brandon

18 ms·

121.
by brandon 17y ago
The author of the open letter is behind iPhone Wax: http://github.com/probablycorey/wax It may also be worth nothing that the particular case of Lua was already prohibited under the iPhone DPLA section 3.3.2 which states that no interpret
122.
by brandon 17y ago
I bought 'qrko.de' for nearly the same purpose: URL shortening with bit.ly style analytics but with built in QR support (and maybe user-agent tracking. It would be interesting to see the device market share for code scanning) I'll probably
123.
by brandon 17y ago
To be frank, I'm not going to TOUCH a library that contains 400k of base64-encoded zip data. If it wasn't actually an April fools joke, bad form.
124.
by brandon 17y ago
My two personal experiences with Sugru so far: 1. The stuff is amazing. As an experiment, I completely coated an 802.15.4 temperature sensor in a thin coat and threw it into an autoclave (to test the temperature claims, etc). It held up. 2.
125.
by brandon 17y ago
Playing with bottle.py and Twilio
126.
by brandon 17y ago
I personally think the necessity of using an IDE merits complaint itself. Yes, Eclipse and IntelliJ do some pretty amazing things. I wish I had a toolset that nice for C/Python/whatever. By contrast, without the toolset in Java, you're sunk
127.
by brandon 17y ago
The bug is capable of completely locking up modern browsers (to say nothing of the situation back in 2008 when the issue was discovered). Esoteric or not, this should have been on the very top of the work pile and dropped into a security
128.
by brandon 17y ago
So, they verified the bug over a year ago and haven't pushed out the fix because it's slated for an as-of-yet unreleased point upgrade? Confidence inspiring.
129.
by brandon 17y ago
Looks like everyone gets a "Hi, my name is..." sticker. I'll put an orange HN on mine or some such. Challenge response sounds like too much effort to implement. Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/techcocktail/sets/
130.
by brandon 17y ago
Yes, the iPhone supports double-tap to zoom, and it works reasonably well. I rarely have to pinch to zoom in or out in order to get a better view of the content.
131.
by brandon 17y ago
I believe he means the Linksys NSLU NAS box. The thing is, modding that device isn't much different from jailbreaking your iPhone. If you're okay with invalidating the warrantee on the slug, then I don't understand why you'd complain about
132.
by brandon 17y ago
I'd like to clarify the following quote from the article: " Ipredator is currently using the same platform as several other VPN franchises including Relakks, which means it’s not really anything we haven’t seen before. " The term "platform"
133.
by brandon 17y ago
Before there were dozens of decent ad-blocking extensions out there I was a big user of Privoxy. It had an action called "deanimate-gif" that would display only the first frame of the animated image. I'm not sure if Privoxy was downloading
134.
by brandon 17y ago
But simply my $NULL. Oops!
135.
by brandon 17y ago
I use Quicksilver as my sole means of launching applications (plus a few other utility functions) and I've never experienced the kind of instability you're describing. Let ß56a7's low PID testify to it's rock solidness! ~ bgilmore → upt
136.
by brandon 17y ago
I'd love to hear your rationale. I recently landed at a small startup in San Diego. We're downtown in class A office space, 16th floor with a Pacific view, and we pay less than $2.50/sqft. I'm having a hard time seeing how being in the bay
137.
by brandon 17y ago
My Verizon USB-3G modem is basically only usable under Linux if I use WvDial and treat it like dial-up. It's equally hilarious when you find out that connecting requires the hardcoded password of "777" regardless of your individual detail
138.
by brandon 17y ago
I don't have any solid numbers on Apple's margins, but I'm not sure I agree with your break-even assessment. taptaptap recently announced that they clear $1M/month via AppStore sales (and they don't currently have any apps on the 100 Top Gr
139.
by brandon 17y ago
I want to second Make magazine. Even if you don't do anything in the zine, the reading is great.
140.
by brandon 17y ago
My partner and I had a similar "oops" We started down the path of developing a Google Latitude-like system before Latitude had been publicly announced. Our prototype apps quite literally had the same workflows and functionality that you'll
141.
by brandon 17y ago
No, you're spot on. 2.2.2.4.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer vnsc-bak.sys.gtei.net. Even though the IP space hasn't been SWIP'd to GTE/Verizon, the server(s) behind that IP are evidently theirs.
142.
by brandon 17y ago
Ripped shamelessly from the comments on the post, I thought this was pretty neat: http://foxxtrot.github.com/Chroma-Hash/ However, I don't see how it's more effective than a callout or alert noting "these don't match" ... just less annoyi
143.
by brandon 17y ago
It's so easy to do, in fact, that I had already paid before I realized that the device isn't scheduled to ship until 3 days after my daughter is scheduled to ship. I bet my graphs are going to be REALLY interesting.
144.
Samsung sponsors the development of Enlightenment(phoronix.com)
3 points by brandon 17y ago|0 comments
145.
by brandon 17y ago
If you look closely, it does appear that you need a PIN in addition to the passphrase. (not to say that a PIN is foolproof)
146.
by brandon 17y ago
Reads a bit like Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"
147.
by brandon 17y ago
I remember a time when UE was really the best option for Windows. Just think, (S)FTP integration! I certainly put a lot of miles on it. Nowadays though, so many editors (some of them free) with identical feature-sets have popped up across a