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by elithrar 14y ago
> Do these have to be human-confirmable? Wondering why they're stored in plaintext.. I've been curious about this before. Do you-folks store your challenge-question-answers in plaintext? I would hazard a guess that most sites store "Sec
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by elithrar 14y ago
> In Australia, I was with Telstra, which has by far the best coverage. I was on cotnract. The reason? For $50 a month I basically got (for me) unlimited voice, text and Internet (2-3GB/month). but the 32GB iPhone 4 only cost me $300 wi
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by elithrar 14y ago
What surprises me is how obvious their attempts to lose were; so much so that the audience boo'ed them and they were warned by the umpires.
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by elithrar 14y ago
> Personally I found zsh worth switching to even without spending any meaningful amount of time learning to use it. Definitely. Smarter tab completion and smarter word deletion (Ctrl+W) are probably the two "most used" features for me.
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by elithrar 14y ago
I watched this exchange occur over Twitter on the weekend; the worst part of it was not that Tesco stores the password in a reversible manner, but that their representative actively defended their mechanism. Otherwise, all of their other "c
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by elithrar 14y ago
> Huh, I can't find The Deck ad on his site. It's in the top banner, to the right of his header/nav. It's just that one of the current ads is a shade of brown almost identical to his own.
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by elithrar 14y ago
I find it hard to believe these stories; no doubt those related to the killer want to distance themselves from him as much as possible, and therefore are likely prone to making exaggerated statements about their ineptitude and devaluing how
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by elithrar 14y ago
It sounds like Yojimbo or Evernote for your social/docs accounts, which could be useful if it allows you to store your content locally (read: backup!).
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by elithrar 14y ago
Here's the data for this year - it looks like it was Philip Elmer-DeWitt who may have compiled the data. Interestingly, the independent analysts (oft. "bloggers") were much further off base as an aggregate than the institutional analysts:
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by elithrar 14y ago
> As impressive as this is, it is below analyst consensus, and the stock is down 5% afterhours :-( This happens every time. Apple exceeds their own guidance; grows at a rate faster than nearly anyone else in the Fortune 500, and yet s
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by elithrar 14y ago
Apple use Akamai, who are the exception here; which explains your problem.
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by elithrar 14y ago
> So: if I was a great writer and I made a site that looked as nice would I be better or worse off compared to if I was under Svtble's umbrella? It's a judgement the individual has to make: do the potential discovery/cross-promotion ben
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by elithrar 14y ago
This has not been confirmed. As Dropbox has stated, they are still investigating.
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by elithrar 14y ago
> Just so you know, a whole bunch of laptops have been coming with "retina" displays for years now. They'd call it a "Full HD" laptop so it doesn't sound as shiny, but it's still a 15 or 17 inch screen with a 1920x1080 resolution. That
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by elithrar 14y ago
$ softwareupdate -i -a [install, all] as it avoids the (slow) UI and you can schedule it if you want to. Not sure if it'll carry across to ML, what with updates going through the Mac App Store there.
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by elithrar 14y ago
> Apple outsources manufacture, so presumably you are claiming that Apple's suppliers, rather than Apple, are the greenest manufacturers in the world. You are operating on the assumption that Apple (or Dell, Lenovo, etc) have no say in
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by elithrar 14y ago
> ... making them basically impossible to recycle, which is the real story here. I would argue that they are "much more difficult" to recycle by anyone other than Apple. They can still be recycled.
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by elithrar 14y ago
> "According to stats from the Journal, this won't be much of a blow to Apple. Only about 500 to 700, or 1 percent to 2 percent total, of San Francisco computers are Macs." To expand on this, in 2010, the City of San Francisco spent $45
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by elithrar 14y ago
> After googling 'omnibar', I found the menu you speak of and I swear blind the option to email the page is not there... Hopefully you get this - see the areas marked in red on the attached screenshot: http://imgur.com/N2tL9
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by elithrar 14y ago
In order to email the current page, or stop a page from loading, hit the menu button to the right of the omnibar. Email will be the 5th text row down. Note that I do not think it is a side effect of desktop to mobile, but instead their atte
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by elithrar 14y ago
> I have Chrome installed but don't want it as a default, this would just annoy the hell out of me. One would assume that a developer would have this attached to an application setting. Of course, too many settings are another problem..
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by elithrar 14y ago
> PHP is suited for the web because it is a dynamic language. Stuff is compiled right when it is accessed. Great if you need to quickly make a change here or there I don't think this is really a problem. Although dynamic typing vs stron
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by elithrar 14y ago
> "I won't consider Ruby because I tried Rails once five years ago and it had scaling problems." Looks like he didn't seriously consider Python or Ruby at all. Agreed. I'm not one to push my language preferences on others, but "it had s
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by elithrar 14y ago
They have also moved to an 18 month release cycle for OS X[1], so we should not expect huge swathes of changes in each release. [1]: http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/143731/mac-os-x-mountain-li...
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by elithrar 14y ago
Absolutely. They need to get this right: they can't afford a traditional "v1.0" release when they are up against very mature competitors (iOS; Android; WP7/8). The Playbook was an example of their rushing to market, and the device lacked em
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by elithrar 14y ago
> I don't personally know of any datacenters using turbines for backup power. I don't know enough about turbines to know why that is -- maybe they're not available in smaller sizes, or have higher maintenance requirements, or higher cap
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by elithrar 14y ago
> In short, this is no big deal. The information was legally subpoenaed in connection with a criminal investigation. I think this is only on the front page because it has the words "Twitter", "Occupy", and "Forced" in the title. I agree
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by elithrar 14y ago
> The number one thing is to make sure that all of the software is compatible without having to jump through a bunch of hoops. This is the killer. I'm part of a large (6,000+; 1000+ in my state alone) engineering firm; our IS team are c
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by elithrar 14y ago
Keep in mind that not all DNS caches—particularly those at large ISP's—respect sub-3600s TTL's. (they do this in an effort to reduce load; whether it is truly effective on today's hardware is arguable)
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by elithrar 14y ago
> Fuck IE - they've done the same to us for years. You're not "fucking IE" though, you're fucking the end-users; many of whom might be stuck on XP (and therefore IE8) without a huge choice. Corporate users, education users, those withou

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