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by britta 13y ago
Unfortunately trying to have this attitude ignores the real-life differences in people's attitudes toward women and men programmers. For example, even if you are very careful to treat all programmers fairly, there are still many other
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by britta 13y ago
I have almost no programming experience, and this game expects you to know quite a bit about programming conventions. My experience so far includes: * "I don't really know what call means in this context, but based on previous kno
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by britta 13y ago
It doesn't have to be just for Android. There's already interest in it from developers for jailbroken iOS: http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/1lbyrr/pressy_a_b... And the FAQ on the Kic
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by britta 13y ago
The Coast Starlight ( http://www.amtrak.com/coast-starlight-train ) has been running once a day between LA and Oakland for years, with a connecting bus to SF - here's its schedule: http://www.amtrak.com/c
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by britta 13y ago
Humility is great, but when people call something a "syndrome" (a word usually associated with disorders/diseases), they usually mean that the thing is interfering with your life - humility taken too far, to a degree that is
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by britta 13y ago
For anyone who suspects they might have a bit of impostor syndrome, here are more resources for figuring out how to identify it and deal with it: http://adainitiative.org/2013/06/kicking-impostor-syndrome-i... (a
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by britta 13y ago
saurik explains in his introduction why his article is different (and potentially worth reading even if you've read other articles): > Later articles were written about this bug, each examining the same exploit technique, coming to
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by britta 13y ago
Jailbreakers didn't have to wait for a mod to fix this; there's an existing free tool that bypasses common types of jailbreak checks (xCon), and it worked for this.
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by britta 13y ago
Just to clarify what xCon does: it's intended for use with legally-purchased App Store apps that refuse to work correctly on jailbroken devices - xCon tricks those apps into thinking that they're running on non-jailbroken devices.
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by britta 13y ago
They are politely discouraged from attending. I imagine that a person who says "I'm a fed" while buying a badge would not be issued one, but Defcon has no way to avoid issuing badges to feds who don't disclose their stat
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by britta 13y ago
Popular Mechanics did a series on the economics of recycling that goes into some more detail: "Is Recycling Worth It?": http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/recyclin... Comparing types of
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by britta 13y ago
Odd to comment on appearances when they're not relevant to the news. But anyway, I think it's great that she's talking openly about her frustrations and challenges with her classes (on http://getacollegelife.tumblr.com/ ). Not a lot of peo
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by britta 13y ago
Flickr's Community Guidelines say that you're supposed to upload your own work ( http://www.flickr.com/help/guidelines/ ): > Don’t upload anything that isn't yours. This includes other people's photos, video, and/or stuff you've copied
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by britta 13y ago
For an example of what Substrate can do, saurik also released Winterboard for Android today ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saurik.win... ): > WinterBoard is a "theme engine" that allows you to use the numerous them
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by britta 13y ago
saurik wrote a comparison of Xposed and Substrate that may be interesting to you: http://www.cydiasubstrate.com/id/34058d37-3198-414f-a696-73e... > That said, at some level the libraries are fairly similar: the core mechanism by whic
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by britta 14y ago
This exemption process is part of the DMCA. The Copyright Office's rulemaking statement begins with several pages answering your question: http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2012/2012-26308_PI.pdf And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Mi
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by britta 14y ago
I think they're saying something like this: "We did our job as prescribed by the law - we went through an extensive public comment and hearing process, and we produced an exemption that interpreted the available legal arguments as fairly as
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by britta 14y ago
This exemption process is part of the DMCA, and it produces "rules", not as weighty as laws. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Ac... has an explanation: > In addition to the safe harbors and exemptions the stat
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The Ada Initiative’s role in the cancellation of Violet Blue’s BSides SF talk(adainitiative.org)
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by britta 14y ago
The linked article mentions how that's already happening in China ("young college graduates in China are four times as likely to be unemployed as young people who attended only elementary school, because factory jobs are more plentiful than
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by britta 14y ago
A number of people pirating apps are people who don't have the App Store available in their countries, and some others are children and young teenagers who don't have their own money to buy things online (with parents who aren't interested
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by britta 14y ago
Do you mean the JailbreakMe web-based exploits? JailbreakMe is not available for iOS 4.2.1. It's available for 3.1.2-4.0.1 and 4.3-4.3.3 - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JailbreakMe#Compatible_iOS_vers... for details.
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by britta 14y ago
They aren't updated for iOS 6 yet, but I believe the developer is planning on updating them. You can email him for more information if you like - his email address is listed at the bottom of his website ( http://gvexts.appspot.com/ ).
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by britta 14y ago
MapsOpener makes Google Maps the default maps app - see http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/12/14/mapsopener/ for some information and a video.
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by britta 14y ago
It's an untethered jailbreak (allows the device to reboot on its own without using a desktop tool to help it boot), if that's what you mean by permanent. I probably wouldn't call it "permanent" since you can easily remove the jailbreak by r
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by britta 14y ago
For most people it's about customizing iOS: adding extra features to the interface, disabling features you don't like, personalizing how it looks - generally finding ways to improve it so that it works better for you. Instead of just lookin
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by britta 14y ago
That's a very misleading article. It's conflating jailbreaking with carrier unlocking, and they're two different things - in iOS community terminology, "jailbreaking" is removing software restrictions so that you have root on your own devic
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by britta 14y ago
I just tried searching Google Scholar, and it turned up studies showing effectiveness: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1521/suli.33.4.400.252... - "Independent raters measured callers' suicidality and mental state at the beginning a
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by britta 14y ago
And if you want more details or help, see http://www.jailbreakqa.com/ - it includes a tutorial for jailbreaking iOS 6.0.1 on iPhone 4/3GS and iPod touch 4th gen, which has a tricky bit where you have to use the 6.0 IPSW (firmware file) as
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by britta 14y ago
"Hospice care" generally means no longer receiving drastic treatments like chemo, just treatments for discomforts such as pain and anxiety. Often hospice patients are no longer able to process solid food or food at all. People taking care o

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