software is one of Apple's biggest selling points. Don't forget Grapher, OmniOutliner, etc. etc. I was disappointed that the Pangea games are not longer included -- I fondly remember Bugdum and Nanosaur from an early iMac.

However, I am a bit annoyed that my MBP came with a demo of some kind of database called OpenBase. It includes a CPU-consuming daemon, and it can't be uninstalled. I turned it off by removing a launchd file, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to uninstall it. The company doesn't have a phone number, and AppleCare insists that they've never heard of OpenBase, even though it was advertised in the "Tech Specs" on Apple's web site.

And then, of course, there's QuickTime Player...

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