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They're working at making smaller apps on people's iPhones. They strip out all the graphics that don't apply to the given phone that's downloading on, plus bitcode is compiled for the specific architecture, so you don't have multiple architectures installed that you don't need.

Often, it's really bad design. For instance, Facebook's app has 18k classes. In other cases, it's a lot of big 3rd party libraries.

The base for iPhones now is 32G not 16G.

That's the difference between a freshman design project and an actual design used in practice. It's unlikely he has the mathematics/engineering background to do a proper analysis of his design.

He's not thinking of the bottle as a pressure vessel (which it is).

The box set for David Bowie's Sound + Vision album included a fourth CD that included an extra video track in addition to three regular CD audio tracks.

The term "killer app" goes back a long way (back to the early 80s) and was first used for Visicalc, I think.

The term "killer app" goes all the way back to the 80s. Back then, Lotus 1-2-3 was considered a killer app as was Wordperfect/Wordstar depending on your needs.

As others have pointed out, it was also used as the file extension for "application programs" on NeXTStep (.app). It continued to OS X which is where "App" came from for iOS applications. It has nothing to do with the name "Apple".

I love that a technique that's so widely used now was the co-invented by a movie star. It's also used in cell phones.

Looking at the info about the formats for that book it seems that the ePub and PDF are unrestricted.

I've never really had a problem with the watermarking in the footer with the person who bought it. It's out of my way so I tend to forget about it.

Technically, they're saying Google will offer them DRM-free, but they're ePub and the PDFs are conversions from ePub. It looks like ebooks.com will offer ePub and PDF that are DRM-free too.

I love the Dropbox sync, although I found it hit or miss. Some books it wouldn't work. But, I've bought at least 50 books from their site.

I tried Safari when I was still in university, but found it terrible (but that was a few years back). I won't pay $400/year for a service like it. I could see maybe half that being reasonable. But, there are so many subscription services now.

I prefer PDF versions because they're formatted nicely. I find that ePub and Mobi versions of technical books almost uniformly terrible.

The Essential System Administration book was a regular reference for me. Thankfully, I was not the sendmail guy.

You're kind of missing the bit about the engineer they hired used to work for the other company.