chrisBob

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   by chrisBob 12y ago

   So does that make it better or worse than just blocking adds?
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   by chrisBob 12y ago

   Screw that. If you don't like sites with annoying adds why send them revenue from click throughs? There are also a lot of hard working companies out there that would rather not pay $0.25 every time some ass hole with a browser extensio
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   by chrisBob 12y ago

   Using the FTDI vendor ID is branding it as an FTDI product. I would argue that it is even more important than the text printed on the chip since that is the part of the brand that the average end user is exposed to.
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   by chrisBob 12y ago

   Lock would be confusing because consumers associate that with being carrier locked. It is still an unlocked device, and the word choice helps make that clear.
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   by chrisBob 12y ago

   There are two points to this SIM, and dedicating it to a carrier only negates one. This SIM still removes the requirement to either purchase a carrier specific SIM before first using the device, or have Apple stock devices with the various
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   by chrisBob 12y ago

   In the US there isn't a legal way to purchase counterfeit goods. It may be different in other countries. Similar to stolen property, the person left holding the bag gets in trouble too. Edit: after actually looking up the issue instead
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   by chrisBob 12y ago

   Did we read the same thing? I got the impression that the author realized at the end that "technically privileged" was just an illusion, and the whole point is that they don't exist.
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   by chrisBob 12y ago

   Wow. Thats not bad at all. It must be a pretty cursory look, or maybe just a static analysis looking for something specific. That's good news
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   by chrisBob 12y ago

   >This list connects people who want testers, with people who need them. I get what you mean, but this doesn't quite make sense.
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    Does anyone have experience yet with the timeline for the beta app review required for external testers? This is significant because I feel like I would just have internal users bring their device over, or install it themselves from Xcode.
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    The HHMI page is still a press release. The peer reviewed article is published in Science here: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/346/6208/1257998 I am surprised that the paper is not linked in the press rele
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    Followed closely by facebook I guess.
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    My dad has setup email forwarding for the whole family as firstname@lastname.org. The .org is easy to explain and I think it suits a personal email well.
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    I would also change the title to be mail specific. Gmail may be better, but I actually prefer the integration of pages, numbers... over the google alternatives which are browser only.
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    I have had a similar experience. I just moved from my alumni organization's pop mail to iCloud for my personal email. I immediately started getting a ton of spam, and even contacted apple support about it. I am not sure exactly what th
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    Its worse than that. Don't buy a board from Ebay or Alibaba.
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    It is not obvious that Baltimore <-> DC is the right place to start, but I think the US needs more high speed rail, and if this is the gateway to that program then I support it. If the plan is anything other than starting here and the
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    I am not so sure. The US government subsidizes Amtrak [1], and if you want to start a new rail line that is probably exactly what you are looking for. [1] to the tune of $1.4B last year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtr
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    Seeing this reminds me how frustrating searching in the app store is. I saw this story on my computer, and picked up my iPad and went to the app store to download it. Searching for "photo math" yields a few hundred goofy photo edi
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    While it would be technically considered contract work, I think its a little short sighted to forgo a trial period because of what they called it. Its hard to see if an office would be a good fit in an hour or two, so I think the extended i
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    I am going to go put the number for the local police department in my cell phone. I can always call them directly.
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    >There's that famous rule of thumb: No. It says "If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is." I am very hopeful though.
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    Brews in an average of 4 hours? Can that be right?
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    I am happy with it on my home computer. I updated the first day, and other than some changes in Safari that will take a few days to get used to everything is fine. My work computer was a different story. MATLAB had lots of issues, and I end
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    I am a long time mac user (since 10.0), and I have never actually looked at the appearance settings, so I checked just for you. In OS X 10.9 and 10.10 the only real appearance settings are two color options, and the size of the side bars (s
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    I wanted an iPhone, and bought a 5s shortly after they announced the 6 and 6+. I am sure I am not alone in wanting a smaller phone. Just because the newest one has a big screen doesn't mean you have to buy a phone with a big screen. I
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    To some degree it depends on your vision. The 264 PPI is about my resolution limit. My boss probably couldn't tell the difference with more than 100PPI. I should be able to tell you the theoretical diffraction limit based on a 5mm pupi
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    I am not sure if I would notice if a pixel count changed by a factor of 1.2, but when you double the resolution (4x the pixels) the difference is dramatic. The screens on my iPad2 and iPad4 are very different, and while I didn't mind i
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    In the MEMS world we have something similar to this where you don't get a full wafer you just pay for copies of the device you design to be put on the next run. In this case it makes even more sense because the processes are much more
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    by chrisBob 12y ago

    Maybe he is a big Melville fan. Moby Dick has some sentences with paragraph breaks to help you keep your place.