itafroma

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by itafroma 12y ago
> I strongly doubt PHP is going to ever make any breaking changes anymore, short of ones needed to fix Heartbleed-intensity security bugs. The core team has shown how much awesomeness can be reached without making those breaking changes.
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by itafroma 12y ago
You may want to look into youtube-dl ( http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ ). This tool seems to limit the bitrate to 64kpbs, while youtube-dl lets you configure the audio quality.
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by itafroma 12y ago
> Does this work with JSC REPL for trying things out? It does not: just tried it. The document lists the places it will work: > The component can be used from Script Editor, the global Script Menu, in the Run JavaScript Automator Acti
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by itafroma 12y ago
Previous discussion from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7862973 The general consensus at the time was that this was an experimental replacement/supplement to AppleScript.
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by itafroma 12y ago
> Ballpark pricing and schedules. They explain both on their How It Works page: http://sandwichvideo.com/how-it-works/
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by itafroma 12y ago
Wow, this is great: it still creates a new window when clicking on the dock, but it no longer creates one on startup. That's still a lot better than before. Thanks!
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by itafroma 12y ago
Odd: I wonder what about your configuration differs from mine. I'd love to fix that once and for all.
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by itafroma 12y ago
> I switched because of the Yakuake/Guake/Quake 3 console like functionality it has. I made the switch from Terminal.app myself when iTerm finally added the feature, but Terminal.app had this functionality available via a SIMBL
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by itafroma 12y ago
Dang, looks like there/s still no preference to disable creating a new window when iTerm launches or is clicked on in the Dock. I only ever use iTerm via system-wide hotkey (i.e. Quake-style HUD mode), and it's kind of annoying th
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by itafroma 12y ago
No problem: I think maybe part of the problem is treating state-level subdivisions the same nationally. For New York, perhaps a decent compromise would be to map by town outside of New York City. Other states don't necessarily have the
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by itafroma 12y ago
Interesting concept, but it needs curation from people who live in the places it purports to map. Perhaps it's just my familiarity with the state, but there is a lot of dubious stuff in the results for New York and it gives a "thi
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by itafroma 12y ago
> Similarly there is no drive to get more men into early childhood education or nursing. This is an oft-repeated canard in these discussions, but it's patently and demonstratively not true: getting men interested in nursing and ECE
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by itafroma 12y ago
oddevan and amirmc both point out parts of why I'd afford a reply, but it's also a signal to me that the person is at least asserting they believe something about the opportunity, having researched me ahead of time, is worth my ti
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by itafroma 12y ago
As someone on the receiving end of these emails, the point about demonstrating some knowledge of who I am or what I've done in the opening of the email is essential. It's almost guaranteed a reply, even if the opportunity doesn&#x
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by itafroma 12y ago
When I get a cold email, especially if the email doesn't show any particular knowledge about who I am or what I do, I almost always want to know how the person emailing me came across my email and decided to email me. It's fine if
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by itafroma 12y ago
I'm sure this isn't universal (though I don't think I'm the only one), but my experience with recruiters has been a series of cold emails for jobs that aren't even close to my areas of expertise in areas nowhere nea
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Literally worse than EA(notch.net)
262 points by itafroma 12y ago|138 comments
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by itafroma 12y ago
Whoops: fixed, thanks.
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by itafroma 12y ago
> OP, surprised that MS (as with any large company) didn't require you to sign an NDA to not discuss unannounced features during development Mike Krahulik has been a fan of Surface Pro from the beginning,[1] has been very vocal abou
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by itafroma 12y ago
> Is ther any CMS/blog/... type of thing that would create flat files, but keep all the content also in DB? Both Drupal and Wordpress have modules/plugins that produce static pages: * Drupal: https://drupal.org&
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Comcast response to Netflix(corporate.comcast.com)
94 points by itafroma 12y ago|106 comments
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The Door Problem(lizengland.com)
9 points by itafroma 12y ago|0 comments
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by itafroma 12y ago
> I'm curious how serious they intend to be about the NDA-ish section These terms are standard for all the Apple developer programs. In practice, they have been largely unenforced due to the definition they use for Confidential Info
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by itafroma 12y ago
> Also, does anyone know how security updates are handled? Would suck to be stuck on an unpatched beta while gotofail/heartbleed/Security Update 2014-002 type bugs are in the wild. This is a new program, so there may be a chang
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by itafroma 13y ago
> Not to be the buzz kill, but the reason raw.githubusercontent.com is text/plain and X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff is to keep people from using it as a CDN, because: it's not. Right, but nothing about this disputes or takes
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by itafroma 13y ago
> Can I create a folder for each client then send a link that will allow them to upload documents to their folder? Yes, as long as they have their own Dropbox account (free version's fine for this purpose). You can otherwise share r
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by itafroma 13y ago
While they talk about "unlimited" storage, it's actually set to 1,000 GB: all the quotas throughout the UI are set at 1,000 GB, and you have to contact them if and when you want to go over that amount (they do mention this st
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by itafroma 13y ago
> the MacBook Pro Retina doesn't have a hole for a Kensington lock... It doesn't, but Maclocks makes a plate that you can screw to the bottom of your MacBook Pro with Retina display to contains a locking mechanism: http:/
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by itafroma 13y ago
Interesting. Seems similar—complete with slightly creepy base station—to Sen.se: https://sen.se/store/cookie/#mother (Though it appears Karotz is a separate thing: http://store.karotz.com/en_US&#x2
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by itafroma 13y ago
> Is Hack-strict, apart from type annotations, a proper subset of PHP? No, but it's close. Here's a fairly comprehensive list of missing language features: http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/hack.unsupport

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