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by ja27 12y ago
While this is a neat use of the Pi, today you can get BLE beacons like the Gimbal Series 10 for $5 (or 3 for free to start) that can act as iBeacons. http://www.gimbal.com/gimbal-proximity-beacons
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by ja27 12y ago
Right or BestOfAllWorlds. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/28/best-of-all-w...
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by ja27 12y ago
Years ago there was a triangle problem on an ACM Scholastic Programming Contest. It looked simple. Given three lengths, output whether that forms a triangle or not and whether it's a right triangle or isosceles triangle. Simple right?
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by ja27 12y ago
That's why they avoid making any decision until absolutely forced to. If it's big enough, get your manager to decide. If it's small enough, "empower" someone below you to make the decision.
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by ja27 12y ago
It was maybe about 5 years ago that I was still running DSL on a old Dell Pentium II laptop on the side of my desk. It made a decent ssh / x3270 terminal and acted as a digital photo frame most of the day. But it could do some light we
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by ja27 12y ago
FDA approval / clearance is a nightmare. I think it took Vioguard 4+ years to get it for their UV-sanitizing keyboard. You need to be connected, funded, and/or patient. http://www.vioguard.com/
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by ja27 12y ago
I'm tired of paying 70% of the new price every single year for an update. Especially when they give Parallels customers nearly 20% off for switching. How about a little more reward for loyal customers?
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by ja27 12y ago
Screenshots or a way to easily paste them. Being able to quickly sketch a few rough things on an image. Just lines, text, arrows, boxes, circles, etc. would be fine.
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by ja27 12y ago
I'd be reasonably confident running Chrome with almost every plugin (especially Java and Adobe ones) disabled. It's been a long time since I've had any AV alert when running that way. I do keep a copy of Firefox with Flash an
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by ja27 12y ago
I swear Apple did this to me repeatedly last year while I was travelling for a month. I could never purchase apps. One problem with this is VPNs. I regularly VPN (both to my house and via a service like Private Internet Access) so my locati
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by ja27 12y ago
I'm moving to nonsense and random answers stored in Lastpass but what I had been doing is just answering them as if I were one of my friends. I have a dozen friends where I know most of those answers.
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by ja27 12y ago
Or you can use two-factor and strong passwords everywhere, but if your spouse is still using "letmein" on every account, you're gonna have a bad day soon.
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by ja27 12y ago
No, but there's hope it'll be supported under iOS8's app extensions and custom keyboards. It does have it's built-in browser for now.
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by ja27 12y ago
You should look at some wordlists. A lot of qwerty / qazwsx / asdf combinations appear.
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by ja27 12y ago
Except the article seems to be saying that Apple's two-factor auth isn't required to access iCloud backups and that it only protects account details, payment methods, etc.
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by ja27 12y ago
Same here. I set my main ringtone to silence and only a few contacts can actually ring my phone. I disable almost all notifications and my phone's on do-not-disturb from 10-7 every night. Maybe my laptop needs a hosts file to block &qu
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by ja27 12y ago
At my last company I maxed out at 28 days a year after seven years there. Standard is usually 2 weeks but if you negotiate as part of your hiring, you should be able to get 3 weeks, especially if you're in a more senior or managerial r
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by ja27 12y ago
I believe Microsoft's file extensions and the 8.3 naming scheme are descended from Digital's 6.3 naming in VMS, RT-11, etc. DEC even used a number of the same extensions: EXE, COM, OBJ. Not sure where they came from prior to that.
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by ja27 12y ago
If you can afford it, COBRA. That saves you quite a bit of time and energy finding a new plan and minimizes or eliminates surprises like changes in coverage or needing to change doctors. For only a 3 month window, as long as you're rel
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by ja27 12y ago
Maybe I need to try mine again but last year I went through a stack of CD-Rs I burned back in 98-99 and didn't have one failure. They've pretty much lived in the dark in a plastic tub, but in Florida (indoor) humidity.
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by ja27 12y ago
It's moderately interesting because it was built using Xamarin. So the top iPad app (at least for a little while) was built using C#. http://blog.xamarin.com/tom-hanks-vintage-typewriter-inspire...
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by ja27 12y ago
It's pretty amazing what we managed to attach to the humble parallel port. My first CD burner was a big parallel port device.
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by ja27 12y ago
Is it just me or does the title seem like it has an extra level of 'meta' to it?
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by ja27 12y ago
Ironic that by then fax machines moved serial data faster across phone networks than the 1541 did over a 3' cable.
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by ja27 12y ago
There are definitely Amiga 2000s in the photos but most of the monitors have PC-style keyboards in front of them (look above the cursor keys - the Amiga one only has 2 keys (Del and Help) there rather than 6 and only 8 function keys, not 12
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by ja27 12y ago
The fax number? How about that UUCP email address. Kind of sad to see all those PC clones on desks.
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by ja27 12y ago
Yep. Mine crashes maybe every 5-20 days. Or rather, the graphics controller loses it's mind, but I can still SSH into it to initiate a shutdown. It doesn't seem to be thermal and it usually happens when there's not much deman
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by ja27 12y ago
I caught one Lyft last week where I said "wait, did I get you through Uber or Lyft?" because the driver had an Uber sticker in the window. He kind of smiled and was the quietest Lyft driver I've ever had. So how many drivers
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by ja27 12y ago
The first Unix machine I used had 768k or less and was a 6 or 8 MHz 68000. It's still bizarre to think that we had 12 users on a TRS-80 at once, via serial terminals. Even more bizarre, my first *nix was Microsoft Xenix. http:/&#
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by ja27 12y ago
Back in my C-64 days we had software rental stores. We could go in and rent the latest C-64 games and tinker with floppy disk copiers until we could crank out working copies. Or we'd swing by a friend-of-a-friend that must have been an

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