Zev

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by Zev 17y ago
I wonder how irritating it would be to actually use that bottle to drink out of. One of the reasons that I tend to avoid Fiji water is because of the shape of the bottle (although, the environmental impact of the bottle and high price per
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by Zev 17y ago
Pages.app (for Mac, at least) can usually display most .doc(x) files properly. The only issue that I've run into is when a professor uses a font that doesn't come with a Mac. And, in that case, Pages defaults to Lucida Grande, rather then C
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by Zev 17y ago
You need to be near a WiFi access point... Correct me if I'm wrong – although I don't think I am - but, isn't the point of wifi that you don't need to stay tethered to a router? And the iPad supports 802.11n, so you'll be able to get a
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by Zev 17y ago
Brent Simmons (makes NetNewsWire for Mac and iPhone) made a very good post on this topic (well, charging for features, not related to open source specifically) awhile back: http://inessential.com/2009/07/16/dont_offer_50_for_your_fav... .
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by Zev 17y ago
Literal, fanboyish answer: "Buy a Mac Pro or Mac Mini and stick it under the table and use whatever monitor/keyboard/mouse you want." Practical, not-as-fanboyish answer: I'm guessing that your aesthetic taste varies from mine (since I like
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by Zev 17y ago
Ack. Didn't mean to downvote you, sorry. And agreed, if you want a Mac, just buy one. Refurb or second hand, if there's too much of a sticker shock.
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by Zev 17y ago
There's an entire site dedicated to this sort of thing, thats slightly more organized than a big list: http://www.cocoadev.com/ . Its Mac-centric, but it covers the Foundation framework, so its worth knowing about, even if you only do iPho
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by Zev 17y ago
The entire Russian army was fought to a stand-still in Afghanistan and later also in Chechnya by much smaller, less well equipment forces using modern insurgent techniques. (In my admittedly limited knowledge,) I don't know if Afghanistan
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by Zev 17y ago
Looking at AppWhirl, it is slightly more then a glorified RSS reader. You can make a template (choose text and background colors as well as the background image) for your site and throw in tweets as well. No, its nothing complicated. Yes,
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by Zev 17y ago
I just said something true. You "rebutted" it with something totally wrong, somehow assuming that I was wrong. Why would you even do that? Because I don't believe that what you said is true. I don't see how It has been all over the news
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by Zev 17y ago
Apple's been removing apps that use private API's. Or apps that they deem "inappropriate". So, unless you make an app with the feed of $somePornSiteYouLike, I don't see either of those issues popping up from this. Although, if all your app
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by Zev 17y ago
My (uneducated about security) guess is that it is because most bugs are in code written in a language by a programmer, not runtime bugs or bugs in the language itself. And that when it comes to languages, how easy it is to shoot yourself i
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by Zev 17y ago
Love the simplicity of the idea (and the implementation too, for that matter). The cancel button, however, doesn't cancel.
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by Zev 17y ago
Do you know this from experience? Yup. I'll go over what its like for the app that I work on, but, what muhfuhkuh said is very accurate as well. I work on an app thats in the app store for $1.99. We see some bad reviews (people requesti
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by Zev 17y ago
That might be the case at $.99. But if you go up a bit (even to $1.99 or $2.99), the amount of bad reviews like that decreases pretty quickly.
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by Zev 17y ago
Perfectly fine to do; even better if you post it yourself. If the posts are interesting, they'll get upvoted. If not, they won't.
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by Zev 17y ago
Sure, and this is a great thing. However, as my reply quoted, it was in response to "lacked any sort of violence." 1000+ dead and many more injured is a poor definition of "any sort of violence." And I admitted that I was wrong, right awa
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by Zev 17y ago
And something more recent to show that the trend has continued? Romania has elections every 4 years, I believe. That paper was published after one round of elections. There's been a few rounds since.
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by Zev 17y ago
Back when this was happening, was it on Windows XP by any chance? Because ClearType isn't enabled by default on XP (although it is on Vista and 7). ClearType makes a huge difference in how fonts look on Windows.
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by Zev 17y ago
Helvetica and Helvetica Neue are different font families. And, AFAIK, Windows only ships with Helvetica, not Helvetica Neue . And I don't really consider myself a designer (at least, not a web designer), but, you're right that I didn't rea
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by Zev 17y ago
Well, when I'm writing CSS, I do that. But, thats not the case for a very large majority of the sites out there online. So, I'm wondering if there's any actual reason behind Arial, rather then Helvetica being first (besides the obvious "mor
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by Zev 17y ago
My biggest problem with Arial is: font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; Most (something like 99%?) of computers come with Arial. So, even the ones that have Helvetica installed as well, will get Arial, since its listed first. It
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by Zev 17y ago
Point. Its late for me and I got slightly jumbled up. You're absolutely right that Romania was the most violent of the revolutions and that I shouldn't have included them in the lacking violence part. I've edited the original post to mentio
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by Zev 17y ago
except to the extent that the ex-Soviet republics tended to be even more of an economic shambles. Exactly. Thats it. The economic position of the state prior to their transition away from communism absolutely has an effect on how they man
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by Zev 17y ago
Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia? They weren't satellite states during the Cold War; they were part of the Soviet Union (or Russia, if you go back to before World War 1). They broke off afterwards. To me, it doesn't make much sense to examin
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by Zev 17y ago
The party’s top bureaucracy organized the attempted coup in August 1991, which scuttled the reforms. This bit made me laugh for some reason. Using "scuttle" makes it seems like a rather whimsical take on one of the more important events o
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by Zev 17y ago
Those three countries - along with Romania (and sometimes Slovenia) are the case studies for Eastern Europe. They're where the transition from communism went remarkably well and lacked any sort of violence. Hell, in Czechoslovakia, the work
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by Zev 17y ago
FWIW, http://cld.ly/0f1o7m (Inside a train; in this case, the Airtrain from JFK to Jamaica) and http://cld.ly/ed1o7n (On the platform at Jamaica, transferring to go to the station in my town.) There's a few (or, at least one) other pict
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by Zev 17y ago
I have to ask: Did you completely skip the part about zombies ? Because, to me, that was far more interesting then how Wolfram keeps track of things. I think what I'm really trying to say here is: There are many funny/interesting anecdotes
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by Zev 17y ago
To me, its showing off how well you know a specific tool (or how quickly you could learn it), rather then a specific market. Nothing wrong with a bit of ego or wanting to show off something that you made.

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