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by fred256 10y ago
Are you trying https instead of http? It's only hosted on http (because they use Google Blogger with a custom domain name)
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by fred256 10y ago
It gets better: "We’re aiming to get the full archives available by next Friday, February 17 at the latest. We appreciate your patience and understanding in the interim." -- http://blog.instapaper.com/post/157
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by fred256 10y ago
"After spending multiple hours on the phone with our cloud service provider, it appears we hit a system limit for our hosted database that’s preventing new articles from being saved." ouch.
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by fred256 10y ago
Why does it matter to Comcast whether I watch on one, two, or fifteen TVs in my house? It doesn't cost them any more money (aside from the initial in-house cabling and splitters)
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by fred256 10y ago
I love how matter-of-factly the article ends with "so, etc."
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by fred256 10y ago
Also see "dead peasant insurance": http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/deadpeasant.asp
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by fred256 10y ago
AFAIK all the self-driving cars currently on the road still have a human at the wheel to take over in cases like these.
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by fred256 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
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Slack and Google announce partnership(techcrunch.com)
3 points by fred256 10y ago|0 comments
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by fred256 10y ago
In somewhat similar vein: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
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by fred256 10y ago
In all seriousness, it only uses a single IP address for each line, so 28 addresses. Somewhat wasteful, but not the end of the world.
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by fred256 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-poin...
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by fred256 10y ago
Google itself will return an edge node for google.com (or google.$TLD) if you're on an ISP with an edge node.
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by fred256 10y ago
Yes, my LISP(-like) did have a primitive GC. The heap consisted of fixed 4-byte cons cells (2 byte car, 2 byte cdr). The cdr value was assumed to always be a pointer, which meant that since the cells were aligned at a 4-byte boundary, I had
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by fred256 10y ago
A few years back I too built my own Z80 based machine, and considered FORTH, but ended up writing a LISP-like language for it, including (very primitive) turtle graphics. You could do things like: (define (square n) (repeat 4 (fd n)
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by fred256 10y ago
Evil Mad Scientist makes and sells a Digi Comp II replica: http://shop.evilmadscientist.com/tinykitlist/375-dcii
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by fred256 10y ago
Even without a paid developer membership, you can install apps on your own devices, just not distribute them.
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by fred256 10y ago
Out of curiosity, why is GPL software prohibited on the app store?
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by fred256 10y ago
Minor correction w.r.t. Netflix: netflix.com itself is on Route53 but parts of the CDN appear to still be 100% on Dyn: $ dig +short ns nflxvideo.net ns1.p19.dynect.net. ns4.p19.dynect.net. ns2.p19.dynect.net. ns3.p19.dynect.net.
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by fred256 10y ago
It's only available on http, not https.
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by fred256 10y ago
Presumably that would cause the app to be rejected due to not complying with the app review guidelines, not terminating the entire developer account for fraud.
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by fred256 10y ago
It doesn't look like this was caused by the app review team, the whole developer account was canceled due to fraud reasons, which doesn't sound like something the app review team would be responsible for. But the rest of your comm
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by fred256 10y ago
Ekam perhaps? https://github.com/sandstorm-io/ekam
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by fred256 10y ago
The plot thickens: https://twitter.com/atp_tipster1/status/779434936558321664
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These $50 Glasses Bring Anything on Your Phone to Life in 3D(fastcodesign.com)
4 points by fred256 10y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Messenger’s source code reveals hidden Rooms feature(techcrunch.com)
3 points by fred256 10y ago|0 comments
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Swift Playgrounds – Learn to code on your iPad(apple.com)
296 points by fred256 10y ago|127 comments
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by fred256 10y ago
It already is featured in the App Store (with a "notify me when this becomes available" instead of buy button)
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by fred256 10y ago
It did, but long after it was already popular.
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by fred256 10y ago
So annoying that every new feature they release will take weeks before it's available on CloudFormation. :/

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