cmatthias

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by cmatthias 15y ago
"Why? Is that just on principle? Or do you see this behavior by the government as rising to the level of the US taking down sites that flout or even break the law in a de minimis way?" I think it's a combination of several factors. One is d
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by cmatthias 15y ago
If you read the article, you will discover that the author asserts that this situation is different, because it's the first time that a .com domain registered through a foreign registrar has been subject to seizure by US authorities. I don'
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by cmatthias 15y ago
I can comfortably reach the upper right corner of my phone. Maybe I have larger hands than I think I do, or maybe I hold my phone differently than most people. But I still don't see how that blog post linked to in the parent comment is at a
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by cmatthias 15y ago
Everytime I see this article mentioned, I cringe. I am a man with relatively small hands and I can reach the right edge and even the upper right corner of my Motorola Atrix 2 (almost as big as a Galaxy S II) easily. Have you actually tried
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by cmatthias 15y ago
Visa and MasterCard are not the only credit card companies. I use American Express almost exclusively, which doesn't seem to be on the list.
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by cmatthias 15y ago
Except, as noted in the comments, there is actually no way to get a truly unlocked iPhone in the USA (one that will work with any US provider). Even Apple's "Unlocked" full price phone will only work on GSM networks (so AT&T or T-Mobile
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by cmatthias 15y ago
The Sprint pricing is wrong, you're missing the required $10/month smartphone data add-on. That brings the prices to $80, $100, and $110 for each tier. Also, do you have more info on the $10/month discount on VZW for FIOS customers? I did s
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by cmatthias 15y ago
The "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" comment was tongue-in-cheek and I apologize if it came off as insensitive. I have a ton of respect for the guy, and it's definitely a huge loss. But I'm just trying to say that maybe people are going a
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by cmatthias 15y ago
Awesome, thank you!
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by cmatthias 15y ago
Guilty as charged about contributing to the problem, but I went to the new queue with the express purpose of voting up every non-Steve Jobs related story I could find, and didn't find many. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I still assert th
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by cmatthias 15y ago
Yeah, exactly, I went out to page 4 of the "new" queue and was only able to find a few stories that weren't Steve Jobs related. I guess I'll just come back later.
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Ask HN: Every article on the front page is about Steve Jobs. WTF?
13 points by cmatthias 15y ago|14 comments
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by cmatthias 15y ago
Why? Just about everything in this article is factually and verifiably true, except maybe the part about the iPad being late to market. Steve was a great entrepreneur, but I don't think every obituary needs to deify him.
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by cmatthias 15y ago
Yes, exactly, either you don't make apps for their platform anymore (in the case of iOS) or you distribute them through your website, just like before the app store existed. Or, you could make a webapp. Apple has been treating their develop
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by cmatthias 15y ago
My honest opinion is that the only solution here is to pack up and leave Apple's closed ecosystem, because they clearly don't care about their developers. If you are continuing to do business with them you are sending them a message that it
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by cmatthias 15y ago
Wow, this article is pretty misinformed. This is something that PC vendors have been doing for years , since Windows XP came out, at least. It can definitely be helpful and a nice thing to have, but an innovation? I don't think so.
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by cmatthias 15y ago
I'm assuming you're using Twilio for this (if not, please correct me). How can you charge 2c a minute when it costs more than this from Twilio if the user is doing forwarding? Do you just hope that the monthly charge makes up for the defici
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by cmatthias 15y ago
I already deleted it. I'm not sure how I can prove it to you as I didn't get an email, and when I clicked the "Delete Account" button to commit to deleting my account it just bounced me to the dropbox homepage. But thanks for trying to call
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by cmatthias 15y ago
Yes, there is: "We have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) __from Dropbox__ that the following material is claimed to be infringing." (underscores mine)
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by cmatthias 15y ago
Wow, did not expect this from a savvy company like Dropbox. Filing a fake DMCA complaint? I think I'll take my files elsewhere.
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by cmatthias 16y ago
My advice is to stay far, far away from Moniker. I use them at work, and their UI stinks: for example, when changing my domains' authoritative nameservers it will occasionally switch the nameservers back to the default (Moniker's own) witho
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by cmatthias 16y ago
Looks interesting, nice work. A couple of companies that all work out of our office are actively hiring engineers, so I'll talk to them and see if they'd be interested in using it.
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by cmatthias 16y ago
I'm not even an experienced Android developer, but I just looked up CheckedTextView: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Checke... I see no indications that it's abstract, and I found a bunch of other abstract classes th
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by cmatthias 16y ago
What? My commute is approximately 18 miles each way, almost all of which is highway with a 65mph speed limit. Is the Leaf not going to be able to get me to work and back on a single charge? If not, the 100 mile range they're claiming is pre
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by cmatthias 16y ago
This is simply not true. One specific example is SSDs -- they offer a huge increase in performance, yet Apple only offers mediocre, overpriced ones as options on its higher-end machines.
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by cmatthias 16y ago
Yes, there was just an upgrade to the Mini, and it's pretty and all, but it lost a USB port, is still using the same (old) Core 2 processors, and they raised the base price by $100. Not very competitive if you ask me. Their laptops do sell
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Apple doesn't care about making computers anymore(bu.rri.to)
2 points by cmatthias 16y ago|5 comments
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by cmatthias 16y ago
Boston wasn't in your list of cities so I lost interest pretty quickly. That's fine, but it looks like there were other cities on your site that are completely devoid of posts. I can immediately think of two options here to improve the expe
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by cmatthias 16y ago
I'd like to echo ashu's comments; I have no skin in the SEO game and Mahalo doesn't pass the smell test for me. There might be a bias on HN against you or your site, but if you want to change that, it's your job to argue with solid facts th
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by cmatthias 16y ago
This is a nice little utility. It'd be good if it supported more google services (reader, gmail?) but hopefully they'll add to it as time goes on.

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