itafroma

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by itafroma 13y ago
You misunderstand the point of my post: it's not merely that this user was driven away, but that the community moderation has run amok on this post over a simple, and easily resolvable problem. There is no reason why: 1. two high-rep u
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by itafroma 13y ago
> The post was unlocked a week later by Stack Overflow's robot ("Community"), automatically. Thanks, corrected. > In fact, I'm willing to wager that the user flagged the question immediately but it took an hour for
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by itafroma 13y ago
Thanks, corrected.
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by itafroma 13y ago
I think this was supposed to show the crap Stack Overflow power users have to deal with, but I think it more clearly shows some of the worst qualities of the Stack Overflow moderation system. With a large caveat that moderators have the abi
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by itafroma 13y ago
> Kerning is about the spacing of all letters. That's tracking (also called letter-spacing). Kerning is indeed about the adjustment of space between individual letters.
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by itafroma 13y ago
I agree that it is now conventional wisdom, passed down from manager to manager to entrepreneur to entrepreneur without regard from whence it came. But Jim McCarthy is somewhat of a legend, particularly in Microsoft circles, having led the
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by itafroma 13y ago
> It means there should be regular public (to the team) milestones that force engineers to show their work. While that is part of the underlying point, "beware of a guy in a room" is very much "don't stick a guy in a
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by itafroma 13y ago
> I have no idea why tech companies would pay engineers gobs of money, spend gobs of money on huge office campuses, then inflict open plan or cubicles on said engineers. It's largely due to the conventional wisdom created in the 90s
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by itafroma 13y ago
> has Dropbox for Business always been $795 / year at unlimited capacity For as long as it's been called "Dropbox for Business", yes, but that only started in April of this year[1]. Prior to that, it was called "
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by itafroma 13y ago
> Isn't it $795/year for 5 users and 1TB plus $125/user/year including an extra 200GB? Sorta: it's technically "unlimited" space[1], but they want you to contact them and justify any usage after 1,000 G
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by itafroma 13y ago
I've been remote-only for 5 years. The company I worked for decided that remote work would be the way of the future and it'd save a ton of costs, so we did a trial where a portion of the workforce would work from home each week un
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by itafroma 13y ago
I am mostly for the ostensible cleaning up of YouTube comments, but what got me was that any time you share a YouTube video on Google+ proper or comment in a thread where someone shared a YouTube video, it automatically cross-posts what you
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by itafroma 13y ago
Strictly speaking, you can pull from any remote branch directly: git fetch remotename git merge remotename/master But you usually just want to rebase your changes onto the latest HEAD: git fetch remotename git re
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by itafroma 13y ago
Maybe it's obvious to others, but just a heads up that it is caching/saving information it collects from your API access and then making its assessment public. I ran it on my own Twitter handle and can access the results page[1] e
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by itafroma 13y ago
As someone unfamiliar with Sold, I really appreciated the "What was Sold?" section: I rarely, if ever, see that on shutdown/acquisition placeholder pages and always wished more companies would do that.
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by itafroma 13y ago
Technically, Kindle's native ebooks are MOBI (albeit DRM-encumbered), but Amazon doesn't provide unencumbered MOBI or EPUB versions of the ebooks they sell. There are gray market tools available to strip the DRM from Kindle ebook
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by itafroma 13y ago
For context, here's the original blog post from Fastmail: http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/10/26/mac-os-10-9-infinity-time... And the Hacker News discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by itafroma 13y ago
> In the TV shows and movies, they never seem to spend more than a few days at a time going anywhere at warp speed. There are a few canon reasons for this: 1) Ignoring special episodes (and all of Star Trek Voyager) where they use a cont
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by itafroma 13y ago
> UK is smaller than Oregon. Oregon has a population of 3.9 million. UK has a population of 63.2 million. It is cheaper to get Internet to concentrations of people (more income per line). That's a bit misleading: 70% of Oregon'
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by itafroma 13y ago
> That Pokedex app is $1.99 when I checked. Not $26. You need to look at the IAP: * Kanto region Pokémon $5.99 * Sinnoh region Pokémon $5.99 * Hoenn region Pokémon $5.99 * Johto region Pokémon $5.99 Those, combined with the initial price
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by itafroma 13y ago
N.B. If you don't want to upgrade and are afraid one errant "update all" click will remove your installed copies of iWork '09, you're safe: like the iMovie '08 upgrade, the new iWork apps are installed side-by-
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by itafroma 13y ago
I've been using Mail.app with Gmail since DP1 with four separate accounts and your experiences are exactly the same as mine: business as usual except for the hundreds of draft messages being generated due to "Store draft messages
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by itafroma 13y ago
You'll need to re-download it from the App Store (it should automatically be flagged as purchased, though, so you shouldn't need to re-buy it: just check the "Purchases" tab). It'll download as an application: &quot
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by itafroma 13y ago
You can: I upgraded my Mountain Lion test machine to Mavericks when DP1 landed and created a Parallels virtual machine for Mountain Lion. However, I found—at least with Parallels—you can't just take an existing hard drive image and use
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by itafroma 13y ago
> I believe you are wrong about dismissing that top comment in the other post as snarky, negative and useless. Point of order here: he never used the word "useless". He also didn't dismiss the post for being negative (he s
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by itafroma 13y ago
It's somewhat apt that a snarky, non-factual comment attacking the author like this has risen to the top once again. > One of the annoying parts of this article was that the author dismissed the comment as "non-factual" wi
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by itafroma 13y ago
I don't think that level of cynicism is warranted: the individual mice are, in fact, styled via pure CSS. The small amount of JavaScript that's used is a convenience method to toggle which mouse is visible[1], and the work that wa
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by itafroma 13y ago
It would be interesting to know if this will entail re-buying Tweetbot for iPhone (and, eventually Tweetbot for iPad). The focus on how much time it took to do a total rewrite is usually a setup for that type of news, but on the other hand,
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by itafroma 13y ago
Simon Singh also did a video on this topic for Numberphile[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReOQ300AcSU Numberphile a pretty interesting channel run by Brady Haran about all sorts of mathematics concepts: http:/&#x2
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Google CIO Ben Fried on How Google Works(allthingsd.com)
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