jaaron

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by jaaron 16y ago
It's a good thing the iPad does have excellent battery life because in our family, it's being used almost all day long. The other night I completely lost my wife and daughter for hours as they played Plants vs Zombies together way past bed
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by jaaron 16y ago
I know and love both World of Goo and Gish. Any reviews or recommendations on the others?
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by jaaron 16y ago
That's basically what Apache Harmony is today.
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by jaaron 16y ago
Yes, it's all about hardware and that's not going to change, despite the author's arguments otherwise. PCs aren't going anywhere either. Offices will continue to use PCs even if the consumer market switches to mobile phone/tablet devices.
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by jaaron 17y ago
No, the exit tax can be pretty bad: "The so-called ‘mark-to-market' tax will apply to the net unrealized gain on the expatriate's worldwide assets as if such property were sold (the ‘deemed sale') for its fair market value on the day before
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by jaaron 17y ago
Jamie Zawinski was an early Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, and XEmacs developer. He now runs a nightclub: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
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by jaaron 17y ago
I was hoping for someone who actually tries to sleep somewhere different every night. Reminds me of a friend who tries to never order the same thing twice at any restaurant. Doesn't take too long before that becomes difficult, but any tim
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by jaaron 17y ago
Our first app was approved within hours, but that was within the first two months of the App Store. Still, we've generally had very fast turn around on our apps.
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by jaaron 17y ago
OpenSolaris already works on EC2. Have you considered that?
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by jaaron 17y ago
And you can already run OpenSolaris on EC2.
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by jaaron 17y ago
It's even worse because, while I agree with the premise that Java is more relevant than many think, the author never even attempts to make the case. There's no discussion of why Java is relevant.
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by jaaron 17y ago
This was my first thought as well.
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by jaaron 17y ago
One way to marginally improve the common password strength is to at least add the name or the URL of site to it. So if the password is 123456 then the hackernews password might be 123456news.ycombinator.com.
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by jaaron 17y ago
I wonder how much of the MySpace shot effect is due to age. I'm guessing that those who take the MySpace shot would more likely be younger and in a generation which finds online social networks second nature.
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by jaaron 17y ago
I still prefer a desktop client (well emacs gnus). I like access to my email when I'm offline and traveling, which is often. I prefer the speed of processing email locally and the integration I can have with other local tools and scripts.
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by jaaron 17y ago
Uh... Did I miss the part where he explained what was wrong with existing clients? Without a clear, specific problem to solve, this is going to be an exercise in wasted time. I was looking over the mailing list and just about everything I
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by jaaron 17y ago
Setting up a 501(c)3 isn't a picnic either. That's why a lot of open source projects join an existing foundation instead of starting their own.
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by jaaron 17y ago
I don't mind a short screencast. In some cases, they can be particularly useful. However, they should never replace written documentation.
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by jaaron 17y ago
Not only stop reading Hacker News (and reddit or similar), but block them in your hosts file so that you can't even cheat. Reading fiction, taking nature walks without your cell phone, or, perhaps best of all, practicing insight meditation
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by jaaron 17y ago
I'll try to be there.
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The Subversion project is joining the Apache Software Foundation(twitter.com)
3 points by jaaron 17y ago|0 comments
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by jaaron 17y ago
Only geeks see it as a platform. The current Google Wave client feels like a single, unified application just like GMail (compared to a platform like 'email'). The current wave client _is_ the killer app.
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by jaaron 17y ago
Have you ever tried to use forums or Google Groups in a Fortune 500 company? Plenty of office workers have trouble with basic email. Getting them to use a forum or Google Groups is a lot of work for an IT staff. This is why you have prod
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by jaaron 17y ago
I think you're mixing up wave. Wave _is_ an actual application, not a protocol. It uses several protocols to get its job done, but it _is_ an application. And the wave code is already public: http://code.google.com/apis/wave/
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by jaaron 17y ago
I use Chinese pinyin phrases, then substitute some numbers for good measure. Example: The phrase: "How are you" is 你好吗？ Romanized, that becomes ni3 hao3 ma3. So a password might be ni3hao3ma3 or n13h403M43.
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by jaaron 17y ago
Where are you connecting from? I'm in Guangzhou. Tor was down this morning (haven't checked recently).
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by jaaron 17y ago
Tor is blocked as well: * http://cubiclemuses.com/cm/articles/2009/09/27/tor-blocked-i...
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Tor blocked in China. How to setup a bridge.(cubiclemuses.com)
5 points by jaaron 17y ago|0 comments
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by jaaron 17y ago
The client has to have a public internet port available for XML-RPC or an HTTP post. The central cloud server sends pings to all of the subscribers. It's a bad idea. If you're going to do this, just use XMPP. Otherwise, use HTTP the way i
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by jaaron 17y ago
Really? I never take naps. My wife will, but I just can't do it.

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