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by ashearer 16y ago
To address #1 at the cost of an extra step, you could turn on Airplane Mode. (That's worthwhile if only for the side-effect of disabling notifications and rings.) And maybe if that makes you think of the phone as safe and inert, not restric
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Gitmarks: A web bookmark manager built on git, with Delicious import(github.com)
4 points by ashearer 16y ago|2 comments
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by ashearer 16y ago
I heard something about them working from CRT emissions, making them useless for LCDs, if they actually worked at all. Edit: More broadly, you could say that just from the deterrent effect of their PR, they "work".
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by ashearer 16y ago
There was an oblique reference: "But silicon minstrelsy doesn’t confer much respect: Until The Social Network, the computer business has been denied a mainstream biopic or a resonating social drama. (Even the titanic Gates-Jobs struggle for
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by ashearer 16y ago
Technical rationale aside, it's been a brilliantly successful symbiotic marketing strategy for both jQuery and its plugins.
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by ashearer 16y ago
In "Founders at Work", one of the PayPal founders claimed that in the early days they were losing $10 million a month to fraud, and rising fast enough that it would soon eclipse profit, when they chose to develop an aggressive anti-fraud sy
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by ashearer 16y ago
This is from Boston Music Hack Day. Text and audio samples from the 2-minute presentation are here: http://blog.ashearer.com/music-hack-day-the-uninterrupter
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by ashearer 16y ago
As the author, I certainly agree that this isn't useful yet in anything like its current form. Intelligibility was one of my biggest concerns while making the hack: singing can be harder to understand than speech. On the other hand, the voc
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The Uninterrupter: GPS that sings along with your car stereo(evolver.fm)
38 points by ashearer 16y ago|9 comments
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by ashearer 16y ago
It wouldn't even have to be stolen. All someone would need is access to the phone for less than a minute, which is harder to detect than if it was stolen outright. Though smartphones already have other privacy risks and are therefore protec
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by ashearer 16y ago
To expand on how the joints rotate: the CSS styles use a translation of a large CSS sprite image, which consists of 90 stacked images of the joint at various stages of rotation over 180 degrees. Even older browsers that only support transla
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by ashearer 16y ago
That brings up the 7th edition for me, while the app is based on the 9th edition. The 9th edition hardcover price is actually cheaper than the 7th edition, at $154.00: http://www.amazon.com/Biology-Peter-Raven/dp/0077350022 But the "in-ap
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by ashearer 16y ago
There was a parallel case a few years later with CentOS. (Not strictly a web server, of course, but it was the branded default Apache page that led to hacking accusations.) http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=127
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by ashearer 16y ago
According to the article, the iPhone was ultimately the trigger that finally broke the country's ActiveX dependence, and will thereby open up the desktop browser market as a side effect. It's a success story with parallels to Apple's ongoin
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by ashearer 16y ago
If you're going with a DSL anyway, making that language happen to look like a strictly-defined subset of HTML doesn't necessarily reduce its security (plus it allows for a WYSIWYG editor option). But too often what happens next on the back
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by ashearer 16y ago
Now I finally know how to refer to a “Loop and a Half”: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~ola/patterns/plopd/loops.html#loop-a... (Link seen at http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/06/30/python-internals-add... .)
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Loop Patterns(cs.duke.edu)
35 points by ashearer 16y ago|10 comments
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Classmates.com deceptive marketing settlement: $2-$3 off $39 membership(cmemailsettlement.com)
2 points by ashearer 16y ago|0 comments
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by ashearer 16y ago
Even disregarding schema validation, I like that it defines standard JSON representations for vCards, events, addresses, etc.
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by ashearer 16y ago
Past a certain comfortable dollar amount, who's to say that greater fame and social standing are necessarily sillier than more money? It wasn't even clear that's what he was after from the article. He came across as a bona fide entrepreneur
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by ashearer 16y ago
With programmers being human, there's a lot to be said for the framework providing a secure default. Even so, it's surprising how often this particular mistake occurs.
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by ashearer 16y ago
I don't understand the negativity. You could make an argument that there are too many startups duplicating effort with similar ideas (with the counterpoint being that there are often valid reasons for that, and established companies certain
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by ashearer 16y ago
It would be a zero-day if exploits had already started at the time of discovery. The OP implies that attacks are already underway, possibly predating the discovery, but doesn't mention having solid proof of that.
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by ashearer 16y ago
It's true that handwritten notes are optimized for speed of writing, but they're also optimized--perhaps secondarily--for the speed of reading, which happens at least as often as writing (we can certainly hope). There's a third optimization
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by ashearer 16y ago
To your point about laying out electronic notes like compact paper notes, the Lifespan system of hospitals in Rhode Island is able to do exactly this. Their residency programs all use a web application that displays fishbones graphically us