Splines

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691.
by Splines 15y ago
I think it's interesting that "correcthorsebatterystapl" is more secure than "correcthorsebatterystaple". Makes sense, but it's amusing to see the time drop as you add letters.
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by Splines 15y ago
What if I'm in Canada and call someone in the US? Which laws apply? Alternatively, what if I'm in the US, call someone in Canada, and they conference call a 3rd person in the US?
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by Splines 15y ago
I think Valve's titles are very PC-centric. I'm guessing that they will continue this route, even if they made a "PC-in-a-box". If I'm a Valve customer interested in 1st party titles (HL3, L4D3, Portal 3, etc.), why would I buy a console (
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by Splines 15y ago
Valve making a console would put them between a rock and a hard place - either force Steam users to use the console and alienate their loyal PC base, or compete head-to-head with the PC market and have a hard uphill battle.
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by Splines 15y ago
My problem with all these social networks is getting the family on board. I'm still waiting for a mature product that I can be confident about sharing with them - G+ is there, but not really anything else. I don't want to get +20 people on
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by Splines 15y ago
It depends for what: - FB for photos for my relatives/friends that have FB accounts - Posterous/G+ for more personal photos (just neat stuff I take a picture of) - Costco Photos for my parents-in-law I guess that last one is the "unsolved p
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by Splines 15y ago
> When you think you have just found a 0-day in your systems and want to check if you are right or not. That's like shooting yourself in the foot to see if the bullet hole is the same.
698.
by Splines 15y ago
> Photo sharing is something that everyone is trying desperately to solve. Honestly - is this not a solved problem? I have a hard enough time choosing what service to use to share pictures on, there's not exactly a dearth of servic
699.
by Splines 15y ago
Instagram has a social network!? I must be missing something when I open their app. It seems like a "add a funny filter to your picture" sort of thing.
700.
by Splines 15y ago
3 days does sound like a long time if you're an expert in the product. If they weren't, then those 3 days are very likely well spent.
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by Splines 15y ago
Keep in mind that there is a non-zero cost to the un-remembered, in that they may be cognizant that they will not be remembered prior to their death. I would tell the couples that I am going to choose A, but instead choose B.
702.
by Splines 15y ago
It's probably the same psychology that drives many sales ("buy now and get double your offer!"). Force action before higher reasoning can take hold. Imagine if they modified slot machines to worsen your odds if you didn't put in another qu
703.
by Splines 15y ago
This is a slimy practice, but I what I wouldn't mind, at all , are ads when I first connect to the AP. Make me watch a video, or let me click through a few pages of ads for local services - if I'm at a hotel, I'm likely from out-of-town a
704.
by Splines 15y ago
This would make an interesting RTS. 2 teams, 4 players on each side. Each economy can survive on their own, but there is a natural chain that can be built to allow one player on each side to have an overwhelming advantage over the other t
705.
by Splines 15y ago
Is this a good analogy to make? I was thinking that feature bloat is a consequence of this sort of thing happening (applications start out missing features, eventually features start getting added, and they keep getting added to the point w
706.
by Splines 15y ago
/r/futureworldproblems: I'm wearing glasses because I can't afford LASIK, but everybody around me thinks I'm an AR douche
707.
by Splines 15y ago
Someone will inevitable try to get the JVM running on it, and then run minecraft on it.
708.
by Splines 15y ago
I'm sort of in the same boat. I heard about it, downloaded it, and was thinking "that's it?". Taking pictures using the stock iphone camera app is easier and faster.
709.
by Splines 15y ago
I work at Microsoft on the Word team. If you have a problem with a Word document, shoot me an email (it's in my profile) and I'll see what I can do.
710.
by Splines 15y ago
You take the good with the bad. This is one of the markets that startups can serve.
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by Splines 15y ago
> The only problem so far is - once a year they need to use free windows-only application, that doesn't run in WINE, to calculate taxes. They just go to neighborns for a few hours. If you're in the US, I've been using the web app tax so
712.
by Splines 15y ago
> Apple is rumoured to be entering the TV market, and we know it won't be with a me-too commodity product. I have a feeling they'll stick with the Apple TV. They might pioneer some connective technology to make it easier to plug into a
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by Splines 15y ago
I think it's gotten significantly better as time goes on. Going back to the SNES/Genesis days, ports (either direction) would often be an entirely different code base, so it'd be the same game only in spirit. I also don't recall very many
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by Splines 15y ago
> There is only one problem. PGP and the current state of the art are too damn hard for the general population at large to use. [...] I use enigmail + thunderbird, and it's pretty simple to use. It's only difficult because the tools
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by Splines 15y ago
There's the 720kb 3.5" floppies too. I remember there was a shady outfit(s) that sold punchers you could use on these disks to trick the drive into thinking it was a 1.44mb disk. Of course, those 720kb disks were never intended to store 1.
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by Splines 15y ago
> "How did you know what to type at a command line?" My son asks me this all the time. What he doesn't know is the amount of time I spent going over the contents of DOS's built-in help.
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by Splines 15y ago
CTRL+A can also do the trick.
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by Splines 15y ago
I was thinking the same thing, but I don't think that's sustainable, nor is it a good user experience. If you have X choices of IAP features available, are you going to test the 2^(X+1) configurations out there? Probably the best you could
719.
by Splines 15y ago
It must have taken careful coordination to get them into the starting position too. I'd be interested to see videos of solutions they've come up with. They could even try solutions that exist today (variable speed limits, hard shoulder ope
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by Splines 15y ago
As a parent that has read "Cat in the Hat" countless times to two children, that first entry on the page is a poetic monstrosity. Cute, but terrible.

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