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by gkefalas 11y ago
The amazing thing is that they probably could have made a go at it focusing on paying out more to artists (despite the fact that it's not the fault of competing services for negotiating the best rates they could with the labels). Or,
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by gkefalas 11y ago
Thanks! I agree, some things were surprising. I'm really bummed that the null tests were affected by source audio amplitude, plus the frame size causing alignment issues—I feel like it's not as accurate a test as it could have bee
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by gkefalas 11y ago
Hey all, I did a technical breakdown of high-fidelity audio recently for our company and thought that it might be of interest to hackers. I'm especially interested in ideas & criticisms to lead to a more thorough test methodology f
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High-Fidelity Digital Music, Tidal, and You(blog.vlgroup.com)
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by gkefalas 14y ago
Chris, the position: fixed z-index issue is more widespread than you have there; I'm trying to come up with a case for reliable repro, but I just bumped into it a bit ago and had to redo some things to work around it. (full disclosure, I'm
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by gkefalas 14y ago
There's an "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder that'll do that, but it's still annoying to have to use one special folder instead of just pointing it at my regular download folder. I always forget that Apple added this. More here: http://
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by gkefalas 15y ago
Hm, that's a good point: "warning fatigue" that users get. I hadn't thought about it from that point of view; I guess how fatiguing it is will really depend on how quickly developers in general get aboard the "sign your application" train,
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by gkefalas 15y ago
Right, which would be rendered pretty ineffective by Gatekeeper, now, at least for people that don't know about the launch-from-disk trick or other workarounds (basically, the same people that would potentially be vulnerable). Gatekeeper's
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by gkefalas 15y ago
You're misunderstanding. An app can be freely available outside of the App Store but still be signed: http://www.macworld.com/article/165408/2012/02/mountain_lion...
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by gkefalas 15y ago
Really? Because I can't, at all, and I'd rather not be proven wrong as I'd loathe it as much as you would (but it sounds like it's not like you'd upgrade anyway).
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by gkefalas 15y ago
Nope, you'll be able to run it: "Finally, it’s important to note that because Gatekeeper uses the File Quarantine system, it only works the very first time you try to launch an app, and even then only when it’s been downloaded from an app o
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by gkefalas 15y ago
Yeah, well, until that happens, this is great and I'm all for it. What a simple way to improve dealing with the open attack vector that is "the user being able to install their own software". I wish they had this flexibility on iOS.
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by gkefalas 15y ago
Right, I meant they're unusual for Big Fruit. And also, the period between this reveal and release this summer is equally unusual... I'd say that the lag between announce & release is a little more worrisome and something that I wouldn'
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by gkefalas 15y ago
I had a couple comments on Gruber's posting, but one of the things that really jumped out at me about this hands-on is the Notification Center trigger taking Spotlight's coveted top-right Fitt's Law trigger. Also, while I say "ew" to more s
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by gkefalas 15y ago
Hm. * The "Gatekeeper" concept is interesting, but I expect we'll hear a lot of grumbling about the default setting. We also all remember the concern about the App Store eventually becoming the only way to get software for your Mac; this wi
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by gkefalas 15y ago
BusyCal is what I'm recommending to all of our Mac-based employees and what I use on my personal machines to handle dozens of calendars across several Google & Google Apps accounts. +1 recommendation for BusyCal; absolutely worth the li
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by gkefalas 15y ago
This is misleading. This quote isn't in a response to the latest discussion about the location database file, but the title and Slashdot link both make it seem that way. Also, please link to the original source.
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by gkefalas 16y ago
You have. For example: http://www.icab.de/mobile.html Maybe this was a restriction in the past, I'm not sure, but I've been happily running iCab Mobile for quite some time and enjoying it's more grown-up featureset.
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by gkefalas 16y ago
Should be quite interesting; here in NYC my wife and I do about 75% of our grocery shopping through FreshDirect which nets us fresher, more local, and all-around better produce & meat than we can get here in Astoria without taking a tri
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by gkefalas 16y ago
This is great. Bought, downloaded, and have some initial impressions. My background is that I do a metric crap load of arranging, primarily for the New York Holiday Singers ( http://newyorkholidaysingers.com ) in Sibelius, using the keybo
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by gkefalas 16y ago
A lot of "may," "potentially," "considering," and other weasel words in that article, no?
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by gkefalas 16y ago
Sure; there are a couple out there. Lifehacker's was the most straightforward and detailed. The process is much the same as jailbreaking. http://lifehacker.com/5572003/how-to-downgrade-your-iphone-3... I had some shenanigans with it being
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by gkefalas 16y ago
Same, with both the upgrade and a full restore, and my phone is stock (no jailbreak.) A good friend had great success with his after iOS4, so it's not affecting everyone. I followed a guide online and manually rolled back to 3.1.3 and haven
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by gkefalas 16y ago
DNN is a heap. My God, is it a codebase trainwreck. Apologies to any DNN devs that may be HNers, but holy cow is that an example of how serpentine code gets when you try to be all things to all people without a strong planning phase.
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by gkefalas 16y ago
I haven't found a single .NET CMS that doesn't drive me completely batty. I think most CMS tools, including non-.NET ones, break down when they start trying to be able to do all things for all people. It's debatable if any are able to pull
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by gkefalas 16y ago
Wrong, unless you mean on computers; Netflix released an iPad app that streams video on day 1, and Hulu is rumored to have one in the works as well.
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by gkefalas 16y ago
If it looks like a duck[1], and quacks like a duck, why would I go looking for a cow[2]? Without explicitly knowing this was a test, I would think this company's developers were just sloppy. Sorry, but I don't think this will go to prove an
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by gkefalas 16y ago
Seems he's come out swinging, as he usually does with App Store shenanigans: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/04/16/app-store-reject...
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by gkefalas 17y ago
His old band, Ben Folds Five, also were an early adopter of cybercasting some of their concerts back 'round the turn of the millennium or so. I can see why Bam's where he is in this video-I would probably crap myself as well if this is what
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by gkefalas 17y ago
The difference being that Unity for iPhone requires Mac OS X (and builds an XCode project for deployment), and MonoTouch requires Mac OS X (though it handles the signing in its own IDE, if memory serves me right). This is more about Adobe p

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