DLWormwood

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by DLWormwood 16y ago
Be careful of this, due to Apple’s current policies, each refund costs the developer money beyond the money they receive. Apple keeps the 30% commission on the sale, and bills the developer the full purchase price. (I’m not sure how the I
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
I just double-checked my profile page, and there is no blank for a Twitter account. How did you scrub the profile field to detect such accounts? (Mine’s the same username between HN, Twitter, and Reddit, among others.)
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
This is me, as well. I’ve found that every time I’m between jobs, my weeks go from 24/7 to 28/6. The worst part of the cycle is when my bedtime’s about noon; I can’t find many places to shop or run errands before 10am and most everything’s
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
> prepaid anonymous credit card business Haven’t these been targeted by government regulation in the last couple years? I remember reading about police agencies wanting these banned (along with pre-paid cellphones) for enabling the drug
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
Even though the problem is probably much worse in ideographic scripts, we alphabet users haven’t been immune. (We had a head start, after all.) About the only thing I can write reliably any more is my signature; every once in a blue moon wh
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
Yes, although the silicon was slow coming. For a while, the iPod was the only game in town. The few other devices that used AAC at the time (like a Sony 8cm CD player I used to use) used the older MP3 style container instead of the modern M
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
“Jitterbug” phones are marketed as simple, no-frill for certain demographics. (Mostly senior citizens and the vision impared.) IIRC, the outfit also tried to market a phone for little kids called the “Ladybug,” but that didn’t get far. htt
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
That depends if the parent was involved in approving the agreement. When I skimmed it last year when I first signed up, I remembered there being some kind of “if the developer is under 18, have a representative of age read and agree instead
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
> I bought this app. I'm more than willing to support the the Rebellion. I haven't actually verified that this app works as demonstrated but for a dollar it's worth the risk. I have no intentions of paying another $20 a month to AT&
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
Read what I wrote more closely. I didn’t say “no contacts,” I said “few.” Being social doesn’t imply packing our “monkeyspheres” to the 100 person maximum that the social butterflies seem to want to subject everybody to.
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
Both the Wii and DSi can play the format iTunes currently uses. I think the PSP and PS3 can as well. I’m also pretty sure Archos and a couple other of the high end media players also work with AAC. AFAIK, only the low end stuff, like SanDis
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
I never thought to look in OS X’s command line only toolbox for that... but it’s just as well. The Xcode version of Rez can’t cope with way this format is written. Even re-saving the file as MacRoman/CR-delimited didn’t help much; the file
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
One example I’d make is getting dongle-free or CD-free copies of software. This is especially handy for laptop users to get a cracked copy so they wouldn’t risk losing something and getting left high and dry while traveling. This is conside
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
I know I’m going against the grain here, but I’ve always been suspicious of people who claim that humans are a “social animal.” Thing is, the concept is a continuum, yet most people who say it mean it in a context like ants, bees and bonobo
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
I double-clicked on the .rsrc file, since I still have a working resource editor (Resorcerer) on my OS X Mac. No dice; it’s in the ancient MPW “Rez” format that acted as the original way to store resource information for development and so
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
> How is recommend a difficult term to understand? Because Consumer Reports is using the term with the correct denotation, while being oblivious to the media and population at large using this term connotatively. Most people think the w
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
What? Isn’t $100,000 in prize money a big enough favor to begin with? This post just discusses the winners of a contest he posted about before as a post-mortem. If you were in the contest because of reading about in his blog, would you rath
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
> far more harmful to the oil industry in the long run. Given that this is a media driven news cycle type event, a short term fix may be the only thing that could work to deflect criticism. Besides, large corporations are not known for
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
I came here to post the same thing. As much I as hate America’s current dependance on foreign oil (BP is foreign, despite the technically local well), so long as we continue to use automotive technologies the way we do, oil acquisition is
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
> It's very hard for a republic to get corruption, waste, and crime to zero, it almost never happens. It is very possible got a good monarch to clean house and get corruption, waste, and crime to zero. Stuff like this makes me wonder if
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
I found the initial attitude that non-games are at a disadvantage to practical apps kind of strange. My understanding (which may be confirmed soon if my iOS project pans out) is that game apps tend to have less staying power financially th
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
> I'm not sure if it was due to my attention span or because it just wasn't that engaging. …or outright sabotage by the writer. He challenges (more like, dares ) the reader on a couple of occasions to remember something he wrote earlie
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
> But is forcibly blocking this really the ultimate solution? /etc/hosts, Freedom, cubicles, log cabins, monasteries… Don't we just fight a symptom that we should tackle otherwise? There's probably some evolutionary reason why we're pro
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
> Atheist beliefs can change, and indeed would change, if verifiable proof of a diety was forthcoming. How do you know this, when many simpler things in life have “proof”, yet many still are in denial about them? (Read: the moon landing
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
I've read this before, and I sympathize with his gripes, but it strikes me as a UX minefield to abandon the conceit now. If for no other reason, it's very useful to see the "box filter" effect when magnifying images when doing pixel art ma
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
Not exactly what is meant by "negative tax" in the article. You have to earn money before you're eligible to get the credit, with the amount based on size of family. Whereas the negative tax of the article gives you more and more money the
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
> I believe he has hit the nail on the head with his analysis of the problem, yet I completely disagree with his solution, which is negative income tax i.e direct government cash to the poor. You misread the article. That "negative tax"
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
I’m not saying I don’t believe you (laws like this are famous for accidental side effects), but I’m having a hard time understanding how a law targeted towards business management executives regarding financial accounting can impact labor l
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
Why in the wide, wide world of sports does a "iTunes App Store" app even exist in Android's storefront? Who would download such a thing, even assuming it's some kind ad-impression scam app?
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by DLWormwood 16y ago
What would happen if you delete the App Store app itself? If nothing else, a couple of the apps have to be handled differently, to prevent bricking the device (or, at least, force an iTunes sync to restore functionality). Unlike the Find

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