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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Doesn't the frequently changing hardware play hell with Windows activation and other DRM systems that track serial numbers and MAC addresses?
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
If you're in the fourth level of indentation, you might already have a readability problem.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Delta Air Lines sells time in their passenger jet simulators, but the pricing is undoubtedly in the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" range: https://www.delta.com/business_programs_services/training/pi... The full motion simulator
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
That would require Google to use an open protocol like OAuth, and I think their official policy is basically "NIH."'
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
I'm assuming they put the files in a folder, right-clicked, and hit "Compress" in Finder. Finder takes the HFS+ metadata that can't be natively stored in the zip file and turns them into the files you mentioned.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
It is. In a presentation at Superconf, one of the Github designers (whose name escapes me) said that they serve some images at high resolution and resize in the HTML tags for the benefit of iPhones 4 and other high-dpi devices.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
To anybody not familiar with PHP, it appears to fail at string comparison.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
I couldn't find an API for apps, so either the new design hides all the links or apps are using the same screen-scraping mechanism that's prone to breakage by HTML changes as extensions.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
The competition already has this for airports: http://binged.it/HnKPqO Compare: http://g.co/maps/8e9xp
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Salts don't slow a GPU down: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Because sha1 is still super fast on a GPU. Why aren't you using bcrypt?
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
The client has a permanent connection to the server, but in this case the server doesn't necessarily know what client it's on, and some of us have our browsers configured to be pesky (with a dialog box indicating the URL and target app) abo
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
I was hoping it would do something seriously trick (that I have no idea how to implement) and ask the local client to upload instead of a pedestrian HTTP upload. Still cool.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Plenty of sites let you drag from your computer into your browser to upload a file, including http://imgur.com (as featured on reddit). Dropbox is a good case because it works incredibly well and people actually use it.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> The binary executable is just one part of the Facebook application stack, of course. Many external resources are referenced from Facebook pages, including JavaScript, CSS, and graphical assets. Those files are hosted on geographically
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
I suspect that if new features require storage changes, the changes are strictly additive and won't affect old features, or old features are modified to use the new storage setup. With the amount of data Facebook has, they probably don't ha
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> Apple and MS mark success by unit shipments, and the strategies for protecting those kinds of positions differ. Apple and MS mark success by the benjamins on their balance sheets, just like HTC, Samsung, and RIM. If any of them could
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> FWIW, the original Dynamo concept supported safety by returning not just the latest version, but all conflicting versions: the client then had the opportunity to make a merged version of the data that was newer than either of the inpu
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
The repo's still up: https://github.com/basho/luwak
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
(Disclosure: I'm a Developer Advocate employed by Basho) Postgres is a better fit for most Ruby web applications. When you first launch your app, you'll have a tiny handful of users and won't have any problems fitting it in a free Heroku in
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
As someone who lives in a society enabled by cheap, centrally generated electric power, I'd actually kind of hope the power company would seven-figures go after somebody who steals it from their distribution network, even if it's just someb
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> Incidentally and completely off-topic, unless your mental associations are as loose as mine, but I was recently rather shocked to find out that alcohol is a neurotoxin Of course it's a neurotoxin, the whole point is that it messes up
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
They should charge the $900 and not give away any hardware without announcing whether or not they're going to. They'll be able to have $400 tickets next year without selling out as fast.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Not if your application is a bunch of small C programs that monitor each other a la DJB.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Picking nits here, but (limited) crashing (by design) is exactly why Erlang's failure handling is solid. It's like an automotive crumple zone for your application.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
You could know the inventory pretty well with FareCast[1] and ExpertFlyer[2]. Paying a few bucks to lock in a lower fare before prices skyrocket at the last minute seems quite reasonable. 1: http://www.bing.com/travel/ 2: http://expertfl
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Presumably something like "root" or "webmaster," but those aren't illegal on mailinator: http://mailinator.com/maildir.jsp?email=webmaster&x=0&#3...
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
It's orthogonal to pushState.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> That's exactly it though! Gruber thinks he's on an select list of writers and journalists. Instead, I believe he's an item on the Apple marketing checklist. You can have a writer on a marketing checklist; quality writing is important
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Apple fairly routinely lets themselves be exceptions to rules for their own platform. Lion is distributed via the Mac App Store, and I'd put money on them not allowing Ubuntu or Windows to be distributed via the Mac App Store in a similar f

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