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by crux 17y ago
This decision is exactly the same as dozens of decisions they've made in the past, all decried as patently ridiculous and self-destructive. Apple likes to sell self-contained systems, in order to make sure that everything works really well.
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by crux 17y ago
Synopsis: Apple has never supported or particularly wanted third-party software or hardware to be able to interface with their systems. In the running skirmish that is trying to get said devices to work with said systems, Apple has once aga
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by crux 17y ago
I know there are a lot of founders, and therefore businesspeople, on this site—but I still find it a little weird that this kind of fratty business talk has so thoroughly permeated hacker culture. This article has absolutely 0 technical con
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by crux 17y ago
not only did he reject any opinion which went against his desired outcome The issue here is: if the surgery had not been successful---or if he lacked the resources to pursue this so thoroughly and still be productive and successful---we m
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by crux 17y ago
Except it wasn't a contract, it was a sample server sent as a sales pitch. If somebody is trying to get your business and sends you a machine that purposefully checks for your flagship product, so that that machine can treat it like a secon
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by crux 17y ago
Everybody's right in that it's a) not free, b) not an open protocol, and c) not a huge quantum leap past message boards, but I gotta tell you: I was interested in this anyway because I am desperate at this point. I am so sick of email—a doz
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Shareflow: it's kind of like Google Wave, but... not?(zenbe.com)
45 points by crux 17y ago|17 comments
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by crux 17y ago
This is magnificent. I haven't tried it out yet, so I'm obviously jumping the gun—but that is exactly what I'm working through in my head every time I get on and off the subway. N -> L is an easy one. I'll let you know what I think but
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by crux 17y ago
I have used both dd-wrt and Tomato, and found them both totally satisfactory. I guess I'd give the nod to Tomato, whose interface was a little slicker, but dd-wrt was still great too. I never had any problems installing or configuring eithe
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by crux 17y ago
This is awfully interesting. I've been looking for a LAMP-pluggable Campfire clone for a while now but no web chat is anywhere near the simplicity or responsiveness of Campfire.
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Re:Subj -- similar to cc:Betty or Tgethr(resubj.com)
1 points by crux 17y ago|0 comments
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by crux 17y ago
I've had this idea for a while for an app called ghostbin. It basically a note-taking (or todo) webapp that you didn't have to log in to—the blurb I wrote to remember it was, '[username].ghostbin.com has a single input box with a submit but
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by crux 17y ago
The way Apple has dealt with this is itself telling. For so many years Steve Jobs has been wholly identified with Apple—but now, even as he is returning, and even after every word about his health is positive, Apple is keeping it as low-key
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by crux 17y ago
Wikipedia is officially large enough that all of the abstract futurist notions of the internet community about freedom of information are coming in contact with some really real-world roadblocks. It's one thing to imagine wikipedia (or whoe
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by crux 17y ago
It's clear that the App Store is seriously broken. Every week we hear some new horror story, and they cover a distressingly wide range of types of brokenness. It's even clear, to an extent, what needs to be improved; better or more reasonab
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by crux 17y ago
Good find nothing. The very passage that Balko quotes from Thwaites contradicts his assessment. It's not just uncharitable but slightly fantastical. Thwaites says: "Commercial extraction and processing of the necessary materials happens on
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by crux 17y ago
Yeah, so I'm back on Safari. Plus c'est la meme chose.
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by crux 17y ago
It seems to me that the entire key to having this whole thing work out is if we have as many of these as possible. I think it's great that these guys were willing to put in the effort before Google even brought their product to market. We'r
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by crux 17y ago
Ubiquity belongs to a very large class of software, that which I find deeply interesting and compelling—yet is so disruptive, requiring enough memorization and adjustment of my habits, that I never adopt it, and always set it down or let it
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by crux 17y ago
The dichotomy is really quite striking. When it comes to individuals, I don't know a single person who prefers it to Facebook—and nearly everyone else I know really just thinks of it as the home of 16 year-old camgirls with pink hair. But w
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by crux 17y ago
I think it's really cool looking. One thing that I think needs tweaking is the exact graphical representation of the edits. I think it's smart to try and replicate what it would look like if someone were to write on your document, rather th
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by crux 17y ago
A surprisingly thoughtful post. This is a non-unknown genre—the stagnant software mea culpa—but I think he strikes a good and elegant tone. On the one hand, it's rare for a developer to acknowledge that they've been remiss in maintaining pu
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by crux 17y ago
There is a plaintext version of the Plotnitsky article, and I think it addresses the Dawkins article so directly (though it was published one year earlier) that it bears a direct link here: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.
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by crux 17y ago
I am generally aware and wary of the hackerish tendency to deride mightily any intellectual undertaking or material that doesn't triumph, confirm, or conform to their strictly rationalist view of the world and its every corner. I find it bo
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by crux 17y ago
The very fact that email needs to be pumped through a web server before it enters that workflow somewhat proves the point. Email is not linkable or indexable before you turn it into a web page. Therefore, it is not a web technology.
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by crux 17y ago
I think it's pretty cool looking. One question, one concern: 1) Are events added manually? They certainly seem well-enough targeted that I could see them being so. But the flip side of that is that there's a lot of other events of a similar
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by crux 17y ago
Campfire's just-work quotient is pretty high. As someone who's got his own web hosting, I was casting around for a hostable Campfire-workalike and there was nothing that I could find to compare. I also know some folks who have developed a v
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by crux 18y ago
Normally I'd see somebody coming out and saying 'this is a replacement for X' to be both desperate and a little misguided; desperate because they're putting their (more successful) competitor's name right there in the title, and misguided b
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by crux 18y ago
Does this have any connection with Readability, the JS bookmarklet that, uh, makes web articles readable that was released a couple months ago? I know that was open sourced, so maybe it's a fork and I missed that.
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by crux 18y ago
It looks pretty enough, but what's so subversive about it? It's not just another block puzzle game?

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