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by deong 13y ago
A properly designed split keyboard is aimed at improving the placement of the wrists though. I found a minor but noticeable benefit many years ago switching to the Kinesis Advantage. I've recently switched to the Truly Ergonomic keyboa
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by deong 13y ago
Well, the underlying issue is quite real -- TrueCrypt's hidden volume capability is so well-known that it provides little to no practical benefit. Look at it this way, if the US government could get Glenn Greenwald's laptop, which
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by deong 13y ago
Except currently, I know most of my passwords. Losing my email access would suck on so many levels I don't know where to start, but at least I can still log into my bank/credit card sites/etc. to start mitigating the potentia
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by deong 13y ago
This is definitely a big issue with Google Now. It's not that it's unpredictable though, at least in my opinion. It's that it's unpredictable combined with no way to deal with the consequences of that. It does what it th
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by deong 13y ago
Depends on the cause of the corruption. If the physical drive is going bad, then diskutil should at least report some errors. But HFS+ doesn't checksum anything. If you have a flaky controller or just an errant solar ray flipping a bit
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by deong 13y ago
It's not breaking news or anything, but by definition, "Mac OS filesystem still a piece of crap" won't be. I assume it's being upvoted because it's interesting and (apparently) timeless.
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by deong 13y ago
On the desktop, you can change the default browser. It's still a competitive advantage to be the default, but at least a user who wants to can make a one time change. On iOS, even people who would very much prefer a competitor end up u
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by deong 13y ago
> For where I live at (SF Bay Area), I've never experienced any major problems with routing or data I think Bob's Discount Maps, Bait, and Tackle probably works fine in San Francisco. Outside the Bay Area, it's bad. Outsid
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by deong 13y ago
I'm in Iceland, and Apple Maps just punts here. It can't find anything at all, and about 50% of the time, it doesn't even try. You just get a UIAlertView that says "No Results Found". I did a comparison of about 30
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by deong 13y ago
Reigned? Based on the inclusion of one cover-your-ass clause that has so far never been exercised in the terms and conditions of one product? If this is your idea of sufficient evidence that a company is run by lawyers, I'd challenge y
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by deong 13y ago
I hate to be that guy, but for some reason I'm unable to let this one pass by. It's trivial, and in no way reflects on his point (to the degree that he has one...the article is shockingly light on any concrete information), but fo
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by deong 13y ago
It's very much the same idea, if not the same underlying chips. The Snapdragon 800 SoC includes these sensors, so a lot of new high-end Android phones are going to support this.
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by deong 13y ago
Can you set it up? I've always been able to install the APK, but if you don't already have a GV number, it wants to send an SMS to a real phone number as part of the setup, and that number needed to be American.
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by deong 13y ago
My standard joke is that Google's idea of a worldwide rollout is "Now including Oakland!"
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by deong 13y ago
I have a similar Amazon history as yours it seems, but both books it found eligible for me were very new (2009 and 2011 publication dates).
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by deong 13y ago
Out of curiosity, are you a native English speaker? I had no problems at all reading the article. A couple of the sentences are a little awkwardly phrased, but things like "The vast vast majority of products Amazon sells it makes a pro
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by deong 13y ago
I was mostly referring to the style of programming the languages encourage. Things like multiple return values instead of exceptions are extremely significant in what they imply about how you're intended to code in the languages. Go te
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by deong 13y ago
I think calling Go a simplified Java is pretty far off the mark. Aside from both aiming at the niche of being sort of "medium-level" languages, for lack of a better term, Go's approach seems very different from Java's. O
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by deong 13y ago
Presumably they can terminate his account for any reason they like. There's no legal right to a Facebook account, so they don't have to hunt for any terms he might have violated. But yes, I don't see how they could expect to
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by deong 13y ago
Yahoo! didn't switch their vision from a search engine. Yahoo! was a portal long before it was a search engine. In ye olden times, Yahoo! maintained a curated list of hierarchically organized links. That was their core product. I would
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by deong 13y ago
True, but I was thinking more along the paranoid lines of someone who would think it was a huge scandal that Google might know your wifi password. If you distrust Google enough to be really worried about that, then I'm not sure why you
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by deong 13y ago
> Same user experience without exposing private data. Google also knows your Google account password. If you can decrypt the data using any deterministic function of your Google password, then so can Google, so there's no additional
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by deong 13y ago
I use PopClip ( http://pilotmoon.com/popclip/ ) on my Macs. It's not quite as seamless as having everything you select automatically available for middle-click pasting, but it's pretty close.
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by deong 13y ago
To quote Good Will Hunting, "I was being ironical."
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by deong 13y ago
> Google's recruiting seems like it must be at least partially the responsibility of short-tenure contractors. Every time I've dealt with people from their recruiting department, even the very nice ones seemed forgetful, inatte
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by deong 13y ago
I have no problem with that approach, but the cost-benefit analysis needs to take into account the likelihood that some huge percentage of your user-base can't run the app. If 50% of my users get a crash at start-up, I'm going to
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by deong 13y ago
You can submit compatibility fixes. You just can't use new APIs (as they're not present in the non-beta SDK you have to build with).
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by deong 13y ago
Because no one has multiple iOS devices?
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by deong 13y ago
Yes, but it's not like every new beta release crashes your app in 25 completely new ways. Most apps run just fine in the beta as is. The more likely case is that it's a very small number of issues that you can work around or fix o
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by deong 13y ago
No, but nor do I think that people are getting slammed with one-star reviews the day that the first beta goes out. I can think of a few niche reasons why you would wait until iOS 7 is released before you release a fixed version of your app,

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