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by irons 16y ago
$155,000, according to the linked story. Fraser paid $50,000, which he'll get back when the kid makes his court dates. The alternative was paying 10% and not getting it back, which I didn't know was standard policy. (Most of what I know abo
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by irons 16y ago
Omni found Dropbox's sync resolution to be unsuitable, and OmniFocus' data more closely resembles Things' than either resembles 1Password. http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=13130
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by irons 16y ago
I had sleep apnea for years, which a study eventually categorized as "moderate to severe", and while I wasn't operating on four hours of sleep, I didn't feel too bad either. I didn't even drink coffee. When the brain notices it's starting t
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by irons 16y ago
If people with sleep apnea uniformly thought they felt like hell, the diagnosis would be easy. People adjust to all kinds of crazy things, so it's not easy, but another person in bed with you telling you that you periodically stop breathing
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by irons 16y ago
I have my doubts about the premise that if people are awakened when they move their arms, they will wake up more refreshed. The reviewer stated as fact that any arm movement during the 20-minute wakeup-window would trigger the alarm. I'm
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by irons 16y ago
I've never used puppet before, but in an EC2 context, I'm puzzled about why one would want to use on-the-fly configuration instead of fully setting up AMIs to serve specific roles. At first blush, future-proofing against lower-level AMI cha
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by irons 16y ago
This came up in the first entry. Netflix would apparently dispute your take on their core competency. http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/four-reasons-we-choose-a... The problems [Amazon] are trying to solve are incredibly difficult ones
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by irons 16y ago
The label is a small problem. The concept is a big problem. http://www.quora.com/What-s-wrong-with-OpenID "The short answer is that OpenID is the worst possible 'solution' I have ever seen in my entire life to a problem that most people
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by irons 16y ago
Is the headline a deliberate echo of Dick Cheney's famous observation that "Reagan proved deficits don't matter"? Or a rhetorical malapropism?
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by irons 16y ago
Followup and correction to this thread from Monday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1950975
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ChevronWP7 jailbreak/sideload tool yanked(arstechnica.com)
1 points by irons 16y ago|1 comments
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by irons 16y ago
The first time I connected, Safari 5.0.3 threw an invalid-issuer SSL warning. Can't seem to reproduce it, though.
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by irons 16y ago
Would you stay Comcast if it meant losing Netflix? I bet many times the answer is no. Anyone in my area code switching to Qwest for Netflix will be disappointed. Friends a few blocks away with DSL can't finish a streamed program without d
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by irons 16y ago
These 'security holes' are not typically security holes which let people do things with the device without authorisation from the device's owner; instead, they prevent authorised people… from doing things The exploits used to allow author
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by irons 16y ago
A minute ago you were saying that a vulnerability requiring physical access wasn't a security hole. Now you're saying I should consider my phone compromised because other people have physical access to it. I don't see how you can hold both
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by irons 16y ago
Oh really? The Comcast alternatives in Seattle are Qwest's elderly DSL, and Clearwire Wimax which can struggle to get over 1mbps. Compared to a lot of US cities, even those options look good. High-speed internet service in the US does not r
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by irons 16y ago
... a case they appropriately lost, as you're aware. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/07/apple-loses-...
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by irons 16y ago
Are you really arguing that highly portable mobile devices shouldn't be proof against an in-person attack by someone you know, say over the course of a shower, or having left your phone on your desk over lunch? Of course that's a security
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by irons 16y ago
Sideloading ≠ jailbreaking. Microsoft isn't taking a position on jailbreaking by any definition that existed prior to this morning. They're merely tolerating sideloaded apps, which removes one incentive for jailbreaking.
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by irons 16y ago
Be serious. Apple closes security holes in iOS as they're discovered, just like every other OS vendor. Not closing them would be unthinkable, regardless of whether some exploits are currently being put to popular use. The platform would suf
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by irons 16y ago
This isn't jailbreaking a phone, it's just sideloading apps. Jailbreaking on iOS is commonly used as a means of sideloading, but don't conflate the concepts. If Microsoft is really going to prohibit its hardware manufacturers from throwing
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by irons 16y ago
Inconsistency can certainly break a game, but where's the inconsistency in Angry Birds? I've got three stars on every level through the first ten worlds, and only a couple of levels seemed to require lucky breaks for maximum points. 3-1 was
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by irons 16y ago
Early in college I read the first edition of Jeffrey Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions" over the course of a long car trip. Still one of the most literate, humane tech books I've ever come across. Pity that the world hasn't yet heeded
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by irons 16y ago
I've heard this complaint before, and it puzzles me. Figuring out the odd physical rules (to manipulate them) is almost the entirety of the game. If you don't enjoy the physics, then you don't enjoy the game, but blaming the physics for you
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by irons 16y ago
Currently fireballed, also available at: http://fireballed.org/linked/2010/11/23/rafe-freedom/
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A Third Kind of Freedom (Rafe Colburn)(rc3.org)
7 points by irons 16y ago|2 comments
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by irons 16y ago
You don't see a resemblance between two apps that display package tracking details using custom whole-color list backgrounds and identically positioned iconography using similar glyphs? Between this: http://android-apps.com/images/pname/eu
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by irons 16y ago
Gruber seems to make the assertion that a platform only has worth based on its exclusive "killer apps". This is a straw man. Android's lack of much in the way of exclusive native software is novel among the few mainstream software platfor
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by irons 16y ago
His point is about the third-party app ecosystem; you're talking about first-party Google products, which he acknowledges and excluded. There's nothing wrong with targeting multiple major platforms, but a market-leading platform without at
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by irons 16y ago
That's not high-deductible, it's low-benefit. I have less experience shopping for group plans, but in the individual market you will die of natural causes before you find a high-deductible, high-benefit plan, let alone one without fatal l

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