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by britta 15y ago
The Dev Team has distributed jailbreaks for all the previous iPhones (and basically all the iPod touches, and the iPad 1, and one Dev Team member published a jailbreak for the iPad 2 on one version of iOS). That said, MuscleNerd states very
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by britta 15y ago
Keep learning, keep reading, keep building empathy and understanding, keep piecing together an understanding of what people mean when they say privilege and why they think it's important, learn more about the history of feminism and of the
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by britta 15y ago
I'm like that too, but the occasional transferring does require a lot of steps: I (1) dig out my phone cable, (2) plug it in, (3) wait for my phone to sync while waiting for iPhoto to launch, (4) wait for the photos to import, (5) export th
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by britta 15y ago
If you're close to any of them, it may be interesting to ask them. A lot of women in technology (and women in general, and also people in general) choose to not talk much about bad experiences, for many reasons, so there is an underreportin
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by britta 15y ago
There are many interesting and thoughtful aspects of this design, but I found the fading effects and low-text-contrast parts distracting. Just something to consider if you're taking inspiration from it.
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by britta 15y ago
I'd like to see another site marketing Nethack to young people. I came across it when I was 12 (on some freeware Mac games site), which meant that I ended up spending a huge amount of time practicing using text-based navigation, combining t
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by britta 15y ago
You may find this article on recent research thought-provoking: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/fashion/makeup-makes-women... - "Wearing makeup...increases people’s perceptions of a woman’s likability, her competence and (provided she d
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by britta 15y ago
It's unlikely that AVOS had a choice. Several months ago, the former product manager of Delicious wrote about a few options for its future ( http://uniquehazards.tumblr.com/post/2377362882/we-can-save-... ), and he included: > But ultim
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by britta 15y ago
Yes, it does. If you're interested in long-term web-based storage of personal bookmarks, Pinboard's fee is a type of improvement over Delicious, since it helps the service stay calmly stable over time.
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by britta 15y ago
After further study: you can't save links privately via the Delicious bookmarklet anymore. I just clicked my "save this link" bookmarklet on an article I was reading (out of some nostalgic impulse), and I expected the usual interface where
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by britta 15y ago
My old Delicious "network" aggregated bookmarks from 100 people I was following; it looks like only 20 of them transferred their bookmarks to new Delicious. (By comparison, 40 of them are in my Pinboard network.) I probably learned more fro
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by britta 15y ago
I'd be slightly concerned that somebody would snatch the iPad out of their hands and run. :p (It reminds me of this: http://www.dnainfo.com/20110531/downtown/iphone-thefts-on-su... - "Thieves are snatching the popular devices right out of
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by britta 15y ago
I was once having a very good day in NYC and an art-student-looking guy outside Cooper Union tried to sell me one of his hand-drawn "life maps" - he was holding a basket of little paper scrolls tied with shiny ribbons, with colorful lines d
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by britta 15y ago
I like Fage, but its packaging is probably a bit cryptic/dull if you don't already know about Greek yogurt and want it. Chobani looks more inviting and stylish, with more flavored versions and livelier images.
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by britta 15y ago
Hehe, I remember trying out the predecessor, SmackBook: http://blog.medallia.com/2006/05/smacbook_pro.html I also remember installing a bunch of similar little toys built around the same time using this sensor - MacSaber: http://blog.is
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Summary of findings from Wikimedia Summer of Research 2011(meta.wikimedia.org)
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by britta 15y ago
> making it easy for the non-artist and non-technical person to create and publish content removes a giant filter that would keep out a lot of trash. To me, the biggest part of the fun of internet image culture all over the web is that
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by britta 15y ago
Even if she chooses to make her gender part of her branding in a prominent and very-confident way, "whoring" is a poor choice of words - it's a loaded term with connotations of specifically insulting a particular gender for behaving in over
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by britta 15y ago
There are a few more places around the web where people said they received no money from Free App of the Day placement: http://androidandme.com/2011/06/news/dev-asks-is-it-worth-li... http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20appstore%20deals
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by britta 15y ago
The last line of the story says "in the past year, its head count has grown to 600."
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by britta 15y ago
"there is a physical pre-programmed revulsion to everything that Higher math, Physics and Programming have to offer." This is not consistent with my understanding of myself or all the other women I've known, and it does not seem to make sen
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by britta 15y ago
I found this a interesting comment, from Danny Sullivan - it's not always straightforward to define what a "common name" is: "What are the best ways for people to prove their 'common name' status. Unless +50 Cent has a government ID with th
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by britta 15y ago
Hmm...installing OpenSSH but leaving your root password as the default "alpine" is a security problem, downloading copied app files from the web is sketchy, and I also wouldn't trust adding the extra repository to get Installous or instal
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by britta 15y ago
Yeah, I get irritated when autocorrect automatically "fixes" unusual words I wanted to type, but it's also nice to have correction available. So I'm really happy with ManualCorrect on my jailbroken iPhone - it makes it just correct when I t
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by britta 15y ago
Attaching a sexist comment to a post about the challenges of being a female engineer is not cute or helpful.
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by britta 15y ago
I'd note that jailbreaking and Cydia are not about piracy or encouraging piracy (they're about much more - tons of people even buy jailbreak-only tweaks/themes/etc. from the Cydia Store). Some percentage of people do find ways to get pirate
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by britta 16y ago
A different experience - I recently tried out Grooveshark on my jailbroken iPhone, and I liked it. The interface is nice and clever, the music quality was fine (I was listening over WiFi though), the radio-style recommendations were decent.
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by britta 16y ago
Some of his answers cover this concern ( http://www.reddit.com/user/moot ): "We're using it during the beta period to handle invites and authenticate users (make sure they're real people)." "As we've said before, Facebook Connect on Canvas
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by britta 16y ago
I actually edit photos even while Flux is on. Eyes are amazing things; mine adjust to the new white balance and I can still judge colors reasonably well (ok, as well as I could before). Of course, these are just photos for Flickr, not for p
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by britta 16y ago
Feminism as a "women's interests lobby" is vaguely like calling the free software movement a "geeks' interests lobby" - it's both condescending and inaccurate about the nature of movements, among other things. Anyway, sounds like the articl

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