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by ashearer 12y ago
The latest software has several deficiencies, but this isn't one of them. Copy, then hold down the Option key while pasting, by keyboard or menu. In the Edit menu, "Paste Item" will change to "Move Item Here". Even
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by ashearer 12y ago
Then there are employees who use their home laptops to connect to their secure enterprise email portal...
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by ashearer 12y ago
Verizon is still giving out misinformation on this. A support representative confirmed to me in writing today that "As of February 1, 2015, Verizon Wireless will not send an identifier to third parties." However, it's still b
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by ashearer 12y ago
Excellent talk, even if you've seen it before. Note that the slide viewer scrolls horizontally across the first few slides, but you need to use the keyboard (spacebar) to advance further.
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by ashearer 12y ago
I generally agree, but I'd amend that to "there are few good reasons". When an API is present but buggy, sometimes there's no good way around a version check. It can still be regarded as a last resort.
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by ashearer 12y ago
Thinking about it as "don't concatenate different data types" leads to even more correct software. Concepts like "trust" and "sanitization" are too often vague and misleading. It might be perfectly valid f
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San Francisco attacks parking spot auction apps(electronista.com)
1 points by ashearer 12y ago|0 comments
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by ashearer 12y ago
Yes, there was a very brief mention of WebGL as a Safari feature during the keynote. Edit: On second thought, don't take that as proof. I was thinking of the Mac OS X portion, and I don't recall them calling it out specifically fo
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by ashearer 12y ago
YouTube appears to require Flash when playing a video with ads from the YouTube site. Embeds of the same video show the HTML5 version ad-free. Here's a tip I've found useful: if you run into the "Install Flash" message,
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by ashearer 12y ago
Swift is designed to make many common C and Objective-C errors less likely, but at least one class of bugs could be ascendant: off-by-one errors in ranges. Swift's ".." and "..." range operators are reversed compa
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by ashearer 12y ago
While Microsoft has a large footprint in healthcare IT (and so do mainframes), SaaS is huge and becoming even more important, and there the server OS doesn't matter much to the customer. That said, what Apple announced was patient data
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by ashearer 12y ago
I can see a reason: it's gunning for the mindshare of the kind of developers who like the features in Python. But you're right that performing faster than Objective-C tells you what you need to know, and showing the Python compari
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by ashearer 12y ago
It turns out that this is a different language. Apple overloaded the name "Swift".
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by ashearer 12y ago
The site appears to have been last updated in 2013. At this point, I'm not sure whether this is the same language that Apple is introducing.
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by ashearer 12y ago
You could clarify "bug fixes are free" by saying: 1. You offer support (problem analysis) for $X per hour. 2. If analysis reveals a bug in your software, you will fully refund the support cost and offer the fix for free.
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by ashearer 12y ago
Care Thread · Providence, RI · local or remote · intern OK Care Thread is looking for developers to help improve the way healthcare is delivered. We build real-time web and mobile clinical collaboration software that aims to improve outcome
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by ashearer 12y ago
Care Thread · Providence, RI · local or remote We’re looking for developers to help us improve the way healthcare is delivered. We build real-time web and mobile clinical collaboration software that aims to improve outcomes through better c
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by ashearer 13y ago
I think the point was that it's inherently less safe to allow arbitrary markup and then attempt to sanitize it, than to make a full parser that's incapable of generating unsafe HTML at any stage, all other things being equal. The
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by ashearer 13y ago
There's an associated danger with fiction: though it reflects how the author sees the world, it may not match how the world really is. Fiction can intentionally or unintentionally invite readers to draw universal lessons which are misl
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by ashearer 13y ago
If you need to select text, something still isn't working properly. You should be able to drag two fingers down from the top of the screen, and it will read and turn pages for you until the end of the book.
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by ashearer 13y ago
No kidding. It's intended for the blind, and using it this way is more like a well-supported hack than a feature. However, Apple and Amazon's hands may be tied by contracts. Amazon tried to introduce general-purpose text-to-speech
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by ashearer 13y ago
Perhaps the triple-click shortcut is turned off for some reason, though a quick search indicated that it was on by default in iOS 6 and 7. Normally double-click is enough to show all running apps. You could check in Settings -> General -
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by ashearer 13y ago
Have you tried VoiceOver? On iOS, turn it on by triple-clicking the Home button, then two-fingered swipe downward to start speaking continuously until the end of the book.
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by ashearer 13y ago
That makes sense. Thanks. The ability for apps to correlate across their own re-installations has fewer privacy implications than general UDID/MAC access, so perhaps Apple may allow it at some point. To achieve it, Apple could just cha
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by ashearer 13y ago
The article focuses on how their recommended device identifier, the Bluetooth MAC, will become inaccessible in iOS 7, just like the UDID did in a past update. I'm not that familiar with the mechanics of fraud detection, and I wish the
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by ashearer 14y ago
Providence, RI (full-time or intern) or remote (part-time) Care Thread ( http://www.carethread.com ) provides secure mobile messaging and team-based collaboration solutions for healthcare providers in hospitals. Care Thread's mobile and web
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by ashearer 14y ago
Providence, RI (full-time) or remote (part-time) Care Thread provides secure mobile messaging and team-based collaboration solutions for healthcare providers in hospitals. Care Thread's mobile and web apps deliver real-time information deta
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by ashearer 14y ago
Interestingly enough, a JavaScript syntax for stylesheets was originally proposed by Netscape back in the early days: http://www.w3.org/Submission/1996/1/WD-jsss-960822 The declarative CSS syntax we know won out. (Netscape's CSS implement
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Gym-Pact Fines You for Not Exercising(bucks.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by ashearer 15y ago|0 comments
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by ashearer 15y ago
The problem with urllib/urllib2 is that they're somewhat awkward to get started with for simple use cases, and just get worse as you get more advanced. Unfortunately, they're not quite bad enough to outweigh the standard-library advantage f

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