andrewtj

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by andrewtj 16y ago
I think these sites are trying to cater more toward FUD-encumbered newbies than those for whom installing and having a play with a new language is second nature.
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by andrewtj 16y ago
Just out of curiosity, do US carriers allow you to send inter-carrier MMS and can you transfer your phone number between carriers?
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by andrewtj 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenated_SMS Perhaps this is another anomaly that Americans have to put up with from their carriers — not being one I wouldn't know.
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by andrewtj 16y ago
That's just a tidbit thrown around to soothe those irked by the limit. It's been well over a decade since the last mobile phone was sold that couldn't handle long/concatenated SMS. The reality is that the 140 character limit is just an arbi
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by andrewtj 16y ago
As far as I know you're right. Depending on what you're doing, Automator or the command line screencapture tool combined with a shell script or QuickSilver might be worth looking at to speed up your workflow.
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by andrewtj 16y ago
Thanks for the links — I'd just expected the sites to fallback. For anyone else who's tempted to try this out, unless I missed it there is also no 'Switch to HTML5 player' link for channels on Vimeo.
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by andrewtj 16y ago
That made me curious so I removed Flash from /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/ and rebooted. I'm unable to play video on either Vimeo or YouTube so I'll be sticking with Click to Flash for the moment.
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by andrewtj 16y ago
Similarly OS X 10.4 Tiger and later bundle a utility called Grab which does selection, window, screen and timed captures.
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by andrewtj 16y ago
The "carpet bomb" attack that the article refers to is scripting the browser to download a lot of files, knowing that Safari doesn't prompt before downloading a file, in the hope that the user will execute one of them. I don't think this ki
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by andrewtj 16y ago
NPAPI's lineage harkens back to Netscape 2.0 where it was used for extending the browser to support new content-types. Other browsers of that era implemented the API as well so it became a bit of pseudo-standard. It's been updated over the
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by andrewtj 16y ago
You and I both, especially since it's a repost http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1230768
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by andrewtj 16y ago
If memory serves Evan Williams had to fire everyone including himself in the process of getting Blogger to the break-even point; a point that it reached only a few months prior to it's sale to Google. He seems like a resilient guy but it do
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by andrewtj 16y ago
I'm guessing you'll never read this since I've taken so long to notice your comment and respond, but the answer is quite mundane — I don't like to spend a lot of time reading the news. AJE has good coverage of South-East Asia and the Pacifi
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Webmachine in the Data Center(blog.basho.com)
4 points by andrewtj 16y ago|0 comments
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by andrewtj 16y ago
“WITH iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations—none of which I know how to work—information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment.” Anyone got a pointer to the context of this qu
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by andrewtj 16y ago
News: http://english.aljazeera.net/ Current Affairs: http://inside.org.au/
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by andrewtj 16y ago
In 1999 the suicide rate in China was 13 per 100,000 so my suspicion is that this story has only been up-voted for mud-slinging purposes. I'm a bit disappointed to see it on the front page — it doesn't strike me as being Hacker News.
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by andrewtj 16y ago
It's a trade off — I'd disagree that a niche player can lose their position any faster than the incumbent. The incumbent, as you allude to, tends to only see change as having the potential for loss and hence tries to avoid it; often to thei
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by andrewtj 16y ago
I think you're understating their achievement — what's the point in having the largest share in a market if a niche player makes more money than you?
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by andrewtj 16y ago
They're using open web standards — if I recall correctly this feature isn't enabled in Safari due to a bug affecting the dropping of a collection of files in that browser.
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by andrewtj 16y ago
Bonjour and Wide-area Bonjour (aka DNS-SD) are great for this kind of thing. If you set your dev server to advertise itself users on the local network can just open Safari or Firefox (with an extension) and pick the dev site from a list of
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by andrewtj 16y ago
I agree, but then in general I don't think that consumers pay more for internet connections for specific features — nor do I think they ever have. I think they pay more because what they have has become a limitation for what they're already
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by andrewtj 16y ago
I think you missed a current application that needs a stack of bandwidth — network boot or install of operating systems. MacBook Air's already do a wireless network install from another machine and ChromeOS will be delivered solely via the
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by andrewtj 16y ago
Gut instinct is that's unlikely to be caused by anything that a cache box can fix as international connectivity isn't as big of an issue on this side of the pond¹. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Australia... http://ww
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by andrewtj 16y ago
Since I'm going to be selling access to a service that offers part of the functionality of MobileMe — Wide-Area Bonjour, which does much of what Back to My Mac does — I hope they don't.
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The Riak Fast Track Challenge(blog.basho.com)
4 points by andrewtj 16y ago|0 comments
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by andrewtj 16y ago
I'm building a DNS service at the moment. Geo-aware DNS won't be a launch feature but it is something I intend to add in the future. The implementation I'm looking at doing will allow for returning different record data based on country-cod
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by andrewtj 16y ago
All my Mac laptops have been covered for 3 years under a different agreement so I've never purchased AppleCare for them. I won't have this option with my next machine so I will be purchasing AppleCare — why? My Apple laptop history is as fo
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by andrewtj 16y ago
Faster ZeroConf resolution. Link-local and DHCP along with DNS-SD on mDNS or DNS-LLQ seem plenty fast to me — can you expand on that?
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by andrewtj 16y ago
Has someone done a rewrite of 'The Art of the Metaobject Protocol' in the intervening years since this talk or are there any recommendations for something similar?

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