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by icambron 14y ago
Which is legal in that county.
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by icambron 14y ago
Lot of assumptions on this thread. The company involved here is claiming that hasn't committed a crime, which isn't a very interesting claim. The agency that's launched and investigation hasn't gotten a chance to, you know, conduct that inv
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by icambron 14y ago
Honest question: how?
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by icambron 14y ago
So I'm writing the feature that lets you specify what fields you want and will pass the resulting FB object directly back to you (edit: now done and in the trunk). However, you can't get the email addresses of friends. From https://develop
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by icambron 14y ago
When you set up an FB application, it lets you specify what information you want the user to make available to you. When the user approves the app, the dialog specifies what info the app is asking for. I assume that "friends' email" is one
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by icambron 14y ago
I need to document that better. Here's what's passed to the callback: [ { id: anFbId, name: "Some guy", picture: "a url" }, //other friends in the multi-selection case ] If there's other kinds of info
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by icambron 14y ago
The use case I built if for was that I wanted wedding guests responding to an invite to be able to identify their +1 as one of their FB friends. But I suppose the most common use case would be inviting a list of friends to an application. I
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by icambron 14y ago
It doesn't use a regex on the full name; FB provides separate fields and FbFriends searches those with a simple ORed string compare. So I'm surprised it's not working for you. I wonder if whatever FB uses to split the name up (i.e. their
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by icambron 14y ago
The OP never said their colleague was a developer. And Dropbox isn't specifically marketed towards developers. When you develop software aimed at the general public, which Dropbox does, you do have to worry about most people. And regardless
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by icambron 14y ago
Yup. Github going down barely breaks my stride, but for a real production outage (e.g. Heroku going down), I pour myself a tall glass of scotch and thank my lucky stars I'm not the one who has to scramble around tailing logs and restarting
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by icambron 14y ago
I don't think that's useless pedanticism at all. If you didn't know anything about physics, you're likely to hear "powered by gravity" and think "great, gravity is ubiquitous and free, so this is totally free energy", whereas actually these
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by icambron 14y ago
I agree. Also, the 140 that BB would have made wouldn't have all gone to Techforward anyway, whether it was profit or not. What we'd really have to compare is the 22 million + fees to how much they would have paid Techforward as part of the
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by icambron 14y ago
Same here. As a JS and Ruby dev, I think there's a lot of great stuff in here. And it looks like it was probably a lot of work to put together. But the pricing is no good. It's $190/dev for alpha software with no support. That's just not go
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by icambron 14y ago
Although I still think the contrast & place-tracking stuff is part of it, I'm realizing the want-to-fiddle thing is a big factor for me too. One thing is that when I use a trackpad (makes it sort of cumbersome to select text), I find my
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by icambron 14y ago
You're assuming that the author is an average person with respect to gun knowledge. I don't know how much he knows about them, but the story seems to suggest he knows a little, right? Maybe relevant: he was a war correspondent in Iraq[1]. O
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by icambron 14y ago
Funny, the default dual-screen behavior on Xmonad was what sold me on it.
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by icambron 14y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like you could extract just the CSS and build an HTML5 app with it (as in PhoneGap or trigger.io), without all of the push.js stuff. It looks really nice, and would be good for more than just protot
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by icambron 14y ago
I disagree. As someone who started using Vim recently, the issue wasn't learning modes/key sequences as it was just reaching feature parity with my previous editor (note that doesn't mean "acts like my previous editor", just "is at least as
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by icambron 14y ago
Not joking. If you have 2.5 billion dollars, you can spend it on what you want. Congress shifts money around all the time. They just want to spend it on rovers. Now, to be clear, I think there are plenty of good arguments that spending a ma
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by icambron 14y ago
I disagree. 2.5 billion dollars is worth a lot of lives. Consider how many people you could save from, say, malnutrition with that money. I don't know the answer, but I'm pretty sure it's a lot. And we as a society have decided that space e
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by icambron 14y ago
A con by whom? Obviously, you may not enjoy living close to other people and will choose to live in lower density areas. Fair enough, and, at least in the US, we're not short on space. (I will only add that density is typically measured as
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by icambron 14y ago
If the Sparrow team thought they could have made a bunch more money by selling a support contract, then presumably they would have. That means that either they're unsavvy or you're in the minority. I'm guessing it's the latter.
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by icambron 14y ago
Right, toasters don't get upgrades. Now, neither does Sparrow. So they're more similar now, not less. You got downgraded from magic toaster to normal toaster. OTOH, you may wish to buy app insurance, which will pay out $10 in the event that
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by icambron 14y ago
It seems like the correct approach is for Facebook to do only what's legally required of it, and nothing more. That would allow society to have a transparent debate about what, exactly, should be required, leaving FB policy out of it. As I
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by icambron 14y ago
It's true that Apple might decide the bug isn't worth fixing, but then they should say that explicitly, so that devs don't have to file the bug a zillion times and wonder where it is on Apple's priority list. The issue here is really the la
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by icambron 14y ago
What is the relationship between "assistive technology" and "old browser"? It would surprise me if that tech was only available for IE7.