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Microsoft Outlook ruins my evening(markshroyer.com)
55 points by Niten 16y ago|22 comments
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by Niten 16y ago
In practice you do run into cross-device issues, though. For instance, the ConnectBot SSH client has a glitch that makes it impossible to type the pipe character with the custom Sense virtual keyboard on the HTC Incredible. But it works f
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by Niten 16y ago
I would hope you're right, except: 1. If all they're after is an assertion that you've used Gmail in that time frame... well, that's already implied by the fact that you've received a notification of the class action and are replying to it
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by Niten 16y ago
I'm going to opt out because I object to these lawyers claiming they're acting on my behalf in suing Google without my consent. I understand that this is considered legally acceptable for class actions in the United States, but I don't thi
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This isn't an OS X specific feature, it's a feature from the FreeBSD userland that Apple borrowed into OS X.
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by Niten 16y ago
PHP will bite you, common sense or not. The language has serious misfeatures – platform-dependent integer sizes, or cgi.fix_pathinfo=1 by default allowing the interpreter to execute files without a .php extension, just off the top of my he
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> Are you willing to go up to 40 middle class families and demand that each of them pay $1000 to have a more refined waiter who vaguely remembers some Proust after partying for 4 years? This is a foolish comment, even beyond your arbitr
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Well my hypothesis is that regardless of one's opinion of the value of mathematics to programming or mathematical knowledge, one is likely to advocate that a strong mathematical background correlates with opining one's given assessment of
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by Niten 16y ago
That seems sort of user-hostile, but hey, it's your call. I don't consider even IE 8 to be a burden any more. It doesn't get some CSS effects right, but stuff generally renders OK without modification. I can sort of understand blocking IE
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by Niten 16y ago
> Please don't give me the stuff about MS promises against suing, it's totally unrealistic. You're wrong. It would be pretty much impossible for Microsoft to sue over Mono at this point, even if they wanted to. You gloss over the fact
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by Niten 16y ago
And I suppose we'll have to get rid of bicycles and pedestrians, too, in this perfect world where intuition of human behavior is unnecessary to safely pilot a vehicle on the road?
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by Niten 16y ago
This especially scares me as a cyclist. I'm sure they'll put a lot of effort into preventing automated cars from hitting other vehicles or slow-moving pedestrians. Now what about bicycles traveling around 20 mph in the right-hand side of
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by Niten 16y ago
For my part, I'm glad there are still companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe "holding onto the desktop", selling me software that I can run on my own hardware, allowing me to keep my data to myself.
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Me too :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1473897 Granted, Apple has a lot of engineering to do before they turn all these disparate parts into a coherent, battle-tested runtime on the order of .NET or the JVM. But it will be inte
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by Niten 16y ago
This is one of the reasons I use a third-party app (NitroDesk TouchDown) for reading Exchange mail on my Android phone. If someone hits "remote wipe" it'll only delete your Exchange data, the rest of your phone remains untouched. http://g
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by Niten 16y ago
> I am not aware of a win or a Linux (I mostly work on Linux) solution either. I'm trying to say this without sounding snarky, but why the heck would you need this on an operating system that already gives you apt-get, pacman, yum, port
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Just throwing the solutions I've found onto the suggestion heap... I prefer to keep all my passwords in an encrypted flat text file, for one thing because I keep more than web site passwords in there, so web-specific password managers don'
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There's no need for a new operating system if your criteria is just "inner workings I can understand". OpenBSD is very thoughtfully implemented, its documentation is top notch, it's open source, and yet it is a general purpose operating sy
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by Niten 16y ago
There's definitely room for improvement over currently used server and desktop operating systems; the security models used by desktop Linux, OS X, Windows, and BSD don't meet the needs of users in a world of malicious software. iOS and And
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That's why I love the software industry. We have such a low financial barrier to if you want to play around with even the deepest systems programming techniques, or the highest-level functional programming languages. All you need is a $40
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> And after this, Ocaml and Erlang moved to the top of the stack, past Scala and Clojure. If the prospect of using the JVM bothers you that much, then why not try Scala .NET or Clojure-CLR?
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by Niten 16y ago
Sometimes there just aren't two valid sides to a story.
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App Inventor essentially fills the same niche as OS X's Automator: No, it doesn't make real programming easier. But there are plenty kinds of applications that honestly don't require what we'd consider real programming to implement, and t
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Dalvik isn't a JVM, and Clojure won't run on it without modification.
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Clojure will be fine, at least. I think I remember Rich saying it was explicitly designed as a multi-VM language in an interview somewhere. Anyway, he already has an official, apparently actively maintained port of Clojure to the .NET CLR
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by Niten 16y ago
It's worse than that, it proves that short-term money drives Oracle. What kind of effect do they think this behavior will have on long-term Java vs. .NET/CLR platform adoption?
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This would be like Microsoft suing the Mono team for its C# and CLI implementations, which it has irrevocably promised not to do: http://www.microsoft.com/interop/cp/default.mspx I was worried when Oracle acquired Sun, but I never thought
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by Niten 16y ago
Another advantage of LaTeX over WYSIWIG alternatives is its simple plaintext representation. If we can still open any documents from our time period in 200 years, we'll be able to open that old LaTeX document of yours, because it's just
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Riding somewhere on a bicycle can keep you cooler than if you were just standing or walking outside, provided you're riding at a leisurely pace on a bicycle designed for road use (and not some horrific retail store contraption with useles
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I often bike to work, which for me is about 26 miles each direction. I take a shower right before I leave, and when I get there I just have to rinse down and change out of my cycling jersey. The theory behind the pre-ride shower is that

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