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by itafroma 13y ago
> Yet PS3 requires you to have PSN+ to download in the background [...] This isn't true, either. Background downloading predates PlayStation Plus and everyone has had access to it since its launch. You might be thinking of automati
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by itafroma 13y ago
Er, rather, the original title, "Who we owe" was misleading. Apparently I can't edit or delete my comment anymore, even though it was only posted 6 minutes ago.
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by itafroma 13y ago
The title is incredibly misleading and relies on understanding what "foreign holders of U.S. Treasury securities" in the description means and placing it in context: it's a small subset to the national debt. The vast majority
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by itafroma 13y ago
It's not necessarily a problem, but it's a smell. Modern object-oriented PHP development is done with autoloaders[1]: having to require_once every class file is unnecessary and brittle. It is odd that GAE doesn't provide its
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by itafroma 13y ago
You're right: Xcode includes its own set of CLTs namespaced under /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/ , but that's
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by itafroma 13y ago
There were major problems early in the DP cycle, but they resolved themselves as of DP4. However, you do need to have the standalone command-line tools installed to populate /usr/include : it's empty otherwise, and Xcode doe
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by itafroma 13y ago
This is standard operating procedure for recent OS X/iOS developer previews: Apple enables in-place DP-to-DP upgrades, but requires a full install of the GM seed. No doubt this is done to iron out any issues that might've arisen i
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by itafroma 13y ago
> Is there a management interface for saved passwords or is it just the plain old Keychain Access utility? > All this "iCloud Keychain" hype looks like just a sync functionality on top of current implementation. There's
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by itafroma 13y ago
> Is CMD + \ an easily reachable shortcut on American keyboards? Yes, there's a dedicated key for backslash on US keyboards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#United_States
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by itafroma 13y ago
Interesting, though I just went through the on-boarding process with a few different providers: Yahoo!, Google, and Facebook: - Yahoo!: asked to share my personal information and showed a card with my real name and email address. When I com
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by itafroma 13y ago
Funnily enough, I think it may have been Stack Exchange's (SE) somewhat unintuitive registration procedure that did him in. Stack Overflow requires an OpenID identity in order to ask questions: you cannot sign up without one (though SE
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by itafroma 13y ago
> StackOverflow doesn't even require an actual account to post questions That hasn't been the case since mid-2011[1]: you must have an actual account to ask questions on Stack Overflow. [1]: http://meta.stackoverflow
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by itafroma 13y ago
The fallacy the author is thinking of is called argumentum e silentio , or the argument from silence. Academically, arguments of the form "well, X civilization is known for meticulous record-keeping and they make no mention of Y, ther
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Why I Hacked Apple’s TouchID, And Still Think It Is Awesome(blog.lookout.com)
1 points by itafroma 13y ago|0 comments
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by itafroma 13y ago
RFS #7's page is still there, just not linked: http://ycombinator.com/rfs7.html > RFS 7: Applications of Facebook Instant Personalization > This RFS is no longer active, because we're not sure what Facebook
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by itafroma 13y ago
To put some context on this: Ars Technica is republishing this under the full cooperation of Stack Exchange in a capacity that goes beyond simply obeying the letter of the CC-BY-SA license on the content. When it first started a couple of y
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by itafroma 13y ago
This was just posted a couple of hours ago[1]. Some things to note that were brought up there: - Apple already filed for this trademark in 2011 in the US and China.[2] They were granted a preliminary trademark pending a routine examination
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by itafroma 13y ago
I think it's important to stress that trademarks are not copyrights or patents: assuming Apple's trademark application goes through, the protection on the mark is good only for the goods and services they specified in the applica
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by itafroma 13y ago
It's not clear yet what the trademark is for, but you generally don't need a product or service on the market for a trademark application to go through, just an intent to use it. TUAW speculates that the trademark is for some as-y
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by itafroma 13y ago
> > where productivity is magnitudes higher > Overall, yes. Per worker? Hell no. Half or more of current jobs are pushing paper and doing meaningless bureaucratic work. Actually, productivity per worker has grown for most developed
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by itafroma 13y ago
Mat Honan deserves credit for one of the clearest, most concise descriptions of what App.net is (or intends to be): > Imagine this. You sign up for Vine, and build up a robust friend network and library of videos. But then you try out In
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by itafroma 13y ago
I've been getting 454 Temporary authentication failure errors from the SES SMTP gateway, which is in US-EAST-1. Edit: back up for me; SMTP gateway is authenticating and emails are sending out again.
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by itafroma 13y ago
> As it stands, they were already prohibited and this resolution reaffirms that. Slight nitpick: they were prohibited only without prior ICANN approval (second whereas). Companies like Google attempted to get that approval (Google wanted
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ICANN bans dotless domains(icann.org)
89 points by itafroma 13y ago|56 comments
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by itafroma 13y ago
That's true; I updated my comment to clarify that. If that's the difference between Google being okay with it and not, I guess I don't see where the chasm of difference is: * Microsoft claims they've enabled ads on YouTu
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by itafroma 13y ago
Yes, I'm quite sure. Load up any monetized video on Apple TV or any iOS device that's still running iOS 5 or earlier. It will work just fine and play no ads. Here's an example video I just tested to confirm: http:/&#x2F
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by itafroma 13y ago
> 1. Allowing users to download videos even when the content provider disallowed that. This was poor judgment from Microsoft, and as far as I can see, was addressed in this new version of the app. > 2. Allowing users to not view ads e
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by itafroma 13y ago
> The original iOS app only showed videos that did not require ads. That's not correct. The original iOS app played all videos, regardless of whether they were monetized, as long as the creator checked the "make available for m
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by itafroma 13y ago
They all offer DLC; depending on the game, some, all, or none of that DLC is included: - Burnout Paradise: offered version contains all DLC - Crysis 2: offered version contains all DLC - Dead Space: tons of weapons DLC, not included. They&#
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by itafroma 13y ago
> A few years into my career the idea of cubicles caught on and quickly became the norm, and now of course we're stuck with these horrible open offices that are, in my experience, just absolutely dreadful for productivity; but since

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