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by aiscott 14y ago
It does not appear to be e-ink, and they do not claim to be e-ink... The kickstarter mentions a backlight, which makes me think it is not e-ink. I can't say for sure, but the display appears to be this one: http://www.sharpmemorylcd.com/1
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by aiscott 14y ago
Something about what you have written doesn't sit right with me. If Macmillan decided not to use the iBookStore and sell their ebooks on their own to the customer (the reader of the book), and all the other publishers saw that and thought,
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by aiscott 14y ago
Thank you for the link to Bransford's blog. You quoted from his post: "Publishers then turned around and imposed that agency deal on Amazon, which is the subject of the DOJ investigation. The end result: There really is more competition in
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by aiscott 14y ago
I am at a loss to understand how the "agency" model is anti-competitive or price-fixing. I am hoping someone can just explain it rather than saying that it simply "is." The agency model is what keeps the price of apps on the app store low.
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by aiscott 14y ago
and yet, accidents happen. Sometimes it is not wrong to use overlapping security measures. [edit: unintentional use of slang]
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by aiscott 15y ago
My cynical side agrees with you. It seems like an absurd markup, between 16GB and 64GB. I've looked briefly into stripping an app: the ipa format is just zip. There is a plist with hashes of the assets. Don't know if that plist itself is h
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by aiscott 15y ago
I completely agree and I find it mystifying that you would be downvoted for that comment.
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by aiscott 15y ago
Thank you for noticing this. I'm beginning to think nobody else actually read the article.
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by aiscott 15y ago
I've never felt so productive in my life!
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by aiscott 15y ago
I'd like to see an implementation in OrgASM, but it's hard to type with just one hand.
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by aiscott 15y ago
Now I'm afraid of asking for a reference for anything. God forbid I'd like evidence so if I share a claim with others I have as solid foundation. You are providing your own chilling effect by demanding others adhere to your personal standa
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by aiscott 15y ago
It seems like you didn't actually read the article. Maybe you did, but she addressed the pure wordcount metric. Her motivation for increasing her word count was the reduced number of days per week she could write on, trying to balance fami
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by aiscott 15y ago
I love homebrew, personally. In fact I wish it was available for linux. This is because we have a pretty restricted linux environment at work, and getting the admins to install anything is very difficult and lengthy. I've gotten by with i
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by aiscott 15y ago
Amusing anecdote: A few months back I was at the local Petsmart; getting out of my car I noticed a guy walking toward the store. I thought he looked familiar, so I looked back over my shoulder at him again... I didn't really recognize him
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by aiscott 15y ago
Could you please expand on what you mean by "Macs do not have the same power as a traditional unix"?
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by aiscott 15y ago
The Media are a group (or several large groups) and as such as subject to group-think like any other group. I believe a lot of conspiracy related accusations could be attributable to the natural tendency toward group-think.
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by aiscott 15y ago
Not my mother-in-law. She doesn't really understand what an OS is, but she understands a change in user interface. She knows enough that an upgrade in operating system will change enough that she'll be confused all over again and be frustr
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by aiscott 15y ago
I agree. Emacs type key bindings are prevalent in osx, sad to see vim missing. Although I was so happy to learn c-d was delete in cocoa boxes, especially since that is easier to type than fn-delete. I mostly use emacs these days, but still
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by aiscott 15y ago
I was pretty excited about sublime text 2, and I use it on my Mac and windows box. But I can't use it on our work cluster due to it not supporting our version of rhel (5 I think)
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by aiscott 15y ago
I look forward to the day when we have super hi dpi laptops. However, while the lower dpi of my macbook pro is noticeable, it is not tremendously so. If the screen were closer to my face it would be much more noticeable, but laptops usuall
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by aiscott 15y ago
As well that Marco has been very upfront about the competition spurring him on. I think Timothy Meaney needs to watch the Everything is a Remix series: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/
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by aiscott 15y ago
It was an unintended consequence of Github's use of rails. So I think my characterization (Github's rails bug) is fair.
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by aiscott 15y ago
It's weird how this article treats Git and Github as synonymous. Github's rails bug really had nothing to do with Git itself.
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by aiscott 15y ago
many sites, to my irritation, don't allow the + symbol in their email validation code.
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by aiscott 15y ago
I used to work in a integrated circuit debugging lab. We had a pulse laser that we would use to ablate the layer of glass on top of the metallization so we could probe the die. While goofing around I discovered that I could vaporize the in
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by aiscott 15y ago
Wait, why do you say that? Is there an assumption that startups don't have a workable business model?
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by aiscott 15y ago
This is a Stanford course. Coursera is merely the platform.
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by aiscott 15y ago
The first week's lectures are up, and are nicely broken up into < 20 minute pieces.
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Stanford's Cryptography Class is Excellent(coursera.org)
3 points by aiscott 15y ago|5 comments
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by aiscott 15y ago
I agree, fairness over politeness. I would say honesty over politeness as well. That isn't to say you shouldn't be polite; just realize that sometimes your decisions are going to hurt people no matter how nicely you put it.

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