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by ben1040 13y ago
This reminds me of the fungus you see growing on the sides of distillery facilities (if you ever go through bourbon country in Kentucky, all the whisky aging warehouses are covered in the stuff). Instead of radiation, they thrive on ethano
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by ben1040 13y ago
>Or is it that you just can't sign up for Google Play Music through the iOS app? This. This isn't allowed, unless Google opted to use in-app purchase to set up the subscription and give Apple a 30% cut.
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by ben1040 13y ago
Yep. I had no idea this was the case until I read an article that came out shortly after the original iPhone. The dialer app in iOS during those first few months was pretty buggy and had an occasional tendency to crash or lock up while on
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by ben1040 13y ago
I usually end up getting my annual eye exam in December every year, and before I got LASIK this invariably meant new lenses. Usually I always had FSA money subject to a "use it or lose it" policy, too; my employer chose to opt o
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by ben1040 13y ago
This is great advice, especially about getting out of the house and having a routine. I am on my second remote position and having a daily routine is essential to not falling into productivity hell. I am renting an office in a coworking sp
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by ben1040 13y ago
Reminds me of when when it got harder to find out about when/where local bands were playing if you weren't actively using MySpace, because posting something on MySpace was easier, cheaper, and had a wider reach than going all over
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by ben1040 13y ago
I expected a story of being made to wait for hours on end and maybe receiving an unreasonable interrogation. Not just a story of being sent to secondary and made to wait 30 minutes before someone would see you (and a 7 month old story at t
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by ben1040 13y ago
There's no device restrictions, plenty of people use this with Nexus 4s and the like. The catch is you can't get it in a T-Mobile store. If you bring your own device, you have to either buy a SIM from T-Mobile.com and then put it
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by ben1040 13y ago
And have it warn your friend it'll randomly call them in the middle of the night, and offer them the opportunity to pay $2 to call it off.
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by ben1040 13y ago
I really wish the Strangeloop talk videos weren't posted in an excruciatingly long timeframe. Last year's conference was in September 2012 but the last of the videos didn't appear until April 2013. 4-6 months is an eternity
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by ben1040 13y ago
I love that quote of his, where he says the easiest way to become a millionaire is to start out a billionaire and go into the airline business.
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There are also instances though where the FDIC can't find another bank willing to acquire the failed institution, so it can't just close on a Friday and then reopen on Monday as a branch of a new bank. One of those happened just l
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That's a little different, though, as "unlimited flights in first class" is something that has lots of opportunities for abuse and it was only a matter of time before they 86'd it. It's harder to abuse something th
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by ben1040 13y ago
Glass apps are the web app backend. You push HTML cards to the user's device, by contacting Google's REST API (authenticated by OAuth on behalf of your user). Those cards are your app's UI. Actions on the device (acting o
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by ben1040 13y ago
Escorting people to the john during an exam? This is a plain old college course, not the California bar exam. Based on this I wouldn't be surprised if the TA who is assigned "bathroom escort duty" also would be instructed to
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by ben1040 13y ago
Maybe some airlines still must tear off the main part of the pass and give you back the stub then. I've only had them scan the boarding pass and give the whole thing back to me in its entirety.
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by ben1040 13y ago
What purpose does the little "stub" serve in the year 2013, anyway, other than to make the boarding pass easily mangled? There was that time in the not that distant past when the gate agent's pass reader was this giant consol
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by ben1040 13y ago
The design they describe is how you do anything on iOS that's going to go out and talk to some web services, otherwise talk on the network, or the like. You do your UI stuff on the UI thread and you use additional background threads f
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by ben1040 13y ago
I find Yelp reviews to be pretty unreliable, because you giving "5 stars" for a single specific business is not necessarily a predictor of me doing the same. You and I are different people with different tastes. I've gone to
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by ben1040 13y ago
I've seen remote execution backdoors like this in a compromised Joomla site before (at least w/r/t the code snippet that actually does the execution), so I would not be in the least surprised if someone was clever enough to u
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by ben1040 13y ago
>I'm wondering where this backdoored version of Joomla came from. It probably was inserted using another vulnerability, and put there to hide it from site owners who were only looking for files that weren't there before.
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by ben1040 13y ago
Apparently there's a limit of one adapter per device you own, so I guess they track which devices have already been "used." http://www.apple.com/support/usbadapter-takeback/
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by ben1040 13y ago
>allow for two years rival e-book retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble to provide links from their e-book apps to their own e-bookstores without paying any fee or commission to Apple on sales made through them. This doesn't
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by ben1040 13y ago
I live in St Louis, MO, where in many parts of the area the water system is old enough that they don't even have meters. The water division charges a flat rate based on the number of rooms and toilets/showers in the house, as that
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by ben1040 13y ago
If you have their combination loyalty/prepaid card and make more than 5 purchases on it a year, you get free refills on brewed coffee during a visit (so long as you bought the first cup with the card). So they actually don't mind
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You have no contract binding you to any terms, so I don't see what liability you have to complete the work. With no contract it sounds like you have no obligation to give any notice, but if I were in your shoes, I'd give 30 days
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They take it down during WWDC keynotes and other major announcements, yes. But there are other instances where the store will go down outside of those periods. Sometimes it's for maintenance, but more often than not a new or updated p
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by ben1040 13y ago
Does the App Store block reviews from beta OS users? Maybe what needs to happen is if you load a beta OS on a device, it should block reviews from any Apple IDs that were associated with that device until the OS is generally available. Aft
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The fact that it doesn't work for the >50% of people who wear corrective lenses would be a start. Also, the last three months have seen numerous software updates to add features and change functionality. It is an unfinished product
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Are you trying the screencast with a device that's already been BT paired & connected to your Glass? I never see the barcode option, it just connects straight to my device immediately. I think you only end up with the barcode if yo

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