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by bonzoesc 15y ago
The N1 has 512MB of internal space, and doesn't guarantee that the user has a MicroSD card inserted. Many Android apps (including Google-provided ones) only install to internal storage, and require janky hacks to work from the SD card. If i
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> On the other hand, I have heard stories of how Microsoft would often commit several teams to build a product to the same spec: the team that got something market-ready first was handsomely rewarded, and the teams that didn’t got reass
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Lion removed Front Row, so you'll just mess up their music.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> This is typical of Apple, though: it is also fun to carry around an Apple Remote if you know people with MacBooks. You walk up behind them, hit the menu button, and yell "FRONT ROW!", at which point their computer (default setting: ac
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Is it? When I'm writing about somebody who refers another person somewhere, I use "referrer." When I write about HTTP headers, I use "referer," even outside of code (i.e. in chat or prose). They're distinct concepts that now have distinct (
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> Here is what they told in late 2009 - don't know if these links still work: They don't.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
I'd much rather see something new to make driver-operated motor vehicles seem old and impractical. Smartphone usage by a passenger on a bus or train doesn't pose a constant lethal threat to everyone on the road, merely a threat of inconveni
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint pay Apple an undisclosed sum of money for each carrier-locked and two-year-contracted iPhone sold.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Could be worse, if you got the best Android you'd get to watch new better ones come out every other week, and never ever get the new OS.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> This is good information, but there's something else that probably needs to be said: nobody wants to get sued. Put simply, unsolicited ideas have negative value.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
I just used the subsidized US prices of $199, $299, and $399, it's a lower number but it's also a definite lower bound.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
It's about what Motorola sells in a quarter: http://www.asymco.com/2011/07/31/the-end-of-easy-growth-in-s... And assuming they're evenly split between 16GB and 32GB (it's not, there's also 64GB models in the mix), it's over a billion doll
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Gemfiles and bundler solve the same problem, in a way that works with Rails and gem development and that doesn't require extra stuff jammed into your shell.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
A success by what standard, because it's probably not profit.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Apple and any of the big brands of German cars have been associated (emotionally and culturally if not officially) together quite often. Volkswagen, BMW, and Porsche especially. Except for Mr. Jobs's personal preference, there's almost no a
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Did you get to re-use any of Zed Shaw's excellent parser work from Mongrel?
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> One solution could be to keep machine images stored, like AMIs, and use a tool like Chef or Puppet to re-deploy a known good configuration. It's probably Norton Ghost, and I'd put $5 on the Ghost image being cooked bad.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
What's the over/under on it also being present on the machine they made the master image from?
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
You might be thinking of "greybeard."
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The technical reason is this way they can outsource all the difficult and annoying account management stuff. No resetting passwords, no CAPTCHAs, they can let Facebook handle that. If somebody steals their database, all they get are OAuth k
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
I'm kind of in favor of rebranding "startups" that have no business like Twitter or Tumblr as "charities." "For only 30¢ per day you can make a difference in the life of a young adult who wants to reblog naked girls from other Tumblr sites
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
> Browser vendors are innovating in some areas, but they are stalled by the standards process in so many areas that is impossible to create a platform with a coherent, unified vision the way Apple has with Cocoa or the way Python has wi
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
Doesn't sound any worse than regular credit card transactions, where signature verification and ID checking are never done. It might even be better, since you can lock your phone, and presumably wire it to wipe remotely or after some failed
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
No, it uses a proprietary browser plugin.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
So? An attacker's not going to have the private key they were created with, and probably won't have a private key that you have an existing trust relationship to.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
The downloaders will have to be aware of the "no warranty" clause of the license Linux uses, and take responsibility for the software they bring into their environment. The kernel developers provide instructions[1] on how to cryptographical
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
The signature can be validated with a public key not available on the server.
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
I tend to commit the first set of written tests, the first code & test fixes that passes them, etc. It's very organic though; if you do a "write one test pass one test" workflow that'd be a lot, but since I tend to work on multiple test
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Public Key Pinning in Chrome - how to guard against malicious cert issuers(imperialviolet.org)
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by bonzoesc 15y ago
That was DEF CON 17 when somebody BGP'd the whole LAN through their datacenter in NYC, right?

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