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by jakobe 13y ago
Thanks for the link, those were some good thoughts on the topic. However, I disagree with Stallman. (probably because I make a living from selling something that he might call a 'proprietary extensions') I think the problem I hav
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by jakobe 13y ago
> ensuring that only the original author can sell forks of the product I consider this the absolutely worst reason to use the GPL. Quite a few companies (large companies like MySQL/now Oracle or small ones like Macromates) require c
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by jakobe 13y ago
I don't think that this is something he would need to worry about. Implementing complex algorithms is extremely difficult, even if you have detailed instructions (eg. from a published paper). I've read his website before and if I
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by jakobe 13y ago
Someone I work with was abroad for a few months, so I also had to skype about once a week in the evening. I brought the laptop home on those days. Concerning security, all my hard drives (internal & external) are encrypted, and my lapto
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by jakobe 13y ago
Yeah, I often really get into "the zone" when I look at the clock and I see that I promised to be home in an hour. It's amazing how you stop wasting time when you have less.
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by jakobe 13y ago
One thing to note is that being self-employed doesn't mean you need to work from home. I always had trouble staying focused at home, and since I have kids working from home is almost impossible for me. I now rent a desk in a shared off
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by jakobe 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that the whole notion of A-players, B-players etc is just an easy way for people in dysfunctional teams to put the blame on those idiots they have to work with. Some people work great as a team; some don't. There&#
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by jakobe 13y ago
If I were a city planner, I'd require that all new (or renovated) appartement buildings include a percentage of "affordable appartements", with fixed limits on the cost per square foot. That's how cities like Vienna keep
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by jakobe 13y ago
When I named my apps, I just tried to come up with the most descriptive name possible. ("MDB Viewer", "PG Commander"). I really want people who look at search engine result pages and app store listings to immediately rec
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by jakobe 13y ago
To me, the most revealing part of this post is how much of a difference the profile picture made: adding a fake beard increased response rate threefold! I am often told that I look very young; I am 27 and people think I'm 20. I've
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by jakobe 13y ago
Discussions on HN are never strictly on topic. There are always lots of meta comments, and many very good comments I've read were only tangentially related to the submitted article. Instead of complaining what HN should and shouldn&#x2
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by jakobe 13y ago
Apple already locked down app access to personal data (like contacts) in iOS 6. In iOS 7 they are just going further (eg. now a dialog also pops up for access to camera and mic) The main difference is that Android has this all-or-nothing ap
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by jakobe 13y ago
Here's a good article on vulnerabilities in Thunderbolt: http://www.breaknenter.org/2012/02/adventures-with-daisy-in-... Turns out OS X 10.7 and later at least disable DMA access while the computer is locked
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by jakobe 13y ago
Even worse than USB is Firewire, which, if I am not mistaken, gives direct memory access to whatever device is connected. However, manufacturers are already realising that blindly trusting every USB host is a bad idea. For example, iPhones
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by jakobe 13y ago
Github recently introduced a "Releases" section where you can tag releases and provide binaries: https://github.com/PostgresApp/PostgresApp/releases It's a great way to distribute Open Source softwa
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by jakobe 13y ago
Actually, this answer isn't by Jeff Atwood. See http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/95172/old-problemati...
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by jakobe 13y ago
Actually not. I'm the maintainer of a popular Open Source project that is hosted on Github. If someone stole my credentials, they could replace the current release with a binary containing a Trojan. Looking at the security history page
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by jakobe 13y ago
Also, I'm really flattered by osrc.dfm.io. According to http://osrc.dfm.io/jakob I'm a "high caliber Objective-C coder" in contrast to http://resume.github.io/?jakob calling me a "n
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by jakobe 13y ago
I've seen credit card readers that act as a hull for an ipod touch and connect to the data port. (Necessary in austria because the audio trick wont work with chips)
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by jakobe 13y ago
About 4 years. As another commenter said, the problem wasn't loading time, but choppy scrolling/resizing. I am on Mavericks/latest version of safari.
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by jakobe 13y ago
They use a webkit CSS extension: "-webkit-filter:blur(5px)"
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by jakobe 13y ago
Awesome demo, but unfortunately rather slow on my (oldish) Macbook. I also recently made a page with frosted glass effect, but opted for pre-rendered images because of those performance issues: https://eggerapps.at/pgcommand
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by jakobe 13y ago
Yes, and all these things already require a lot of people to work on the weekend. Blood transfusions are delivered on weekends just fine. But that's no reason to allow consumer electronics to be delivered on Sunday...
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by jakobe 13y ago
If we allow shipping companies to work on sundays, we should also allow some warehouse employees to work on sundays. Now all these companies will need electricians and mechanics that work on the weekend to fix stuff that breaks on weekends,
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by jakobe 13y ago
Oh how I wish the wayback machine would ignore robots.txt... So many websites lost to history because some rookie webmaster put some misguided commands into the file without thinking about the consequences (eg. block all crawlers except goo
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by jakobe 13y ago
I strongly disagree with Joel here. It's true that storage is much cheaper today, but every piece of software I use is downloaded from the internet. Not everyone has 10MBit connections. If you make software, and especially updates, unn
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by jakobe 13y ago
I like Fmail because it is the alphabetical successor to Email.
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by jakobe 13y ago
What's the difference between your "fact" and an "axiom"? It seems to be the same thing: a starting point from which you derive everything else.
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Yay!
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by jakobe 13y ago
Short explanation: You can use multiple monitors just fine in extended Desktop mode. However, there are two issues that drive people crazy: 1) When you go enable full screen mode for an app, the app fills one display and all other displays

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