Splines

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by Splines 15y ago
You must be exaggerating. I have a SD960 and it kicked the crap out of my 3G, and I'm no photographer to speak of. I can set a custom white balance, aperture and focus off-center if I want. With my 3G there isn't much control at all. My
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by Splines 15y ago
It'd be interesting to see how your (and other's) setup have endured actual attacks. As someone non-versed in security, I think your approach sounds great. But how does it fare when someone comes knocking? I wonder the same thing about my
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by Splines 15y ago
I always write "int* foo", so you're not alone. I also prefer { else } too.
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by Splines 15y ago
This. A thousand times this. I use perforce for my daily work, and all too often I'll get to a stopping point and think to myself that my approach isn't working - usually I'll wrap my stuff up in a changelist and save the diff off to a fil
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by Splines 15y ago
I think it's probably more that the Android apps team has a higher budget/headcount than the iPhone apps team (I have no idea, but just a guess).
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by Splines 15y ago
Isn't this sort of a sanity-level thing you'd check in QA? You know, install the app and boot it?
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by Splines 15y ago
I think this is one of the places where Win8's tablet interface will gain fans. I've seen the developer preview and being able to snap windows to the side and get a "mini mode" (or whatever it's called) is really cool.
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by Splines 15y ago
The latest iOS 4 version (I think it's 4.2.1?) is better than iOS 4.0, but it's still slower than 3.1.3. The only reason why I had iOS 4 on my 3G was app compatibility. I eventually was frustrated enough to go back to 3.1.3 and it was like
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by Splines 15y ago
I wonder where the operator has to stand. Maybe it takes it one side at a time? Otherwise you'd see camera guys hiding behind trees and such, which is an amusing thought.
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by Splines 15y ago
Yeah, $249 is way too much. I'd be pressed to spend more than $30 on a thermostat when the one I have works good enough. Programming my current one is like pulling teeth, but I only do it once a year or so (if that). I keep it low and don
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by Splines 15y ago
There's an amusing prank where you call two Chinese restaurants: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz9ra9FqNKQ (I think they pulled this prank on a late night show as well, I can't find the video though.)
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by Splines 15y ago
Sometimes they can surprise you: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3109213/sfb.jpg My daughter was almost 3 when she drew this. Most of her stuff doesn't come out like this, but I saved this one since it was weirdly real.
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by Splines 15y ago
There's something universal about the struggle between IT and students in schools. It's definitely a breeding ground for creativity and information sharing.
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by Splines 15y ago
Indeed. I've heard the adage "when you're on your death bed, are you going to wish that you spent more time in the office?" and I tend to agree with it. It's not easy to find a job (or purpose) so great that we wish to stay on this earth a
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by Splines 15y ago
Up next: What ports do I have open?
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by Splines 15y ago
Reminds me of a thought I had about babies: How does that little bunch of cells grow into a living, breathing human being? Surely there isn't enough information in there to do that. Answer: It can't, and it doesn't. Not without the mother.
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by Splines 15y ago
So let's all make our own clothes, grow our own foods, invent our own pastimes, work random hours, ignore road signs, and build our own cars. There's a happy middle, and I think we're approaching it (given the mobile ecosystem, from both si
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by Splines 15y ago
What I don't understand is why the earpiece couldn't also double as an "external" speaker. They're about the same size.
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by Splines 15y ago
Spoiler alert. I'm looking forward to poking around and finding some of these on my own.
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by Splines 15y ago
That's great to hear, I didn't know that :)
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by Splines 15y ago
What MSFT absolutely nails in this arena is the experience in the XBL marketplace. If you buy something, it's yours forever (well, longer than in the app store, anyway). Many many games have been pulled, usually because the owner of the g
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by Splines 15y ago
IRC with image links would have been easier to consume.
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by Splines 15y ago
This is where I see value in color.com (seeing photos of the past at your current location), but it's sort of a chicken-and-egg problem.
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by Splines 15y ago
There's also a StayFocusd[1] plugin for Chrome which will block sites for you. I'm struggling with my own procrastination and it seems to be helping, although I find myself distracting myself via other means :-/ [1] https://chrome.google.c
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by Splines 15y ago
Thanks for the work - I loved notifo and have it hooked up through Growl to ping me when important things happen. It pains me to need to search for a replacement when it worked so well, but after all, nothing is permanent. Good luck with
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by Splines 15y ago
It's not rational to turn my PC off? Why would I want my home PC turned on at 3AM, exactly?
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by Splines 15y ago
... from something that would be extremely traumatizing when done with bare hands. The military acknowledges how traumatizing this could be. From section 7.4 in this doc ( http://library.enlisted.info/field-manuals/series-2/FM21_150... ):
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by Splines 15y ago
Exactly. I can only buy this line of thinking if you're in charge of mission critical machines (if it ain't broke, don't fix it). For the vast majority of people, heading down this rabbit hole isn't worth the effort. (On the flip-side, it
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by Splines 15y ago
Exactly. The sort of people that are buying a Touchpad right now aren't the same type that will buy a $500 device and spend several hundred more on apps. Heck, I'd like to buy a Touchpad at $99, but only because I'm interested in getting A
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by Splines 15y ago
I'd like to think it went mainstream. You can still find those same discussions, but they've gone to the subreddits (which was a fantastic idea, by the way). Maybe HN should do something similar.

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