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by ballard 13y ago
Apple lost a little ground to Windows 8 and tablets, where it of course dominates with iPad. This makes sense because some people were able to ditch their laptops almost entirely. http://appleinsider.com/articles/13&#x
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by ballard 13y ago
Yup. I got tired of all the weird quirks and security issues with Evernote, so I used cloudhq to migrate Google Drive. The quality of the resulting migrated notes was surprisingly good.
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by ballard 13y ago
One approach might be to photoshop hack the color icons to greyscale. They're usually in the resource bundle.
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by ballard 13y ago
Bartender 99.9% win. The default behavior of some status menu items not being command key movable is bad UX. Combine that with, as others noticed, accretion of icons that the menu bar lops off an arbitrary number of left side of the statu
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by ballard 13y ago
I use pretty much the same setup: http://screencast.com/t/qlSsmaUCp I have controlplane set DNS to dnscrypt-proxy after any captive portal nonsense. (Opendns UI is slow and broken.)
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by ballard 13y ago
There was a popular myth way back in the 90's that preincrement was always faster than postincrement because the former could generate a temporary. As if this were the case: /* x++ */ inline int postincrement(int *
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by ballard 13y ago
Would like to see it closer up in construction and operation.
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Leonardo Da Vinci's piano heard for the first time after 500 years(theage.com.au)
155 points by ballard 13y ago|31 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
Goldman Sachs, shitbags of Wall Street. Sergey Aleynikov. Deal with Putin. Bilking municipalities worldwide. But wait, there's more: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs#Controversies
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by ballard 13y ago
Could try calling their sales folks and see if a rep will just sample it.
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by ballard 13y ago
PDF pp 2-3: http://www.hms-beagle.com/PDFs/BenchMark_Legacy_Chemicals_Pl... Any bio&|chem know what's likely to do singe eyebrows or suffocate?
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by ballard 13y ago
Yup. As lovable as John is and how cool the product seems at first... The truth is that the business model is extremely vulnerable on many fronts including: liability, copy-ability and efficient manufacturing. The first suburbanite kid th
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by ballard 13y ago
0. Password hints, the horror. As a user, the wisest thing is to just put something misleading and use good password hygiene. 1. This reminds me of a funny thing I did at big name university that shall remain nameless. On the CS network w
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by ballard 13y ago
As seen on KS: http://offpocket.com/
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'Lover Spy' hacker makes FBI 'most wanted' list(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
As much as I like Vancouver, the article reads like excuses and whining for an inability to hustle. I know people that thrive for around $2 a day in both valleys full stop. So the cost point is specious. Furthermore, the talent war is nons
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Slurm - open-source, DIY nutrition on-the-go(gist.github.com)
1 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
Yup. I would think a sane password policy would also disallow neighboring characters on any keyboard and sequential characters in any language. It could be a pain to implement, but it's better than doing nothing.
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Eukaryotic cells contain self-test infrastructure(en.m.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
True. Money and life are brutally efficient: but also stochastic processes. Value might exist, but it's utility waxes, wanes and sometimes waxes again. Hence the principle of letting go totally willingly... Having that much confiden
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by ballard 13y ago
Demoscene encompasses pushing limits of video hardware (mode-x, 3d) and god know how many copper bars than mod trackers (audio), but there's definitively sizable overlap. Heck, keygens allegedly often have some cool shit in them besid
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by ballard 13y ago
Neat. A world map would be interesting, even if the data isn't as readily available.
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by ballard 13y ago
Google can easily afford lobbyists. And they're in America, where cash is king. Doesn't take a Google Map to see where that leads. (But at least they'll arrive there automatically.)
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Tajikistan: Where all students are banned from driving(m.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
TL;DR - this is a shrewd play for a number of reasons. You don't understand, it's just business. Furthermore, the conversion of requiring people to beg via email to explain they're broke is next to zero. People won't do
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by ballard 13y ago
The author may not fully appreciate the long game Bezos has been uniquely blessed to play: the sooner Bezos can effectively expand what's working, without over-expanding, it's bootstrapping on a massive scale: buying speed without
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by ballard 13y ago
Adverse possession may be used to force an easement on the grounds that the access road was itself de-facto public. If not an easement maybe forced in any case.
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by ballard 13y ago
It's probably already been said, but it can be said enough: Security through obscurity is valid for marginally increasing the total security margin, but relying on any one practice or technique always smells like a dangerous approach.
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by ballard 13y ago
Shutdown stories are a braggart form of "fuck you." Early adopters just have to be careful not to rely on ventures by founders that have a history of creating a little value only to throw it all away later. For the Nth time, for
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by ballard 13y ago
I've heard non-elderly, non-infirm people consuming the major brand product as a convenient replacement for meals. Furthermore, all the existing makers have to do is launch another brand and Soylent is more/less boxed into an all

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