CrankyPants

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by CrankyPants 13y ago
We tested AeroFS and BTSync on a variety of data in shared folders, and consistently found sync issues with BTSync. We eventually abandoned BTSync for AeroFS, and while it hasn't been perfect, it's been considerably better at hand
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
This is correct. They also show when someone is a Vine reviewer (which is an invitation-only program), even if the product being reviewed was purchased, and not provided via Vine. The conflict of interest argument will always carry some wei
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Same here. There's no way I'd use an IM client that doesn't allow me to set my status manually.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Except your decision really won't win you as many customers as it'll lose you. I was interested in buying it until I saw this thread. Having manual status turned off by default, but available to enable in settings, shouldn't
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Eh, "the Apple bug" is a bit off the mark in this case, since Apple's own IM client allows one to set away status.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
• As a point of reference, the average price of a new car in August was $31,252. (That's a US statistic, but all I found.) The average cost of a bicycle is probably three-figures. • Ownership of the two is not mutually exclusive. • Usa
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Sure, it had its roots in KDE's KHTML and KJS, but WebKit was started as an internal Apple project, and without their efforts it's highly unlikely that KHTML/KJS would have ever developed into the dominant layout engine. Acco
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
WebKit? ALAC? On top of that, Apple's done more than any other single player (except perhaps Adobe!) to move the industry away from Flash, to open alternatives. No, they don't always follow standards or always have open implementa
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
I'd be interested to see your thoughts on each distro, even if it's just a sentence or two. Switching quickly, while obviously making some types of perspective difficult to develop in such a short timeframe, probably makes it easi
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
I suspect there were other factors which prevented your success. There were no measures to technologically limit one's ability to perform multiple installations from a purchased OS X install disc. You could buy two different Tiger inst
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
That's interesting, I'd like to know more about that. There are certainly areas where some level of multitasking can be trained. For some, it's still merely fast switching, and for the gifted few, there's the capacity to
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
I like that, though they'd need a Humvee.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Dual-view, in two windows. Also, uploading would make it an instant non-starter for me, due to data sensitivity issues.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
This kind of link-bait title and article seems above The New Yorker.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
"You can multitask? Fine. Then read a book and write one at the same time." -David Weinberger, 1999 Obviously (the excellent) William James predates this by some time, but within the context of the modern era, this sort of thing h
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Noticed the same thing. I hope they're more careful with their software design and monetization plan than they were with that announcement. And at some point they should probably address that it's still an advertisement–for their
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
They've become considerably less transparent about fraud-related adjustments in recent months, both in the UI, and on invoices. Employees who seek clarification tend to get very little in the way of answers. Not saying anything shady i
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Yeah this kind of scenario is absolutely realistic. I've seen, firsthand, stuff that makes the above look downright honorable, and done by major, major players. When there's money and success at stake, it's difficult to be to
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
I've been fortunate enough to have first-hand access to the analytics platforms of a number of fairly high-traffic sites (in the tens-to-hundreds of millions of unique visitors per month), and not once did Hitwise, Alexa, or any of tho
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
That's fair. I'll do better.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Thanks. Viciousness wasn't my intent. I'll rephrase it: the definitions on the site, or at least the few-dozen I looked at, seem like forced attempts at a particular strain of hip cleverness. Which is what one often sees when midd
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
I'm curious to know just how the original comment didn't reek of Reddit's culture of vacuous pithiness. Down-votes without discussion strike me as being against the generally productive atmosphere this place usually has.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Sorry, typed that one out on a touchscreen and blew it. "baitait" = "bait"
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Sorry for the stalkwardness, but I guess my horrorlarity made everyone feel totally brewed. Now could those who're downvoting me please tell me what about my feedback they found either inaccurate or irrelevant? A site like this, if it
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Thanks for the insight. Every major publication runs a piece just like this every few years. The exotic countries and methods always differ somewhat, but the formula is always the same. It's the pseudo-intellectual version of the fille
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
I'm not sure enabling hipsters to sound like they're scripted by the writers of Juno is a good thing.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
He's like the drunk neighbor who tries to break into your home, thinking he's locked himself out of his. Dude probably thinks he's scoring comment karma at Reddit with that gem.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Leaders from Saudi Arabia, India, and probably the UAE, Lebanon, Algeria and others all disagree with you on this one.
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
It's a less effective tactic, though. More people are terrified by the thought of being blown out of the sky than they are of being blown out of a long, boring line. Airline terrorism plays against people's innate fears, and is th
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by CrankyPants 13y ago
Yahoo was mismanaged to an utterly stunning degree before her time, so I don't doubt that a more sensible approach is going to do net-good things for them.

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