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by blasdel 15y ago
In response to the thread a couple days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2580919
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Follow-up: Why they use gray code at the pediatrician's office(blog.plover.com)
7 points by blasdel 15y ago|3 comments
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On the misuse of Occam’s Razor(rc3.org)
1 points by blasdel 15y ago|0 comments
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Needlessly adding complexity in tests in order to hide their complexity(griddlenoise.blogspot.com)
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by blasdel 15y ago
There is no way to disable the activity light on a Mac's integrated camera. In the case of that high school spying incident, the BOFH responsible had handwaved away the random LED flashes as a bug.
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Making the most of Scala's (extremely limited) type inference(pchiusano.blogspot.com)
1 points by blasdel 15y ago|0 comments
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Fair Trade Revealed As Feel-Good Hoax(mungowitzend.blogspot.com)
1 points by blasdel 15y ago|0 comments
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Trivialities(raganwald.posterous.com)
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The Valve manifesto(develop-online.net)
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Javascript in 2011(wingolog.org)
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The suprising security model for NFC payments(rakkhis.com)
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Exit Interview: Newsvine's Mike Davidson(37signals.com)
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LightDM, or: an examination of a misunderstanding of the problem(mjg59.livejournal.com)
1 points by blasdel 15y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 15y ago
When I saw that post this morning I flipped the bozo bit on him hard -- even Gruber isn't that outrageously sycophantic (or at least has the foresight not to post it).
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by blasdel 15y ago
Sorry, a lot of us are just really tired of glibertarianism.
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Time's Inverted Index(ftrain.com)
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by blasdel 15y ago
Because they were hellbanned 72 days ago for no obvious reason, every contribution of theirs is DOA.
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by blasdel 15y ago
All their other updates done through Software Update use a very sophisticated binary diff setup using Colin Percival's bsdiff — the updater checks the current state of your filesystem, hashing the files covered by the update manifests, and
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by blasdel 15y ago
That's there in the WiFi dialog for a very specific reason: you're usually typing in someone else's password , which is often being dictated to you as you type, so mistakes are inevitable. In every other case it's your password that you
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by blasdel 15y ago
It's terrible in the biggest way you can fuck up your UI: doing the opposite of what every user expects Billions of people are all used to typing into masked (or unechoed) password fields, having done so in a wide range of UIs a shitload
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by blasdel 15y ago
Having to type your password twice is a perfect UI affordance -- it makes it obvious that you're signing up for a new account and not just logging in to an existing one. It's especially important because a streamlined workflow will have bot
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by blasdel 15y ago
Have you not followed any of the development of the WebSockets protocol and its eventual retraction? It was originally fairly simple and used the Upgrade header that was specified for exactly this sort of thing. Unfortunately, since nobod
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by blasdel 15y ago
Thank you, that's exactly what I've wanted! Just a GUI for the commands where a mouse is useful and UIs based on prompts or ncurses fall down. I've never found myself wanting "iTunes for your git repos" nor could I figure out why anyone wou
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by blasdel 15y ago
So what? There's a long history of <link> elements being used for such things, along with the http-equiv attribute for <meta> elements.
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by blasdel 15y ago
Someone complained that their fork on Github had been summarily deleted: http://razorfast.com/2011/04/25/dropbox-attempts-to-kill-ope...
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by blasdel 15y ago
Yes, in an ideal world their system would only ever store and forward a received DMCA notice. But here in the real world Dropbox doesn't really give a shit whether they actually got a real DMCA notice from Sony regarding the presence of "Sp
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by blasdel 15y ago
I feel exactly the same way about Apache projects, and even now it's very rare to meet a fellow traveler. Years ago I had the same emperor has no clothes realization that the ASF was an enormous BureaucraticBullshitFactoryFactory — that i
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This Is Why You Should Never Ask Questions In My Earshot(brokentoys.org)
2 points by blasdel 16y ago|0 comments
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by blasdel 16y ago
Before I saw this I had naively figured that the green highlight was supposed to represent something positive, like YC alumni accounts or something.
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by blasdel 16y ago
A couple years ago I unsuccessfully tried to extract the keys from the AppleTV version of OS X (which provides the same functionality). The binaries were heavily obfuscated, and I couldn't get the IDA Pro remote to run on the AppleTV, nor c

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