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by dunham 13y ago
Wish I knew about these guys a year ago, when I got rid of most of my books to make room for a nursery. My book search solution is to upload a list of ISBNs to google books and do "search within my library". It doesn't have full coverage, b
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by dunham 13y ago
Or if you had a network outage and wanted to access your files. I use Mail.app to sync my gmail locally, but it'd be nice if Drive actually synced my Google Docs locally. Currently Drive just places a small json shim file on the disk, rath
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by dunham 14y ago
I occasionally get into a state in ML where the mouse click events stop working (and the Cmd-Tab UI doesn't show up). This persists until I kill "Dock". Then the mouse starts working again (and the desktop resets itself), but the dock and
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by dunham 14y ago
It's plausible. I've personally seen phishing done via google docs. And, at one point, Oxford blocked google docs because of phishing. So phishing via docs is probably a common occurrence. To combat this, I wouldn't be surprised if Google
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by dunham 14y ago
On twitter, Sabre says they're not having any issues, and American Airlines retracted their statement pointing the finger at Sabre: Clarification: The issue is w/ our ability to access our res system & not w/ @SabreNews. We apologize t
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by dunham 14y ago
Have you considered a user.js script? I'm using one to fill in the white borders and wrap comments at a reasonable width: // ==UserScript== // @match https://news.ycombinator.com/* // ==/UserScript== (function () { document.b
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by dunham 14y ago
I believe he's doing full text search on this by running Burrows-Wheeler on the data first. See here for more details: http://alexbowe.com/fm-index/ I started reimplementing all of this in Go about a year ago, but moved onto other s
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by dunham 14y ago
The backup, encrypted or otherwise, doesn't contain the actual keychain file itself, but rather a plist export of a subset of the keychain. Things that are marked as kSecAttrAccessibleAfterFirstUnlockThisDeviceOnly are never included in thi
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by dunham 14y ago
Doesn't `git gc` keep stuff pointed to by the last 30 days of the ref log?
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by dunham 14y ago
I'm not a fan of security questions as they're easily discoverable and known to other sites that ask the same question. So I just enter random nonsense words and save a screenshot in a secure store.
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by dunham 14y ago
Last I checked, OCaml had a replay debugger -- one which lets you step backwards. And I know the mozilla guys sometimes use chronicle-recorder to fully record a running application for debugging. (It was referenced in a bug I filed.) ht
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by dunham 14y ago
The "pattern" library is also worth checking out: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern
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by dunham 14y ago
Isn't this endless queue game mechanic patented by EA? You may be on shaky legal ground here.
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by dunham 14y ago
Cmd-shift-G in finder. (In an open file dialog, typing '~' or '/' will also bring up the same 'go to folder' dialog.)
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by dunham 14y ago
I believe Adobe's Reader has more support 'extensions' to PDF (e.g. embedding flash or javascript) than Apple, and that these things are often attack vectors. Preview should be immune to these. Aside from that it's mostly market share - th
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by dunham 14y ago
When I'm writing code, I need a proper keyboard and a nice, big desktop monitor (preferably two). I still use a laptop, but it's hooked to a keyboard/monitor for the majority of my work. When I do have to work directly on the laptop, I find
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by dunham 14y ago
The bookstores are asking the court to issue an injunction prohibiting the publishers and Amazon from “selling e-books with device and app specific DRMs,” while also requiring the big six publishers to allow independent bookstores to direc
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by dunham 14y ago
Definitely check out "dry farmed" tomatoes if you can find them when the season rolls around. They are grown with less water, and tend to be smaller with a more intense flavor.
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by dunham 14y ago
Lack of epub is an issue. Amazon's format, in addition to being proprietary, is a weird and hard to deal with (due to historical PalmOS-related baggage). Also, I believe that the epubs tend to have more future-proof data (cleaner HTML, et
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by dunham 14y ago
"Linearized" PDFs have extra info up front to allow streaming and random access (via range requests).
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by dunham 14y ago
I haven't seen any problems in Reeder, which uses Google Reader as a back-end server for feeds and "read/unread" state. Perhaps this is just a problem in the web client code?
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by dunham 14y ago
My take on the situation, from a mathematician point of view (M.S. in math, but very rusty): They started out with a toilet on each car and ended with a toilet on each car, the cars just happened to be twice as long in the end.
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by dunham 14y ago
You can't use that action if person being impersonated is not on facebook. They require you to identify the account of the person being impersonated. I know this because I tried to report an account impersonating my grandmother, who doesn't
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by dunham 14y ago
If you want to get around this: When the PDF is ready, give the user something to click on (a button or dialog) and call the window.open() from the onClick callback.
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by dunham 14y ago
The new app is vector based and has turn by turn directions. Google refused Apple access to both of those features in the original "Maps" app (in iOS <= 5), but they conveniently included them in their new Google Maps app. :)
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by dunham 14y ago
I think by "split verb" he's referring to "separable verbs", where a particle, resembling a preposition, moves to the end of the sentence. This sometimes occurs in English, apparently violating the "schoolmarm" rule to not end sentences wi
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by dunham 14y ago
Would getting the FCC involved help? It wouldn't hurt to file a complaint. I think they've forced phone companies to enable unlocking in the past, and Apple needs their approval to sell the iPhone in this country. So they may be willing t
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by dunham 14y ago
The quick turnaround is probably due to a Google Alerts subscription.
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by dunham 14y ago
Sorry for the late response, I missed your reply. All of the fonts in that postscript file are bitmaps. Knuth started with metafont, but the file he distributed only contains bitmaps. If you look inside the file, you'll find the comment "D
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by dunham 14y ago
The big issue for me are the bitmap fonts. Fortunately he used a modern dvips, so you can run it through "pkfix" to get a version with scalable fonts. (Once it's converted to pdf, it's more challenging to fix.)

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