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by dhess 16y ago
I don't buy that. Why is Flash good enough for Hulu's content providers, but not Netflix's?
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by dhess 16y ago
> With silverlight, I can watch a 720p video on my mbp and use less than one core. I can not say the same for flash. A 720p video from Netflix? That definitely wasn't the case for me last time I tried, maybe 2 months ago. edit: to cla
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by dhess 16y ago
For starters, it's a poor choice for streaming technology on the Mac. Can we expect to see HTML5 video support for the Mac anytime soon? It pains me that Netflix HD streams on my iPad look better than on my 1080p projector hooked up to a Ma
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by dhess 16y ago
Recent U.S. court rulings against the MLB say that MLB statistics, at least, are public domain and can't be copyrighted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_Advanced_... Note that soon after the MLB's ultimate appeal to the
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Ask HN: anyone doing an interesting fantasy football startup?
2 points by dhess 16y ago|3 comments
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by dhess 16y ago
It was announced a few months ago, but I only recently found out about Tonika (via wmf's blog): http://5ttt.org/ It's not directly comparable to Diaspora or GNU Social, but to me it's much more interesting than either: a distributed, secu
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by dhess 16y ago
They do with Apache 2.2.12 or later and any recent browser: http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/NameBasedSSLVHostsWithSNI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication I'm using SNI on all of my domains, and it works great.
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by dhess 16y ago
If you'll allow me to pimp my ISP for a moment, depending on where you live in the Bay Area, there's reason to celebrate, not gripe. I don't know of a finer DSL provider in the U.S. than Sonic.net, a local ISP based in the North Bay, provid
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by dhess 16y ago
Has anyone republished your free app as a paid app? If so, how do you feel about it?
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by dhess 16y ago
Includes iPad ($30/unlimited option is no longer available to iPad customers after June 7). Current $30/unlimited customers are grandfathered in, for now, at least. Where to begin? Canceling the $30/unlimited option barely a month after the
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AT&T's new data plans: $25/2GB cap, tethering +$20(att.com)
65 points by dhess 16y ago|79 comments
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by dhess 16y ago
Hmm, the freedom to hack the phone without jumping through hoops was, for me, one of the major attractions of Android over the iPhone. An effective vendor OS lock-in makes Android a lot less appealing to me, especially when the usability of
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by dhess 16y ago
Ahh, so it's not just me who can't figure out how to delete those Sprint apps. Is there really no way to do that?
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by dhess 16y ago
I got an Evo at I/O and I'm new to Android. Is there any way to install a stock Google Android distribution on this phone? So far my impression is that the UI is awful, but I'm not sure how much of it is due to "HTC Sense" and how much is j
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by dhess 16y ago
Wow, fantastic essay, both for its technical and historical content. I worked at ILM during the digital restoration of the original trilogy, and most of the author's account is news to me.
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by dhess 16y ago
It's purely anecdotal. HardForum is a good source of information because of its enthusiast user base. A large group of home NAS builders post there.
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by dhess 16y ago
Many (most?) new consumer drives have support for ERC (the standard term for what WD calls "TLER"), which is part of the ATA-8 standard. See here for the spec (ERC is described in section 8.3.4): http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocume
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by dhess 16y ago
Another vote for SmugMug. Pro accounts can also do custom homepage design, you can create a CNAME for a domain you own that points to your SmugMug homepage, the forums are great, and they offer an extra-cost "vault" feature for backing up R
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by dhess 16y ago
There are parallels here to Twitter's evolution as a service.
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by dhess 17y ago
Your reply was much more detailed than I had any right to expect, so thanks for taking the time to write it. You've eliminated any doubts I had about using Clojure with GAE. I encourage you to write more about your Clojure/GAE work, and, if
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by dhess 17y ago
While we're on the subject, does anyone here have experience using Clojure with GAE? I'm considering that configuration for a useful-but-not-mission-critical application, and wondering if Clojure on GAE is robust enough for that.
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by dhess 17y ago
Is Butler being maintained? Is there a bug tracker? It doesn't look like there's been a release since 2008, but I can't tell because I can't find a dated changelog for the project.
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by dhess 17y ago
Thanks, I didn't know about fetch/build in Macports. > except that a million build scripts and make files out there assume /usr/local/ as a default location. setting up something like '/home/shared/' is not a problem, just don't mess wi
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by dhess 17y ago
> ports does have the separation, you fetch/build as the local user and run install escalated. I see from the Macports 1.8 release notes that privilege dropping is supported. That's good news, but is it the default? The release notes in
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by dhess 17y ago
brew's documentation isn't fully baked, but this should do what you want: $ brew cleanup git Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/git/1.6.5.4... Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/git/1.6.5.7... Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/git/1.6.6...
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by dhess 17y ago
I think it's much more likely that something bad will happen during a build with "sudo brew install some-package" than someone successfully hijacking, say, my Safari session and then installing a trojan in my user-writable /usr/local direct
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by dhess 17y ago
I was curious about how this service works, mostly to know where the money is actually flowing. I Googled for awhile and came up with nothing, but thanks to randomwalker's post in this thread ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1051844 ),
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by dhess 17y ago
I just finished teaching Bootstrap ( http://www.bootstrapworld.org ) in an after-school program at 2 middle schools: one in inner-city Oakland and the other in Daly City. The Bootstrap curriculum doesn't look anything what you describe. The
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by dhess 17y ago
Don't forget Russ Cox, who I believe stuck with Plan 9 longer than either Rob or Ken. I'm excited to see CSP in Go. I've been advocating its use for concurrency since I learned about Plan 9's channels, but most people paid no attention.
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by dhess 17y ago
Thanks for this! I'm teaching Scheme to middle schoolers at the moment, and I make use of lots of visuals. I'm looking forward to trying out some of the ideas and drawings in this report.

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