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by dmdeller 13y ago
XMPP is not technically well-suited to mobile devices. It was designed with a base-level assumption that any client will maintain a constant TCP connection in order to receive messages. This doesn't fit well with mobile devices, which
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by dmdeller 13y ago
Not a direct answer, but: by law, any cell phone can still place calls to 911 with the SIM removed. We can probably extrapolate from there.
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by dmdeller 13y ago
Reminds me of a story from Japan about a fly-by-night café based on a similar idea: in addition to paying for the person after you, you would choose what food they would receive as well. http://www.cabel.name/2009/09&#x
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by dmdeller 13y ago
Still, it's not as easy as the person I was replying to made it sound. How many Macs would you have to compromise before you randomly stumble upon a registered developer, let alone a registered Mac developer (of which there are far f
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by dmdeller 13y ago
That would cost $25,600 and require 256 valid Social Security or DUNS numbers.
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by dmdeller 13y ago
> What about immediate improvements to battery life? Teich thinks that’s unlikely. “The only way battery life gets better with greater than 32-bit address spaces is to prevent swapping apps from physical memory to either SSD or HDD and t
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Don’t Trust iTunes Movies in the Cloud(danhon.com)
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by dmdeller 13y ago
I believe you're thinking of the term 'microcomputer', which describes a computer the size of what we would now call a PC and is no longer in common use. I was unable to find the word 'microsystem' in any dictionary
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by dmdeller 13y ago
> Names matter, and you often wind up stuck with the one you started with. Not just names--companies often wind up stuck with lots of things they started with, and there's no reason for it other than inertia. A well-known counter ex
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by dmdeller 13y ago
Presumably you are referring to the former Sun Microsystems. The amusing thing to me about this story is that it's such a convoluted name that their own potential customers apparently can't remember it. And so, attempting to locat
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by dmdeller 13y ago
Normal sales tax only. No other taxes/fees - they're all included in the basic rate. This is generally true of prepaid plans across all US carriers.
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by dmdeller 13y ago
Mac OS has done this since much earlier. The classic Mac OS needed at least two different representations of the same icon, one for the desktop (32x32) and one for the application switcher (16x16). The application switcher, initially called
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by dmdeller 13y ago
Since you specifically mentioned OmniFocus, it's worth noting that Omni Group stands behind all of their apps and will issue you a full refund within 30 days if you are unsatisfied--App Store sales included (they will eat Apple's 30% cut).
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by dmdeller 13y ago
People do what they're told. Or more accurately, they do the last thing they're told. The IT department yells at them not to click any links in emails. But then, every legitimate web site also still routinely sends emails instructing their
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by dmdeller 14y ago
Indeed. Constantly changing keys would cause as many problems for users of the official client as it would for unofficial clients. Twitter could make some way for the official client to fetch new keys from a server without a binary update,
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by dmdeller 14y ago
If the app is displaying its own internal web view for OAuth, it can load any page it wants in there and tell the user it's Twitter. It can even fake an address bar with a twitter.com URL if it wants. Then use the common phishing technique
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by dmdeller 14y ago
I was under that impression as well--perhaps something has changed since the initial announcement--but certificates are not free. I just went through this process with my free, non-App-Store Mac app, and there was no way to do it without pa
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by dmdeller 14y ago
> What if you make a mistake and remove a branch that you didn't want to remove? In Git, a branch is just another name, like an alias, for a specific commit. Think of it like DNS, where the branch is the domain name and the commit is th