NotAnEngineer

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by NotAnEngineer 13y ago
This is the rule, not the exception, among addicts. Every recovery program (12-step or not) emphasizes that drugs are not a drug addict's only problem. Obviously they are a very destructive part of the problem, but every addict who sto
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by NotAnEngineer 13y ago
> At some point not so long ago, they also threatened to replace Google's search engine with Bing by default. In iOS 7, Siri (the only search interface Apple cares about) will search Bing by default. Source: http://applei
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by NotAnEngineer 13y ago
(Obligatory: OMG, I'm talking to Paul Lutus!) Yeah, the Apple II era seems to have been particularly destructive with removing copyright notices in favor of "crack screens" and other drivel. Bleah. More recently, I've be
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by NotAnEngineer 13y ago
Horribly off topic, but what is the current status of the Electric Duet player routine? I read somewhere that you had placed it in the public domain in the 90s, but I can't find any confirmation of that.
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by NotAnEngineer 13y ago
This is the most inspiring thing I've read in a long time. There's a lot of chatter on HN about how people became an "expert" in this or that, but for some reason, the way you phrased it really resonated with me. And to
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by NotAnEngineer 13y ago
Coming soon! (But not today.)
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by NotAnEngineer 13y ago
An open source game for the Apple II, written in 6502 assembly language. Original music transcribed from public domain scores (played with the 2-tone Electric Duet software). It's been very mind-opening to have to think about every byt
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by NotAnEngineer 13y ago
> Despite that issue, we want our videos streamed in high quality and securely Based on the previous paragraph (about getting Netflix to almost work on Linux), I'm guessing that the "we" here is consumers of video, not producers or dist
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by NotAnEngineer 14y ago
Thanks!
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by NotAnEngineer 14y ago
There's a Cydia app called BrowserChanger that lets you change the default browser (so clicking a link in Mail will open Chrome instead of Safari, for example). Is there a similar app that lets you change the default maps application?