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by gyardley 14y ago
Not that Apple would bother to answer your questions, but why couldn't a developer have willingly shared this information with the FBI, in order to help them investigate a crime against that developer? The paranoia on these UDID threads is
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by gyardley 14y ago
It's far more likely that this data was willingly shared by an application developer who was the victim of a crime the FBI is investigating. Not everything is a government conspiracy.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Refresh my memory - aren't the device tokens for the Apple Push Notification Service application-specific? That suggests this data comes from a single application, not Apple. The patchy personal information columns also suggests that this i
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by gyardley 14y ago
TextMate 2 was just sent to retire on a farm upstate, kids. http://www.marco.org/2012/08/09/textmate-2-open-sourced
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by gyardley 14y ago
Do journalists want to be seen as human? I doubt it. There's been plenty of exposes from insiders over the years claiming that news organizations are comically biased, both in their choice of what to cover and how they cover it. Yet journ
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by gyardley 14y ago
Yep, I'm trying to dig myself out from this problem now. The Rails Tutorial (railstutorial.org) uses Factory Girl and integration tests for just about everything, which is a fast enough approach for its toy application, but I've found that
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by gyardley 14y ago
Absolutely not. Solutions implemented by people from other countries work because they've been implemented by people from different cultures , cultures which are compatible with those solutions. Attempting to implement a culturally-alien s
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by gyardley 14y ago
Read my comment again, where I said "I'm not saying a progressive income tax isn't necessary ..." How do you get "are you saying that even a flat tax is unacceptable?" out of that, given that I said exactly the opposite? The issue is entir
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by gyardley 14y ago
Let's say you make twice as much as me. Would it be fair to charge you twice as much for a restaurant meal or a gallon of gas or a haircut, just because you make twice as much? Of course not - for any other good or service, your income is i
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by gyardley 14y ago
Must we use this 'liberal' vs. 'conservative' language for programming styles? The terms are already so ridiculously value-laden, you're at risk of letting your political leanings involuntarily bleed through and muddle up your programming d
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by gyardley 14y ago
Objectively, perhaps slightly. It's not hard to find quotes describing this administration as the worst yet at responding to Freedom of Information Act requests. For example: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73606.html Subjective
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by gyardley 14y ago
It would be if I was trying to invalidate the author's argument, which I wasn't - I was just pointing out his hypocrisy.
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by gyardley 14y ago
For me, this story was most interesting because it demonstrates the impact of social class in America, something that's rarely discussed. Try to picture the same story if the author's father was a millwright or a construction worker. Not at
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by gyardley 14y ago
I'm probably as guilty of this as anyone else. Perhaps we should all watch Derek Siver's "A Real Person, A Lot Like You" on a regular basis. https://vimeo.com/26110865
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by gyardley 14y ago
If the author's going to complain about hype in news coverage, perhaps he shouldn't be a leading contributor to one-sided news coverage like the Wall Street Journal's 'What They Know'. Or is hype in news coverage only a problem when it's hy
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by gyardley 14y ago
Yes, what I wrote obviously isn't Sam 's point, which is plainly written and quite clear. I was writing about what you as a contractor could potentially do, independent of Sam.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Good for Sam. Now you just need to get your prospective clients to get wind of this, right before you quote them your steal of a $300/hour rate. Level-setting is a powerful thing.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Joshua Porter works at HubSpot because they bought his previous startup, Performable. That pricing page design may have preceded him. A Google image search for 'Performable' turns up lots of screenshots.
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by gyardley 14y ago
I'm surprised skill development hasn't come up (or if it has, that it's not more prominent - I might have missed it in the scanning.) This might be your first startup, but it likely won't be your last - and the skills you get from your firs
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by gyardley 14y ago
Thank you. I like to post where it's appreciated.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Is there some alternate Wikipedia out there that's not a bureaucratic, inefficient, often self-destructive mess? If I drew anything from Wikipedia, I'd draw the conclusion that this sort of 'non-political' technological organization becomes
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by gyardley 14y ago
I didn't know the concept had a name. Awesome, thanks.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Well, yes - I stopped behaving this way a while ago. But I was referring to the difficulty of changing the behavior of people who are not me. Changing yourself is easy; getting others to want to change themselves is not.
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by gyardley 14y ago
Well, yes, but this situation is largely our own fault. I know there are plenty of men who want to split domestic chores fifty-fifty and take an equal role in childrearing, and I admire them. But there are plenty more, including myself at t
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by gyardley 14y ago
Of course the money has to come from somewhere. Articles like this one just highlight the actions that are taken in order to obtain the money, so the public (especially the public in cities considering an Olympic bid in the future) can eval
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by gyardley 14y ago
One of my favorite Talmud stories illustrates that the opinion of the community is more important than the voice of God - which, in my opinion, is one of the many things that make my religion great. Going to badly paraphrase here, but a gro
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by gyardley 14y ago
Was that comment truly necessary? Did leaping, in a hostile fashion, on two words used as a preamble to the point I was making add anything to this discussion not already added by the other comment you made on the thread?
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by gyardley 14y ago
Good article, but it always bothers me a bit when people talk about Americans generically. Yes, you can make some generalizations, but the country is huge and there are many distinct cultural zones. Attitudes and behavior vary widely betwee
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by gyardley 14y ago
Yes, retrievable data is obviously accessible by a site admin somehow . But the way he's got things set up: 1) It's trivial for him to inadvertently see something deeply personal to someone just by browsing the 'recent' list or doing a sea
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by gyardley 14y ago
I thought Basil Peters' Early Exits (www.early-exits.com) was a pretty decent overview.

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